ABSTRACT
1819–23
Letters from Sydney Smith, Anglican minister, wit, and Edinburgh reviewer, to Archibald Constable, Scott’s publisher, thanking him for complimentary copies (from N.C.Smith, ed., The Letters of Sydney Smith (Oxford, 1953), 328, 342, 350–1, 373, 384–5, 389, 394, 404–5).
Scott had written at the end of The Bride of Lammermoor that he was ‘retiring from the field’.
