The Ashestiel Manuscript

Item author: Sir Walter Scott
Item date: 1808-1826
Grant Value: 300
Item cost pre-decimal: Not recorded
Item date acquired: 1970
Item institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

Holograph autobiographical fragment, being an account of his early life. First written in 1808 and subsequently worked over and revised in 1826. Bound up By Lockhart after Scotts death with papers relating to his call to the Bar and his marriage certificate

Item Provenance
Collected and bound up by JR Lockhart, they passed to his son-in-law JR Hope-Scott of Abbotsford from some of whose descendants by his second marriage the volume was acquired