BIB_ID
131649
Accession number
MA 1953.1-67
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
1811-1831.
Credit line
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1958.
Description
67 items size varies
Notes
A few of the letters are imcomplete or have the signature cut away.
Formerly interleaved with typewritten transcripts of the letters. See collection files.
Formerly interleaved with typewritten transcripts of the letters. See collection files.
Provenance
Sir Hugh Walpole; gift of DeCoursey Fales in February, 1958.
Summary
Collection consists of 47 letters from Sir Walter Scott to John Gibson; 1 to Mrs. Gibson; 4 to Hay Donaldson; 4 to James Ballantyne; and the fragment of 1 letter to an unidentified recipient; 5 additional notes or memoranda concerning publishing matters and the estate of Abbotsford; and 5 additional address panels, all to John Gibson. Collection also contains 2 letters from J. G. Lockhart to John Gibson and 1 from John Murray also to John Gibson.
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