page_0002

'handsomely pierced'. Surely "pieced is the
word intended. On the same page you mention
that Lady Scott's father had been "a royalist
refugee". I don't think "royalist" is correct.

Page 56. "His son once wrote to her" about
her "laughing philosophy". I have come across
this in one of Scott's letters to Charlotte during
their courtship. I don't rememer either of the
sons writing to that effect.

Page 173. It was Aime, not Sophia, "who all
but fainted" at the opening of the Regalia chst.

Then, in the index, you give Surties under
Richard Surties when it should be Robert. Scott,
of course, often wrote to him mistakenly as Richard.

I do hope you will pardon my pointing out
these things, but it is because I am genuinely interested.
You may care to know I am preparing the Centenary
Edition of the Scott Letters with Professor Gliason.

Yours very truly,

W.M. Parker
(W.M. Parker)