I am told Gifford has a hard prejudice against me, but I cannot believe it.

I do not see how any man can have a prejudice against me.

He may, indeed, consider me an intruder in the walks of literature, but I am only a saunterer, and malign nobody who chooses to let me pass....

I was going to say before, but forgot, and said quite another thing, that if Mr.Gifford would point out any light work for me to review for him, I'll bet a MS.

poem with him that I'll write it better than he expects.
Yours ever most sincerely, JAMES HOGG.
As Scott still remained the Great Unknown, Murray's correspondence with him related principally to his articles in the _Quarterly_, to which he continued an occasional contributor.