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Edie Ochiltree, Cuddie & Mause Headrigg
spoke be so forgotten, that to read them
will be like reading Chaucer - something
that well rewards study, but is for the
student. Was Scott, as you seem to say in
your conclusion one who started a great
new epoch for Scotland? or was he, as he
says of himself in a passage that you
quote, a loving child of Scotland
who was offering sacrifice to the Manes
of his country?

Well John, I started to write you
a line of thanks: and here I've gone
on blethering for pages about dear
Sir Walter. God bless him! and you
for writing so well about him! Love to Susie.

Yours ever

Johnny Jameson.

[ST: John Gordon Jameson
son of Lord Ardwall, a
lifelong friend of JB.]