BIB_ID
314370
Accession number
MA 1953.50
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
"Saturday" [1825].
Credit line
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1958.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 25 cm
Notes
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 possible year of writing inferred from contents of the letter and identified in the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 9031).
Written from Castle Street.
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 possible year of writing inferred from contents of the letter and identified in the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 9031).
Written from Castle Street.
Provenance
Sir Hugh Walpole; gift of DeCoursey Fales in February, 1958.
Summary
Regarding the appointment of Mr. Sharpe as Collector of the Oil Gas Co.; enclosing a memorandum from Mrs. Maclean Clephane. With a postscript mentioning that he is leaving traveling to Abbotsford for the vacation; alluding to Hay Donaldson's death.
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