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.
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."
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