\"1st Baronet of Beau\" Walter Scott Hand Written 2 Page Letter For Sale

Up for sale "1st Baronet of Beau"  Walter Scott Hand Written 2 Page Letter. 

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Sir

Walter Scott, 1st Baronet of Beauclerc (17

August 1826 – 8 April 1910) was an English building contractor and publisher. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Scott

began his profession as a mason, before setting up his own building firm,

completing many major architectural projects in the North East of England and

notable railway stations in London. His publishing house, Walter Scott

Publishing Co. brought classic literature to the masses for a low

price. (He is not to be confused with the novelist and Baronet

Sir Walter Scott) Scott was

born in Abbey Town, Cumberland in 1826. In his youth he was a notable wrestler

and was seen as the best wrestler in his weight within his district, and won

several wrestling prizes at local fairs. He moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and

began an apprenticeship as a stonemason. After completing his apprenticeship he worked as a

builder and began working on several contracts in the local area. By the age of

23 he had set up his own building company. Scott later began winning building

contracts in the North East and was the main contractor behind several landmark

buildings within Newcastle, including the Tyne Theatre, Byker Bridge and added the portico to Newcastle railway station in

1863. Outside Newcastle he completed rebuilding work at Haggerston Castle and several railway projects in London,

including City and South London Railway and the marble arch at the Central

London Station.

In 1882 Scott acquired The Tyne Publishing Co., a printing and publishing

business that was facing impending bankruptcy. Within a few years Scott,

trading as the Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd., published "several

hundred volumes". His publications featured a number of book reprint

series (including the Camelot Classics, the Canterbury Poets, the Emerald

Library, the Evergreen Library,[4] the Great Writers and the

Oxford Library) and a series of original works in The Contemporary Science

Series.Breathes there the man,

with soul so dead,

Who never to himself hath said,

  This is my own, my native land!

Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned,

As home his footsteps he hath turned,

  From wandering on a foreign strand!—

If such there breathe, go, mark him well;

For him no minstrel raptures swell.