BIB_ID
314250
Accession number
MA 1953.22
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1826] Aug. 5.
Credit line
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1958.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks and addressed to "John Gibson Esq Junior / W.S. / Princes Street / Edinr."
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, postmarks and the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 2790).
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, postmarks and the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 2790).
Provenance
Sir Hugh Walpole; gift of DeCoursey Fales in February, 1958.
Summary
Discussing the repayment of his debt (for his nephew Walter's outfit) to Gibson and discussing the Trust Deed and balance of other debts; referring to the potential profit to come from the publication of his work on Napoleon; saying he instructed Cadell to send Gibson the money; mentioning that payments to his sister-in-law (£150) and to support Charles at College (£300) have reduced his income to £1150, which is "a very good one certainly, but there is much to do with it." Promising to inform the Trustees if he writes anything under his own name or as "the author of Waverly."
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