BIB_ID
310609
Accession number
MA 427.20
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
1808 June 9.
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.
Scott refers to the Duchess of Gordon as ungracious because, according to the Marchioness of Abercorn, she "abuses yr Marmion as much as if she was one of the party against you." --Cf. Grierson, p. 70, n. 2.
The "Elgin Letters" refer to Robert Ferguson's letters to Lady Elgin.
Recipient inferred from contents of the letter and identified in Grierson.
Scott refers to the Duchess of Gordon as ungracious because, according to the Marchioness of Abercorn, she "abuses yr Marmion as much as if she was one of the party against you." --Cf. Grierson, p. 70, n. 2.
The "Elgin Letters" refer to Robert Ferguson's letters to Lady Elgin.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Discussing Marmion: referencing its deficiencies, fearing that he will "never be able to muster up the courage necessary to revise" it, and hoping the Marquess, "who has the best ear for English versification of any person whom in a pretty extensive acquaintance with literary characters I have ever had the fortune to meet with," will help revise it; calling "her Grace of Gordon ... the most ungracious of Graces;" saying that he is trying to obtain a copy of the Eglin Letters through "Jeffrey the Reviewer" and that he is pleased she likes his Life of Dryden.
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