gh, 1894.
Letters and Recollections of Sir Walter Scott, by Mrs. Hughes (of
Uffington), edited by Horace G. Hutchinson.
London, 1904. (First published in _The Century_, xliv: 424 and 566;
July and August, 1903.)
The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart, by Andrew Lang, from
Abbotsford and Milton Lockhart mss. and other original sources.
2 vols. London, 1897.
These volumes contain many letters from Scott to Lockhart.
Memoir and Correspondence of the late John Murray, with an account of
the origin and progress of the House, 1768-1843, by Samuel Smiles.
2 vols. London, 1891.
This book contains many letters from Scott to Murray, who published
some of Scott's works and was the proprietor of the _Quarterly
Review_.
Archibald Constable and his Literary Correspondents. A Memorial by his
son Thomas Constable.
3 vols. Edinburgh, 1873.
The third volume is wholly taken up with an account of Scott's
relations with Constable, his publisher, and many letters are given.
See also Vol. II, pages 347 and 474.
[The Ballantyne and Lockhart Pamphlets.]
I. Refutation of the Misstatements and Calumnies contained in Mr.
Lockhart's Life of Sir Walter Scott, bart., respecting the Messrs.
Ballantyne, by the trustees and son of the late Mr. James Ballantyne.
(1835.)
II. The Ballantyne Humbug Handled by the author of the Life of Sir
Walter Scott. (1839.)
III. Reply to Mr. Lockhart's Pamphlet, entitled "The Ballantyne-Humbug
Handled," etc. (1839.)
The two last pamphlets contain numerous letters of Scott's. For a
history of Scott's publishing operations these pamphlets should be
studied in connection with the Memoirs of Lockhart, Murray, and
Constable.
Annals of a Publishing House; William Blackwood and his sons, their
magazine and friends. By Mrs. Oliphant.
3rd edition, 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1897.
About half a dozen letters not elsewhere published are given in this
book.
Letters from and to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq., edited by
Alexander Allardyce, with a memoir by Rev. W.K.R. Bedford.
2 vols. Edinburgh, 1888.
Lockhart wrote to Sharpe in 1834: "He had preserved so many letters
of yours.... that I must suppose the correspondence was considered
by himself as one not of the common sort." (Vol. II, p. 479.) Both
men were authors and antiquaries, and their letters as given in this
book illustrate t
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