BIB_ID
310798
Accession number
MA 427.41
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1811] Feb. 23.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (8 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.
Year of writing inferred from contents of the letter and contemporary annotation, and identified in Grierson.
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 her an engraving of his recently deceased dog Camp and mentioning that his friends have written many elegies to the dog; referencing Lord Melville and thanking her for taking an interest in his affairs regarding his appointment to a clerkship, noting that Mr. David Hume has been appointed but "by way of compensation to me for passing me over they now propose to give my colleague Mr. Geo. Home a pension under the Act for priding superannuated office-holders," and stating that he is "perfectly satisfied" with the arrangement; discussing other promotions and appointments; copying two stanzas from Abraham Cowley's The Complaint and comparing the verses to his own situation; reassuring her at length that he is satisfied even though he did not receive the clerkship; further discussing his affairs.
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