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Letters, hitherto unpublished, written by members of Sir Walter Scott's family to their old governess.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 Blücher, 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.)
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