“I trust you got my letter yesterday by five, with
the draft enclosed. I return your draft accepted. On Wednesday I think of
leaving this place, where, but for these damned affairs, I should have been
very happy.
W. S.”
John Ballantyne (1774-1821)
Edinburgh publisher and literary agent for Walter Scott; he was the younger brother of
the printer James Ballantyne.
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Author: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854
Title:Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837).
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Series: Lord Byron and his Times: http://lordbyron.org
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