BIB_ID
314373
Accession number
MA 1953.52
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
"Sunday evening" [1827 Nov. 6].
Credit line
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1958.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 18.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed simply to "Mrs. Gibson / &c &c."
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 date of writing inferred from contents of the letter and identified in the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 3920).
Recipient is the wife of John Gibson (1796-1877), who was a Scottish Writer to the Signet and trustee of Sir Walter Scott's estate following the insolvency of 1826.
Written from 6 Shandwick Place.
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 date of writing inferred from contents of the letter and identified in the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 3920).
Recipient is the wife of John Gibson (1796-1877), who was a Scottish Writer to the Signet and trustee of Sir Walter Scott's estate following the insolvency of 1826.
Written from 6 Shandwick Place.
Provenance
Sir Hugh Walpole; gift of DeCoursey Fales in February, 1958.
Summary
Returning a book that his servant accidentally took from her house; saying he thinks he left two volumes of poetry in the drawing room and asking her to return them.
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