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.
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."
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