BIB_ID
313673
Accession number
MA 448.9
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1812 Nov.].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.), 21.3 cm
Notes
Approximate date of writing from the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 751).
Bound in Sir Walter Scott's autograph manuscript of Rokeby (MA 448); see related record for more information.
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
Responding to Ballantyne's criticisms of Rokeby, noting "I cannot change the word flung for the simple reason there is no other word to express the idea & that it seems a word of exceeding good command;" sending some copy for notes, asking him to keep up with the notes "which will save hurrying the poetry."
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