The Saturday and Sunday previous I passed most delightfully with Walter Scott, who was incessant in his inquiries after your welfare.

He entertains the noblest sentiments of regard towards you, and speaks of you with the best feelings.

I walked about ten miles with him round a very beautiful estate, which he has purchased by degrees, within two miles of his favourite Melrose.

He has nearly completed the centre and one wing of a castle on the banks of the Tweed, where he is the happiness as well as pride of the whole neighbourhood.
He is one of the most hospitable, merry, and entertaining of mortals.

He would, I am confident, do anything to serve you; and as the Paper [Footnote: The review of the fourth canto of "Childe Harold," _Q.R.,_ No.37.] which I now enclose is a second substantial proof of the interest he takes in your literary character, perhaps it may naturally enough afford occasion for a letter from you to him.