Gayle Richardson
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Elizabeth Jane Howard, ca. 1965. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Imagine my surprise when I read the following words in the acknowledgment section of Elizabeth Jane…
"Sir, I have very ungraciously left unacknowledged your present of the Landscape Illustrations of Waverly."
So begins an undated letter by Sir Walter Scott to Mr. Charles Tilt, Bookseller. Scott…