BIB_ID
314281
Accession number
MA 1953.29
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
"Monday" [1827 Nov. 19].
Credit line
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1958.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20 cm
Notes
Docketed "Sept 1827." Corrected date of writing from the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 2964).
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 from 6 Shandwick Place.
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 from 6 Shandwick Place.
Provenance
Sir Hugh Walpole; gift of DeCoursey Fales in February, 1958.
Summary
Saying he is ready to go to the press with the second series of the Chronicles; discussing the necessity of holding the copyrights for his works in order to extricate the Trust's affairs; proposing to "adventure the purchase money of 2d Series as a fund to obtain a moiety of the Copyrights now in the market."
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