[308] See Marmion, introduction to Canto III, and other passages noted by Adolphus in the Letters to Heber, p. 295. See also Familiar Letters, Vol. I, p. 198, and the passage in Lockhart (Vol. II, p. 132), in which James Ballantyne reports Scott as saying to him, "If you wish to speak of a real poet, Joanna Baillie is now the highest genius of our country."
[309] Lockhart, Vol. III, p. 306.
[310] Lockhart, Vol. V, p. 359; also Vol. I, p. 255; and Constable's Correspondence, Vol. III, p. 300.
[311] Lockhart, Vol. IV, p. 117.
[312] Ibid., Vol. V, p. 448.
[313] Ibid., Vol. II, p. 14.
[314] Forster, Vol. I, p. 84, note.
[315] Ibid., Vol. I, p. 95.
[316] Haydon's Correspondence, Vol. I, p. 356.
[317] Hunt says Scott was interested in reading The Story of Rimini. See Hunt's Autobiography, Vol. I, p. 260.