BIB_ID
310485
Accession number
MA 427.2
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
"Sunday" [1806 June].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 25.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and possible docket or contemporary notation (Walter Scott / 29th June 1806), and addressed to "The most [noble] / Marchioness of Abercorn."
Part of a large collection of letters from Sir Walter Scott to Lady Anne Jane Hamilton, Marchioness of Abercorn. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
With a copy of "The Lawyer and the Bishop" (first line: "Come listen brave boys to a story so merry) penned in an unknown hand on p. 2-3.
Part of a large collection of letters from Sir Walter Scott to Lady Anne Jane Hamilton, Marchioness of Abercorn. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
With a copy of "The Lawyer and the Bishop" (first line: "Come listen brave boys to a story so merry) penned in an unknown hand on p. 2-3.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Enclosing "a trifling song" that was sung at a "meeting of five hundred select friends of Lord Melville" [around the time of his impeachment]; assuring her that he does not expect her to accept "these foolish things," but hopes that she will "receive them as graciously as the Duchess in Don Quixote accepts of the half dozen acorns from the wife of Sancho Panza."
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