BIB_ID
310784
Accession number
MA 427.32
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
1810 Sept. 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 25.2 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.
Recipient inferred from contents of the letter and identified in Grierson.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Discussing his recent visit to the Herbides; describing at length a particular cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa, his reception by a young Chieftain and the Laird of Staffa, the poverty on Iona, and an encounter with some boatmen who praised Scott as "the great bard of the lowland border" and insisted on naming a remarkable pillar in the cavern after him.
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