BIB_ID
311638
Accession number
MA 431.2
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1808] Dec. 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 24.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmarks and evidence of a seal, and addressed to "Mr. William Miller / Bookseller / Albemarle Street / London."
Part of a large collection of Sir Walter Scott correspondence; see collection-level record for more information.
Year of writing from postmarks.
Part of a large collection of Sir Walter Scott correspondence; see collection-level record for more information.
Year of writing from postmarks.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1900.
Summary
Concerning Scott's selections to be included in an anthology of British drama, noting "the English comedies of merit are much more numerous than the tragedies."
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