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Sender: Scott, Sir Walter
Recipient: Ballantyne, James & Murray, John
Letters: 3
Date(s): [May 1822]; [Nov 1825]; 22 Jul 1830
Location: BC MS 19c SCOTT
Note: To James Ballantyne, about arranging to collect proofs; to James Ballantyne, saying that he has begun "Woodstock"; to John Murray, telling him that he has corrected the proofs of "Demonology and Witchcraft".
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 Published in his "Some Unpublished Letters", ed.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 Published in his "Some Unpublished letters", ed.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: Buchanan, Miss
Letters: 1
Date(s): n.d.
Location: BC MS 19c SCOTT
Note: Brief account and text (partly corrected) in Scott's hand, unsigned, of Macrimmon's Lament "Ha till mi tulidh" (sic), so headed. Inscribed (upside down) to Miss Buchanan, but not written in letter form. Scott's name written by hand in another hand. The English words apparently composed by Scott to fit the "mime". n.p. Original and typed TS (misspelling first word as "Na") bound in a volume of Scott's letters, 1814-30. Published (without correction) in his "Some Unpublished Letters", ed.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 Published in his "Some Unpublished Letters", ed.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: Carne, John
Letters: 2
Date(s): 23 Nov [1824]; 24 Apr 1826
Location: BC MS 19c SCOTT
Note: Granting a request that Carne's "Grecian Travels" might be dedicated to him; thanking him for a presentation copy of the work, which he has not acknowledged earlier on account of illness in the family. The original letters with TS copies. Published in Scott, "Some Uunpublished Letters", ed. J.A. Symington, 1932.
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: Glasgow, Lord Provost
Letters: 2
Date(s): 2 Dec [1819; 21 Dec [1819]
Location: BC MS 19c SCOTT
Note: About the Burgh of Selkirk, of which he has had temporary charge, expressing his attachment to the Buccleugh family. Published in Scott, "Some Unpublished Letters", ed. J.A. Symington (1932).