Autograph letter signed : Lasswade Cottage, near Edinburgh, to George Ellis, 1802 Oct. 17.

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Autograph letter signed : Lasswade Cottage, near Edinburgh, to George Ellis, 1802 Oct. 17.

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Discussing the reasons for his delay in writing, citing the change in Leyden's date of departure, and "a variety of little provincial avocations," for which he suffered "formidable hardships of sleeping upon peat-sacks & eating mutton slain by no common butcher but deprived of life by the Judgment of God." Mentioning that his brother has returned to Scotland; wishing he had seen Ellis on a recent trip to London; saying that having to compile the third volume of the Minstrelsy is preventing him working on "Sir Tristrem;" and introducing and copying verses from a romance related to King Richard, noting that several lines are defaced in the manuscript and discussing its origins at length.

1 item (9 p., with address) ; 23.1 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Ellis, George, 1753-1815

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Scott, Walter, 1771-1832

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