Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.
Vol. VI Contents.
MEMOIRS
OF THE LIFE
OF
SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.
VOLUME THE SIXTH.
MDCCCXXXVII.
ROBERT CADELL, EDINBURGH.
JOHN MURRAY AND WHITTAKER AND CO., LONDON.
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NOTICE.
The Editor of these Memoirs regrets to say that he has found it
impossible to complete them in six volumes, as originally intended and announced. The
publication has, from unfortunate circumstances, been extended over a much greater space of
time than he had calculated; and every succeeding month has brought him some considerable
accession of materials. It is hoped that the seventh and last volume may appear in the
course of February next.
London, Dec. 10, 1837.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME SIXTH.
CHAPTER I.
PAGE
Marriage of Lieutenant Walter Scott—Letter to
Lady Davy—Project of Constable’s
Miscellany—Terry and the Adelphi Theatre Publication of the
Tales of the Crusaders—Preparations for the Life of Buonaparte—Letters to Mr Terry,
Mrs Walter Scott, &c.—
1825, 1
CHAPTER II.
Excursion to Ireland—Reception in Dublin—Wicklow—Edgeworthstown—Killarney—Cork
Castle Blarney, &c.—Letters from Moore and
Canning—Llangollen—Elleray—Storrs—Lowther
1825, 39
CHAPTER III.
Life of Napoleon in Progress—Visits of Mr
Moore, Mrs Coutts, &c.—Commercial Mania and
Impending Difficulties of 1825,
87
CHAPTER IV.
Sir Walter’s Diary begun Nov. 20, 1825—Sketches of Various
Friends—William Clerk—Charles Kirkpatrick
Sharpe—Lord Abercromby—The First Earl of
Minto—Lord Byron—Henry
Mackenzie—Chief Baron
Shepherd—Solicitor-General Hope—Thomas
Moore—Charles Mathews—Count
Davidoff, &c. &c.—Society of Edinburgh—Religious Opinions and
Feelings—Various Alarms about the House of Hurst,
Robinson, and Co.—“Storm Blows Over”—and Song of Bonny Dundee written at Christmas, 1825,
122
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CHAPTER V.
Constable in London—Extract from James
Ballantyne’s Memorandum—Scott’s Diary
resumed—Progress of Woodstock—Review of Pepys’
Diary—Skene—Scrope—Mathews,
&c.—Commercial Alarms Renewed at Intervals—Catastrophe of the Three Houses of
Hurst and Robinson,
Constable, and Ballantyne—January and
February, 1826,
174
CHAPTER VI.
Extract from James Ballantyne’s Memoranda—Anecdote
from Mr Skene—Letters of January and February, 1826, to J.
G. Lockhart—Mr Morritt—And Lady
Davy—Result of the Embarrassments of Constable,
Hurst, and Ballantyne—Resolution of
Sir Walter Scott—Malachi Malagrowther,
213
CHAPTER VII.
Diary resumed—Anecdote of Culloden—Letter from
Mackintosh—Exhibition of Pictures—Modern Painters—Habits of
Composition—Glengarry—Advocates’ Library—Negotiations with Creditors—First Letter of Malachi Malagrowther—Chronique
de Jacques de Lalain—Progress of Woodstock and Buonaparte—Novels by Galt—Miss
Austen—And Lady Morgan—Second and Third Epistles of Malachi—Departure from Castle Street—February and
March, 1826,
227
CHAPTER VIII.
Domestic Afflictions—Correspondence with Sir Robert
Dundas and Mr Croker on the subject of Malachi Malagrowther,
265
CHAPTER IX.
Diary resumed—Abbotsford in Solitude—Death of Sir A.
Don—Review of the Life of Kemble, &c.—Conclusion
of Woodstock—Death of Lady Scott—Chronicles of the Canongate begun—
April—May, 1826, 275
CHAPTER X.
Woodstock—Reception of the Novel—Mrs
Brown’s Lodgings—Extracts from a Diary of Captain Basil
Hall—Buonaparte resumed, and Chronicles of the Canongate begun—Uniform Labour during Summer and
Autumn—Extracts from Sir Walter’s Journal—
June October, 1826, 308
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CHAPTER XI.
Journey to London and Paris—Scott’s
Diary—Rokeby—Burleigh—Imitators of the Waverley Novels—Southey’s
Peninsular War—Royal Lodge at Windsor—George IV.—Adelphi
Theatre—Montreuil, &c.—Rue de Tivoli—Pozzo di Borgo—Lord
Granville—Marshals Macdonald and
Marmont—Gallois—W. R.
Spencer—Princess Galitzin—Charles
X.—Duchess of Angouleme, &c.—Enthusiastic Reception
in Paris—Dover Cliff—Theodore Hooke—Lydia
White—Duke of
Wellington—Peel—Canning—Croker,
&c. &c.—Duke of York—Madame
D’Arblay—State of Politics—Oxford—Cheltenham—Abbotsford—Walker Street,
Edinburgh—
October December, 1826, 352
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ERRATA.
P. 76, line 19, for Lady E. Buller, read Butler.
P. 159, line 6 from bottom, for so will be, read so ’twill be.
P. 160, line 6, for ruins, read rims.
P. 169, note, for
Woodstock, read
Life of Napoleon.
P. 207, note, dele French.
P. 291, line 7, for “impeticoat the
gratuity,” read (as in most editions of
Shakspeare) “impeticos the gratillity.”
P. 371, line 1, for cet, read ce.
P. 393, line 5 from bottom, for present, read preceding.
John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854)
Editor of the
Quarterly Review (1825-1853); son-in-law of Walter
Scott and author of the
Life of Scott 5 vols (1838).
