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Chapter 2: Preface by Author.

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A collection of notices and anecdotes linking real people, places, traditions, and incidents to a noted novelist's historical romances. Organized by tale and setting, the volume offers local lore, biographical sketches, comparative passages, and historical and topographical notes that seek to identify prototypes for characters and scenes. It combines printed parallels and oral testimony to show how legend, lived experience, and landscape informed narrative detail, and includes descriptive fragments about scenery, castles, and surviving witnesses to illuminate the sources behind familiar episodes in the novels.

Preface by Author.

This Work first appeared in November, 1822. It was a juvenile production, and, of course, deformed with all the faults and extravagances of nineteen. The Public, however, received it with some degree of encouragement; and, a second edition being now called for, I have gladly seized the opportunity of repairing early errors, by greater correctness of language and more copious information. The present volume will be found to contain thrice the quantity of letterpress, and a much greater variety of interesting details.

R. C.

Edinburgh, India Place, 8th March, 1825.