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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2020
1 Literary Recollections and Sketches (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1893), p. 305. Espinasse devotes three chapters, pp. 301–337, to a valuable account of Hannay and his circle.
2 R. H. Shepherd printed an earlier letter, dated 5 Sept. 1855, from Carlyle to Hannay in his Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Carlyle (London: Allen, 1881), ii, 153–154.
3 These and other Hannay papers are in the possession of the Univ. of Illinois.
4 Anagram of “Sydney,” pseudonym of Sydney Dobell, the spasmodic poet.
5 John Pinkerton (1758–1826), in his Enquiry into the History of Scotland, first published in 1789, consistently referred to the Picts as barbarous and ignorant.
6 Apparently a reference to his History of… Frederick the Great, 6 vols. (1858–65), of which only the first two volumes had then been finished.