Twelve letters of Sir Walter Scott to several correspondents., 1804-1828.
Scope and Contents
With a letter from Archibald Constable containing a contract with Sir Walter Scott for an edition of his ‘Miscellaneous Prose Works’ (Edinburgh, 1825), enclosing the copy of an agreement between James Ballantyne and Hurst, Robinson & Company, regarding the Novelist’s Library, 1822 (folio 19).
Dates
- Creation: 1804-1828.
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Extent
26 Leaves
Language of Materials
From the Series: Undetermined
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Bought, 1931, Colbeck Radford, Catalogue 20, number 201. Letter of Sir Walter Scott regarding a proposed edition of Dante, presented, 1932, by J T T Brown, Glasgow. Letter to Gabriele Rossetti presented by J T T Brown, LL.D., 1932; Letter to Lady Boswell, bought at Sotheby's Sale, 1 June, 1932, lot 283; a letter to John Gibson, Writer to the Signet, and the Constable correspondence bought at Dowell's, 25 February 1932, lots 853, 851, 857.
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