BIB_ID
131759
Accession number
MA 443
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1809-1810].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1897.
Description
1 item (255 p.), bound ; 27.5 cm
Notes
Dating: Scott began writing The Lady of the Lake in August 1809; it was published in May, 1810.
The final 11 lines of the poem that come before the concluding stanzas addressed to 'Harp of the North' (Canto 29, ll. 27-37) are included in the form of a [mid-May, 1810] autograph letter signed with initials to [James Ballantyne]. The lines are preceded by the note "I thought I had sent you all & suspect you have not burned (?) the leaf -- at any rate the concluding lines are..." This letter is listed in the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 5852).
With a note in the hand of John Ballantyne on a preliminary leaf: "This is the original MS of The Lady of the Lake written in the Author's own hand, & precisely in the state in which it was sent to the press of Ballantyne & Co from which it was carefully preserved by me. / John Ballantyne / The Notes which are written in a lady's hand, are the MS of Mrs. Scott, the others those of Mr. Scott's amanuenis [sic] Mr Weber, & of Robert Jamison Esq. who is alluded to by W Scott in the course of these notes. The directions to the printer are in the hand of Mr. Jas. Ballantyne."
With notes on a preliminary leaf in the hand of Robert Cadell.
Written on the rectos and with corrections and additions on some versos of 255 leaves.
The final 11 lines of the poem that come before the concluding stanzas addressed to 'Harp of the North' (Canto 29, ll. 27-37) are included in the form of a [mid-May, 1810] autograph letter signed with initials to [James Ballantyne]. The lines are preceded by the note "I thought I had sent you all & suspect you have not burned (?) the leaf -- at any rate the concluding lines are..." This letter is listed in the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 5852).
With a note in the hand of John Ballantyne on a preliminary leaf: "This is the original MS of The Lady of the Lake written in the Author's own hand, & precisely in the state in which it was sent to the press of Ballantyne & Co from which it was carefully preserved by me. / John Ballantyne / The Notes which are written in a lady's hand, are the MS of Mrs. Scott, the others those of Mr. Scott's amanuenis [sic] Mr Weber, & of Robert Jamison Esq. who is alluded to by W Scott in the course of these notes. The directions to the printer are in the hand of Mr. Jas. Ballantyne."
With notes on a preliminary leaf in the hand of Robert Cadell.
Written on the rectos and with corrections and additions on some versos of 255 leaves.
Provenance
Robert Cadell; his sale (London, Christie's, July 6, 1867) to Mr. F. Richardson; sale (London, Sotheby's, 1897); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Cyrus Daniell in 1897.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (29.3 cm)
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