Copies of 15 letters between the Marquis of Downshire, his ward, Charlotte Carpenter and Sir Walter Scott, covering Scott's courtship of Miss Carpenter and their subsequent marriage, 1797-1798 . The originals of these documents are in the National Library of Scotland.
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