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Letter from William Scott to an unidentified recipient, 1815 February 23 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
131570
Accession number
MA 23826
Creator
Scott, William, Baron Stowell, 1745-1836.
Display Date
Place of writing not identified, 1815 February 23.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 22.2 x 19 cm
Notes
Addressed to "My Dear Lord."
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1791); PML 9812-9815; volume I, page 232.
Summary
Urging caution in his negotiations with the Princess of Wales in Naples; writing that she has "been made a great Engine & Implement of Party" and that "she certainly had the Misfortune before she left England to fall into the Hands of Intriguers (I mean political Intriguers)"; adding that Lady Sligo (his wife) will send news and referring to her health.