BIB_ID
313471
Accession number
MA 2335.29
Creator
Scott, Charles, 1805-1841.
Display Date
"Sunday" [1832 Aug. 5].
Credit line
Purchased, 1964.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 17.8 cm
Notes
Date of writing inferred from postmark and contents of the letter; on July 11, 1832, Sir Walter Scott was moved to Abbotsford.
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.
Separate address panel with seal and postmark (6 AUG) and addressed "To / Mrs. Carpenter / Salisbury Cottage / Tarnham Green." Address panel with a later penciled note reading "From Chas Scott Father not expected to live," indicating that it belongs with MA 2335.30. However, MA 2335.30 is clearly dated "Sept. 12," so this address panel probably enclosed the present letter, MA 2335.29.
Written from "44 Parliament St."
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.
Separate address panel with seal and postmark (6 AUG) and addressed "To / Mrs. Carpenter / Salisbury Cottage / Tarnham Green." Address panel with a later penciled note reading "From Chas Scott Father not expected to live," indicating that it belongs with MA 2335.30. However, MA 2335.30 is clearly dated "Sept. 12," so this address panel probably enclosed the present letter, MA 2335.29.
Written from "44 Parliament St."
Provenance
Purchased from John F. Fleming in 1964.
Summary
Saying that he has received several letters from Abbotsford and regretting to report that "all of them give a most melancholy account of my poor father;" mentioning that they have hired a sick nurse; hoping that "it may please God speedily to release him from a life which is misery to himself and to all around him."
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