BIB_ID
314342
Accession number
MA 1953.41
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1831 Mar. 15].
Credit line
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1958.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed to "John Gibson Junior Esq / W.S. / 10 Charlotte Street."
Date of writing from docket and identified in the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 7581).
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.
Date of writing from docket and identified in the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 7581).
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.
Provenance
Sir Hugh Walpole; gift of DeCoursey Fales in February, 1958.
Summary
Saying he has little fear of extricating himself from his financial affairs if the country remains at peace and there is no general crash; reporting that he refused an offer from Cadell of £6,000 for half of the property of the Waverly novels, remarking that it has proved beneficial to keep them until now; referring to a proposed sale of his manuscripts; mentioning that when he gave Constable some manuscripts (in 1823) it was under "promise of absolute secrecy" but that Constable broke this promise before the Bankruptcy. Remarking that his death will "rather increase than diminish my literary property in value for a little time at least" and mentioning that he has made out his will.
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