Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh, to Messrs Archibald Constable & Co., 1821 September 3.

Consisting of Ballantyne's autograph letter signed, dated Edinburgh, 3 September, 1821, to Constable, offering him Sir Walter Scott's "next Work of Fiction" and setting forth the conditions of a contract for the publication of "Quentin Durward", an autograph note by Constable, dated 1821 5 September, accepting the terms and an autograph letter signed by Ballantyne, dated Printing Office, Edinburgh, 28 September, 1821, acknowledging receipt of £3,000 in fulfillment of one of the terms, with a wrapper with endorsement for filing purposes.