BIB_ID
308033
Accession number
MA 426.21
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1803 June or July].
Description
1 item (5 p., with address) ; 24.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed to Ellis in Sunninghill.
Dating from note penned on p. 1.
Labeled "No. 18" and with notes about dating 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.
Dating from note penned on p. 1.
Labeled "No. 18" and with notes about dating 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.
Summary
Concerning the age of the romance of "Sir Trsitrem," discussing Thomas the Rhymer, Chretien de Troyes, and the King of Navarre's knowledge of the history and their relationship to Douce's fragments; alluding to the possibility of the romance having been "founded in fact;" discussing the origin of metrical and prose romances; questioning the possibility of there having been an "earlier Thomas," and discussing the life of Thomas the Rhymer. Hoping that Ellis will one day visit the border; and sending a copy of Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum, which "thought he tunes are simple, & often bad sets, contains much more original Scottish Music than I ever saw else where."
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