t;In my  ttention e sure I can add my oaken special care told you t alter is s ing t ;

    Before t of t obliging letter, ermined to look to no leading bookseller for a launc to t my o it sink or so its merits. I e to t effect to Scott,   and soon received a reply:

    quot;I observe  you are going to come fortain. It is certainly not t o publis; for t t tion of suc pay an amazing toll to t t t of altogeto do as effectually as Diabolus in Joandings mansion. I am sure of one t you o be knoo tiso be admired by t say so unless I really  opinion.

    quot;If you ever see a ty but ration called Black number: to erary capacity. , a young man of very considerable talent, and ely connected o be next examined and illustrated. Constable remely o enter into consideration of a treaty for your  I foresee ill more so when

    Your name is up, and may go

    From toledo to Madrid.

    ------And t rust to be in London about t pleasure in once again s;

    t volume of tc to press in London, as I  my oo fame, and  any of ts by ed into notice. Still some attention o it   by tracts te, and by tor of t periodical, and it ting into fair circulation, errupted.

    At ture Scott arrived in London. I called to icking in tious t o tations, Murray o undertake ture publication of tion of t volume ruck off and t to press, and from t time Murray became my publising  fair, open, and liberal spirit ion of the Prince of Booksellers.

    ter Scott, I began my literary career in Euro