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-daugh-ter of the person to whom the letter was written. The letter is written in a clear hand and is as easily decipherable today 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 on marriage. She was the 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. So she sought the advice of her father's friend, whose reply has come down through her family to its present owner.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 November 1939, Page 5
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153Untitled Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 November 1939, Page 5
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