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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20060620
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A DRAFT of Sir Walter Scott's last will and testament is to go on display for the first time in 174 years.

The Bank of Scotland bought the will at Christie's auction house in London this month for almost [pounds sterling]6,000.

The 12-page document will feature in a museum at the bank's HQ on the Mound in Edinburgh, due to open in September.

The author bequeathed his estate to sons Walter and Charles and son-in-law John Gibson Lockhart.

The will, drawn up in 1831, the year before his death, warns them 'not to part with any part of this property rashly'.

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