BIB_ID
310748
Accession number
MA 427.27
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1809] Dec. 31.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (5 p., with address) ; 19.5 and 25.3 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
Sending congratulations Lord Hamilton's marriage; mentioning his work as a Clerk of Session; saying that he has made "considerable progress in a new poem which I intend to call The Lady of the Lake;" describing the setting of the poem and mentioning that he is anxious to solicit Lord Abercorn's opinion; asking if she knows Lord Clarendon; discussing the Covent Garden riots and Canning's political career, fearing that he is "lost irrecoverably to government;" referencing a visit by the Duchess of Gordon and mentioning mutual acquaintances.
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