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Blog Entries by Carolyn Vega from 09/2011

Anonymous Scott

| Posted 09.15.2011 | New York
Read More: Manuscripts, Sir Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott Letters, Ivanhoe Morgan Library, Morgan Library, Scott Letters, The Morgan Library & Museum, Scott Letters Morgan Library, New York News

Recently, I read Scott's letters to the Marchioness of Abercorn. Their correspondence began in 1806 (with a letter, incidentally, that contains the earliest surviving reference to his work on The Lady of the Lake), and for a number of years they wrote each other frequently.

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Coleridge Varies His "Inscription on a Time-piece"

| Posted 09.20.2011 | New York
Read More: Manuscripts, Letters, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poems, Sir Walter Scott Letters, Inscription on a Time-Piece, Coleridge Letters, Coleridge Papers, Poetry, New York News

In the late 1890s, an unknown dealer or collector assembled letters that were titled Sir Walter Scott: Letters of his Friends and Contemporaries. One of my favorite items in this is a poem in the hand of a very aged Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

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