BIB_ID
314329
Accession number
MA 1953.38
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1828] Mar. 12.
Credit line
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1958.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 23.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed to "John Gibson Esq Junior."
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 Gibson's annotation and identified in the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 8672).
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 Gibson's annotation and identified in the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 8672).
Provenance
Sir Hugh Walpole; gift of DeCoursey Fales in February, 1958.
Summary
Discussing his investments in the Oil Gas Company being transferred to buy shares in the Coal Gas Company; remarking that "I shall have for my Oil Gas stock about seven shares of coal gas bearing dividends of about 10%;" hoping that the Trustees will not sell his current shares without consulting him.
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