Note 448 — APRIL.
Reading edition
The Manuscripts were sold by auction in London on August 19th, 1831, and the prices realised fell far short of what might have been expected, e.g. (1) Monastery, £18; (2) Guy Mannering, £27, 10s.; (3) Old Mortality, £33; (4) Antiquary, £42; (5) Rob Roy, £50; (6) Peveril of the Peak, £42; (7) Waverley, £18; (8) Abbot, £14; (9) Ivanhoe, £12; (10) Pirate, £12; (11) Nigel, £16, 16s.; (12) Kenilworth, £17; (13) Bride of Lammermoor, £14, 14s.—Total £317.—See David Laing's Catalogue, pp. 99-108, for an account of the dispersion and sales of the original MSS., prose and poetry.