WALTER SCOTT AS SHERIFF ADVOCATE GIVES A VERDICT SCOTT (Sir Walter, 1771-1832, Novelist & Poet)

Autograph Verdict Signed at the end of a portion of a Legal document under the decision of Charles Erskine, which says that he has considered the Petition and William Brown, “and he charged to lodge answer thereto, at the Clerk’s office at Selkirk within six days after he is so served...”, a couple of months later Scott has written “The Sheriff Depute offers further answer... the Defendant to lodge... the price which he received... on his own expense...”, 2 sides 8½” x 6½”, Selkirk, 14th May

As an advocate, judge and legal administrator by profession, Scott combined writing and editing with daily work as Clerk of Session and Sheriff-Depute of Selkirkshire. He was prominent in Edinburgh's Tory establishment, active in the Highland Society, long a president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1820–1832), and a vice president of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1827–1829). His knowledge of history and literary facility equipped him to establish the historical novel genre as an exemplar of European Romanticism. He became a baronet "of Abbotsford in the County of Roxburgh", Scotland, on 22nd April 1820, the title became extinct on his son's death in 1847.

Item Date:  1823

Stock No:  42021      £325

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