[114] Familiar Letters, Vol. II, p. 143.
[115] Lockhart, Vol. III, p. 427. It may be noted that this criticism does not show much dramatic insight.
[116] Lockhart, Vol. III, pp. 445-6.
[117] Journal, Vol. I, p. 117; Lockhart, Vol. IV, p. 447.
[118] Journal, Vol. I, p. 94; Lockhart, Vol. IV, p. 419.
[119] Advertisement to Halidon Hill. When the publisher Cadell closed a bargain with Scott in five minutes for Halidon Hill, giving him £1000, he wrote as follows to his partner: "My views were these: here is a commencement of a series of dramatic writings—let us begin by buying them out." (Constable's Correspondence, Vol. III, p. 217.)
[120] "That well-written, but very didactic 'Old Play'," as Adolphus calls it. (Letters to Heber, p. 55.)
[121] Introductory epistle to Nigel.
[122] Lockhart, Vol. V, p. 414.
[123] Fitzgerald's New History of the English Stage, Vol. II, p. 404.