Canning called on Murray next day; said he had begun it, found it very dull, and concluded: "You are quite mistaken; it cannot be by Walter Scott." But a few days later he wrote to Murray: "Yes, it is so; you are right: Walter Scott, and no one else." In the autumn of 1814 Mrs.Murray went to Leith by sailing-ship from the Thames, to visit her mother and friends in Edinburgh.

She was accompanied by her son John and her two daughters.

During her absence, Mr.Murray wrote to her two or three times a week, and kept her _au courant_ with the news of the day.

In his letter of August 9 he intimated that he had been dining with D'Israeli, and that he afterwards went with him to Sadler's Wells Theatre to see the "Corsair," at which he was "woefully disappointed and enraged....

They have actually omitted his wife altogether, and made him a mere ruffian, ultimately overcome by the Sultan, and drowned in the New River!" Mr.Blackwood, of Edinburgh, was then in London, spending several days with Mr.Murray over their accounts and future arrangements.