BIB_ID
310853
Accession number
MA 427.66
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1816 June 16 or Nov.?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.5 cm
Notes
Grierson dates this letter to November, 1816; however, Corson and the Millgate Union Catalogue of Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 1138) date it to 16 June 1816.
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.
Scott's The Antiquary was published anonymously in 1816.
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.
Scott's The Antiquary was published anonymously in 1816.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Responding to her complaints about his silence by gently chiding her for not responding to his two previous letters; discussing possible authors of an anonymous Antiquary; mentioning that Tom will soon return from Canada; noting that he has been working on two or three songs; copying out his Pibroch an Donuil Dhu.
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