¹ Letter from Lady Louisa Stuart to Scott, January 11, 1817; quoted by Sir Herbert Grierson, The Letters of Sir Walter Scott (Centenary ed.), iv, 345, note 1. (Cf. also Letters, I, pp. lxxiii, lxxiv.)

² Miscellaneous Works, iv, 247.

³ Cf. Scott's letter to George Ellis, November 2, 1808 (Letters, xii, 304).

⁴ The fairly long list of titles which Dottin assigns in Daniel De Foe et ses romans (Paris, 1924), p. 869, to the Edinburgh ed. of 1809–10 implies some confusion with the Bohn ed. In actuality the Edinburgh ed. contained only the following works: Vols. 1, 2, and 3, Robinson Crusoe (2 parts); Vols. 4 and 5, Memoirs of a Cavalier; Vols. 6 and 7, Colonel Jack; Vols. 8 and 9, Captain Singleton and The True-Born Englishman; Vols. 10 and 11, A New Voyage round the World; Vol. 12, The History of the Plague in London. The first volume contains the biographical essay, and the last volume a list of a hundred works assigned to Defoe. There are no notes of consequence, and but two critical introductions—to Robinson Crusoe and to Memoirs of a Cavalier. Dottin's bibliography misled me to make the statement elsewhere (Huntington Library Quarterly, iv, 107) that The Dumb Philosopher was included in Scott's ed.; however, the biographical sketch in the Edinburgh ed. proves that Scott must have known that tract as Defoe's.

⁵ Life of Scott, Fireside ed. (Boston and New York, 1910), ii, 57, note 1.

⁶ Cf. Catalogue of the Library at Abbotsford, Ballantyne Club Publication No. 60, ed. J. G. Cochrane (Edinburgh, 1838). The index is quite inadequate for checking the list of Defoe's writings.

⁷ A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts. Second ed. (London, 1809–15), 13 vols.

⁸ The number is only approximate. A few of the “Somers Tracts” have been erroneously or very doubtfully assigned to Defoe; some others not yet assigned to Defoe are almost certainly his.

⁹ Letters to Constable, August 20 and September 10, 1820, quoted by Grierson, Sir Walter Scott, Bart. (London, 1938), pp. 188–189.

¹⁰ Cf. Letters, xii, 2.

¹¹ Cf. “Poe, Scott, and ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’,” American Literature, viii, 52–54.

¹² Cf. Grierson, Sir Walter Scott, Bart., p. 12.

¹³ One contemporary undertook to review Quentin Durward, “with very copious extracts,” before that novel had appeared (Letters, vii, 389). See other allusions in the Letters, as well as Scott's remarks on his imitators in his Journal (i, 274–275).

¹⁴ Letters, x, 481–482.

¹⁵ E.g., Letters, xi, 475; Journal, i, 259–260.

¹⁶ He thanked Terry for sending him “the two books in the world I most longed to see,” Falconer's Voyages and Bingfield's Travels, because they brought back with vivid association “the sentiments of my childhood—I might almost say infancy” (Letters, iii, 515–516).

¹⁷ Cf. Letters, iii, 275; Journal, ii, 259.

¹⁸ Cf. Journal, ii, 81; Letters, viii, 21 and note 2, 76, 417; Letters, x, 329. Cf. also Letters, ii, 32, for Scott's explanation of editing Swift “after such a scourging crop as Marmion.”

¹⁹ The Tegg ed. of Defoe refers to “the Edition attributed to the late Sir Walter Scott.”

²⁰ Utters, ix, 223, 224–225; x, 201.

²¹ R. K. Gordon, “Dryden and the ‘Waverley Novels’,” MLR, xxxiv, 201.

²² Absalom and Achitophel, l. 99.

²³ The Abbot, ch. 20 (Dryburgh ed., p. 206).

²⁴ Scott's Memoirs of Swift (Miscellaneous Works, ii, 215, note 2).

²⁵ Kenilworth, ch. 12 (Dryburgh ed., p. 133). Cf. also the Swiftian doggerel of the Journal, the Drapier-like Malagrowther papers, and the frequent references to the flappers of Laputa in Scott's correspondence.

²⁶ Journal, i, 275.

²⁷ Miscellaneous Works, iv, 256.

²⁸ Miscellaneous Works, vii, 445–446.

²⁹ E.g., Charity Still a Christian Virtue (London, 1719), p. 17; Applebee's Journal, September 21, 1723; An Account of the Cartoucheans in France; etc.

³⁰ Miscellaneous Works, iv, 280–281.

³¹ Letters, iii, 390–391, 460; iv, 282; viii, 240; ix, 133; xii, 480.

³² E.g., Journal, i, 221; ii, 366.

³³ Letters, xii 128.

³⁴ Letters, iv, 92–93.

³⁵ Letters, viii, 113.

³⁶ Letters, x, 510.

³⁷ Journal, i, 339.

³⁸ Journal, ii, 268.

³⁹ Miscellaneous Works, xx, 170.

⁴⁰ Miscellaneous Works, xxi, 107.

⁴¹ The Fortunes of Nigel, ch. 1 (Dryburgh ed., p. 2).

⁴² The Pirate, Note 18 (Dryburgh ed., p. 456).

⁴³ The Monastery, Introduction (Dryburgh ed., p. xlviii).

⁴⁴ Rob Roy, ch. 16 (Dryburgh ed., p. 148).

⁴⁵ Miscellaneous Works, iv, 249.

⁴⁶ Ibid., p. 260.

⁴⁷ Letters, viii, 310.

⁴⁸ Old Mortality, Note 35 (Dryburgh ed., pp. 426–427); cf. also Miscellaneous Works, iv, 258. There is an odd confusion through Scott's consistent misspelling of Defoe's pen name as Morton (like the name of his own hero) instead of Moreton.

⁴⁹ Miscellaneous Works, xix, 41–43 (from The Quarterly Review, January, 1817).

⁵⁰ E.g., in his critical study of Defoe, Scott has the following note: “The author has long sought for his poem Caledonia, without being able to obtain a sight of it” (Miscellaneous Works, iv, 248, note 1). This poem, of which I own a copy, is scarce, but not remarkably rare.

⁵¹ Miscellaneous Works, iii, 115–116.

⁵² Miscellaneous Works, iii, 181.

⁵³ Cf. Introduction to The Fortunes of Nigel (Dryburgh ed., pp. xvii, xviii, xxii) and numerous comments on his own practice as a novelist.

⁵⁴ James Sutherland, Defoe (London, 1937), pp. 245–246.

⁵⁵ Journal, i, 128, note 2; i, 174, note 1.

⁵⁶ Ibid., ii, 81–82, 225, 276–277. Where Scott seems to distrust his own judgment and to rely to some extent on Ballantyne's (e.g., Journal, i, 90) it is clear that he is thinking primarily of the sales of his books, not of their literary quality.

⁵⁷ Ibid., i, 128–129, note 2.

⁵⁸ R. L. Stevenson, “A Note on Realism” (Works, Thistle ed., xxii, 267).

⁵⁹ Letters (Thistle ed.), ii, 249–250.

⁶⁰ Journal, i, 222. Cf. also ii, 78, 158.

⁶¹ Letters, x, 382.

⁶² Journal, ii, 96.

⁶³ Miscellaneous Works, iv, 262–263.

⁶⁴ Miscellaneous Works, xix, 2–3.

⁶⁵ Miscellaneous Works, ii, 300; vi, 216.

⁶⁶ Miscellaneous Works, iii, 71.

⁶⁷ Miscellaneous Works, iv, 259. Cf. also Journal, i, 390.

⁶⁸ John Buchan, Sir Walter Scott (London, 1932), p. 193.

⁶⁹ Introduction to A Legend of Montrose (Dryburgh ed., p. 144).

⁷⁰ Miscellaneous Works, iv, 265.

⁷¹ Journal, i, 251. Cf. also i, 75, 81, etc.

⁷² Letters, xii, 457.

⁷³ Journal, i, 218.

⁷⁴ Journal, i, 181.

⁷⁵ Miscellaneous Works, iv, 266.

⁷⁶ Introduction to Rob Roy (Dryburgh ed., p. xl).

⁷⁷ Journal, ii, 131. Cf. also I, 117; i, 151.

⁷⁸ Miscellaneous Works, iv, 262.

⁷⁹ Miscellaneous Works, iii, 108.

⁸⁰ Cf. The New York Times Book Review, December 26, 1937, p. 8. Cf. also my Defoe in the Pillory and Other Studies, Indiana University Humanities Series No. 1 (Bloomington, Indiana, 1939), pp. 40–42.

⁸¹ For a powerful rebuttal to Borrow, see Andrew Lang's introduction to The Pirate (Border ed.).

⁸² Letter of December 11, 1812, quoted by W. M. Parker, “Suggestions for Scott's Muse,” LTLS, March 23, 1940, p. 152.

⁸³ A Journal of the Plague Year (Shakespeare Head ed.), p. 149. Examples of this sort could easily be multiplied. An even more equivocal statement occurs in Due Preparations for the Plague (Aitken ed.), p. 48, where we are told that the principal narrative is “partly historical and partly for direction.”

⁸⁴ Sutherland, op. cit., p. 248.

⁸⁵ Miscellaneous Works, iv, 253.

⁸⁶ Cf. my Defoe in the Pillory and Other Studies, pp. 105, 112, 113.

⁸⁷ Miscellaneous Works, xix, 41. (The italics are mine.)

⁸⁸ Paul Dottin, The Life and Strange and Surprising Adventures of Daniel De Foe (New York, 1929), p. 122.

⁸⁹ Religious Courtship (Tegg ed.), p. 115.

⁹⁰ The Life and Actions of Jonathan Wild (Vol. xvi, Aitken ed. of Works), pp. 264–268.

⁹¹ Miscellaneous Works, xix, 2–3.

⁹² Sutherland, op. cit., p. 245.

⁹³ Life of Scott (Fireside ed.), iii, 343.

⁹⁴ Miscellaneous Works, xix, 4.

⁹⁵ St. Ronan's Well, ch. 18 (Dryburgh ed., p. 186).

⁹⁶ The Bride of Lammermoor, ch. 1 (Dryburgh ed., pp. 9–13).

⁹⁷ Cf. my Defoe in the Pillory and Other Studies, ch. 8, especially pp. 134–141.

⁹⁸ Cf. Lockhart's preface to Cochrane's ed. of the Catalogue of the Library at A bbotsford.

⁹⁹ A 2nd ed. (London, 1724, in 8vo.) and two later reworkings of the material (London, 1732, in 12mo., and an edition of the combined lives of the highwaymen and pirates, London, 1742, in folio).

¹⁰⁰ Miscellaneous Works, iv, 251.

¹⁰¹ Ibid., iv, 248–249.

¹⁰² Letters, ii, 341.

¹⁰³ Letters, iii, 256–257.

¹⁰⁴ Letters, iii, 275.

¹⁰⁵ Letters, ii, 312.

¹⁰⁶ Letters, iii, 223.

¹⁰⁷ Letters, iii, 220–221.

¹⁰⁸ Letters, iii, 478–479 (to John B. S. Morritt).

¹⁰⁹ Letters, iv, 234.

¹¹⁰ Letters, vii, 12, note 2.

¹¹¹ Journal, i, 97, 347.

¹¹² Miscellaneous Works, v, 142–143.

¹¹³ Miscellaneous Works, ix, 2.

¹¹⁴ St. Rowan's Well, ch. 3 (Dryburgh ed., p. 32).

¹¹⁵ Rob Roy, ch. 26 (Dryburgh ed., p. 237).

¹¹⁶ Ibid., ch. 8 (Dryburgh ed., p. 73).

¹¹⁷ Cf. my Defoe in the Pillory and Other Studies, pp. 131–132. Scott's allusion is anachronistic; the second edition of Smith's History of the Highwaymen appeared in 1714, but the composite work attributed to Johnson did not appear until 1734, nineteen years after the ostensible date of Rob Roy.

¹¹⁸ Kenilworth, ch. 7 (Dryburgh ed., p. 81).

¹¹⁹ Woodstock, ch. 34 (Dryburgh ed., p. 425).

¹²⁰ Redgauntlet, chs. 13, 14 (Dryburgh ed., pp. 286, 292, 294–295, 296, 299).

¹²¹ Note 35 (Redgauntlet, Dryburgh ed., p. 444).

¹²² Letters, vii, 87.

¹²³ Cf. Journal, i, 361, note 2.

¹²⁴ Letters, vii, 12.

¹²⁵ Editor's Introduction to The Pirate (Border ed., p. xi).

¹²⁶ The Pirate, Introduction (Dryburgh ed., p. ix).

¹²⁷ John Buchan, op. cit., p. 244.

¹²⁸ Advertisement to The Pirate (Dryburgh ed., p. xi).

¹²⁹ Editor's Introduction to The Pirate (Border ed., p. xi).

¹³⁰ “Johnson's” [Defoe's] A General History of the Pirates (Arthur Hayward ed., London, 1926, p. 203); The Pirate, ch. 36 (Dryburgh ed., p. 387).

¹³¹ History of the Pirates, p. 211; the italics are mine. Cf. also pp. 183, 209.

¹³² The Pirate, ch. 34 (Dryburgh ed., p. 364); the italics are mine. Cf. also Ch. 36 (Dryburgh ed., p. 381).

¹³³ Advertisement to The Pirate (Dryburgh ed., p. xii). Cf. History of the Pirates, p. 333.

¹³⁴ E.g., cf. History of the Pirates, pp. 219, 319, 490.

¹³⁵ Ibid., p. 48.

¹³⁶ Ibid., pp. 564–573.

¹³⁷ Note 31 to The Pirate (Dryburgh ed., p. 463). Cf. Rob Roy, where the ex-buccaneer who taught Bailie Jarvie to mix drinks was named Captain Coffinkey.

¹³⁸ History of the Pirates, p. 563.

¹³⁹ Ibid., p. 254.

¹⁴⁰ The Pirate, especially ch. 36 (Dryburgh ed., pp. 390, 392).

¹⁴¹ History of the Pirates, p. 483.

¹⁴² Ibid., p. 108.

¹⁴³ Ibid., p. 400.

¹⁴⁴ Ibid., p. 56.

¹⁴⁵ Ibid., pp. 49, 50; The Pirate, ch. 39 (Dryburgh ed., p. 420).

¹⁴⁶ Ibid., ch. 31 (Dryburgh ed., p. 333); History of the Pirates, pp. 193–194, etc.

¹⁴⁷ The Pirate, ch. 22 (Dryburgh ed., p. 241); references in the History of the Pirates are numerous (e.g., p. 566).

¹⁴⁸ Ibid., pp. 202–203; The Pirate, chs. 31, 40 (Dryburgh ed., pp. 332, 433).

¹⁴⁹ Ibid., ch. 21 (Dryburgh ed., p. 226); History of the Pirates, p. 20, etc.

¹⁵⁰ Ibid., p. 305; The Pirate, chs. 17, 34 (Dryburgh ed., pp. 182, 360).

¹⁵¹ Ibid., ch. 31 (Dryburgh ed., p. 328); History of the Pirates, p. 40.

¹⁵² Ibid., p. 323; The Pirate, chs. 18, 31 (Dryburgh ed., pp. 185, 332).

¹⁵³ Ibid., ch. 34 (Dryburgh ed., p. 368).

¹⁵⁴ History of the Pirates, p. 492, etc.; The Pirate, ch. 34 (Dryburgh ed., p. 359).

¹⁵⁵ History of the Pirates, p. 209; The Pirate, chs. 40, 41 (Dryburgh ed., pp. 434–435).

¹⁵⁶ Ibid., ch. 40 (Dryburgh ed., p. 432); History of the Pirates, pp. 108, 208, 236, 294.

¹⁵⁷ Ibid., pp. 208–209, 234; The Pirate, chs. 40, 41 (Dryburgh ed., pp. 433, 435).

¹⁵⁸ Ibid., ch. 40 (Dryburgh ed., p. 429).

¹⁵⁹ History of the Pirates, p. 330.

¹⁶⁰ Allan Fea, The Real Captain Cleveland (London, 1912), p. 25.

¹⁶¹ John Buchan, op. cit., p. 247.

¹⁶² The Pirate, ch. 37 (Dryburgh ed., p. 395).

¹⁶³ History of the Pirates, pp. 328–329.

¹⁶⁴ The Pirate, ch. 31 (Dryburgh ed., p. 338).

¹⁶⁵ The Pirate, ch. 34 (Dryburgh ed., p. 362).

¹⁶⁶ Lockhart's Life of Scott (Fireside ed., iii, 584, 586).

¹⁶⁷ Rokeby, Canto iii, xxiii, note 2.

¹⁶⁸ Waverley, ch. 10 and note 9 (Dryburgh ed., pp. 56, 473).

¹⁶⁹ A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts (Second ed., London, 1809–15), xii, 358.

¹⁷⁰ The Black Dwarf, ch. 13 (Dryburgh ed., p. 94).

¹⁷¹ Cf. my Defoe in the Pillory and Other Studies, pp. 149, 151.

¹⁷² Letters, vii, 368.

¹⁷³ Letters, vii, 367, note 1.

¹⁷⁴ History of the Pirates, pp. 45–66.

¹⁷⁵ Letters, iii, 106.

¹⁷⁶ Journal, i, 97.