MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE

2672

OF

SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.

BY

JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART.

A NEW EDITION.

VOL. VII.

BOSTON:

TICKNOR AND FIELDS.

M DCCC LXII.

CONTENTS

OF

VOLUME SEVENTH.

CHAPTER LX.

1824.

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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,

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9

Tales of the Crusaders begun -A Christmas at Abbotsford, in

Extracts from the MS. Journal of Captain Basil Hall, R. N.

CHAPTER LXII.

1825.

61

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Letter to Lady Davy-

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Marriage of Lieutenant Walter Scott-

Project of Constable's Miscellany - Terry and the Adelphi

Theatre - Publication of the Tales of the Crusaders — Prep-

arations for the Life of Buonaparte - Letters to Mr. Terry,

Mrs. Walter Scott, &c. - Description of Abbotsford in 1825,

CHAPTER LXIII.

1825.

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Excursion to Ireland - Reception in Dublin - Wicklow — Edge-

worthstown-Killarney-Cork-Castle Blarney, &c.- Letters

102

from Moore and Canning - Llangollen - Elleray - Storrs-

Lowther,

CHAPTER LXIV.

PAGE

148

1825.

Life of Napoleon in progress-
Visits of Mr. Moore, Mrs. Coutts,

&c.-Commercial Mania and impending Difficulties,

193

CHAPTER LXV.

1825.

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Sir Walter's Diary begun, November 20, 1825-Sketches of va-

rious Friends William Clerk - Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe

- Lord Abercrombie - The first Earl of Minto - Lord Byron

- Henry Mackenzie-Chief Baron Shepherd-Solicitor-Gen-

eral Hope Thomas Moore - Charles Mathews - Count Da-

vidoff, &c. &c. - Society of Edinburgh- Religious opinions

and feelings - Various alarms about the house of Hurst, Rob-

inson, & Company-"Storm blows over" - and Song of

Bonny Dundee, written at Christmas,.

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CHAPTER LXVI.

JAN. AND FEB. 1826.

230

Constable in London Extract from James Ballantyne's Memo-

randum 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 & Robinson, Constable, and Ballantyne,. 276

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CHAPTER LXVII.

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1826.

Extract from James Ballantyne's Memoranda - Anecdote from

Mr. Skene Letters of January and February 1826, to J. G.

Result of the embar-

rassments of Constable, Hurst, and Ballantyne - Resolution of

Sir Walter Scott - Malachi Malagrowther,

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MEMOIRS

OF THE

LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.

CHAPTER LX.

Publication of Redgauntlet

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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.

IMMEDIATELY on the conclusion of St. Ronan's Well, Sir Walter began the novel of Redgauntlet; —but it had made considerable progress at press before Constable and Ballantyne could persuade him to substitute that title for Herries. The book was published in June 1824, and was received at the time somewhat coldly, though it has since, I believe, found more justice. The reintroduction of the adventurous hero of 1745, in the dulness and dimness of advancing age, and fortunes hopelessly blighted and the presenting him with whose romantic portraiture at an earlier period histori