BIB_ID
314482
Accession number
MA 1953.65
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1811 Dec. 27].
Credit line
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1958.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 19.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed to "Thomas Purdie / [illeg.] at Abbotsford / Care of Charles Erskine Esq / Writer / Melrose."
Date of writing from postmark.
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 postmark.
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
Being a list of over 9,000 trees to be planted (at Abbotsford), including "Ten hundred Oaks common size," "Five hundred Beeches," and "Two hundred Limes."
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