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Memoir of John Murray
Walter Scott to John Murray, 25 January 1816
INTRODUCTION & INDEXES
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Preface
Vol. 1 Contents
Chapter I.
Chapter II.
Chapter III.
Chapter IV.
Chapter V.
Chapter VI.
Chapter VII.
Chapter VIII.
Chapter IX.
Chapter X.
Chapter XI.
Chapter XII.
Chapter XIII.
Chapter XIV.
Chapter XV.
Chapter XVI.
Chapter XVII.
Chapter XVIII.
Chapter XIX.
Vol. 2 Contents
Chap. XX.
Chap. XXI.
Chap. XXII.
Chap. XXIII.
Chap. XXIV.
Chap. XXV.
Chap. XXVI.
Chap. XXVII.
Chap. XXVIII.
Chap. XXIX.
Chap. XXX.
Chap. XXXI.
Chap. XXXII.
Chap. XXXIII.
Chap. XXXIV.
Chap. XXXV.
Chap. XXXVI.
Chap. XXXVII.
Index
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January 25th, 1816.

My article is so long that I fancy you will think yourself in the condition of the conjuror, who after having a great deal of trouble in raising the devil, could not get rid of him after he had once made his appearance. But the Highlands is an immense field, and it would have been much more easy for me to have made a sketch twice as long than to

* This was no doubt the source whence Scott drew his novel of ‘Quentin Durward.’

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make it shorter. There still wants eight or nine pages, which you will receive by to-morrow’s or next day’s post; but I fancy you will be glad to get on. I sent you a few days since the article on ‘Emma.’ Inclosed is a letter from Mrs. Scott to her friends in Whitehorse Street,* which I beg you will have the goodness to forward.

Yours truly,
W. Scott..

“Elphinstone’s book is by far the most interesting of the kind I have ever read.”