BIB_ID
314216
Accession number
MA 1953.11
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1826] May 12.
Credit line
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1958.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
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.
Recipient identified in the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 2741).
Written from "Brown's Lodgings / N. St. David Street."
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.
Recipient identified in the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 2741).
Written from "Brown's Lodgings / N. St. David Street."
Provenance
Sir Hugh Walpole; gift of DeCoursey Fales in February, 1958.
Summary
Referring to Gibson's seeking advice from Longmans; sending some "billets doux" for him to answer and mentioning that he has received a letter from the Glass House Co. to "settle about their installments on pain of proceedings to recover them." Mentioning Lady Scott's poor health; with a postscript regarding some firewood shelves [that he apparently wished were not disposed of in the sale of the contents of his Edinburgh house] remarking that they would have held his books at Abbotsford.
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