. For his meeting with Byron at Gibraltar in 1809, see
Letters
, vol. i. p. 243,
note
1 [Footnote 1 of Letter 130]; see also
ibid.
, p. 304,
note
2 [Footnote 2 of Letter 131]. Galt's novels were, in later years, liked by Byron, who
"praised the Annals of the Parish very highly, as also The Entail,... some scenes of which, he said, had affected him very much.
'The characters in Mr. Galt's novels have an identity,' added Byron, 'that reminds me of Wilkie's pictures'"