BIB_ID
310885
Accession number
MA 427.73
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
1820 Mar. 15.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 25.3 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks and addressed to the "Right Noble / The Marchioness of Abercorn / Stratford Place / London."
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.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Discussing his intended trip to London; confirming that his daughter is to be married and highly praising her betrothed, concluding "the youngsters name is John Gibson Lockhart;"remarking that some of the Ross-shire lairds are contriving "to raise an insurrection among their tenants," noting that they will succeed and "make us as bad as the South of Ireland."
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