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Title : Journals of Sir John Lauder, lord Fontainhall : with his observations on public affairs and other memoranda (1665-1676) / edited, with introduction and notes, by Donald Crawford,...
Author : Lauder, John (1646-1722)
Publisher : printed at the University press by T. and A. Constable, for the Scottish society (Edinburgh)
Date of publication : 1900
Contributor : Crawford, Donald (1837-1919). Éditeur scientifique. Préfacier. Annotateur
Subject : France -- Descriptions et voyages
Subject : Grande-Bretagne -- Descriptions et voyages
Type : monographie imprimée
Language : English
Format : LI-[347] p.-[1] f. de front. : portr. ; in-8
Format : application/pdf
Copyright : domaine public
Identifier : ark:/12148/bpt6k102873r
Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France, 8-Nm-433 (36)
Relation : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb30749069j
Description : Collection : Publications of the Scottish history society ; 36
Provenance : bnf.fr
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JOURNAL OF JOHN LAUDER
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there. 1 am very glad to hear you are bUlying younelf with a
task which will throw most important ligbt upon the history of
Seotland, and am, with regard, dear sir, your most obedt. servant,
WALTBR ScOTl'.
°Edinr., 19 February I8I5.'
After a further interchange of letters in 1816 thé matter
slumbered till 1822 when there appeared a volume entitled
Chronological Noies of S'aottiah .el,air~,from 1680 till 1701,
being chiPfl~ taken from the Diary of Lord Fountainhall
(Constable, 1822), with a preface by Sir IValter Scott, who
had evidently forgotten his correspondence with Sir Thomas.l
The volume in reality contained a selection, comparatively
small, from Fou~tainhalrs notebooks in the Adv ocates'
Library, with copious interpolatioms by the author, Robert
Mylne (who died in 1747), not distinguished from the
authe~tic text of the notes, and greatly misrepresenting
Fountainhall's opinions. The next stage in the correspond-
ence may be giv en in Sir Thomas's own words
'HAVING been much astonished to learn, from a perusal of the
foregoing review,2 that Sir Walter Scott had stolen a march on
me, and published a Manuscript of Lord Fountainhall's, at the
very time when he had reason to believe me engaged in the work,
and that b3~ his own suggestion, and being above all things sur-
prised that he had not thought it proper to acquaint me with his
intention before carrying it into effect, 1 sat dow n and wrote to
him the following letter, in which, being aware how much he who
1 was addressing was to be considered as a sort of hrivileged
person in literary matters, I took special care to give no offence,
to write calmly, and to confine myself to such a simple state-
ment of the facts as might bring a blush into his face without
exciting the smallest angry feeling. 1 hoped, too, that 1 might
prevail on him, as some atonement for his sins, to lend a helping
hand to bring forth the real work of Lord Foutitaiiiliall in a
proper style.'
1 The preface and Mylne's interpolations are appended to bir. Laings preface
to the Hislorical Nali~es.
2 In Constable's Magazine. See infra.
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