The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart
Chapter 9: 1820-21
John Gibson Lockhart to Jonathan Christie, [5? January 1821]
[Postmark, January 6.]
“I was in the country when the first of Master Baldwin’s philippics was published, and, being
entirely occupied with running down hares, and sticking salmon, did not hear of
it for many weeks. The second distressed me very much, not on account of myself, but of
Scott, of whose hitherto
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unprofaned name such base use was
made in it—although, if any insult could move a man’s rage, without
doubt the allusions to my marriage, wife, &c, were well entitled to do so.
Now, however—I mean in the January number, which has been sent me this morning—I find
myself charged with distinctness in a sort which neither present engagements,
or any thought for the future, can induce me, or could induce any man, to
overlook. And it is in regard to this that I am now to solicit the aid of your
well-tried friendship. . . .”
John Scott (1784-1821)
After Marischal College he worked as a journalist with Leigh Hunt, edited
The Champion (1814-1817), and edited the
London
Magazine (1820) until he was killed in the duel at Chalk Farm.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. (1817-1980). Begun as the
Edinburgh Monthly Magazine,
Blackwood's assumed the name of its proprietor, William Blackwood after the sixth
number. Blackwood was the nominal editor until 1834.
