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After giving Scott some information about Ritson's lit crary treasures, most of which, it has turned out, had been disposed of by auction shortly before his death, Mr. Ellis (loth November) returns to the charge about Tristrem and True Thomas. You appear, he says, to have been for some time so military that I am afraid the most difficult and important part of your original plan, viz., your History of Scottish will again be postponed, and must be ture publication. I am, at this moment, much in want of two such assistants as you and Leyden. It seems to me that if I had some local knowl edge of that wicked Ettrick Forest, I could extricate my self tolerably - but as it is, although I am convinced that my general idea is tolerably just, I am unable to guide my ele hants in that quiet and decorous ste by-step march which the nature of such animals requires t rough a country of which I don't know any of the roads. My comfort is, that you cannot publish Tristrem without a preface, - that you can't write one without giving me some assistance, and that you must finish the said preface long before I go to ress with my Introduction.
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