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Original manuscript of ‘Redgauntlet’ by Sir Walter Scott

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Original manuscript of ‘Redgauntlet’ by Sir Walter Scott
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Description	Redgauntlet (1824) is centred around a plot to start a third Jacobite uprising. In the novel the character of Hugh Redgauntlet remained loyal to Charles Edward Stuart and had hopes of rekindling the Stuart cause. Scott wrote the manuscript in a short space of time between December 1823 and January 1824.
Shelfmark	Adv.MS.19.2.29
Attribution and copyright:	Public Domain - This work is free of known copyright restrictions. For details visit our copyright page. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Manuscripts
Dates / events:	1824 [Date created]
Subject / content:	Novels Scottish Fiction (general genre)
Person / organisation:	Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist), 1771-1832 [Author]
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Sir Walter Scott
Description	A selection of items relating to Sir Walter Scott (1771 to 1832). They include the manuscripts for 'Waverley', ‘Redgauntlet’ and 'Rob Roy', Scott's novels focusing on the Jacobite risings of 1745 and 1715. Also available are the manuscripts for ‘The Heart of Mid-Lothian’ and ‘Marmion’. A volume of 'The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland' has extensive annotations by Scott. A published version of 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel’ has annotations by the novelist William Beckford. There is a volume of Scott's letters, poems and prose, including a series of letters to the publisher John Murray II.
Additional NLS resources:	Catalogue records for Scott manuscripts Find details of manuscript items we have that relate to Sir Walter Scott in our Archives and Manuscript Collections catalogue. Sir Walter Scott in the John Murray Archive Letters and handwritten drafts of Sir Walter Scott's reviews are part of the John Murray Archive at the Library. Older Scottish literary collections The Walter Scott manuscripts make up one of our most extensive literary collections from the 15th to 19th centuries.