5/41 Scott even endeavoured to enlist new contributors, for the purpose of strengthening the _Review_. He wrote to Robert Southey in 1807, inviting him to contribute to the _Edinburgh_. The honorarium was to be ten guineas per sheet of sixteen pages. This was a very tempting invitation to Southey, as he was by no means rich at the time, and the pay was more than he received for his contributions to the _Annual Register_, but he replied to Scott as follows: _Mr.Southey to Mr.Scott_. Whatever of any merit I might insert there would aid and abet opinions hostile to my own, and thus identify me with a system which I thoroughly disapprove. |