BIB_ID
310913
Accession number
MA 427.80
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1820] July 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 25 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmarks and evidence of a seal and addressed to "The Most Noble / Marchioness Dowager of Abercorn / Stratford place."
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.
The portrait here referenced was painted by John Watson, afterwards Sir John Watson Gordon, in 1820. It is the earliest of several portraits of Scott by this artist and was painted for Lady Abercorn.--Cf. Grierson, p. 217, n. 1.
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.
The portrait here referenced was painted by John Watson, afterwards Sir John Watson Gordon, in 1820. It is the earliest of several portraits of Scott by this artist and was painted for Lady Abercorn.--Cf. Grierson, p. 217, n. 1.
Year of writing from postmarks.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Reporting that his portrait is advancing, thinking that it will "be a likeness and a tolerably good picture" and hoping to send it to her before he leaves Edinburgh; looking forward to his departure to Abbotsford on the 11th; alluding to scandal surrounding the Queen and King, remarking that the cheering crowds that seem to be supporting her may only be cheering her out of hatred for her estranged husband the King; referencing his son Walter's military career; encouraging her to travel abroad; saying that his "own motions are very uncertain and will depend much on the manner in which I must dispose of my second son."
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