BIB_ID
314201
Accession number
MA 1953.8
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
1826 Jan. 17.
Credit line
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1958.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 19.4 cm
Notes
Address panel simply to "John Gibson Esq."
Docketed.
John Gibson was a Scottish Writer to the Signet and trustee of Sir Walter Scott's estate following the insolvency of 1826; he was Deputy-Keeper of the Great Seal (1853-58).
Part of a large collection of letters from Sir Walter Scott primarily to John Gibson. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Scott dates this letter "Abbotsford, Tuesday, 17 January 1826," but the letter was written from Edinburgh. Corrected location of writing from the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 2647).
Docketed.
John Gibson was a Scottish Writer to the Signet and trustee of Sir Walter Scott's estate following the insolvency of 1826; he was Deputy-Keeper of the Great Seal (1853-58).
Part of a large collection of letters from Sir Walter Scott primarily to John Gibson. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Scott dates this letter "Abbotsford, Tuesday, 17 January 1826," but the letter was written from Edinburgh. Corrected location of writing from the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 2647).
Provenance
Sir Hugh Walpole; gift of DeCoursey Fales in February, 1958.
Summary
Reporting that he has just learned that Constable's firm was bankrupt and that his house "must stop payment" on Scott's accounts; noting that Scott "will be greatly embarrassed" by this but hoping that he may "work through without great ultimate loss;" mentioning that "Mr. Hogarth who manages the matters of Ballantyne & Co., and knows the whole affairs personally will explain them to you."
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