BIB_ID
368299
Accession number
MA 432.2
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
"Friday" [1799 Dec.?].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 25.4 cm
Notes
Date is from Scott's mention of an address "on the subject of the commencing century."
Part of a collection of letters from Sir Walter Scott, members of his family, and his biographer, John Gibson Lockhart. Items are described in individual records; see MA 432 for more details.
Recipient based on the contents of the letter.
Part of a collection of letters from Sir Walter Scott, members of his family, and his biographer, John Gibson Lockhart. Items are described in individual records; see MA 432 for more details.
Recipient based on the contents of the letter.
Summary
Sending him "a very well drawn address on the Subject of the commencing Century by the Editor of a Country Newspaper"; discussing the establishment of the Kelso Mail, and noting that it "has been the fortunate means of destroying the extensive circulation of the most seditious paper [he] ever saw which was also published at Kelso but now hardly subsists"; sending wishes from his family for his Lordship's happiness in the new century.
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