424.)] [Footnote 58: Scott's manuscript collections of ballads dropped partially out of sight after his death, and it was only about 1890 that their magnitude and importance became known.

Professor Child and later editors have found them of very great service.

(On Child's use of the Abbotsford materials, see the Advertisement to Part VIII of his collection, contained in Volume IV.) In 1880 appeared a reprint of the _Ballad Book_ of C.K.Sharpe, "with notes and ballads from the unpublished manuscripts of C.K.Sharpe and Sir Walter Scott," but the contributions from Scott's papers did not amount to much.

Scott's materials were at the service of his friend for use in the original edition of the _Ballad Book_, published in 1823.

See _Sharpe's Correspondence_, Vol.