BIB_ID
310844
Accession number
MA 427.62
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
1814 Nov. 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 25 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
Apologizing for his silence, saying that it "would have been long since broken had it been either easy or useful to write up occurrences which have since happened & in which your Ladyship will not doubt my deep & sincere sympathy;" saying that his own life "has been drained away as usual in business literary labour & lounging about;" describing a trip he took that summer to the Orkneys, western Islands, and coast of Ireland, regretting only that they did not make it to St.Kilda; reporting that this trip was primarily for collecting materials to improve a poem he has long been working on called the Lord of the Isles; noting that he has finished his work on Swift and regretting that he was unable to send her a copy; mentioning the general improvement to Abbotsford.
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