BIB_ID
314247
Accession number
MA 1953.21
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1826] Aug. 2.
Credit line
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1958.
Description
1 item (1p., with address) ; 22.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed simply to "John Gibson Esq Junior / 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.
Written on partial mourning paper.
Year of writing from docket and the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 2786).
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 on partial mourning paper.
Year of writing from docket and the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 2786).
Provenance
Sir Hugh Walpole; gift of DeCoursey Fales in February, 1958.
Summary
Thanking him for a cheque of £150; saying he should soon receive a cheque from Cadell for £250, remarking that this will repay Gibson for the money he advanced to his nephew Walter's outfit; hoping that Gibson will be in London to oversee negotiations for the publication of Scott's work on Bonaparte as "you will make a much better bargain than anyone else."
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