BIB_ID
310848
Accession number
MA 427.63
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
1815 Jan. 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 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
Hoping she has received a copy of his Lord of the Isles, which was sent to her by the printer; mentioning that two of his children contracted smallpox despite receiving both vaccinations and inoculations against the disease; promising to tell her what he knows about the author of [Waverly] when he sees her next in London; regretting that he was unable to travel to the continent the previous spring; assuring her that his trip to Ireland was only twenty-four hours long and that he was therefore unable to visit her at Barons Court; saying that he thinks the Lord of the Isles is to be is "last poetical adventure at least upon a large scale."
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