BIB_ID
368305
Accession number
MA 432.3
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
1808 June 29.
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Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 25.1 cm
Notes
Addressed to "W. Hayley Esq. / Care of Mr. Hutchinson."
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.
With trace of a seal.
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.
With trace of a seal.
Summary
Thanking him for the trouble he has taken "on account of ... Sir Ralph [Sadler]" and discussing "the lines of his venerable descendant"; asking for information about Henry Sadler, a man who lived during the reign of Queen Elizabeth; telling him that he plans to go to his farm in Selkirkshire about the middle of next month; reporting that he is working on Dean [Jonathan] Swift now that Sir Ralph is "nearly out of [his] hands."
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