BIB_ID
310527
Accession number
MA 427.10
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
1807 Nov. 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 25 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.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Responding to her inquiries that he does not know what Lord Melville intends to do on his behalf; hoping that she has received Marmion and promising to send another copy if it never arrived; referencing the extension of her stay in Ireland; reporting that he has resumed working on Marmion "& the third canto is at length finished" and that Dryden's life is "more than half printed."
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