[Footnote 376: A friend of Scott's once wrote to him, "You are the only author I ever yet knew to whom one might speak plain about the faults found with his works." (_Familiar Letters_, Vol. I, p. 282.) He took great pains, contrary to his usual custom, in revising and correcting the _Malachi Malagrowther_ papers, but these were argumentative and in an altogether different class from his poems and novels; and besides he felt a special responsibility in writing upon a public matter "far more important than anything referring to [his] fame or fortune alone." (_Lockhart_, Vol. IV, p. 460.)] [Footnote 377: _Lockhart_, Vol. III, p. 379.] [Footnote 378: Introduction to the _Pirate_.] [Footnote 379: _Journal_, Vol. II, p. 250.] [Footnote 380: This was, of course, an effect of overwork and disease. Irving quotes Scott as saying: "It is all nonsense to tell a man that his mind is not affected, when his body is in this state." (_Irving's Life_, Vol. II, p. 459.)] [Footnote 381: _Journal_, Vol. I, p. 181.] [Footnote 382: See _Lockhart_, Vol. II, pp. 265-6.] [Footnote 383: _Journal_, Vol. I, pp. 212-13; _Lockhart_, Vol. V, p. 13.] [Footnote 384: See _Familiar Letters_, Vol. II, p. 309; _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 216; Vol. IV, pp. 128 and 498; Vol. V, pp. 128, 412, 448.] [Footnote 385: _Correspondence of C.K. Sharpe_, Vol. I, p. 352.] [Footnote 386: _Journal_, Vol. II, p. 276. In the _Edinburgh Annual Register_ for 1808 (published 1810) is an article on the _Living Poets of Great Britain_, which if not written by Scott was evidently influenced by him. Speaking of Southey, Campbell and Scott, the writer says: "Were we set to classify their respective admirers we should be apt to say that those who feel poetry most enthusiastically prefer Southey; those who try it by the most severe rules admire Campbell; while the general mass of readers prefer to either the Border Poet. In this arrangement we should do Mr. Scott no injustice, because we assign to him in the number of suffrages what we deny him in their value." He once wrote to Miss Baillie, "No one can both eat his cake and have his cake, and I have enjoyed too extensive popularity in this generation to be entitled to draw long-dated bills upon the applause of the next." (_Familiar Letters_, Vol. I, p. 173.) But in the Introductory Epistle to _Nigel_ he said, "It has often happened that those who have been best received in their own time have also continued to be acceptable to posterity. I do not think so ill of the present generation as to suppose that its present favour necessarily infers future condemnation."] [Footnote 387: Introduction to the _Lady of the Lake_; _Lockhart_, Vol. II, p. 130.] [Footnote 388: Introduction to _Chronicles of the Canongate_.] [Footnote 389: _Journal_, Vol. II, p 473.] [Footnote 390: _Lockhart_, Vol. II, p. 355.] [Footnote 391: _Ibid._, Vol. V, p. 164.]