Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Hay Donaldson, [1817 or 1819] | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Regarding a payment to Lord Compton; enclosing a cheque for £20; referring to his "precarious" health; saying he would like to go to London but that "late hours, company, etc. frighten me from the idea."

Manuscript, English, 1817

Publication:Sir Walter Scott Letters to John Gibson (MA 1953)

Physical Description:1 item (1 page, with address) ; 18 cm

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:761717546

Notes:

Address panel with seal and addressed simply to "Hay Donaldson Esq."

Possible years of writing inferred from contents of the letter and identified in the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 9032)

Part of a large collection of letters from Sir Walter Scott primarily to John Gibson. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information