Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Hay Donaldson, [1817 or 1819].

BIB_ID
314371
Accession number
MA 1953.51
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1817 or 1819].
Credit line
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1958.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 17.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed simply to "Hay Donaldson Esq."
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.
Possible years of writing inferred from contents of the letter and identified in the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 9032).
Provenance
Sir Hugh Walpole; gift of DeCoursey Fales in February, 1958.
Summary
Regarding a payment to Lord Compton; enclosing a cheque for £20; referring to his "precarious" health; saying he would like to go to London but that "late hours, company, etc. frighten me from the idea."