Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

CONTENTS OF THE FIRST YOLUME.
CHAPTER I.
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD.
Birth and antecedents—Apprenticeship to Messrs Bell & Bradfute
—The booksellers of Edinburgh—He is agent to Messrs Mundell
in Glasgow—Introduction to his future wife—Goes to London
Three years in Cuthill's— Letter of Miss Steuart in reply to
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proposal—Establishment in South Bridge—Marriage—Dealer in
old books—Agency of Ballantyne, afterwards of John Murray
First publication—Letter of Sir Walter Scott—Thomas M'Crie
James Hogg—Miss Terrier.....
CHAPTER IL
THE TALES OF MY LANDLORD.
Correspondence with John Murray—Byron and his publisher—Scott
dines with Blackwood— 'The Siege of Corinth'—Charles Kirk-
patrick Sharpe—Letter to Southey—Negotiations with Ballantyne
for publication of 'The Tales of my Landlord' — 'The Black
Dwarf — Blackwood's criticism—Scott's rejoinder: the "Black
Hussars of Literature " letter—William Gifford—Murray's letter
to Scott—Friction with Ballantyne—Future editions to be published
by Constable—Blackwood's regard for Scott . . 46