BIB_ID
310877
Accession number
MA 427.69
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1817] Mar 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 25.3 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed to the "Right Honble / Lady 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.
Year of writing 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.
Year of writing from contemporary annotation and identified in Grierson.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Apologizing for his silence; praising Kemble's acting; discussing his brother Tom, referencing Tom's 1807 theft of the Duddingstone rents and hoping to secure him a better situation in Canada; reporting that his eldest son is "grown too tall to be your page."
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