NOVELIST’S LETTER
WRITTEN 117 YEARS AGO N.Z. POSSESSION A letter written by Sir Walter Scott more than 100 years ago and never published in any biography or memoirs of that author, is among the valued possessions of a New Plymouth woman who is a great-grand-daughter of the person to whom the letter was written. The letter is written in a clear hand and is as easily decipher-
able to-day as when it was written. It bears the date January 4, 1822, and was written from Abbotsford. The letter was a reply from Scott to a young woman who sought his advice un marriage. She was a daughter of a family of which Scott was a personal friend. She was in love with a young man whom she wished to marry, but she could not obtain her father's consent to the union. Therefore she sought the advice of her father’s friend whose reply has come down through her family to d s present owner.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20094, 14 November 1939, Page 5
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163NOVELIST’S LETTER Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20094, 14 November 1939, Page 5
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