BIB_ID
311865
Accession number
MA 431.49
Creator
Scott, Anne Rutherford, 1739-1819.
Display Date
1818 Dec. 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 25.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks and addressed to "Thomas Scott Esqr / Paymaster 70th Regiment / Longwood House / near Fort George / Niagara Frontier / Upper Canada."
Part of a large collection of Sir Walter Scott correspondence; see collection-level record for more information.
Recipient is Thomas Scott (1774-1823), a younger brother of Sir Walter Scott.
Part of a large collection of Sir Walter Scott correspondence; see collection-level record for more information.
Recipient is Thomas Scott (1774-1823), a younger brother of Sir Walter Scott.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1900.
Summary
Saying she cannot express the pleasure it gives her to hear that he and his family are well and praying that this may long be the case; reporting that her health is better than it has been in years and hoping that she lives long enough to see them returned to Scotland; mentioning that she has willed his children each £100, noting that she intended to leave the sum to Sir Walter but that he encouraged her to give it to Tom's children, and noting that she has left Tom £1,000 more than Sir Walter; further discussing her will and sending her love.
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