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LEAVES FROM MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 265
1825, the copyright of his works was acquired by Mr
Eobert Cadell, at whose death in 1856 it was sold to
Messrs Adam & Charles Black. By a gentleman
who was connected with Mr Cadell's printing-house,
I was informed that down to October 1856, there had
been printed of his works and hfe 7,967,369 volumes,
in which had been used 99,592 reams of paper, weigh-
ing 1245 tons. Mr Cadell's People's Editions ex-
hausted 227,631 reams, or 2848 tons. The gross
weight of paper in Mr Cadell's original and cheap
editions amounted to 4093 tons ; while the sheets of
paper used in the entire works were 106,542,438,
which, laid side by side, would cover 3363 square
miles.
With Sir Adam Ferguson, one of Sir Walter Scott's
especial intimates, I became slightly acquainted, when
he was bordering on ninety. In the autumn of 1853
he, at my request, subscribed a memorial to the First
Minister of the Crown, praying that a civil list pen-
sion might be granted to James Hogg's widow. He
spoke to me of the old times, and as I suggested
reminiscences of his home at Huntly Burn, and his
meetings with Scott and the Ettrick Shepherd, he
burst into tears.
Dr James Clarkson, physician at Melrose, who
was Sir Walter's medical adviser when he resided
at Abbotsford, and who attended him in his last
hours, I first met in 1849 ; he delighted to exhibit a
gold snuflF-box which was used by Sir Walter, and