Excerpt from A Ballad Book

In an old scrap-book Mr Sharpe had been in the habit of pasting the stray notes on ballads and letters relating to them which he received from time to time from Sir Walter Scott. It was Mr Laing's wish that these scraps should be made public, as an illustration of the intercourse that went on between the two collectors. AS none of Scott's letters are dated, there has been considerable difficulty in determining the time when they were written, and all that can be said with cer tainty is, that they fall within the years from 1813 to when Sharpe Settled in Edinburgh, and 182 3, the year when the 'ballad Book' was issued.

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