419.] [Footnote 119: Advertisement to _Halidon Hill_.

When the publisher Cadell closed a bargain with Scott in five minutes for _Halidon Hill_, giving him L1000, he wrote as follows to his partner: "My views were these: here is a commencement of a series of dramatic writings--let us begin by buying them out." (_Constable's Correspondence_, Vol.

III, p.
217.)] [Footnote 120: "That well-written, but very didactic 'Old Play'," as Adolphus calls it.

(_Letters to Heber_, p.

55.)] [Footnote 121: Introductory epistle to _Nigel_.] [Footnote 122: _Lockhart_, Vol.