BIB_ID
314275
Accession number
MA 1953.27
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1827] Aug. 22.
Credit line
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1958.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20 cm
Notes
Docketed "Sept. 1826." Corrected year of writing from the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 2795).
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.
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.
Provenance
Sir Hugh Walpole; gift of DeCoursey Fales in February, 1958.
Summary
Apparently responding to an assertion by a third party that Scott broke off a publishing agreement in bad faith; remarking that "it would not certainly have been my wish to break off a bargain in the course of its being adjusted upon any slight or inadequate cause but that arises from moral feeling not legal obligation." Mentioning that Constable said he would give Scott £10,000 for his work on Napoleon Bonaparte.
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