Autograph letter signed : [Ashestiel, near Melrose], to George Ellis, [1806 Apr. 6].

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Autograph letter signed : [Ashestiel, near Melrose], to George Ellis, [1806 Apr. 6].

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Regretting that Ellis was in Bath while Scott was in London, and hoping to see him on his next visit; reporting that he took up his new post (in the office of a Principle Clerk to the Supreme Court) upon his return, noting that the duty is very simple and consists mainly in signing his name, "so my task is a very easy one, as my name is very short." Discussing his work on Dryden, regretting that some passages from the poet's translations of Lucretius and Ovid's Instructions to his mistress "will hardly bear reprinting," noting that "they are not only double-entendres, but good plain single-entendrees - not only borad, but long, and as coarse as the mainsail of a first rate." Discussing mutual acquaintances.

1 item (4 p., with address) ; 24.4 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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