refers to “Mr. Walter Scott, a gentleman to whose distinguished assistance and advice we have been on the present occasion very peculiarly indebted, and who has not only furnished us with many interesting particulars himself, but has also obligingly directed us to other sources of curious information.”  Scott quotes from the first of the three articles in his review of Tales of My Landlord, and he afterwards used the same anecdotes in the introduction to Guy Mannering.

3. Books which contain letters written by Scott.

(As there is no complete collection of Scott’s letters it has been thought wise to name the various sources, so far as the letters have appeared at all in print, from which such a collection might be made.  The list includes only those books or articles in which letters were published for the first time; yet it is probably far from exhaustive.  Notes are given in regard to the number or kind of the letters from Scott to be found in some of the less-known books.)

Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott, by J.G.  Lockhart.

    Edinburgh, 7 vols. 1837-8. 10 vols. 1839.  Abridged edition 1848.  The
    edition referred to throughout this study is that published by
    Macmillan and Company in 5 volumes, 1900.

Familiar Letters of Sir Walter Scott [edited by D. Douglas].

    2 vols.  Edinburgh, 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.)