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==Composition and sources==
Evidence about the composition of the first volume of ''Waverley'' is inconclusive, but it was probably begun in 1808 and laid aside, continued in 1810 and again laid aside, and eventually taken up and completed in the later part of 1813. The second and third volumes were written in the spring and early summer of 1814.<ref>Walter Scott, ''Waverley'', ed. P. D. Garside (Edinburgh, 2007), 367–83.</ref>  Scott had an intimate acquaintance with Jacobite history, and ''Waverley'' draws on an extensive range of anecdotal and historical literary material. He had talked to people who had been involved in the 1745 uprising, or to those who had known them. He drew on the resources of his extensive library for relevant printed material. Among the most consistently helpful books were: 
* [[John Home]], ''The History of the Rebellion in the Year 1745'' (1802)
* [[Edmund Burt]], ''Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland'' (1754)
* [[Donald Macintosh]], ''A Collection of Gaelic Proverbs, and Familiar Phrases'' (1785).<ref>''Ibid.'', 503–09.</ref>