BIB_ID
310797
Accession number
MA 427.40
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1811] Feb. 23.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (5 p., with address) ; 19.6 and 25.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with evidence of a seal and postmarks, and addressed to the "Right Honble / Mr. C. Arbuthnot / &c &c &c / London."
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 from postmarks.
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 from postmarks.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Thanking him for his letter and saying he is "inexpressibly obliged by the interest you have been pleased to take in my affairs at the request of my kind & never failing friend the Marchioness of Abercorn." Referencing his relationship with Lord Melville; discussing at length and in confidence his potential appointment to an office and the need to secure a pension for the superannuated and deaf Mr. George Home.
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