This is a synthetic collection that includes manuscripts, notebooks, letters, portraits of Scott, and drawings for his books, as well as legal and financial documents.
Sir Walter Scott was a Scottish novelist, poet and literary biographer.
Indexes/finding aids (note)
Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.
Provenance (note)
This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources. The bulk of the material is from Owen D. Young, W. T. H. Howe, Jerome Kern, William Winter, and Henry W. and Albert A. Berg. Hazlitt's poetry commonplace book includes a note on the fly-leaf: "This book belonged to Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Mrs. Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, Mr. William Hazlitt, John Payne Collier, [and] Harry B. Smith" with S. Stoddart's name label. Barham's notebooks were a gift of Mr. & Mrs. Donald F. Hyde in honor of Dr. A. A. Berg.
Processing action (note)
Cataloged
Author
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Title
Sir Walter Scott collection of papers, 1796-1931 bulk (1797-1837).
Restricted access
Restricted access; Berg Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
Biography
Sir Walter Scott was a Scottish novelist, poet and literary biographer.
Provenance
This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources. The bulk of the material is from Owen D. Young, W. T. H. Howe, Jerome Kern, William Winter, and Henry W. and Albert A. Berg. Hazlitt's poetry commonplace book includes a note on the fly-leaf: "This book belonged to Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Mrs. Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, Mr. William Hazlitt, John Payne Collier, [and] Harry B. Smith" with S. Stoddart's name label. Barham's notebooks were a gift of Mr. & Mrs. Donald F. Hyde in honor of Dr. A. A. Berg.
Indexes
Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.
Local note
Creation of collection-level record funded with the generous support of the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation.