BIB_ID
310852
Accession number
MA 427.65
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
"Tuesday" [1815 Apr.].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.3 cm
Notes
Month and year of writing inferred from 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.
Written from "Corner of Whitehorse Street, / Piccadilly."
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.
Written from "Corner of Whitehorse Street, / Piccadilly."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Regretting to find that she is not in London; describing his journey by sea with Mrs. Scott and Sophia; mentioning that he is in town negotiating a marriage settlement for a "fair Scotchwoman [Margaret Maclean Clephane] who is "about to be married into your high circle" (to Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, Marquis of Northampton (1790-1851))
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