Sir Walter Scott collection of papers

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Description: This is a synthetic collection that includes manuscripts, notebooks, letters, portraits of Scott, and drawings for his books, as well as legal and financial documents. It also contains original water color drawings by T. Stothard and John Masey Wright for Scott's novels. Also included are two notebooks of Richard Harris Barham and a commonplace book of S. S. Hazlitt, both of which include poems by Scott. The correspondence includes letters, dating from 1796 to 1831, from Scott to James Ballantyne, Lord Byron, James Fenimore Cooper, John Gibson, Lady Anne Hamilton, Sir Robert Peel, Lady Shelley, Sarah Kemble Siddons, Robert Southey, and others. There are also letters from 1817 to 1931 relating to the author between various correspondents including Washinton Irving, Henry Brevoort, W. Maxwell-Scott, Gabriel Wells, Algernon Charles Swinburne, and others.
Names: Scott, Walter, 1771-1832 (Creator); Ballantyne, John, 1774-1821 (Correspondent); Barham, R. H. Dalton (Richard Harris Dalton), 1815-1886 (Correspondent); Berg, Albert A., 1872-1950 (Former owner); Berg, Henry W., 1858-1938 (Former owner); Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 (Correspondent); Collier, John Payne, 1789-1883 (Former owner); Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 (Correspondent); Eccles, Mary Hyde (Donor); Hamilton, Anne, Lady, 1766-1846 (Correspondent); Hazlitt, Sarah Stoddart (Correspondent); Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830 (Former owner); Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup) (Former owner); Hyde, Donald Frizell, 1909-1966 (Donor); Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 (Correspondent); Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945 (Former owner); Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834 (Former owner); Lamb, Mary, 1764-1847 (Former owner); Maxwell-Scott, Walter, Sir, 1875-1954 (Correspondent); Peel, Robert, 1723-1795 (Correspondent); Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 (Correspondent); Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831 (Correspondent); Smith, Harry B. (Harry Bache), 1860-1936 (Former owner); Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 (Correspondent); Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909 (Correspondent); Wells, Gabriel, 1862-1946 (Correspondent); Young, Owen D., 1874- (Former owner)
Dates / Origin: Date Created: 1796 - 1931
Library locations: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature; Shelf locator: Berg Coll MSS Scott
Topics: Scott, Walter, 1771-1832
Genres: Manuscripts; Notebooks; Correspondence; Portraits; Drawings; Documents
Notes: Biographical/historical: Sir Walter Scott was a Scottish novelist, poet and literary biographer.; Content: Card catalog available.; Acquisition: This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources. Barham's notebooks were a gift of Mr. & Mrs. Donald F. Hyde in honor of Dr. A. A. Berg.; Funding: Creation of collection-level record funded with the generous support of the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation.
Physical Description: Extent: 55 items
Type of Resource: Text
Identifiers: NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b15849935; MSS Unit ID: 19146; Other local Identifier: NYPW03-A262; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): e88aee80-5a73-0139-c66e-0242ac110002

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