BIB_ID
314339
Accession number
MA 1953.40
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
1828 Oct. 6.
Credit line
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1958.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Address panel simply to "John Gibson Esq Junior / W.S."
Date of writing from Gibson's annotation and identified in the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 3108).
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.
The closure and signature have been cut out.
Date of writing from Gibson's annotation and identified in the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 3108).
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.
The closure and signature have been cut out.
Provenance
Sir Hugh Walpole; gift of DeCoursey Fales in February, 1958.
Summary
Enclosing a Policy and a letter from the Glass Company, remarking that it would be inconvenient for him to pay the £100 as required but that he can do so if the Trustees think it necessary; referring to a potential lawsuit with Longman's regarding a reprint (of his Life of Napoleon Buonaparte?) and noting he thinks the new edition will sell well; mentioning that "the pretext of disposing the manuscripts as Constable's property seems absurd."
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