Describes and reproduces a letter written by Sir Walter Scott to the actress Sarah Smith (later Mrs Bartley), in February 1814, in which he tells her shortly before the anonymous publication of his novel Waverley that I am not writing anything just now ; discusses Scott\u27s interest in Smith\u27s career, his brief comments on the dramatist Joanna Baillie, and the extent to which Smith was in his confidence about his writing
