Box CLX-A-393

Scope and Contents Autograph letter signed in full "Walter Scott" to his publisher James Ballantyne, saying that he has "the pleasure to assure you I am well, quite well. I have walked in spite of weather for two hours every day this week to my ... refreshment. I feel no more of my disease ... You will get little more copy till I come in on Monday because I must do something to help Lockhart at his start..." (John Gibson Lockhart, 1794-1854, Biographer and Critic, Editor of the Quarterly Review 1825-1853), and...

Scope and Contents Autograph letter signed from Sir Walter Scott to Robert Smith Esq., St Paul’s Churchyard, from Edinburgh, dated 5 January 1800.This is a long letter to Smith in St Paul’s Churchyard, primarily concerning the recovery of a debt, but also with family news and remarks of a general nature. Smith has evidently asked Scott to assist in the repayment of a debt, and Scott, in his role as sheriff-depute of the county of Selkirk, agrees to assist. He tells Smith, "I shall be extremely...

Scope and Contents Autograph letter signed from Sir Walter Scott to his friend the antiquarian Cuthbert Sharp in Bishopwearmouth, Durham. From Abbotsford, dated 10th May [no year, but probably 1830].In the letter, Scott thanks Sharp for sending him some material relating to Lord William Howard (1563-1640), known as "Bauld Will Howard": "I am honoured with your letter and packet and am much flattered by your polite note". He praises Sharp for rescuing Howard "from...

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Signed autograph letter from Sir Walter Scott to sculptor Sir Francis Chantrey, in which he makes arrangements for a short sitting with Chantrey before lunching with Lady Frances Shelley.

Scope and Contents This is an autograph formal letter in the third eprson from Walter Scott to an illegible correspondent, possibly Mr Hurst. Abbotsford, undated, Sunday evening, ca 1814.The letter is sending "a small volume of rare tracts which must be taken great care of, the first to be copied is of "the present Miserable State of Ireland". The introduction is on paper aparte as laid in at the place. Mr Scott's servant returns to Abbotsford on Wednesday &...