Accession number
PML 146396.117
Creator
Scott, John, 1784-1821.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Docketed.
Date and place of writing from docket.
Lower portion of rear fold of letter torn away with possible loss of address.
Part of a large collection of prints, drawings, and letters bound into an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Moore's Letters and journals of Lord Byron (PML 146390-97); assembled by collector David Langton and formerly in the possession of John Dillon and Gordon Ray.
Date and place of writing from docket.
Lower portion of rear fold of letter torn away with possible loss of address.
Part of a large collection of prints, drawings, and letters bound into an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Moore's Letters and journals of Lord Byron (PML 146390-97); assembled by collector David Langton and formerly in the possession of John Dillon and Gordon Ray.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.3 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed under Scott's name in the docket in red ink in an unidentified hand, "Editor of the Champion"; beneath the docket in brown ink, "presented by R. Balmanno to Geo.Cooke Apr. 1821 Mr. Scott fell in a duel at Chalk Farm 1821".
Provenance
David Langton; John Dillon; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Agreeing to introduce a Mr. Knight to the booksellers Longmans & Co., but warning his correspondent that "I despair of being able to get him any proposals from them in the first instance, for they have just published a book on Paris, & are to my knowledge likely very soon to publish another"; thanking his correspondent for the attention he has shown the Champion, of which Scott was at that time the editor.
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