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Autograph letter signed with initials : [Abbotsford, near Melrose], to James Ballantyne, [1812] Nov. 3.

BIB_ID
313665
Accession number
MA 448.5
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1812] Nov. 3.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address), 23 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks and addressed to "Mr. James Ballantyne / &c / Printers, Hanover Street / Edinr."
Bound in Sir Walter Scott's autograph manuscript of Rokeby (MA 448); see related record for more information.
Year of writing from postmark; place of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Provenance
Archibald Constable; Robert Cadell; his sale (London, Christie's, 1867) to Mr. Hope Scott; acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Summary
Enclosing some proof sheets for Rokeby; discussing the poem.