BIB_ID
310879
Accession number
MA 427.71
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1818] Sept. 10
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 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.
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 received her letter during his return to Abbotsford from a three-week journey, noting that he spent a week with the Duke of Buccleuch, a few days with Morritt, and had breakfast one day with the Bishop of Durham; mentioning that he has had several visitors since his return and has just come up to visit Lord and Lady Melville for a few days; rejoicing to hear she is in good health and assuring her that "time the slow but sure comforter must be the physician for other sorrows;" discussing his sons.
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