BIB_ID
310889
Accession number
MA 427.76
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
"Saturday" [1820 Apr. 15].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 22.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed to the "Most Noble / The Marchioness of Abercorn / &c &c &c."
Dated "15 April 1820" in a contemporary hand and identified in the Millgate Union Catalogue of Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 1686). Misdated by Grierson to 1 April 1820.
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.
Written from "Piccadilly."
Dated "15 April 1820" in a contemporary hand and identified in the Millgate Union Catalogue of Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 1686). Misdated by Grierson to 1 April 1820.
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.
Written from "Piccadilly."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Confirming his appointment with the Bishop of London; remarking that he would have called on her the previous night but was detained at Woolwich and did not return to town until one in the morning; hoping to call on her on Tuesday.
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