Sir W. Scott has already agreed to furnish Dr. Lardner’s ‘Cyclopædia’ with one vol.—‘History of Scotland’—for £1000, and he is now at this work. This is grievous, but you must not blame me, for he has acted in the full knowledge of my connection with and anxiety about the Family Library. I answered him, expressing my great regret and reminding him of Peterborough. I suppose, as I never mentioned, nor well could, money, that Dr. Lardner’s matter appeared more a piece of business. Perhaps you may think of something to be done. It is a great loss to us and gain to them.