SCOTT
(Hugh Stowell, 1862-1903, Novelist under the pseudonym 'Henry Seton Merriman')
Long Autograph Letter Signed to Moody,
thanking him for the "account of your wanderings ... I am afraid we shall cross each other somewhere in France ... I am going for that local colour which you brushed into my dustpan for me in Holland . Since the New Year we have been in Cornwall ... Ethel is working hard in the studio of an impressionist Newlyn artist ... There is a colony of these gentlemen here and some verge on the farcical ... the War fills all minds and the most noticeable effect is the knitting together of the classes ... Baden-Powell came to us at Hook once so we are interested in Mafeking. I have a good many school-fellows in it ... The general feeling is one of doubt about Buller and full confidence in Roberts. Of deeds done, the medical branch is universally allowed to have come in an easy first ... compared to the continental armies our officers are a lot of gentlemen having a good time. For one hours work done by - say a major - his German colleague puts in twelve, and a Frenchman thirteen. I am pegging away at second-rate fiction ... America is awaking to my humble existence ..." with a postscript that when "Someone asked Kitchener if he was going to re-organize the transport, 'I am going to organise it' he answered", 4 sides 8vo., Penzance, 13th February
yellowed
Item Date:
1900
Stock No:
3030
£55
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[SCOTT
(Sir Walter, 1771-1832, Novelist and Poet)]
Unsigned Engraved Portrait by M. Brandreth after C.R. Leslie, R.A.,
showing him seated half length, three quarter face with a thoughtful gaze to the viewer, in jacket and large bow tie, his right hand on his stick, his left forearm on his chair, his armorials as a baronet on the wall behind, 3¾" x 3" in margins 7¼" x 4½", on white paper 17" x 12", no place, no date, circa
Item Date:
1825
Stock No:
56076
£150
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WALTER SCOTT AS SHERIFF ADVOCATE GIVES A VERDICT
SCOTT
(Sir Walter, 1771-1832, Novelist & Poet)
Autograph Verdict Signed at the end of a Legal document
relating the case of "Agnes Leishman residing at Farmlee vs Alexander Neil, Servant Linton Mill. Sir Walter Scott of AbbotsforD Bart, Advocate Sheriff Depute of the County of Selkirk ... it is humbly meant and shewn to us by Agnes Leishman ... the Complainer, upon the twenty ninth day of September 1821 ... was delivered of a natural female child of which Alexander Neil ... is the father and altho' he is conscious that he is the father of the said child yet he unjustly refuses and delays to pay the usual inlying charges, nursing fees and aliment unless compelled. Therefore he, the said Alexander Neil Defender ought and should be deemed and ordained by our Decrees to make payment to the said Pursuer of the following sums of money viz one pound ten shillings sterling per month during the first nine months from the birth ... in the name of nursing fees and the sum of four pounds sterling per anum from the time the child is three quarters old, until she shall attain the age of twelve years complete in name of aliment and for clothing educating and maintaining the said child ... Given at Selkirk and signed by the Clerk of Court the twenty second day of October 1822 ...", Scott has written "The Sheriff Depute finds the defender liable in the sum of three pounds per annum for aliment of the said child and for six pound during the first nine months in name of nursing fees deducting from the said six pounds a valuable proportion according to the time when the child is admitted to have been ... elsewhere than by the mother. Also for the sum of one pound six shillings of inlying charges deducting such payments as the Defender shall be able to further fund expenses ...", Signed by Walter Scott, Selkirk, 14th May 1823 with a further document on the final side saying that "Upon the Twenty fifth day of October Eighteen Hundred and Twenty two .. I William Dunlop Sheriff Officer by virtue of the within libelled summons lawfully summoned warned and charged the within designed Alexander Neil to compear before the Shire Depute of the shire of Selkirk or his substitute time and place within mentioned in the hour of cause with continuation of days to answer at the instance of the Pursuer also within mentioned in the matter libelled with Certification. This I did by delivering to the said Alexander Neil personally a full double of the within libelled summons to the will with a copy of my citation thereto enjoined ..." with a further annotation with the date by Scott, 4 sides folio, with revenue stamp, Selkirk,
Item Date:
1823
Stock No:
41723
£1475
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SEAMAN
(Sir Owen, 1861-1936, Poet and Satyrist, Editor of 'Punch')
Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Blennerhasset,
refusing an invitation to dine, 1 side 8vo., The Tower House, Putney, 9th February
Item Date:
1912
Stock No:
13253
£15
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SEAMAN
(Sir Owen, 1861-1936, Poet and Satyrist, Editor of Punch)
Autograph Letter Signed to George Roland Halkett,
(1855-1918, artist and journalist) saying that he "will not suspect me ... of wishing to impose my work upon you and the National Union [of Journalists], or of pretending to be an artist, but I feel that my poem ... must be taken as a whole ... I would much sooner it did not appear in so important a publication with all the connecting links (in what is at worst a logical production) taken away", but if there is no alternative, "you do not need my permission ... though I appreciate your courtesy in asking for it", 1 side 4to., 'Punch' Office, 10 Bouverie Street, E.C., 29th May
upper half neatly laid down
Item Date:
1910
Stock No:
16316
£20
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