BIB_ID
314205
Accession number
MA 1953.9
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1826 Mar. 8].
Credit line
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1958.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 25.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed to "John Gibson Esq. / W.S."
Date of writing from Gibson's annotation.
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.
Written from Castle Street.
Date of writing from Gibson's annotation.
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.
Written from Castle Street.
Provenance
Sir Hugh Walpole; gift of DeCoursey Fales in February, 1958.
Summary
Discussing the upcoming sale of the contents of his house; asking that it be advertised as "the furniture in No. 39 lately occupied by Sir Walter Scott," acknowledging that Gibson's delicacy will "boggle" at this, but remarking that "if the public are aware it is mine, better prices may be given."
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