One autograph letter signed by Walter Scott to R. Rushworth, with the original wax seal. Transcription: " I am honoured with the proposal to inscribe to ... uour picturesque scenery of Scotland to which I can have only one objection that I have not the privilege of being likely to benefit the book as it is the natural acknowledgement of such a favour. I live strictly retired and am obliged to see few people and thus am entirely out of the circle where literary undertakings are spoken of... . In every other respect excepting my inefficiency as a pattern I cannot feel otherwise than honoured in the proposal and I must ?infer you to determine whether you will waste your dedication in this circumstance on so useless patron as myself".