I have delivered one copy to Mr.Lockhart, the new editor of the _Quarterly Review_, and I hope he will notice it as it deserves.

Murray would probably be inclined to publish your translations .-- I remain, dear sir, your obedient and faithful servant, FRANCIS PALGRAVE.
It is probable that he did also send a copy to Scott, and it is Dr.
Knapp's theory that 'that busy writer forgot to acknowledge the courtesy.' It may be that this is so.

It has been the source of many a literary prejudice.

Carlyle had a bitterness in his heart against Scott for much the same cause.

Rarely indeed can the struggling author endure to be ignored by the radiantly successful one.