Includes many letters to Joseph O Robinson from Archibald Constable in person and from Robert Cadell, and a number of other, related, letters and papers. The correspondence concerns business matters, especially the publication and sale of Sir Walter Scott's works, the technicalities connected with their publication, and the financial complications and difficulties which led eventually to the bankruptcy of Archibald Constable. Most of the correspondence was written between January 1819 and January 1821 and April 1825 and January 1826, when letters were written frequently, sometimes daily or more often: other periods are represented by few letters, or none at all.