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MEMOIRS
OF THE LIFE
OF
SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.
VOLUME THE TENTH.
SECOND EDITION.
ROBERT CADELL, EDINBURGH.
WHITTAKER & CO. LONDON.
MDCCCXXXIX.
828 5430 L8
1839
Vi10
STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY STEVENSON & CO. THISTLE STREKT, EDINBURGH.
CONTENTS
OF VOLUME TENTH.
-
CHAPTER LXXIX.
Winter at Abbotsford - Parliamentary Reform in agitation
William Laidlaw-John Nicolson-Mrs Street-Fit
of Apoplexy in November Count Robert of Paris-A
Fourth Epistle of Malagrowther written and suppressed
— Unpleasant discussions with Ballantyne and Cadell —
Novel resumed-Second Dividend to Creditors, and their
gift of the Library, &c. at Abbotsford-Last Will executed
in Edinburgh- Fortune's Mechanism-Letter on Poli-
tics to the Hon. H. F. Scott-Address for the County of
Selkirk written and rejected by the Freeholders-County
Meeting at Jedburgh-Speech on Reform-Scott insulted
-Mr F. Grant's Portrait......Oct. 1830-April 1831,
CHAPTER LXXX.
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Apoplectic Paralysis Miss Ferrier-Dr Mackintosh Mac-
kay-Scenes at Jedburgh and Selkirk-Castle Dangerous
- Excursion to Douglasdale —Church of St Bride's, &c.
PAGE
-Turner's Designs for the Poetry-Last Visits to Smail-
holm, Bemerside, Ettrick, &c.-Visit of Captain Burns,
Mr Adolphus, and Mr Wordsworth-" Yarrow revisited,"
and Sonnet on the Eildons.....................................April—Oct. 1831, 61
CHAPTER LXXXI.
Rokeby London - Epitaph on Helen Walker Ports-
mouth Voyage in the Barham Graham's Island
Letter to Mr Skene-Malta-Notes by Mrs John Davy-
Sept-Dec. 1831,
107
CHAPTER LXXXII.
Residence at Naples-Excursions to Pæstum, Pompeii, &c.
-Last attempts in Romance-Sir William Gell's Memo-
Death of Goethe-Rome-Memoranda by Sir W. Gell and
Mr Edward Cheney-Journey to Frankfort-The Rhine
Steam-boat Fatal seizure at Nimeguen Arrival in
Chronological List of the Publications of Sir Walter Scott, 269
General Index.......................
277