BIB_ID
314240
Accession number
MA 1953.15
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1826] June 13.
Credit line
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1958.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.1 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.
Written from "North St. David Street."
Year of writing from docket and the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 2763).
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 "North St. David Street."
Year of writing from docket and the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 2763).
Provenance
Sir Hugh Walpole; gift of DeCoursey Fales in February, 1958.
Summary
Regarding the sale of works or copyrights to either Mr. Cadell (for a flat price of £1,500) or to Messrs. Jollie & Monypenny (for an uncertain profit); wishing that the opinion of Longman & Co. "could be come at indirectly" but remarking that "hacking the works through the marked would do essential harm to the property."
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