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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 Published in Scott, "Some Unpublished Letters", ed.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).
Sender: Scott, Sir Walter
Recipient: Southey, Robert
Letters: 4
Date(s): 10 Sep [1809?] - 2 May 1817
Location: BC MS 19c SCOTT
Note: 1) Met old follower of Rob Roy by Loch Lomond; encloses [missing] note from George Ellis; political shibboleths are for knaves and fools, and Ellis and Canning should know Southey's views (a pension for Southey is in view); plans for the Morte d'Arthur; Southey's missionary article; Spain. Lord Valenica, Bruce; article on Miss Edgeworth. 2) Introduces the younger Ballantyne; plan of a "British Librarian"; offer to accompany Southey to Edinburgh; Wordsworth. 3) Commends family of Henry Mackenzie, author, visiting the Lakes; Wordsworth's "Excursion" and "White Doe"; the Duc d'Enghien and Captain Wright. 4) In 2 pieces (6 pages). Apologies for not writing; sympathy over Waterloo pilgrimage; has been ill and suffered severe treatment; Southey's controversy with William Smith; Smith's character; thanks for continuation of history of Brazil; work for the poor; Scott of Lincton; impoverished versifier; Gilmour's play is unlikely to get acted; Duke of Buccleuch also anit-Smith. Forwarded (by
N.L. Lockhart ?) from Keswick to 15 Queen Ann Street, Cavendish Square, London. Postmarked 7 May. The original letters (1-3) with typescript copies, bound in the above order preceded by Southey portrait "London, bei Black & Armstrong" after Finden. Letter 4 with seal, loose in envelope. Letters published in Scott, "Some Unpublished Letters", ed. J.A. Symington (1932).