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 their favorite studies.

Lady Louisa Stuart.  Selections from her manuscripts, edited by Hon. James Home.

    London, 1899. (One section of the book is entitled “Unpublished
    Letters of Sir Walter Scott and Lady Louisa Stuart.”)

Abbotsford Notanda, by Robert Carruthers.  Subjoined to the Life of Sir Walter Scott by Robert Chambers, edited by W. Chambers.

    London, 1871.

    Letters from Scott to Hogg and Laidlaw are included.

Memorials of Coleorton, being letters from Coleridge, Wordsworth and his Sister, Southey, and Sir Walter Scott, to Sir George and Lady Beaumont of Coleorton, Leicestershire, 1803 to 1834.  Edited, with introduction and notes, by William Knight.

    2 vols.  Boston, 1887.

    The second volume contains three letters by Scott.

The Letters of Sir Walter Scott and Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe to Robert Chambers, 1821-45.  With original memoranda of Sir Walter Scott, etc. [Edited by C.E.S.  Chambers.]

    Edinburgh, 1904.

Reminiscences of Sir Walter Scott, by John Gibson.

    Edinburgh, 1871.

    Besides nine letters from Scott this book gives in full a memorial
    written by him in regard to the claim of Constable’s trustee on
    Woodstock and Napoleon.

Traditions and Recollections, Domestic, Clerical, and Literary; in which are included letters of Charles II, Cromwell, Fairfax, Edgecumbe, Macaulay, Wolcot, Opie, Whitaker, Gibbon, Buller, Courtenay, Moore, Downman, Drewe, Seward, Darwin, Cowper, Hayley, Hardinge, Sir Walter Scott, and other distinguished characters.  By the Rev. R. Polwhele.

    2 vols.  London, 1826.

    Vol.  II. contains five letters from Scott.

Letters of Sir Walter Scott, addressed to the Rev. R. Polwhele; D. Gilbert, Esq.; Francis Douce, Esq.; etc.