Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.
Vol. III Contents.
MEMOIRS
OF THE LIFE
OF
SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.
VOLUME THE THIRD.
MDCCCXXXVII.
ROBERT CADELL, EDINBURGH.
JOHN MURRAY AND WHITTAKER AND CO., LONDON.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME THIRD.
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CHAPTER I.
The “Flitting” to Abbotsford—Plantations—George
Thomson—Rokeby and Triermain in progress—Excursion to Flodden—Bishop-Auckland—And Rokeby
Park—Correspondence with Crabbe—Life of Patrick
Carey, &c.—Publication of Rokeby—And of the
Bridal of Triermain—
1812—1813, 1
CHAPTER II.
Affairs of John Ballantyne and Co.—Causes of their
Derangement—Letters of Scott to his Partners—Negotiation for Relief
with Messrs Constable—New Purchase of Land at
Abbotsford—Embarrassments continued—John Ballentyne’s
Expresses—Drumlanrig—Penrith, &c.—Scott’s Meeting with the
Marquis of Abercorn at Longtown—His Application to the
Duke of Buccleuch—Offer of the Poet-Laureateship Considered—And
Declined—Address of the City of Edinburgh to the Prince-Regent—Its Reception—Civic Honours
conferred on Scott—Question of Taxation on Literary Income—Letters to
Mr Morritt—Mr Southey—Mr
Richardson—Mr Crabbe—Miss Baillie
and Lord Byron—
1813, 55
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CHAPTER III.
Insanity of Henry Weber—Letters on the Abdication of
Napoleon, &c.—Publication of
Scott’s Life and Edition of
Swift—Essays for the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica—Completion and Publication of Waverley 1814, 109
CHAPTER IV.
Voyage to the Shetland Isles, &c.—Scott’s Diary
kept on Board the Lighthouse Yacht—July and August—
1814, 134
CHAPTER V.
Diary on Board the Lighthouse Yacht continued—The Orkneys—Kirkwall—Hoy—The
Standing Stones of Stennis, &c.—
August, 1814, 184
CHAPTER VI.
Diary continued—Stromness—Bessy Millie’s Charm—Cape Wrath—Cave of
Sinowe—The Hebrides—Scalpa,—
1814, 203
CHAPTER VII.
Diary continued—Isle of Harris—Monuments of the Chiefs of Macleod—Isle of
Skye—Dunvegan Castle—Loch Oorrisltin—Macallister’s Cave—
1814,
222
CHAPTER VIII.
Diary continued—Cave of Egg—Iona—Staffa—Dunstaffnage—Dunluce
Castle—Giant’s Causeway—Isle of Arran, &c.—Diary concluded—
August—September, 1814, 239
CHAPTER IX.
Letters in Verse from Zetland and Orkney—Death of the Duchess of
Buccleuch—Correspondence with the Duke—Altrive Lake—Negotiation concerning
the Lord of the Isles completed—Success of Waverley—Contemporaneous Criticisms on the Novel—Letters to
Scott from Mr Morritt—Mr Lewis and
Miss Maclean Clephane—Letter from James
Ballantyne to Miss Edgeworth—
1814,
278
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CHAPTER X.
Progress of the Lord of the Isles—Correspondence
with Mr Joseph Train—Rapid completion of the Lord
of the Isles—“Six Weeks at Christmas”—“Refreshing the
Machine”—Publication of the Poem—And of Guy
Mannering—Letters to Morritt—Terry—And
John Ballantyne—Anecdotes by James
Ballantyne—Visit to London—Meeting with Lord Byron—Dinners
at Carlton House—
1814—1815, 306
CHAPTER XI.
Battle of Waterloo—Letter of Sir Charles Bell—Visit to
the Continent—Waterloo Letters from Brussels and Paris—Anecdotes of
Scott at Paris—The Duke of Wellington—The
Emperor
Alexander—Blucher—Platoff—Party at
Ermenonville, &c.—London—Parting with—Lord
Byron—Scott’s Birmingham Knife—Return to
Abbotsford—Anecdotes by Mr Skene and James
Ballantyne—Notes on “The Field of Waterloo,”—
1815, 346
CHAPTER XII.
Poem of the Field of Waterloo published—Revision of
Paul’s Letters, &c.—Quarrel and Reconciliation with
Hogg—Football Match at Carterhaugh—Songs on the Banner of
Buccleuch—Dinner at Bowhill—Design for a Piece of Plate to the
Sutors of Selkirk—Letters to the Duke of Buccleuch—Joanna
Baillie—And Mr Morritt—
1815,
386
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