BIB_ID
310593
Accession number
MA 427.15
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1808] Feb. 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 19.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with evidence of a seal and addressed to "The Lady Abercorn."
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.
Written from Castle Street.
Year of writing inferred from contents of the letter and 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.
Written from Castle Street.
Year of writing inferred from contents of the letter and contemporary annotation, and identified in Grierson.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Reporting that he has sent a copy of Marmion to her under a cover to Lord Castlereigh; saying he "shall be most anxious to know he is acceptible & next how the Marquis likes him."
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