BIB_ID
310493
Accession number
MA 427.5
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1807] Feb. 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 19.9 cm
Notes
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.
Recipient inferred from contents of the letter and identified in Grierson.
Year of writing from contemporary annotation and identified in Grierson.
Recipient inferred from contents of the letter and identified in Grierson.
Year of writing from contemporary annotation and identified in Grierson.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Concerning a transcript Mrs. Scott is making for the Marchioness; sending a poem under another cover, but asking that she not share it with anyone as "I may probably make some alterations in them before the final publication;" thanking her for her assistance in procuring a "passport to the Dorset papers" [which include three Dryden letters]; mentioning that Lord Melville is in Edinburgh; referencing a new Bill introduced by Lord Grenville; reporting that there is a new edition of Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.
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