THE SIR WALTER SCOTT CONNECTION

 

 

 

Alexander Mundell's letters to/from Sir Walter Scott

 

Author: Helen Mound

Date: 23 Sep 2002 8:19 PM GMT

 

Surnames: MUNDELL and SCOTT

 

Classification: Biography

 

 

I must share this information. We have just been to Scotland and we found several letters of my 3xgreat grandfather Alexander Mundell, in the Edinburgh National Library. The letters were to and from Sir Walter Scott for whom Alexander acted as a solicitor in London.
There were also letters from him to several Peers about financial mis-accounting (by as much as £1,000 - some things never change) by a company and also changes he suggested to an Act of Parliament.
It was really exciting finding these letters and being able to see his handwriting and touch his letters after 200 years!

 

 

http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/1J2.2ACEB/146

 

Alexander, the solicitor in London, gave some small assistance to the committee which raised some funds on behalf of the widow and family of Burns in 1796. In the year i8o6 Sir Walter Scott became impatient to secure a patent as clerk of session in succession to old George Home (one of Mundell's scholars), and under date 25 Jan., 1806, wrote to George Ellis : " I have written to my solicitor, Alexander Mundell, Fludyer Street, to use every despatch in hurrying through the commission." . There were very good reasons why Scott should be acquainted with the whole Mundell family, as we shall see later. But he may have made a mistake in writing Fludyer Street. He had another correspondent at that address.


I can vouch for the fact that Fludyer Street is a correct address as Alexander (my g.g.g. grandfather) wrote letters from this address and they can be found in the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh.

 

Helenemound@aol.com

18 February 2003

 

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