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Autograph letter signed with initials : [Edinburgh], to [John Gibson], [1826] June 27.

BIB_ID
314241
Accession number
MA 1953.16
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1826] June 27.
Credit line
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1958.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.9 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).
Location and year of writing from docket and the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 2768).
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 on mourning paper.
Provenance
Sir Hugh Walpole; gift of DeCoursey Fales in February, 1958.
Summary
Returning Mr. More's paper "which cannot be improved by me;" wishing that "the discussion about the merchant's right to recall goods or to stop them in transit when a man becomes insolvent were quoted as I think it a strong one;" remarking that "The english ahve more favour for Assizes than what our law entertains."