BIB_ID
310855
Accession number
MA 427.67
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1816] Nov. 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 25 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.
Year of writing from contemporary annotation and identified in Grierson.
Year of writing from contemporary annotation and identified in Grierson.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Saying that he sent her four volumes of a novel that he is "strongly inclined to swear are the production of the unknown author of Guy Mannering" and musing on potential authors; inferring that she has read Lord Byron's new poem, and praising him as "a person of most wonderful powers;" reporting that he has been living quietly at home all summer, "working hard at planting and improving my little property."
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