BIB_ID
310833
Accession number
MA 427.56
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1813] Mar. 23.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (5 p., with address) ; 25.4 cm
Notes
Address panel with evidence of a seal and addressed to "The most Noble / Marchioness of Abercorn / &c &c &c."
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
Describing his busy schedule: noting that his work on Rokeby and Jonathan Swift, attending to his sherrifdom, and converting Abbotsford "from a bare bank and meadow into a human place of habitation" have prevented his writing to her sooner. Describing the project of landscaping the grounds at Abbotsford, mentioning he has been "studying Price with all my eyes" and remarking that "I am bit with the madness of the picturesque" and hoping that if she hears that he has "caught a rheumatic fever in the gravel-pit or have been drowned in the quarry" that she will "give me credit for dying as a martyr to taste." Mentioning the Kembles, noting that Charles Kemble is "twenty times greater than any actor I ever saw;" lamenting that the Princess of Wales has become a pawn of her ministers; mentioning that he will have acces to the Prince's library when he comes to London.
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