BIB_ID
368640
Accession number
MA 432.35
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
"Thursday" [1826 or later].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 23 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Francis Jeffrey Esq."
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.
The letter seems to have been written after the death of Scott's wife in May 1826.
With 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.
The letter seems to have been written after the death of Scott's wife in May 1826.
With seal.
Summary
Declining an invitation; writing that his daughter Ann "leaves town tomorrow for Abbotsford" and he has "unluckily engaged [him]self to Sir John Dalrymple for Saturday."
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