Scope and Contents

The correspondents include many of the most celebrated men (chiefly literary) of the time.

Scope and Contents

The correspondents include Basil Hall, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Alexander Henderson, David Herd, James Hogg, John Home, Francis Horner, Rowland Hunter and Thomas Hurst. There are some annotations by Thomas Constable, who made use of the material in his ‘Archibald Constable and his literary correspondents’ (Edinburgh, 1873).

Scope and Contents The letters are almost all from members of the Constable family, and those of each correspondent are grouped together and arranged in chronological order. The chief correspondents are John Constable, Berwick, Michael Constable of Woodford, Charles Constable, London, Colonel George Constable and Dr Robert Constable, all of whom write concerning family matters.Appended to the volume are three miscellaneous items: a clipping, 1815, from the ‘Kelso Weekly Journal’ advertising books...

Scope and Contents 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...