BIB_ID
310933
Accession number
MA 427.87
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1824] Aug. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 25.2 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.
Year of writing inferred from contemporary annotation and contents of the letter, and identified in Grierson.
Year of writing inferred from contemporary annotation and contents of the letter, and identified in Grierson.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Sending his condolences on the death of [Lady Jane Gordon]; remarking that the use of ice has proven successful in "arresting the progress of blood to the heart" and mentioning that his ice stores have recently saved two friends; regretting to hear she is leaving England; discussing Byron's final verses; mentioning some intended visitors; mentioning the unexpected arrival of his son Walter and describing his wild appearance; referencing the recent deaths of the King and Queen of Hawaii; reporting that the King has ordered Wilkie to paint Scott into a "large picture he is painting for his Majesty of his reception at Holyrood."
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