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LETTER BT SIR WALTER SCOTT STILL DECIPHERABLE (Special to Times) NEW PLYMOUTH, Wednesday 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 decipherable today as when it was written. It bears the date January 4, 1822, and was written from I 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 Scoit 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 its present owner.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20957, 9 November 1939, Page 11
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171RELIC OF FAMOUS AUTHOR Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20957, 9 November 1939, Page 11
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