Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.
Vol. IV Contents.
MEMOIRS
OF THE LIFE
OF
SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.
VOLUME THE FOURTH.
MDCCCXXXVII.
ROBERT CADELL, EDINBURGH.
JOHN MURRAY AND WHITTAKER AND CO., LONDON.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME FOURTH.
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CHAPTER I.
Publication of Paul’s Letters to his
Kinsfolk—Guy Mannering “Terryfied”—Death
of Major John Scott—Letters to Thomas
Scott—Publication of the Antiquary—History of 1814 for
the Edinburgh Annual Register—Letters on the History of Scotland
projected—Publication of the first Tales of my Landlord by Murray
and Blackwood—Anecdotes by Mr Train—Quarterly
Review on the Tales—Building at Abbotsford begun—Letters to
Morritt, Terry, Murray,
and the Ballantynes—
1816, 1
CHAPTER II.
Harold the Dauntless published—Scott aspires
to be a Baron of the Exchequer—Letter to the Duke of Buccleuch
concerning Poachers, &c.—First attack of Cramp in the Stomach—Letters to
Morritt—Terry—and Mrs Maclean
Clephane—Story of the Doom of Devorgoil—John
Komble’s retirement from the Stage—William
Laidlaw established at Kaeside—Novel of Rob Roy
projected—Letter to Southey on the relief of the Poor, &c—Letter
to Lord Montagu on Hogg’s Queen’s Wake, and on the death of Frances Lady
Douglas—
1817, 40
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CHAPTER III.
Excursion to the Lennox—Glasgow—and Drumlanrig—Purchase of
Toftfield—Establishment of the Ferguson Family at Huntly Burn—Lines
written in illness—Visits of Washington Irving—Lady
Byron and Sir David Wilkie—Progress of the Building at
Abbotsford—Letters to Morritt—Terry,
&c.—Conclusion of Rob Roy—
1817, 80
CHAPTER IV.
Rob Roy published—Negotiation concerning the Second Series of
Tales of My Landlord—Commission to search for the Scottish
Regalia—Letters to the Duke of Buccleuch—Mr
Croker—Mr Morritt—Mr
Murray—Mr Maturin, &c.—Correspondence on Rural
Affairs with Mr Laidlaw—And on the Buildings at Abbotsford with
Mr Terry—Death of Mrs Murray Keith and
Mr George Bullock—
1818, 108
CHAPTER V.
May 1818,—Dinner at Mr Home
Drummond’s—Scott’s Edinburgh Den—Details of
his Domestic Life in Castle Street—His Sunday Dinners—His Evening Drives, &c.—His
conduct in the General Society of Edinburgh—Dinners at John
Ballantyne’s Villa—and at James
Ballantyne’s in St John Street on the appearance of a New
Novel—Anecdotes of the Ballantynes, and of
Constable,
144
CHAPTER VI.
Publication of the Heart of Mid-Lothian—Its
Reception in Edinburgh and in England—Abbotsford in October—Melrose Abbey—Dryburgh,
&c.—Lion Hunters from America—Tragedy of the Cherokee
Lovers—Scott’s Dinner to the Selkirkshire Yeomen— 1818,
176
CHAPTER VII.
Declining Health of Charles Duke of Buccleuch—Letter on
the Death of Queen Charlotte—Provincial Antiquities, &c.—Extensive
Sale of Copyrights to Constable and Co.—Death of Mr Charles
Carpenter—Scott receives and accepts the offer of a
Baronetcy—He declines to renew his application for a Seat on the Exchequer Bench—Letters to
Morritt—
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Richardson—Miss Baillie—The Duke of
Buccleuch—Lord Montagu—Captain Adam
Ferguson—Rob Roy played at Edinburgh—Letter from
Jedediah Cleishbotham to Mr Charles Mackay—
1818—1819, 206
CHAPTER VIII.
Recurrence of Scott’s Illness—Death of the
Duke of Buccleuch—Letters to Captain
Ferguson—Lord Montagu—Mr
Southey—And Mr Shortreed—Scott’s
Sufferings while dictating the Bride of Lammermoor—Anecdotes by
James Ballantyne, &c.—Appearance of the Third Series of Tales of My Landlord—Anecdote of the Earl of
Buchan—March—June 1819—
231
CHAPTER IX.
Gradual Re-establishment of Scott’s Health—Ivanhoe in Progress—His Son Walter joins the
Eighteenth Regiment of Hussars—Scott’s Correspondence with his
Son—Miscellaneous Letters to Mrs Maclean Clephane—M. W.
Hartstonge—J. G. Lockhart—John
Ballantyne—John Richardson—Miss
Edgeworth—Lord Montagu, &c.—Abbotsford Visited by
Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg—Death of Mrs William
Erskine—
1819, 279
CHAPTER X.
Political Alarms—The Radicals—Levies of Volunteers—Project of the Buccleuch
Legion—Death of Scott’s Mother—Her Brother Dr
Rutherford—And her Sister Christian—Letters to
Lord Montagu—Mr Thomas Scott—Cornet
Scott—Mr Laidlaw—And Lady Louisa
Stuart—Publication of Ivanhoe—
1819, 318
CHAPTER XI.
The Visionary—The Peel of Darnick—Scott’s Saturday
Excursions to Abbotsford—A Sunday there in
February—Constable—John
Ballantyne—Thomas Purdie, &c.—Prince
Gustavus Vasa—Proclamation of King George
IV—Publication of the Monastery—
1820, 345
CHAPTER XII.
Scott Revisits London—His Portrait by Lawrence,
and Bust
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by Chantrey—Anecdotes by
Allan Cunningham—Letters to Mrs
Scott—Laidlaw, &c.—His Baronetcy Gazetted—Marriage
of his Daughter Sophia—Letter to “The Baron of
Galashiels”—Visit of Prince Gustavus Vasa at Abbotsford—Tenders
of Honorary Degrees from Oxford and Cambridge—Letter to Mr Thomas
Scott—
1820, 360
