Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

360 WILLIAM BLACKWOOD.
for all misunderstandings between old friends, and I am resolved
not to be in Edinburgh without calling upon Mrs Blackwood, to
whom I beg my kindest compliments.
Mrs Blackwood, we may be sure, though she did
not love the poetesses, would be kindness itself to the
poet's wife, who must have been still more sorely
" hadden doun " by the sins of authors than she felt
herself to be.