BIB_ID
310805
Accession number
MA 427.43
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1811] Mar. 4.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (5 p., with address) ; 19.7 and 25.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with evidence of a seal and addressed to the "Right Honble / Mr. Arbuthnot."
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.
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
Concerning Mr. Home's refusal to apply for the superannuation pension; reporting that Lord Melville is trying to convince him to accept it; noting that if Scott were to give up his own post, Home would be obliged to do so as well.
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