[92] The Garrick papers were published under the title Private Correspondence, of David Garrick, illustrated with notes and Memoir. 2 vols. 4to, London, 1831-32. [Edited by James Boaden.]

[93] Afterwards Judge in the Court of Session under the title of Lord Jerviswoode.

[94] A few days later, however, the following reply was sent:—­“Dear Gordon,—­As I have no money to spare at present, I find it necessary to make a sacrifice of my own scruples to relieve you from serious difficulties.  The enclosed will entitle you to deal with any respectable bookseller.  You must tell the history in your own way as shortly as possible.  All that is necessary to say is that the discourses were written to oblige a young friend.  It is understood my name is not to be put in the title-page, or blazed at full length in the preface.  You may trust that to the newspapers.

“Pray do not think of returning any thanks about this; it is enough that I know it is likely to serve your purpose.  But use the funds arising from this unexpected source with prudence, for such fountains do not spring up at every place of the desert.  I am, in haste, ever yours most truly, Walter Scott”—­Life, vol. ix. p. 205.

[95] Issued in 1829 as No. 33 of the Bannatyne Club Books. Memorials of George Bannatyne, 1545-1608, with Memoir by Sir Walter Scott.

[96] It was thus that the scenery of Loch Katrine came to be so associated with the recollection of many a dear friend and merry expedition of former days, that to compose the Lady of the Lake was a labour of love, and no less so to recall the manners and incidents introduced.—­Life, vol. i. p. 296.

[97] See note, Jan. 8, 1828, pp. 107-8.

[98] On his own life.

[99] See Henry V., Act IV.  Sc. 3.

[100] The Edinburgh play-bills of the day intimate the “Second appearance of Miss Fanny Ayton, Prima Donna of the King’s Theatre.”

[101] By Congreve—­Act II.  Sc. 7.

[102] The dissolution of the Goderich Cabinet confirmed very soon these shrewd guesses; and Sir Walter anticipated nothing but good from the Premiership of the Duke of Wellington.—­Life, vol. ix. p. 188.

[103] The Rev. Thomas Wright was minister of Borthwick from 1817 to 1841, when he was deposed on the ground of alleged heresy.  His works, The True Plan of a Living Temple, Morning and Evening Sacrifice, Farewell to Time, My Old House, etc., were published anonymously.  Mr. Wright lived in Edinburgh for fourteen years after his deposition, much beloved and respected; he died on 13th March 1855 in his seventy-first year.

[104] Rev. John Clunie, Mr. Wright’s predecessor in the parish, of whom, many absurd stories were told, appears to have been an enthusiastic lover of Scottish songs, as Burns in 1794 says it was owing to his singing Ca’ the yowes to the knowes so charmingly that he took it down from his voice, and sent it to Mr. Thomson.—­Currie’s Burns, vol. iv. p. 100, and Chambers’s Scottish Songs, 2 vols.  Edin. 1829, p. 269.