Autograph Letter Signed


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To the publisher Walter Scott, thanking him for "Mr. Shaw's book. I have enjoyed reading it exceedingly." Likely referring to Bernard Shaw, The quinessence of Ibsenism, published by Scott in September 1891.










Autograph Letter Signed from Walter Scott, Edinburgh, to Octavius Gilchrist, Stamford


Book Description

Scott indicates that, while he has considered Beaumont and Fletcher a great deal, he cannot think of interfering with Gilchrist's edition. Thanks him for a pamphlet on the Jonsonian controversy, yet he fears "there was some discension between him and Shakespeare." Year of letter based on postmark.