BIB_ID
313449
Accession number
MA 2335.27
Creator
Lockhart, Sophia Scott, 1799-1837.
Display Date
"Saturday evening" [1832].
Credit line
Purchased, 1964.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.5 cm
Notes
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.
Written from "St. James's Hotel / Jermyn Street;" however, the contents of the letter indicate that Lockhart is not in London, but rather with her family at Abbotsford.
Year of writing inferred from contents; Sir Walter Scott died on 21 September 1832.
Written from "St. James's Hotel / Jermyn Street;" however, the contents of the letter indicate that Lockhart is not in London, but rather with her family at Abbotsford.
Year of writing inferred from contents; Sir Walter Scott died on 21 September 1832.
Provenance
Purchased from John F. Fleming in 1964.
Summary
Discussing the illness of her father Sir Walter Scott, noting that due to another stroke he "suffers neither in mind or body." With a postscript inviting Carpenter to call.
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