BIB_ID
310809
Accession number
MA 427.47
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1811] May 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 19.7 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 of the letter and contemporary annotation, and identified in Grierson.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Reporting that the sudden death of the Lord President (Robert Blair) of the Scottish Courts of Justice has thrown everything into "great confusion," and regretting that this will prevent him from seeing her in Dumfries as she passes through to Ireland; sending Mrs. Scott's manuscript copy of his Vision of Don Roderick along with a copy of The Castle of Otranto that includes a preface by Scott.
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