BIB_ID
310884
Accession number
MA 427.72
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
1819 Nov. 25.
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.
Recipient inferred from contents of the letter and identified in Grierson.
Scott was knighted in 1820.
Recipient inferred from contents of the letter and identified in Grierson.
Scott was knighted in 1820.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Responding to her assertion that he allowed their correspondence to lapse that he wrote the last letter between them, and saying that although he should have written even without a reply he was prevented from doing so by poor health; discussing his illness of the previous summer and reporting that he is "now in better health than I have enjoyed in years;" reporting that he has not yet received the rank that the Prince Regent wished to confer on him; discussing his eldest son's military career; mentioning that his brother left a considerable fortune to his children; responding to her inquiries about some novels that the fourth in the series of Tales of My Landlord is spurious and that Ivanhoe by the author of Waverly will immediately appear; mentioning the deaths of the Duke of Buccleuch and Lord Somerville.
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