BIB_ID
310622
Accession number
MA 427.24
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1809] Mar. 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 20 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.
Year of writing inferred from contents of the letter and identified in Grierson.
Year of writing inferred from contents of the letter and identified in Grierson.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Hoping to see her soon and promising to bring Mrs. Scott's transcript for her; thanking her for arranging to introduce him to Lord Malmesbury and looking forward to inspecting the Dorset papers; mentioning the Scottish Judicature Bill, noting "we have been tearing each other's throats out like our own highland terriers" over it.
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