BIB_ID
313672
Accession number
MA 448.8
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1812 Nov.].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address), 12.1 cm
Notes
Address panel simply addressed to "Mr. James Ballantyne."
Approximate date of writing from the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 749).
Bound in Sir Walter Scott's autograph manuscript of Rokeby (MA 448); see related record for more information.
Probably written from Edinburgh.
Approximate date of writing from the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 749).
Bound in Sir Walter Scott's autograph manuscript of Rokeby (MA 448); see related record for more information.
Probably written from Edinburgh.
Provenance
Archibald Constable; Robert Cadell; his sale (London, Christie's, 1867) to Mr. Hope Scott; acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Summary
Returning a proof sheet for Rokeby; responding to a few criticisms by Ballantyne concerning the text. With a postscript noting "Your verbal objection I cannot give weight to."
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