BIB_ID
310830
Accession number
MA 427.53
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1812] May 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 25.3 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.
Recipient inferred from contents of the letter and identified in Grierson.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Alluding to the death of Lord Abercorn's daughter, the Countess of Aberdeen, and sending his condolences; referencing the deaths of the Duchess of Gordon and John Leyden; describing his attempts to plant and decorate his estate at Abbotsford; discussing arms stores in his sherrifdom and expressing apprehension at the large numbers of French prisoners in the vicinity.
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