Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed with initials : [Edinburgh], to [James Ballantyne?], "Tuesday" [1822 Aug.?].

BIB_ID
368651
Accession number
MA 432.36
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
"Tuesday" [1822 Aug.?].
Credit line
Acquired before 1922.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 12.2 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
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.
Place and date based on Scott's discussion of George IV's Aug. 1822 visit to Edinburgh.
Recipient may be someone else in Ballantyne's publishing firm; the letter opens, "Dear Sir."
Removed from A. Lang's Prince Charles Edward in 1922.
Summary
Sending corrections to his publisher; noting that "the Duke would have been mad to let the King [George IV] go to the City under the certainty of a noctural mob."