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Vol I Preface
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Chapter II 1771-78
Chapter III 1778-83
Chapter IV 1783-86
Chapter V 1786-90
Chapter VI 1790-92
Chapter VII 1792-96
Chapter VIII 1796-97
Chapter IX 1798-99
Chapter X 1800-02
Chapter XI 1802-03
Chapter XII 1803-04
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Chapter III 1806
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Chapter IX 1810
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Chapter XI 1811
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Chapter IV 1814
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Chapter XII 1820
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Chapter XII 1824
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Vol VII Preface
Chapter I 1826-27
Chapter II 1827
Chapter III 1828
Chapter IV 1828
Chapter V 1829
Chapter VI 1830
Chapter VII 1830-31
Chapter VIII 1831
Chapter IX 1831
Chapter X 1831-32
Chapter XI 1832
Chapter XII
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MEMOIRS



OF THE LIFE


OF


SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.








VOLUME THE FIFTH.












MDCCCXXXVII.

ROBERT CADELL, EDINBURGH.

JOHN MURRAY AND WHITTAKER AND CO., LONDON.


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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