Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.
Vol. II Contents.
MEMOIRS
OF THE LIFE
OF
SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.
VOLUME THE SECOND.
MDCCCXXXVII.
ROBERT CADELL, EDINBURGH.
JOHN MURRAY AND WHITTAKER AND CO., LONDON.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME SECOND.
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CHAPTER I.
Removal to Ashestiel—Death of Captain Robert
Scott—Mungo
Park—Completion and Publication of
the Lay of the Last Minstrel—
1804-1805,
1
CHAPTER II.
Partnership with James Ballantyne—Literary Projects;
Edition of the British Poets; Edition of the Ancient English Chronicles, &c.
&c.—Edition of Dryden undertaken—Earl Moira
Commander of the Forces in Scotland—Sham Battles—Articles in the Edinburgh Review—Commencement of Waverley—Letter on
Ossian—Mr Skene’s Reminiscences of
Ashestiel—Excursion to Cumberland—Alarm of Invasion—Visit of Mr
Southey—Correspondence on Dryden with
Ellis and Wordsworth—
1805,
37
CHAPTER III.
Affair of the Clerkship of Session—Letters to Ellis and
Lord Dalkeith—Visit to London—Earl Spenser
and Mr Fox—Caroline, Princess of
Wales—Joanna Baillie—Appointment as Clerk of
Session—Lord Melville’s Trial—Song on his Acquittal—
1806, 83
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CHAPTER IV.
Dryden—Critical Pieces—Edition of Slingsby’s
Memoirs, &c.—Marmion Begun—Visit to
London—Ellis—Rose—Canning—Miss
Seward—Scott Secretary to the Commission on Scotch
Jurisprudence—Letters to Southey, &c.—Publication of
Marmion—Anecdotes—The Edinburgh Review on Marmion—
1806-1808, 112
CHAPTER V.
Edition of Dryden published—And criticised by
Mr Hallam—Weber’s Romances—Editions of
Queenhoo-hall; Captain Carleton’s
Memoirs; The Memoirs of Robert Cary, Earl of
Monmouth; The Sadler Papers; And the Somers’
Tracts—Edition of Swift begun—Letters to Joanna
Baillie and George Ellis on the Affairs of the
Peninsula—John Struthers—James Hogg—Visit of
Mr Morritt—Mr Morritt’s Reminiscences
of Ashestiel—Scott’s Domestic Life—
1808,
160
CHAPTER VI.
Quarrel with Messrs Constable and
Hunter—John Ballantyne established as a
Bookseller in Edinburgh—Scott’s Literary Projects—The Edinburgh Annual Register, &c.—Meeting of James
Ballantyne and John
Murray—Murray’s Visit to Ashestiel—Politics—The
Peninsular War—Project of the Quarterly Review—Correspondence
with Ellis, Gifford,
Morritt, Southey, Sharpe,
&c.—
1808-1809, 195
CHAPTER VII.
Case of a Poetical Tailor Condemned to Death at Edinburgh—His letters to
Scott—Death of Camp—Scott in London—Mr
Morritt’s Description of him as “a lion” in town—Dinner at
Mr
Sotheby’s—Coleridge’s Fire, Famine, and Slaughter—The Quarterly
Review started—First visit to Rokeby—The Lady of the
Lake begun—Excursion to the Trossachs and Loch Lomond—Letter on
Byron’s English Bards and Scotch
Reviewers—Death of Daniel Scott—Correspondence about
Mr Canning’s Duel with Lord
Castlereagh—Miss Baillie’s Family Legend acted at Edinburgh—Theatrical
Anecdotes—Kemble—Siddons—Terry—Letter
on the Death of Miss Seward—
1809-1810, 239
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CHAPTER VIII.
Affair of Thomas Scott’s Extractorship Discussed in
the House of Lords—Speeches of Lord Lauderdale, Lord
Melville, &c.—Lord Holland at the Friday
Club—Publication of the Lady of the Lake—Correspondence concerning Versification with
Ellis and Canning—The Poem criticised by
Jeffrey and Mackintosh—Letters to
Southey and Morritt—Anecdotes from
James Ballantyne’s Memoranda—
1810,
279
CHAPTER IX.
First Visit to the Hebrides—Staffa—Skye—Mull—Iona, &c.—The Lord of the Isles projected—Letters to Joanna
Baillie—Southey—and Morritt—
1810, 309
CHAPTER X.
Life of Miss Seward—Waverley
resumed—Ballantyne’s Critique on the First Chapters of the
Novel—Waverley again laid aside—Unfortunate Speculations of
John Ballantyne and Co.; History of the
Culdees; Tixall Poetry; Beaumont
and Fletcher; Edinburgh Annual Register,
&c.—Scott’s Essay on Judicial Reform—His scheme of going
to India—Letters on the War in the Peninsula—Death of Lord President
Blair—And of Lord Melville—Publication of the Vision of Don Roderick—The Inferno of Altesidora, &c.—
1810-1811, 328
CHAPTER XI.
New Arrangement concerning the Clerks of
Session—Scott’s First Purchase of Land—Abbotsford;
Turn-Again, &c.—Joanna Baillie’s Orra, &c.—Death of James Grahame—And of John
Leyden—
1811, 354
CHAPTER XII.
The Poem of Rokeby begun—Correspondence with
Mr Morritt—Death of Henry Duke of
Buccleuch—George Ellis—John
Wilson—Apprentices of Edinburgh—Scott’s
“Nicknackatories”—Letter to Miss Baillie on the
Publication of Childe Harold—Correspondence with Lord
Byron—
1811-1812, 378
