Photostats of twenty-four letters of Sir Walter Scott, chiefly to Charles Robert Maturin.
File
Identifier: MS.5277
Scope and Contents
Twenty-two of the letters are to Charles Robert Maturin and his wife. The other two letters are addressed to Archibald Campbell-Colquhoun and to James Ballantyne.
Dates
- Creation: 1808-1826, undated.
Conditions Governing Access
Normal access conditions apply.
Conditions Governing Use
Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.
Extent
80 Leaves ; Quarto.
Language of Materials
Undetermined
Arrangement
i + 79 folios.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Presented, 1937, by the Library of the University of Texas.
Existence and Location of Originals
The original letters are held in the Library of the University of Texas.
Bibliography
The letters to Maturin and his wife are printed in ‘The correspondence of Sir Walter Scott and Charles Robert Maturin’ edited by F E Ratchford and W H McCarthy (Austin, Texas, 1937). Seventeen of these letters appear also in the ‘Letters of Sir Waiter Scott’ (London, 1932-1937), volumes v and xii, edited by H J C Grierson.
Genre / Form
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
- Description rules
- International Standard for Archival Description - General
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository
Contact:
Archives and Manuscript Division
National Library of Scotland
George IV Bridge
Edinburgh EH1 1EJ
0131 623 3700
manuscripts@nls.uk
Archives and Manuscript Division
National Library of Scotland
George IV Bridge
Edinburgh EH1 1EJ
0131 623 3700
manuscripts@nls.uk