Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.
Vol. V Contents.
MEMOIRS
OF THE LIFE
OF
SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.
VOLUME THE FIFTH.
MDCCCXXXVII.
ROBERT CADELL, EDINBURGH.
JOHN MURRAY AND WHITTAKER AND CO., LONDON.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME FIFTH.
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CHAPTER I.
Autumn at Abbotsford—Scott’s Hospitality—Visit of
Sir Humphry Davy—Henry Mackenzie—Dr
Wollaston and William Stewart Rose—Coursing on Newark
Hill—Salmon-fishing—The Festival at Boldside—The Abbotsford Hunt—The Kirn, &c.—
1820, 1
CHAPTER II.
Publication of the Abbot—The Blair-Adam
Club—Kelso—Waltonhall, &c.—Ballantyne’s Novelist’s
Library—Acquittal of Queen Caroline—Service of the
Duke of Buccleuch—Scott elected President of
the Royal Society of Edinburgh—The Celtic Society—Letters to Lord
Montagu—Cornet Scott—Charles
Scott—Allan Cunningham, &c.—Kenilworth published—
1820-1821, 19
CHAPTER III.
Visit to London Project of the Royal Society of Literature—Affairs of the 18th
Hussars—Marriage of Captain Adam Ferguson—Letters to Lord
Sidmouth—Lord Montagu—Allan
Cunningham—Mrs Lockhart—and Cornet
Scott—
1821, 50
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CHAPTER IV.
Illness and Death of John Ballantyne—Extract from his
Pocketbook—Letters from Blair-Adam—Castle-Campbell—Sir Samuel
Shepherd—“Bailie Mackay,”
&c.—Coronation of George IV.—Correspondence with James
Hogg—and Lord Sidmouth—Letter on the
Coronation—Anecdotes—Allan Cunningham’s Memoranda—Completion
of Chantrey’s Bust—
1821, 74
CHAPTER V.
Publication of Mr Adolphus’s Letters on the
Authorship of Waverley—
1821, 103
CHAPTER VI.
New Buildings at Abbotsford—Chiefswood—William
Erskine—Letter to Countess Purgstall—Progress of the Pirate—Private Letters in the Reign of James
I.—Commencement of the Fortunes of Nigel—Second Sale
of Copyrights—Contract for “Four Works of Fiction”—Enormous Profits of the
Novelist, and Extravagant Projects of Constable—The
Pirate published—Lord Byron’s Cain, dedicated to Scott—Affair of the
Beacon Newspaper—Franck’s Northern Memoirs—And Notes of Lord Fountainhall,
published—
1821, 122
CHAPTER VII.
William Erskine promoted to the Bench—Joanna
Baillie’s Miscellany—Halidon Hill and Macduff’s Cross—Letters to
Lord Montagu—Last Portrait by
Raeburn—Constable’s Letter on the
Appearance of the Fortunes of Nigel—Halidon
Hill published—
1822, 156
CHAPTER VIII.
Repairs of Melrose Abbey—Letters to Lord Montagu and
Miss Edgeworth—King George IV. visits
Scotland—Celtic Mania—Mr Crabbe in Castle Street—Death of
Lord Kinnedder—Departure of the King—Letters from Mr
Peel and Mr Croker—
1822, 178
CHAPTER IX.
Mons Meg—Jacobite Peerages—Invitation from the Galashiels Poet—Progress of
Abbotsford House—Letters to
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Joanna Baillie—Terry—Lord
Montagu, &c.—Completion and Publication of Peveril of
the Peak—
1822-1823, 220
CHAPTER X.
Quentin Durward in progress—Letters to
Constable—and Dr Dibdin—the Author of Waverley and the Roxburghe Club—the Bannatyne Club
Founded—Scott Chairman of the Edinburgh Oil Gas Company,
&c.—Mechanical Devices at Abbotsford—Gasometer—Air-bell, &c. &c.—The Bellenden
Windows—
1823, 253
CHAPTER XI.
Quentin Durward published—Transactions with
Constable—Dialogues on Superstition proposed—Article on Romance
Written—St Ronan’s Well begun—“Melrose in
July”—Abbotsford Visited by Miss Edgeworth—And by Mr
Adolphus—His Memoranda—Excursion to Allanton—Anecdotes—Letters to
Miss Baillie, Miss Edgeworth, Mr
Terry, &c.—Publication of St Ronan’s
Well—
1823, 279
CHAPTER XII.
Publication of Redgauntlet—Death of Lord
Byron—Library and Museum—“The Wallace
Chair”—House-painting, &c.—Anecdotes—Letters to
Constable—Miss
Edgeworth—Terry—Miss
Baillie—Lord Montagu—Mr
Southey—Charles Scott, &c.—Speech at the Opening of
the Edinburgh Academy—Death and Epitaph of Maida—Fires in
Edinburgh—
1824, 319
CHAPTER XIII.
Tales of the Crusaders begun—A Christmas at Abbotsford, in
Extracts from the MS. Journal of Captain Basil Hall, R. N.—Dec. 29,
1824—Jan. 10, 1825—
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