Autograph Note Signed to unknown correspondent [David Brewster?].

Page trimmed of peripherals, c. 4 x 3", removed from an album, text as folllows: "Dear Sir // I fancy the Society should pay the [inclosed ??] in the first instance & recover from the gentlemen who a: [new line] vail [avail?] themselves of the tickets which I sent to you. / We will hear of our Address today Yours truly / W Scott [underlined]" David Brewster, scientist (DNB) had a hand in the growth of the collection of autographs in which this appeared. [I have a letter in which he writes to "Annie" his son, Henry's wife], the initial collector about providing autographs - and the collection includes letters to him as well as involving people who were in his circle e.g. Fox Talbot or may well have been e.g. Oersted.] Perhaps this letter was to Brewster (still "Sir" in the early days of their acquaintance?). Scott became a friend of Brewster through being President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (starting 1820, see Lockhart). The "Society" mentioned in the letter could well be the Royal Society, and the "Address" mentioned one to that body, perhaps even the first Presidential address. There is no letter to Brewster in Grierson's edition. Perhaps the "Herculean labours" of Jane Millgate have uncovered some.