BIB_ID
311728
Accession number
MA 431.17
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1828] Feb. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmarks and evidence of a seal and addressed to "Horatio Smith Esq / 5 Hanover Crescent / Brighton."
Date of writing from postmarks.
Part of a large collection of Sir Walter Scott correspondence; see collection-level record for more information.
Written from 6 Shandwick Street, Edinburgh.
Date of writing from postmarks.
Part of a large collection of Sir Walter Scott correspondence; see collection-level record for more information.
Written from 6 Shandwick Street, Edinburgh.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1900.
Summary
Responding to his complaints regarding Leigh Hunt's treatment of Lord Byron, and criticizing Hunt's work; referencing Lockhart's "battle with the Athenaeum;" saying that "As for poor Shelley I always thought there was a strain of insanity both in the character of his genius and of his religious opinions and that he was more of a fanatic in his insane philosophy than of a deliberate propagator of irreligious doctrine."
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