8 Letters From Basil Hall To Sir Walter Scott PDF Download

Explaining how he had arranged through Sir James Graham for Sir Walter Scott and his daughter to travel to the Mediterranean on the Barham; saying "I called to mention to you that I had a letter yesterday from Scotland about Sir W. Scott's travelling plans - in which it was stated that much anxiety was felt by Sir Walter's friends on account of the great length of the Journey to Naples & that the Medical men seemed to wish that, if possible, he might go straight to the Mediterranean in a man of war. My correspondent (Mr. Cadell) expressed a strong wish that I should discover how far such a thing was possible. I thought it best to see Sir James Graham at once on the subject & I had scarcely read the paragraphs in Mr. Cadell's letter before he said the whole should be arranged without any trouble to Sir Walter - for that he (Sir James) would write to Cap't Pigot of the Barham to request him to give Sir Walter & Miss Scott a passage. Nothing could be more handsome than the manner in which this was done & he desired me to write to Sir Walter Scott to say how happy he felt to have it in his power to be of any use to a person who had contributed so much to the public happiness &c &c &c. My occasion for troubling you with all this is that in Mr. Cadell's Letter, he says it is possible Mr. Lockhart may have written to you on the subject - It occurred to me besides that you would at all events, be glad to know that the affair was settled - & that it has been done in so pleasant a manner. Sir Walter had some scruples, I understand, about asking such a favor but Sir James Graham bid me assure him that he [illegible] there was no favor in the matter - for that there was no officer in the service who could not gladly have accommodated such a man - & no person of any party in the country who would not have done his utmost to contribute anything to the preservation of a life so valuable to us all - This is creditable to all parties, I think."