ABSTRACT
Extract from letter, 10 February 1822, to Joanna Baillie: ‘By the way did you know Miss Austen Authoress of some novels which have a great deal of nature in them—nature in ordinary and middle life to be sure but valuable from its strong resemblance and correct drawing.’ (Letters of Scott 1821–23 (1934), ed., H.J.C. Grierson, vii, 60).
