[299] Mr. Murray's 'reader' on this occasion was evidently William Gifford, the editor of the _Quarterly Review_, who writes under date Sept. 29, 1815: 'Of _Emma_ I have nothing but good to say. I was sure of the writer before you mentioned her. The MS. though plainly written has yet some, indeed many little omissions, and an expression may now and then be amended in passing through the press. I will readily undertake the revision.' _Memoir of John Murray_ by Samuel Smiles (1891), vol. i. p. 282. [300] The present Mr. John Murray kindly informs us that the original edition of _Emma_ consisted of 2000 copies, of which 1250 were sold within a year. [301] (?) _The Field of Waterloo_, by Sir Walter Scott. [302] _Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk_; or possibly John Scott's _Paris Revisited in 1815_. [303] The printer. [304] _A narrative of the events which have lately taken place in France_, by Helen Maria Williams. London, 1815. [305] These included a set to Miss Edgeworth (_Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth_, edited by A. J. C. Hare (1894), vol. i. p. 235), and another to Lady Morley, a clever woman, to whom _Sense and Sensibility_ and _Pride and Prejudice_ had at one time been ascribed (_Life of M. R. Mitford_, by the Rev. A. G. L'Estrange, vol. i. p. 241). [306] Unfortunately, most of the worst misprints remained in the new edition, while certain new ones were added. [307] _Memoir_, pp. 122-4. [308] _Life of King James II, from the Stuart MSS. in Carlton House_, published 1816. [309] At Brighton. [310] Published, 1804. CHAPTER XVIII _PERSUASION_ 1815-1816