BIB_ID
310678
Accession number
MA 427.25
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1809] Aug. 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 19.7 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 contemporary annotation, 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
Asking why she has not responded to his two previous letters; describing his three-month visit in London, noting that he saw Lady Maria, the Princess of Wales, Lady Charlotte Lindsay many times and that they stayed some days with Sir Samuel and Lady Hood; reporting that they visited Knowles on their return; inquiring after Lord Hamilton's health; with a postscript reporting that Lord Melville is unwell "with his former bilious complaint," and fearing that he is "imprudent at table."
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