BIB_ID
310834
Accession number
MA 427.57
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
1813 Apr. 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (6 p., with address) ; 25.1 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.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Concerning some modern verses that were sent to Scott as an original poem by Jonathan Swift; discussing Southey's historical essays, regretting that although there are many brilliant passages, "he has not the power of condensing the information which he conveys;" describing some books he is having sent to her; reporting that he is "far advanced" in his work on Swift; noting that when he is finished with Swift he intends to arranged for publication a "very complete collection of songs and poetry respecting the insurrections for I will not call them rebellions of 1715 and 1745" as a supplement to his Border Minstrelsy; hoping to see her in Dumfries. With a lengthy postscript praising Mathurine (Charles Robert Maturin).
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