BIB_ID
310795
Accession number
MA 427.39
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1811] Feb. 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 19.6 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.
Year of writing inferred from contents and contemporary annotation on the letter, and identified in Grierson.
Recipient inferred from contents of the letter and identified in Grierson.
Year of writing inferred from contents and contemporary annotation on the letter, and identified in Grierson.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Enclosing an extract of a letter from Robert Dundas to Lord Melville related to Scott's clerkship and potential appointment; mentioning a rival applicant, Mr. David Home, noting "I cannot quite admit that his merits are of a nature very superior to mine considering the vacancy has occurred in the department when I have been labouring so long & fruitlessly."
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