BIB_ID
310890
Accession number
MA 427.77
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
undated [1820 May 1? and 6].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 25 cm
Notes
Dated "May 1820" in a contemporary hand; dated 6 May 1820 in the Millgate Union Catalogue of Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 1686). Grierson dates the first half of the letter to 1 May, and the second half to 4 or, as dated by Scott, 6 May.
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter and identified in Grierson, p. 182, n. 3.
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.
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter and identified in Grierson, p. 182, n. 3.
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
Reporting that he arrived in Edinburgh on Thursday and saw his daughter Sophia married to J. G. Lockhart the following day; remarking that his house "seems lonely to me since she left us, but that is a natural feeling which will soon wear off;" noting that "they make rather a pretty couple & as they marry for love & with very fair prospects in other respects their present lot seems to be enviable;" referencing the eventual flight of his other children; noting that he has had many visitors, including Prince Gustavus of Sweden. Continuing the letter on the 6th at Abbotsford, noting that Walter has left to visit Sophia and her husband at Lockhart's father's house and expecting them all to return the following week; saying that the bustle of the marriage prevented him from sending her a package of books as promised and from completing the letter until now.
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