BIB_ID
311852
Accession number
MA 431.47
Creator
Lockhart, Sophia Scott, 1799-1837.
Display Date
[1833] Dec. 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmarks and evidence of a seal, and addressed to Miss Scott in Canterbury. Part of the address is illegible, but resembles that of MA 431.44.
Part of a large collection of Sir Walter Scott correspondence; see collection-level record for more information.
Recipient is Anne Rutherford Scott, the daughter of Thomas Scott (1774-1823) and niece of Sir Walter Scott.
Signed "Your [affectionate] cousin, C. Sophia Lockhart."
Year of writing from postmark.
Part of a large collection of Sir Walter Scott correspondence; see collection-level record for more information.
Recipient is Anne Rutherford Scott, the daughter of Thomas Scott (1774-1823) and niece of Sir Walter Scott.
Signed "Your [affectionate] cousin, C. Sophia Lockhart."
Year of writing from postmark.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1900.
Summary
Apologizing for not responding to her first letter sooner, noting that she has been copying for Lockhart and that she was "sick at the sight of pen ink and paper;" thanking her for a package from Mrs. Scott; describing their stay at Wycombe Abbey; mentioning the ill health of Lockhart's mother and his plans to visit her the following month; discussing the upcoming marriage of Tom Hamilton to a widow with £3,000 a year, a house in London, and a grown up son; discussing other mutual acquaintances and family members.
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