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
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SCOTT
(Sheila Christine, 1927-1988, Aviator, Actress and Writer)
Typed Letter Signed "Sheila" to "Dear Reg"
thanking him for his letter and "kind invitation to the International Sports Fellowship dinner. I am going to the States in December for a special Guest of Honour thing in Washington, followed by several television shows in New York, Toronto and the Coast. Alas I expect to leave on the day of your dinner, so cannot make it ...", 1 side A4, 593 Park West headed paper, 4th November
Item Date:
1968
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40264
£45
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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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SEAMAN
(Sir Owen, 1861-1936, Poet and Satyrist, Editor of 'Punch')
Autograph Letter Signed to 'My dear Castle'
(probably Egerton Castle, 1858-1920, the novelist and journalist), saying that verses of "the young Pollock ... have been sent to me ... due to the fact that I have just had the Assistant-Editorship offered me ... I am anxious to introduce new blood and shall always welcome any introduction you may send me", 2 sides 8vo., The Tower House, Putney, 10th December
Item Date:
1901
Stock No:
13251
£25
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