BIB_ID
313374
Accession number
MA 2335.7
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1813] Sept. 5.
Credit line
Purchased, 1964.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 25.4 cm
Notes
Address panel with evidence of a seal and addressed to "Charles Carpenter Esq / Commercial Resident / Salem / Madras."
Part of a collection of letters primarily from Sir Walter Scott to his brother- and sister-in-law Charles and Isabella Carpenter. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Year of writing from contents and from the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence.
Part of a collection of letters primarily from Sir Walter Scott to his brother- and sister-in-law Charles and Isabella Carpenter. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Year of writing from contents and from the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence.
Provenance
Purchased from John F. Fleming in 1964.
Summary
Thanking him and Mrs. Carpenter for the package of cottons and linens sent to Mrs. Scott; looking forward to Mrs. Carpenter's arrival in England; discussing the war and fearing that "while Bonaparte lives & reigns peace is hardly to be hoped for;" mentioning the good health of his family and of his son Charles (Carpenter's godson) in particular; reporting that the Prince Regent offered Scott the Poet Laureateship, but that he turned it down; hoping that Mrs. Carpenter received a book that he had sent to her.
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