BIB_ID
310506
Accession number
MA 427.8
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1807] Sept. 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.6 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.
Year of writing from contemporary annotation 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
Promising that the first two cantos of Marmion will be sent to her shortly; referencing his brother's (Tom's) theft of the Duddingstone rents, assuring her that Lord Abercorn will sustain no loss and that his own loss will be trifling. Mentioning that the Duke and Duchess of Bedford visited the country recently and that Scott renewed his acquaintance with them; describing a recent trip from Edinburgh and the terrible weather they encountered; inquiring about her trip to Ireland.
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