BIB_ID
310836
Accession number
MA 427.59
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1813] July 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 25.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with evidence of a seal and addressed to "Tthe 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 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 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
Concerning his plans to visit the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch before meeting her and the Marquis at Longtown; referencing his thoughts on the marriage laws of Scotland and England, and arguing that it is "high time something were done to put the law of both countries on a single footing on so important a subject."
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