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Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Lady Charlotte Rawdon, [1805 June].

BIB_ID
131668
Accession number
MA 3164.1
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1805 June].
Credit line
Gift of Hamill & Baker, 1971.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 12.3 cm
Notes
Accompanying the manuscript copy of his "The House of Aspen" (MA 3164) referenced in the letter; see related record for more information.
Address panel with evidence of a seal, and addressed simply to "Right Honble / Lady Charlotte Rawdon."
Date of writing from the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 7674).
Provenance
Lady Charlotte Rawdon; bookplate of Henry Irving; his sale (19 December 1905, lot 218); gift of Hamill & Barker, 1971.
Summary
Presenting a manuscript copy of his "The House of Aspen" as a substitute for "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" which has been "miscarried," and requesting that she allow no one to copy the manuscript because "I should be sorry if any one should see the play in its present very imperfect state."