BIB_ID
314321
Accession number
MA 1953.35
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1827] Dec. 14.
Credit line
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1958.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23 cm
Notes
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.
Recipient and year of writing from the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 2978).
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.
Recipient and year of writing from the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 2978).
Written from 6, Shandwick Place.
Provenance
Sir Hugh Walpole; gift of DeCoursey Fales in February, 1958.
Summary
Saying that he is able to pay Gibson £240, assuring him that he will pay the balance of £35 after he returns from Abbotsford, and thanking him for the loan (to outfit his nephew Walter); further discussing his accounts and remarking on a plan to pay the creditor John Thomson, Bookseller.
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