Sir Walter Scott | Series of 10 autograph letters signed, to the antiquary Alexander Macdonald

Sir Walter Scott

Series of 10 autograph letters signed, to the antiquary Alexander Macdonald,

thanking him for the loan of documents, transcripts, proofs, drawings, and charters ("...The extracts with which you obliged me regarding the Scottish guard are very curious..."), one letter discussing the lineage of "Thomas the Rhymer", inviting him to visit (""...I will be very happy to receive you at Abbotsford & show you the few things i have worth seeing in the Antiquary line..."), one letter asking if Macdonald knows "any young man who has nous enough to help me in arranging some correspondence cataloguing books and the like", with several subsequent letters making arrangements relating to Mr Buchanan, who acted as his secretary, 13 pages, 4to, 8vo, and 12mo, address leaves, some letters docketed, most letters undated, 1828-1831, mounted in an album (247 x 195mm), with a pencil and watercolour portrait of Scott by William Allan dated 1832, nineteenth-century morocco, slightly rubbed

Alexander Macdonald (F.S.A., Scot), 1791-1850, was for many years Principal Keeper of the Register of Deeds and Protests at General Register House. He provided extensive research material used by Scott in the Waverley Novels, and was also editor of publications of the Maitland Club.