BIB_ID
310491
Accession number
MA 427.4
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1806] Sept. 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 23.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks and addressed to "The most Noble / Marchioness of Abercorn / Priory, Stanmore, London."
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.
Year of writing from postmark.
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.
Year of writing from postmark.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Thanking her for a box of quills; discussing the calamitous weather, noting that "one day the thunder was so tremendous as actually to affect my hearing for some time" but that the only tragic incident was the death of a pony; referencing the Irish travels of the Marquis and emphatically praising William Pitt; saying that Scotland has been "threatened with a visit of the Heir Apparent;" responding to her inquiries that he is still busy with Dryden's Works and asking for advice on how to approach the Duke of Dorset to ask for copies of original Dryden letters in his collection.
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