BIB_ID
368331
Accession number
MA 432.4
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
1814 Mar. 2.
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Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 25.2 cm
Notes
Addressed to "John Richardson Esq. / Sollicitor / Fludyer Street / Westminster / London."
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 postmark and 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 postmark and trace of a seal.
Summary
Discussing issues of copyright and other legal matters; asking him to "look into the War Office about some arrears due to [his] brother" for the years 1791-1794; mentioning the present of a Japanese broadsword from Captain Fielding; commenting on Joanna Baillie's "intentions to write no more"; wondering if he has seen "this Mr. [Edmund] Kean of whom we hear so much."
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