Your faithful, humble Servant,
Walter Scott.
On his return to London, Lockhart proceeded to take a house, No. 24, Sussex Place, Regent's Park; for he had been heretofore living in the furnished apartments provided for him in Pall Mall. Mr. Murray wrote to him on the subject:
John Murray to Mr. Lockhart.
July 31, 1828.
As you are about taking or retaking a house, I think it right to inform you now that the editor's dividend on the Quarterly Review will be in future £325 on the publication of each number; and I think it very hard if you do not get £200 or £300 more for your own contributions.
Most truly yours,
JOHN MURRAY.
At the beginning of the following year Lockhart went down to Abbotsford, where he found his father-in-law working as hard as ever.
Mr. Lockhart to John Murray.