[36]: See the Preface to the third volume of the late Collective Edition of Mr. Southey's Poems, p. xii., where he corrects a trivial error I had fallen into in the first edition of these Memoirs, and adds, "Sir Walter's conduct was, as it always was, characteristically generous, and in the highest degree friendly."—(1839.)
[37]: Garrick's Bon Ton, or High Life Above Stairs.
[38]: Twelfth Night, Act V. Scene 1.
[39]: The letter in question has not been preserved in Scott's collection of correspondence. This leaves some allusions in the answer obscure.
[40]: Scott's old friend, Mr. John Richardson, had shortly before this time taken a house in Miss Baillie's neighborhood, on Hampstead Heath.
[41]: Miss Baillie had apologized to him for having sent an extract of one of his letters to her friend at Edgeworthstown.
[42]: Milton, Sonnet No. VIII. [When the Assault was intended to the City.]
[43]: [On May 3, Scott had written to his daughter, that this hair was light brown, and later, writing to Joanna Baillie, he says, "I did not think Charles's hair had been quite so light; that of his father, and I believe of all the Stuarts till Charles II., was reddish." Of the king, he goes on to say: "Tory, as I am, my heart only goes with King Charles in his struggles and distresses, for the fore part of his reign was a series of misconduct; however, if he sow'd the wind, God knows he reap'd the whirlwind.... Sound therefore be the sleep, and henceforward undisturbed the ashes, of this unhappy prince.... His attachment to a particular form of worship was in him conscience, for he adhered to the Church of England ... when by giving up that favorite point he might have secured his reëstablishment; and in that sense he may be justly considered as a martyr, though his early political errors blemish his character as King of England."—Familiar Letters, vol. i. p. 288.]
[44]: Letter from the Right Hon. W. Dundas, dated 6th December, 1813.
[45]: See Scott's Poetical Works, vol. xi. p. 309, Edition 1834 [Cambridge Edition, p. 409].