BIB_ID
310595
Accession number
MA 427.16
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1808] Feb. 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 25 cm
Notes
Address panel with evidence of a seal and addressed to "The most Noble / Marchioness of 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.
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.
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
Regretting to hear that the copy of Marmion he sent her has not arrived, suspecting that the bookseller "confounded it with some others that were going by sea;" mentioning that the copy intended for the Princess arrived, and saying that he is sending another copy to Lord Castlereigh's office for her; asking for the Marquis' opinion of the last canto; hoping that his appointment (to a Clerkship) goes through; mentioning that he may being the project of editing Swift's works.
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