BIB_ID
310524
Accession number
MA 427.9
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1807] Sept. 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with evidence of a seal and addressed to "The most noble / Marchioness of Abercorn / &c &c &c."
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.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Thanking her for "the kind and liberal protection" she has given him; referencing his brother's (Tom's) theft of the Duddingstone rents and Scott's promise to pay them, noting that he is "not likely to be a sufferer beyond the extent of the small sum" that Scott lent to his brother; discussing Lord Melville's "good intentions towards me;" hoping that she has received his previous letter and Marmion, noting an edit he has made to the text.
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