Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh, to [the Marchioness of Abercorn], 1819 Nov. 25.

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Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh, to [the Marchioness of Abercorn], 1819 Nov. 25.

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Responding to her assertion that he allowed their correspondence to lapse that he wrote the last letter between them, and saying that although he should have written even without a reply he was prevented from doing so by poor health; discussing his illness of the previous summer and reporting that he is "now in better health than I have enjoyed in years;" reporting that he has not yet received the rank that the Prince Regent wished to confer on him; discussing his eldest son's military career; mentioning that his brother left a considerable fortune to his children; responding to her inquiries about some novels that the fourth in the series of Tales of My Landlord is spurious and that Ivanhoe by the author of Waverly will immediately appear; mentioning the deaths of the Duke of Buccleuch and Lord Somerville.

1 item (3 p.) ; 25.1 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8121805

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Abercorn, Anne Jane Hamilton, Marchioness of, 1763-1827,

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Scott, Walter, 1771-1832

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