BIB_ID
131619
Accession number
MA 426.1-90
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
1807-1831.
Description
1 box (90 items), unbound 38.1 cm
Notes
Formerly bound in green morocco, with the binders title "To George Ellis and others".
Summary
Collection contains 57 letters to George Ellis and 33 letters to other recipients: Dr. Charles Bell; R. Cleator; William Slade; William Miller; William Gifford; Charles Sharpe; William Laidlaw; Joseph Dumergue; Lord Sidmouth; John Villiers; James Jardine; George Bell; Francis Chantrey; David Erskine; H.L.Z. Guppy; the Lord Chief Commissioner [William Adam]; Thomas Handley; Robert Cockburn; Kaye Dowland; John Murray; the Secretary to the Royal Society of Literature; Messrs. Handley & Durrant; Messrs. Sharpe & Hailes; an unidentified "Jackson;" an unidentified woman; and his gardener Tom. Letters to Ellis are about Scott's work on medieval romances, Scottish ballads, Dryden, and personal topics; letters to others are concerned with various matters. With three engraved portraits of Sir Walter Scott. Letters in the collection have been described in 90 individual catalog records; see related records for more information.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (38.1 cm)
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