BIB_ID
310799
Accession number
MA 427.42
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1811] Mar. 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 19.7 cm
Notes
Recipient inferred from contents of the letter and identified in Grierson.
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.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Regarding Mr. George Home's obstinacy in refusing the pension that Scott worked to secure for him, noting that Lord Melville has "taken him in hand" and hoping he will accept it.
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