BIB_ID
310892
Accession number
MA 427.78
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1820] June 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 25.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmarks and evidence of a seal and addressed to the "Right Noble / The Marchioness of Abercorn / &c &c &c."
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 postmarks.
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 postmarks.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Regretting that "the routine of things here is so uniformly stupid as scarce to afford subject for a letter;" discussing his children's affairs: noting that Walter has returned to the Hussars and thanking her for offering to take "a little charge of him" when he is next in London; remarking that Sophia "is as bustling and important as may be in the exercise of all her newly acquired rights as the mistress of a household;" correcting some gossip she heard about a novel he is writing; refuting Lord Archibald's "tirade" and assuring her that he does not neglect his official duties to write novels; mentioning some court gossip concerning "Lady C;" mentioning some visitors and remarking that Sophia and Lockhart are to have a summer cottage on Abbotsford.
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