BIB_ID
310842
Accession number
MA 427.61
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1813] Nov. 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (6 p., with address) ; 22.8 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 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
Regretting that he must soon travel to Edinburgh for the opening of the law courts; discussing the heath of Mrs. Morritt; regretting that nothing can be done for "poor Mathurine," but asking her to mention his name to any Irish friends who are about to send their sons to Trinity as he is presently receiving pupils and boarders in his home; referencing Lord Aberdeen's travels as special envoy to Austria; regretting to hear that [the Princess of Wales] has "thorn away her cards most deplorably in suffering herself to be made a catspaw of to serve the purposes of the very people who at one time would willingly have had her head off."
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