BIB_ID
314266
Accession number
MA 1953.24
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1826 Oct. 7].
Credit line
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1958.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks and addressed to "John Gibson Esq / W.S. / South Charlotte 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).
Location and date of writing from docket, postmarks and the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 2811).
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.
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 date of writing from docket, postmarks and the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 2811).
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.
Provenance
Sir Hugh Walpole; gift of DeCoursey Fales in February, 1958.
Summary
Remarking that the Trustees of his estate ought to accept Longmans offer (of £11,025 for his Life of Napoleon Buonaparte); noting that he must travel to London and Paris to complete his research and that this will delay publication but that "neither the time nor expense are agreeable circumstances but I must not economise upon either to the prejudice of literary reputation;" alluding to another work which "will be almost immediately ready for publication" (Chronicles of the Canongate?) and discussing its sale; referring again to his work on Napoleon, noting "I understand Hazlett (sic) is trying to cut in before with a life of Boney on which subject I shall only say he be d----d." With two postscripts and a note by John Gibson remarking that one of the postscripts refers to various creditors.
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