BIB_ID
310463
Accession number
MA 426.88
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
1827 Apr. 10.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.4 cm
Notes
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.
Recipient inferred from contents of letter and identified in Millgate Union Catalogue of Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 9022).
Recipient inferred from contents of letter and identified in Millgate Union Catalogue of Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 9022).
Summary
Thanking him for a letter acquainting him with the fact that the Council of the Royal Society of Literature has issued Scott an honorary medal in recognition of his "attempts to illustrate the manners, antiquities, and History of Scotland." Noting that his son-in-law J. G. Lockhart would accept the medal on Scott's behalf on 27 April.
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