The Maitland Club was a Scottish historical and literary club. It took its name from Sir Richard Maitland, (later Lord Lethington), the Scottish poet. The club was founded in Glasgow in 1828, to edit early Scottish texts, and publish them.[1]
Further Reading
R.H. Carnie and M.F. Moran, Sir Walter Scott and the Maitland Club, Studies in Scottish Literature, vol. XII, no. 1, July 1974.