BIB_ID
308085
Accession number
MA 426.25
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
1804 [i.e., 1803] Oct. 14.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 23 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks and addressed to George Ellis.
Labeled "No. 22" on p. 1, possibly in the hand of J. G. Lockhart. Corrected year of writing from postmakr.
Location of writing from postmarks.
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.
Labeled "No. 22" on p. 1, possibly in the hand of J. G. Lockhart. Corrected year of writing from postmakr.
Location of writing from postmarks.
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 dragon romance, suggesting that "some jocular bard probably about James VIth's time" wrote the it based on the ancient romance; mentioning a ballad from his Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border; hoping that Ellis will one day be able to visit Scotland; discussing the militia situation in Edinburgh; reporting that "poor Ritson is no more" and wondering to whom his papers were bequeathed, noting that they would be very interesting to Scott.
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