I called to thank you for the draft you sent me for
£121 odd, which is a very prosperous account, especially considering that
nearly the whole expenses of the edition are paid. So, thank you for your good
offices, and for the celebrity of your name as publisher.
William Scrope (1772-1852)
Of Castle Combe, Wiltshire: English landscape painter, sportsman, and friend of Walter
Scott; he published
The Art of Deerstalking (1838) and
Days and Nights of Salmon-Fishing in the Tweed (1843). He
corresponded with Fox Maule and William Stewart Rose.