I am sufficiently content in the belief that even negative obstacles to our perfect confidence have now subsided.
When weightier concerns permit we hope that you will again appear in our _Review_.

In confidence I may tell you that your long silence led us to avail ourselves of your friend Mr.Rose's offer to review Ferriar, [Footnote: Dr.Ferriar on "Apparitions."] and his article is already printing.
I will send you a new edition of the "Giaour," in which there are one or two stanzas added of peculiar beauty.
I trust that your family are well, and remain, dear Sir, Your obliged and faithful Servant, JOHN MURRAY.
Within a few months of this correspondence, Scott was looking into an old writing-desk in search of some fishing-tackle, when his eye chanced to light upon the Ashestiel fragment of "Waverley," begun several years before.

He read over the introductory chapters, and then determined to finish the story.

It is said that he first offered it anonymously to Sir R.Phillips, London, who refused to publish it.

"Waverley" was afterwards accepted by Constable & Co., and published on half profits, on July 7, 1814.