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Sender: Scott, Sir Walter
Recipient: Crabbe, George
Letters: 1
Date(s): 21 Oct [1812]
Location: BC MS 19c SCOTT
Note: Thanks for letter. Recalls finding 20 years ago extracts from Crabbe's "Village" and "Library" in Dosley. Hopes to send him a new verse publication; has brought up his children on Crabbe; hopes to visit and be visited. Original and typed TS. Published in Scott, "Some Unpublished Letters", ed. J.A. Symington, 1932.
Sender: Scott, Sir Walter
Recipient: Croker, John Wilson
Letters: 8
Date(s): 1 May 1810 - 1 Apr 1831
Location: BC MS 19c SCOTT
Note: About compensation for Scott's dues of office as Sheriff, accompanying a copy of Alexander Campbell's Collection of Scottish music for the Prince Regent. On a new appointment for Scott's youngest brother; announcing the death of his mother, uncle and aunt in one week and giving his opinion of the various Edinburgh newspapers: enclosing a copy of the "Statement on the Part of the Clerks of Session" in Scotland; on a new method of secret correspondence; apologising for the conduct of his cousin Maxpopple; about various books and his own illness. The original letters with TS copies. Published in Scott "Some Unpublished Letters", ed. J.A. Symington, 1932.