BIB_ID
368566
Accession number
MA 432.27
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
1830 Oct. 26.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.7 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
Writing that they "heard of some brutal insult being offered to the King in the High Street," but saying he supposes "it was only by some drunken resident"; noting that his "house and hospitality [are] entirely at the command of the unfortunate family"; mentioning his "paragraphs in the Observer"; requesting a visit from her "illustrious friend or her ward."
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