Chapter I. contains a letter
written by Scott in the original
manuscript of The Antiquary,
explaining why the author
particularly liked that novel.
Letters, hitherto unpublished, written by members of Sir Walter Scott’s family to their old governess. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by the Warden of Wadham College, Oxford.
London, 1905.
See pp. 13-15 for a letter
from Scott, and pp. 37-38 for a note of
instructions in regard to
his daughter Sophia’s history lessons.
Correspondence between J. Fenimore Cooper and Sir Walter Scott.
The Knickerbocker Magazine, xi: 380; April, 1838.
The letter from Scott to Cooper quoted above, p. 102, is here given.
Fiction, Fair and Foul. By John Ruskin.
Nineteenth Century, viii: 195; August, 1880.
A footnote on pp. 196-7 contains
fragments of five letters from
Scott to the builder of Abbotsford.
Wordsworth’s Poetical Works. Edited by William Knight.
II vols. Edinburgh, 1882.
See the index. Vol.
XI, p. 196 has a letter from Scott which I think
had not previously been published.
Vol. X, p. 105, gives one which
Lockhart quotes “very
imperfectly,” according to Prof. Knight.
Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain ... with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions, by Edmund Lodge.
London, 1835.
Vol. I contains, in the
appendix to the preface, a letter from Scott
to the publisher, dated 25th
March 1828. (See Lockhart, V, 350.)
The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, edited by Augustus J.C. Hare.
2 vols. Boston, 1895.
This contains a few letters
of Scott’s, but only one which is not
published elsewhere.
A Short Account of successful exertions in behalf of the fatherless and widows after the war in 1814; containing letters from Mr. Wilberforce, Sir Walter Scott, Marshal Bluecher, etc. By Rudolf Ackermann.
Oxford, 1871.
There is only one letter by Scott.
The Courser’s Manual, etc., by T. Goodlake. 1828.
This book contains one letter
by Scott, dated 16th October, 1828,
about an old Scottish poem
entitled “The Last Words of Bonny Heck.”
(See Lockhart, V. 219,
for what is doubtless the same letter.)
The Chimney-sweeper’s Friend and Climbing-boy’s Album. Arranged by James Montgomery.
London, 1824.
The Preface contains part
of a letter from Scott, in which he
describes the construction
of the chimneys at Abbotsford. (See
Lockhart, IV. 158-9.)
APPENDIX II.
1. Bibliographies of Scott