BIB_ID
310850
Accession number
MA 427.64
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
1815 Feb. 15.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 25.1 cm
Notes
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.
Recipient inferred from contents of the letter and identified in Grierson.
Recipient inferred from contents of the letter and identified in Grierson.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Saying he is curious to see Moore's poem [Lalla Rookh], and praising his songs as "exquisitely beautiful;" noting that Moore "has not been very fortunate in being so much in fashionable life where a man who frequents [there?] without fortune or rank is very apt to lose his time without adding to his reputation," and saying he is glad that the poem "is likely to fix his independence;" mentioning that his Lord of the Isles is proving to be very popular and hoping she received her copy; noting that Salt the Abyssinian traveller is visiting and mentioning the Duke of Buccleuch and his daughter Lady Anne Scott.
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