BIB_ID
311640
Accession number
MA 431.3
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
1809 Mar. 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmarks and evidence of a seal, and addressed to "Miss Seward / The Bishops Palace / Lichfield."
Docketed.
Part of a large collection of Sir Walter Scott correspondence; see collection-level record for more information.
Seward died on March 25, 1809.
Docketed.
Part of a large collection of Sir Walter Scott correspondence; see collection-level record for more information.
Seward died on March 25, 1809.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1900.
Summary
Concerning her illness; instructing her to "take heart, therefore, and do not let us lose you," and citing his great regard for her; discussing Constable's not keeping his promise to write about her poems.
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