 Dr. Beattie was close with Thomas Campbell, and was selected by the poet as his biographer, an office which he discharged in 1849 by the publication of "The Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell", in three volumes.In 1833 Beattie speaks of Campbell as coming to take up his quarters at "Rose Villa", Beattie's cottage at Hampstead, where on former occasions he had experienced much benefit, and adds