BIB_ID
310605
Accession number
MA 427.19
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1808 Apr. 26].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 25.1 cm
Notes
Date 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.
Recipient inferred from contents of the letter and identified in Grierson.
The "Elgin Epistles" refer to Robert Ferguson's letters to Lady Elgin.
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.
The "Elgin Epistles" refer to Robert Ferguson's letters to Lady Elgin.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Discussing the terrible weather, remarking that it feels "like Christmas though the Almanack maintains to my very face that it is the 26th of April" and noting that there is no food for any of the animals; hoping that she received the copy of his Life of Dryden; regretting that he cannot locate a copy of the "Elgin Epistles," which were not printed in Scotland and noting that "it is a pity such edifying communications of love & devotion should be lost to the public;" saying that his travels southward depend on the Scotch Judicature Bill and whether he is appointed Clerk to the Commissioners; reporting that the Whigs are furious but "with very little reason;" saying he is "flattered with Lawrence's approbation of Marmion;" mentioning mutual acquaintances.
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