Collection of letters of Sir Walter Scott's friends and contemporaries : primarily England and Scotland, 18th-19th cents.

Collection consists of 190 autograph letters, notes, and documents of Sir Walter Scott's friends and contemporaries. Volume 1 (MA 428) includes letters and notes written by Lucien Bonaparte, George Canning, Maria Edgeworth, George III, George IV, Lord Grenville, Benjamin Haydon, and several others, as well as a letter from Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Campbell Bury to Sir Walter Scott, two poems and a translation by William Cowper in the hand of his biographer William Hayley, and a poem "Inscription on a Timepiece" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Volume 2 (MA 429) contains letters and notes written by John Philip Kemble, Fanny Kemble, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Leopold I, Thomas Moore (2), Robert Peel, William Pitt, Samuel Rogers, Robert Southey (2), Victoria I (one letter, one document, and one specimen of her writing), the Duke of Wellington, William I of the Netherlands, William IV, and several others, as well as a cheque signed by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. With the exception of the letter from Lady Bury, letters are neither addressed to nor directly concerning Sir Walter Scott. With engraved portraits. Selected items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see related records for more information.