BIB_ID
368469
Accession number
MA 432.14
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[18--?] Dec. 8.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 24.5 cm
Notes
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.
Summary
Dissuading him from trying to publish his poems; telling him that he is "in the general habit of declining to read manuscripts"; warning him of "the hazard & expense" of publishing.
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