BIB_ID
310700
Accession number
MA 427.26
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1809] Sept. 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (5 p., with address) ; 25 cm
Notes
Address panel with evidence of a seal and addressed to "The most Noble / Marchioness of Abercorn / &c &c &c."
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.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Regretting that his visit to the Highlands prevented him from receiving her "token of remembrance;" describing Sir William Scott's reaction on learning about the sudden death of his wife; reporting that his wife is assembling a collection of flower-roots to send to the Marchioness; referencing Lord Hamilton's recent illness; stating that he has begun "threading verses together with what success I am as yet uncertain," and regretting that he is not "very good or patient in slow and careful composition;" musing on the whereabouts of two letters he sent that she never received; reporting that he saw the Princess several times while he was in London and discussing the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Gordon, and other mutual acquaintances.
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