BIB_ID
310912
Accession number
MA 427.79
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1820] Jan. 15.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 25.3 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 and year of writing inferred from contents of the letter and identified in Grierson.
Recipient and year of writing inferred from contents of the letter and identified in Grierson.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Discussing the recent deaths of his mother, maternal uncle and maternal aunt, which all took place within a few days of each other; describing the mustering of men in response to "the bad disposition on the English border," reporting that he ordered his Piper to play their Gathering, and that 100 young men volunteered within the first twenty-four hours.
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