BIB_ID
314237
Accession number
MA 1953.13
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1826] May 30.
Credit line
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1958.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.7 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 and year of writing from docket and the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 2757).
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 and year of writing from docket and the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 2757).
Provenance
Sir Hugh Walpole; gift of DeCoursey Fales in February, 1958.
Summary
Enclosing Gibson's memorial and Scott's notes "of my own general views on the subject." Remarking that "a bookseller who can no longer be a publisher ... has no title to demand a work which he had bargained for expressly in order that he might publish it."
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