[Footnote 329:  Scott’s letter was substantially as follows:  “I have considered in all its bearings the matter which your kindness has suggested.  Upon many former occasions I have been urged by my friends in America to turn to some advantage the sale of my writings in your country, and render that of pecuniary avail as an individual which I feel as the highest compliment as an author.  I declined all these proposals, because the sale of this country produced me as much profit as I desired, and more—­far more—­than I deserved.  But my late heavy losses have made my situation somewhat different, and have rendered it a point of necessity and even duty to neglect no means of making the sale of my works effectual to the extrication of my affairs, which can be honorably and honestly resorted to.  If therefore Mr. Carey, or any other publishing gentleman of credit and character, should think it worth while to accept such an offer, I am willing to convey to him the exclusive right of publishing the Life of Napoleon, and my future works in America, making it always a condition, which indeed will be dictated by the publisher’s own interest, that this monopoly shall not be used for the purpose of raising the price of the work to my American readers, but only for that of supplying the public at the usual terms....

“At any rate, if what I propose should not be found of force to prevent piracy, I cannot but think from the generosity and justice of American feeling, that a considerable preference would be given in the market to the editions emanating directly from the publisher selected by the author, and in the sale of which the author had some interest.

“If the scheme shall altogether fail, it at least infers no loss, and therefore is, I think, worth the experiment.  It is a fair and open appeal to the liberality, perhaps in some sort to the justice, of a great people; and I think I ought not in the circumstances to decline venturing upon it.  I have done so manfully and openly, though not perhaps without some painful feelings, which however are more than compensated by the interest you have taken in this unimportant matter, of which I will not soon lose the recollection.” (Knickerbocker Magazine, Vol.  XI, p. 380 ff., April, 1838.)]

  [Footnote 330:  Knickerbocker, Vol.  XII, p. 349 ff., October, 1838.]

[Footnote 331:  In a letter written in January, 1839, Sumner said, speaking of Cooper’s article, “I think a proper castigation is applied to the vulgar minds of Scott and Lockhart.” (See Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, by Edward L. Pierce, Vol.  II, p. 38; and Lounsbury’s Cooper, p. 160.)]

  [Footnote 332:  Lockhart, Vol.  IV, pp. 163-4.]

  [Footnote 333:  Ibid., Vol.  III, p. 262.]