BIB_ID
310964
Accession number
MA 427.90
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1826 Sept. 26].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmarks and evidence of a seal and addressed to "The most Noble / Marchioness of Abercorn / &c &c &c," and with a note directing the letter to Rome in another hand.
Dating: Dates on the postmarks are illegible; Grierson dates the first part of the letter to "ca. mid-August to late September 1826" and the second part of the letter to "ca. late September 1826." The Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 2793) dates the completion of the letter to 26 Sept. 1826.
Lady Scott died on 14 May 1826.
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.
Written on mourning paper.
Dating: Dates on the postmarks are illegible; Grierson dates the first part of the letter to "ca. mid-August to late September 1826" and the second part of the letter to "ca. late September 1826." The Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 2793) dates the completion of the letter to 26 Sept. 1826.
Lady Scott died on 14 May 1826.
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.
Written on mourning paper.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Referencing and lamenting the death of his wife Charlotte; discussing the "worldly embarrassments" that followed the bankruptcy of two booksellers, causing Scott to loose "a very large sum of money;" hoping that with a little hard work he will be able to place himself where he was again; hoping she received a novel, saying he doesn't "much like it except for the picture of Bevis," which is the likeness of his own dog Nimrod; praising the character and fortitude his daughter Anne following the death of her mother; mentioning that his youngest son will soon visit. Picking up the letter "some weeks" later, mentioning that his children have been at home; reporting that Lord and Lady Melville's son likes sick 150 miles south of Moscow; referencing the reform of the Scottish colleges; noting that Lockhart is now the manager of the Quarterly Review; saying "it seems probable that we may never meet again in this world" and asking her to "retain however some place for me in your regard."
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