BIB_ID
313649
Accession number
MA 448.3
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1812 Oct.].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.), 22.8 cm
Notes
Approximate date of writing from the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 731).
Bound in Sir Walter Scott's autograph manuscript of Rokeby (MA 448); see related record for more information.
Labeled "No. 4" in an unknown hand on p. 2.
Bound in Sir Walter Scott's autograph manuscript of Rokeby (MA 448); see related record for more information.
Labeled "No. 4" in an unknown hand on p. 2.
Provenance
Archibald Constable; Robert Cadell; his sale (London, Christie's, 1867) to Mr. Hope Scott; acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Summary
Responding to Ballantyne's desire to publish Rokeby by Christmas, noting that it is only possible if Scott shortens the poem by a Canto; saying that he can complete it at the original projected length in six weeks or two months; expressing determination to publish the poem by Christmas; discussing a few specific lines of the poem.
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