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Autograph letter signed : Abbotsford [near Melrose], to James Ballantyne, "Monday" [1812 July].

BIB_ID
313645
Accession number
MA 448.1
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
"Monday" [1812 July].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address), 22.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks and addressed to "Mr. James Ballantyne / Printer / Hanover Street / Edinr."
Approximate date of writing from the Milllgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 701).
Bound in Sir Walter Scott's autograph manuscript of Rokeby (MA 448); see related record for more information.
Provenance
Archibald Constable; Robert Cadell; his sale (London, Christie's, 1867) to Mr. Hope Scott; acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Summary
Sending the first Canto of Rokeby; asking him and Erskine to "look it over together and consider whether upon the whole matter it is likely to make an impression."