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'He [Hoffman] had made some translations from the German which he does extremely [well], for give him ideas and he never wants choice of good words, and Lockhart had got Constable to offer some sort of terms for them.' (footnote: Scott owned his translation of Hoffman's The Devil's Elixirs, 1824)