BIB_ID
311955
Accession number
MA 431.63
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 9.3 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of Sir Walter Scott correspondence; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1900.
Summary
Apparently a draft of four footnotes for an unknown publication, relating to Mr. James Ballantyne's intimacy with Sir Walter Scott; Mr. Peterkin, editor of the New North Britain; the seat of the Duke of Buccleuch; and the unusualness of hasty notes bearing Sir Walter's formal signature.
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