BIB_ID
313648
Accession number
MA 448.2
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
1812 Oct. 28.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.), 23 cm
Notes
Bound in Sir Walter Scott's autograph manuscript of Rokeby (MA 448); see related record for more information.
Labeled "No. 1" and with additional notes on p. 4 in an unknown hand.
Labeled "No. 1" and with additional notes on p. 4 in an unknown hand.
Provenance
Archibald Constable; Robert Cadell; his sale (London, Christie's, 1867) to Mr. Hope Scott; acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Summary
Sending part of Canto II of Rokeby; promising to send the other three sheets int he course of the week; hoping to have completed the first three Cantos by the time he leaves Abbotsford on 11 November; suggesting that the poem can be out by Christmas and instructing Ballantyne "you must not daudle over your typographical scruples; mentioning that because the "public will never be pleased with exactly the same thing a second time," he "saw the necessity of giving a certain degree of novelty, by throwing the interest more on character than in my former poems."
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