BIB_ID
310918
Accession number
MA 427.83
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
1823 [i.e., 1822] Sept. 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 25.3 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmarks and evidence of a seal and addressed to the Marchioness of Abercorn at Florence, Italie, via Paris.
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.
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
Remarking that she did not receive his letter addressed to her in Rome; regretting to hear that she is dissatisfied with her sister Lady Julia's marriage; commiserating with her on Lord Londonderry's recent suicide and relating an incident when Lord Londonderry described a hallucination to him, remarking that "the truth is now plain that the vision had been the creation of a temporary access of his constitutional infirmity;" discussing the King's recent visit to Scotland, describing in particular the well-behaved crowds and the mutual delight that the King and Scottish subjects took in each other; noting that "the bustle occupied us till the beginning of this month" and that he has since been resting at Abbotsford; mentioning that Walter is at Dresden "studying the great art of war" and that he intends to travel there the following spring to "fetch him home;" hoping that he may see Lady Abercorn then if she is still on the continent.
Catalog link
Department