BIB_ID
310959
Accession number
MA 427.89
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
1825 Oct. 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.4 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks and addressed to "The most Noble / Marchioness of Abercorn / &c &c &c," and with a note directing the letter to Paris in another hand.
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
Describing his pleasurable journey to Ireland; praising the country at length and musing that it "has certainly the capability of becoming perhaps the finest portion of the Empire," mentioning that all it seems to want "is the proper direction of a spirit of industry;" discussing some precautions they took for safety while there; praising the hospitality of her brother Colonel Gore; mentioning that Lockhart has been offered the post of Conductor of the Quarterly Review and regretting that this means he and Sophia will move to London; noting that Walter has been appointed Aide de Camp to Lord Wellsley; mentioning a visit by Mrs. Coutts and her suitor the Duke of St. Albans.
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