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Sender: Scott, Sir Walter
Recipient: Bartley, ( )
Letters: 1
Date(s): 13 Oct [1830]
Location: BC MS 19c SCOTT
Note: On Kemble's proposal to dramatize a Scott translation from German, c.1800, forthcoming in "The Keepsake"; congratulations on success of Miss Kemble. Original (with seal) and typed transcript, bound in a volume of Scott's letters 1814-30. Published in his "Some Unpublished Letters", ed. J.A. Symington, 1932. Recipient is manager of Covent Garden Theatre, 1830.
Sender: Scott, Sir Walter
Recipient: Brown, Miss (by Lady Wedderburn; corrected to Browne)
Letters: 1
Date(s): 21 Feb 1828
Location: BC MS 19c SCOTT
Note: Miss Brown's music composition; Lady Wedderburn had written on Scott's taking this up with Moscheles (sic); need for a subscriber; let wife of Canon Hughes of St Paul's know. Original and typed transcript, bound in volume of Scott's letters, 1814-30. Published in his "Some Unpublished letters", ed. J.A. Symington, 1932.
Sender: Scott, Sir Walter
Recipient: Bullock, William
Letters: 1
Date(s): 30 Dec [1822]
Location: BC MS 19c SCOTT
Note: Armour arrived, James Ballantyne will pay Bullock £100. Original and typed TS, bound in volume of Scott's letters 1814-30. Published in his "Some Unpublished Letters", ed. J.A. Symington.
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 Published in Scott, "Some Unpublished Letters", ed.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 Published in Scott "Some Unpublished Letters", ed.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.
Sender: Scott, Sir Walter
Recipient: Dumergue, Miss
Letters: 1
Date(s): 16 May [1826]
Location: BC MS 19c SCOTT
Note: Death of wife; regards to Mrs Nicholson, asks news to be sent to Iluch (?) and Barbier family, Kiernans, Smiths, etc. Original and typed TS, bound in volume of Scott's letters, 1814-30. Published (with name errors?) in his "Some Unpublished Letters", ed. J.A. Symington, 1932.
Sender: Scott, Sir Walter
Recipient: Edgeworth, Maria
Letters: 1
Date(s): 17 Feb 1815
Location: BC MS 19c SCOTT
Note: Thanks for appreciation of Bruce poem; Miss Edgeworth's fictional character Lord Oldborough; Lord Melville; the Scotts may visit London with a young girl; saw the Giant's Causeway, etc in N. Ireland; may sail to Dublin. Published in Scott, "Some Unpublished Letters", ed. J.A. Symington (1932).
Sender: Scott, Sir Walter
Recipient: Freeling, Sir Frances
Letters: 3
Date(s): 2 Dec 1828 - 1 Oct 1830
Location: BC MS 19c SCOTT
Note: Explaining the delay in publishing a "little tract"; enclosing a tract relating to a murder trial; enclosing a copy of "Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft". The original letters with typescript copies. Published in Scott, "Some Unpublished Letters", ed. J.A. Symington (1932).
Sender: Scott, Sir Walter
Recipient: Gordon, Elizabeth, Marchioness
Letters: 1
Date(s): 12 Mar [1825]
Location: BC MS 19c SCOTT
Note: A letter from the Marchioness to George Huntly Gordon; the tale of Walter of Gaick; Captain Fraser, poor versifier, seeks patronage; Huntly Gordon deserves it. Original and typed transcipt, bound in volume of Scott's letters, 1814-30. Published in his "Some Unpublished Letters", ed. J.A. Symington (1932).
Sender: Scott, Sir Walter
Recipient: Grattan, Thomas Colley
Letters: 1
Date(s): 8 Nov 1830
Location: BC MS 19c SCOTT
Note: Thanks for letter and Grattan's book "The Heiress of Bruges"; the turnpike act. Original (with seal) and typed transcript, bound in a volume of Scott's letters, 1814- 30. Published in his "Some Unpublished Letters", ed. J.A. Symington (1932).
Sender: Scott, Sir Walter
Recipient: Hartstonge, Matthew Weld
Letters: 7
Date(s): 1 May 1811 - 27 May 1824
Location: BC MS 19c SCOTT
Note: Regretting that a present of books had not arrived and speaking of Hartstonge's "Swiftiana". Inviting him to Edinburgh, and speaking of his dogs, the Edgeworth's, and a law suit; asking that Mr Monck Berkeley might be given access to some papers relating to Swift; wishing him a pleasant visit abroad, with a story of the Ladies of Llangollen, information about his own works, and an invitation to stay in Edinburgh on the way to the Continent; on his illness and convalescence, alterations at Abbotsford and family news: advising him not to write for "The Stage"; about Abbotsford and his family. The original letters with typescript copies. Published in Scott, "Some Unpublished Letters" ed. J.A. Symington (1932).
Sender: Scott, Sir Walter
Recipient: Knighton, Sir William
Letters: 1
Date(s): 30 Oct [1825]
Location: BC MS 19c SCOTT
Note: Recipient is Keeper of the Privy Purse to George IV. Recommends royal patronage of Constable firm's ["British librarian"] miscellany plan; Scott has been in Ireland. Original and typed transcript. Published in Scott, "Some Unpublished Letters", ed. J.A. Symington (1932).