BIB_ID
310832
Accession number
MA 427.55
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
1813 Jan. 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23 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 his work on Rokeby; responding to her inquiry that he likes Lord Byron's poem (Childe Harold) very much, noting "there is more original strength and force of thinking in it as well as command of language and versification than in almost any modern poem of the same length ... it is really a powerful poem;" further discussing Byron's work and personal life; mentioning a party to be given by the Duke of Buccleuch in honor of Rokeby, and mentioning Lord Hamilton, the Kembles and Lord Downshire; describing one of his landscaping endeavors involving a spring and a "Gothic screen composed of stones which were taken down when the modern church was removed from Melrose Abbey," noting that "you would really think it was 400 years old."
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