BIB_ID
309601
Accession number
MA 426.42
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1806 Apr. 6?].
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 24.4 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark and evidence of a seal, and addressed by to Ellis in London.
Date of writing from postmark.
Labeled "No. 38" and "April 1806" on p. 1, possibly in the hand of J. G. Lockhart.
Location of writing from internal evidence and from Grierson.
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.
Date of writing from postmark.
Labeled "No. 38" and "April 1806" on p. 1, possibly in the hand of J. G. Lockhart.
Location of writing from internal evidence and from Grierson.
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
Regretting that Ellis was in Bath while Scott was in London, and hoping to see him on his next visit; reporting that he took up his new post (in the office of a Principle Clerk to the Supreme Court ) upon his return, noting that the duty is very simple and consists mainly in signing his name, "so my task is a very easy one, as my name is very short." Discussing his work on Dryden, regretting that some passages from the poet's translations of Lucretius and Ovid's Instructions to his mistress "will hardly bear reprinting," noting that "they are not only double-entendres, but good plain single-entendrees - not only borad, but long, and as coarse as the mainsail of a first rate." Discussing mutual acquaintances.
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