At that time Justin Winsor wrote a letter to the _Boston Advertiser_ (March 21, 1874) in which he said: "The account of the Barton collection, which was printed fifteen years ago, contained the earliest public mention, I believe, of the supposition that Scott ever engaged in such a work, which this life of Constable now renders certain.
These later corroborative statements give a peculiar interest to the volumes which are now in this library and which are perhaps the only ones of the edition now in existence." The introductions to the plays are each only a page or two long, and are mainly, like the notes, compilations.

The book corresponds fairly well with the description given in _Constable_.

(See Vol.

III, pp.

183, 193, 237-8, 241, 242, 244, 246, 305, 321, 442.