He was greatly pleased with the engraving of your portrait, which I recollected to carry with me; and during the whole dinner--when all were admiring the taste with which Scott had fitted up a sort of Gothic cottage--he expressed his anxious wishes that you might honour him with a visit, which I ventured to assure him you would feel no less happy than certain in effecting when you should go to Scotland; and I am sure he would hail your lordship as 'a very brother.'" After all his visits had been paid, and he had made his arrangements with his printers and publishers, Mr.Murray returned to London with his wife and family.

Shortly after his arrival he received a letter from Mr.
Blackwood.
_Mr.Wm.Blackwood to John Murray_.
_November 8_, 1814.
"I was much gratified by your letter informing me of your safe arrival.
How much you must be overwhelmed just now, and your mind distracted by so many calls upon your attention at once.

I hope that you are now in one of your best frames of mind, by which you are enabled, as you have told me, to go through, with more satisfaction to yourself, ten times the business you can do at other times.

While you are so occupied with your great concerns, I feel doubly obliged to you for your remembrance of my small matters." After referring to his illness, he proceeds: "Do not reflect upon your visit to the bard (Walter Scott).

You would have blamed yourself much more if you had not gone.