BIB_ID
310831
Accession number
MA 427.54
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1812] Sept. 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 25 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
Saying that they traveled to Edinburgh to see [Charles] Kemble on the stage, and praising his performance; describing his farm and how the family is squeezed into the old farmhouse until the new cottage is built; discussing his attempts to learn about "shrubs and trees especially those that are not indigenous" in preparation for landscaping the estate; mentioning his work on Rokeby.
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