BIB_ID
314243
Accession number
MA 1953.18
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1826] July 18.
Credit line
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1958.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 19.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed simply "For John Gibson Esq. / W.S."
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.
Year of writing from docket and the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 2780).
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.
Year of writing from docket and the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 2780).
Provenance
Sir Hugh Walpole; gift of DeCoursey Fales in February, 1958.
Summary
Approving of the actions Gibson took in order to avoid a quarrel with Messrs. Longman & Co., which would have been "in the highest degree unadvisable."
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