BIB_ID
307970
Accession number
MA 426.16
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1802] Oct. 17.
Description
1 item (9 p., with address) ; 23.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks and addressed to George Ellis.
Labeled "No. 13" and "17th Octr. 1802" on p. 1, possibly in the hand of J. G. Lockhart.
Part of a collection of letters from Sir Walter Scott to various recipients. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Year of writing from postmark.
Labeled "No. 13" and "17th Octr. 1802" on p. 1, possibly in the hand of J. G. Lockhart.
Part of a collection of letters from Sir Walter Scott to various recipients. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Year of writing from postmark.
Summary
Discussing the reasons for his delay in writing, citing the change in Leyden's date of departure, and "a variety of little provincial avocations," for which he suffered "formidable hardships of sleeping upon peat-sacks & eating mutton slain by no common butcher but deprived of life by the Judgment of God." Mentioning that his brother has returned to Scotland; wishing he had seen Ellis on a recent trip to London; saying that having to compile the third volume of the Minstrelsy is preventing him working on "Sir Tristrem;" and introducing and copying verses from a romance related to King Richard, noting that several lines are defaced in the manuscript and discussing its origins at length.
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