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Robertson married in 1826 Frances Aitken, daughter of a prominent
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Robertson's gift for story-telling, his love of
Scottish poetry, and his tact and shrewdness, won him friendships and success, and his place of business became a rendezvous for local men of letters, such as
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in a letter to the publisher. The whole series was reissued in one volume in 1848, in two volumes in 1853, and again, with additions, in 1878 and 1890.
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