BIB_ID
310596
Accession number
MA 427.17
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1808] Mar. 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 25 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.
Recipient inferred from contents of the letter and identified in Grierson.
Year of writing inferred from contents of the letter and contemporary annotation, and identified in Grierson.
Recipient inferred from contents of the letter and identified in Grierson.
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
Saying he is pleased to hear that she has received both copies of Marmion; reporting that "All the Whigs here are in arms" against it; discussing the reasons why has chosen to edit Swift's works instead of embarking on another "original production," noting "The naturalists tell us that if you destroy the web which the spider has just made the insect must spend many days in inactivity till he has assembled within his person the materials necessary to weave another. Now after writing a work of imagination one feels [in] nearly the same exhausted state with the spider;" mentioning mutual acquaintances.
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