Excerpt from Familiar Letters of Sir Walter Scott, Vol. 1 When I was requested by the Hon. Mrs. Maxwell Scott to make a selection for publication from the correspondence preserved at Abbotsford it was intended that the volumes now given to the public should be confined to letters addressed by Sir Walter to members of his own family but other letters which passed between him and some of his dearest friends having, through the courtesy of their representatives, been placed at my disposal, I felt that they would add greatly to the interest of the work, and many of them have accordingly been introduced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.