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COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY HOUghton, miffLIN & CO.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Librarian Houghton 6238 36514
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chap.
LV. 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 pub-
lished. 1822
LVI. 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
Departure of the King.
Lord Kinnedder.
- Letters from Mr. Peel and Mr. Croker.
Page
1
22
Invita-
Progress
of Abbotsford House. Letters to Joanna
Baillie, Terry, Lord Montagu, etc. Com-
pletion and Publication of Peveril of the
Peak. 1822-1823
LVIII. 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, etc. -
Mechanical Devices at Abbotsford. Gaso-
meter. - Air-Bell, etc., etc. The Bellen-
den Windows. 1823.
62
93
with Constable. - Dialogues on Superstition
proposed. Article on Romance written.
St. Ronan's Well begun. "Melrose in
July." -Abbotsford visited by Miss Edge-
worth, and by Mr. Adolphus. - His Memo-
randa. Excursion to Allanton. - Anec-
dotes. Letters to Miss Baillie, Miss Edge-
Publication of St.
worth, Mr. Terry, etc.
LX. Publication of Redgauntlet.
- -
Byron. Library and Museum. -House-
Painting, etc. "The Wallace Chair.'
Anecdotes. Letters to Constable, Miss
Edgeworth, Miss Baillie, Terry, Lord Mon-
tagu, Mr. Southey, Charles Scott, etc.
Speech at the Opening of the Edinburgh
Academy. Death and Epitaph of Maida.
-Fires in Edinburgh. 1824
LXI. Tales of the Crusaders begun. - A Christ-
mas at Abbotsford, in Extracts from the MS.
Journal of Captain Basil Hall, R. N. 1824-
1825
- Let-
LXII. Marriage of Lieutenant Walter Scott.
ter to Lady Davy. — Project of Constable's
Miscellany. Terry and the Adelphi Thea-
tre, Publication of the Tales of the Cru-
saders. Preparations for the Life of Buo-
naparte. Letters to Mr. Terry, Mrs.
Walter Scott, etc. Description of Abbots-
ford in 1825.
1825.
LXIII. Excursion to Ireland. Reception in Dub-
lin. Wicklow. Edgeworthstown. — Kil-
Letters from Moore and Canning.
gollen. Elleray. Storrs. Lowther.
154
208
245
Castle Blarney, etc.
Llan-
291
Visits of
LXIV. Life of Napoleon in Progress.
Mr. Moore, Mrs. Coutts, etc. - Commer-
cial Mania and Impending Difficulties.
336
LXV. Sir Walter's Diary begun, November 20,
1825. Sketches of Various Friends.
William
Sharpe.
Clerk.
Charles Kirkpatrick
Lord Abercromby. The First
Earl of Minto. Lord Byron. Henry
Mackenzie. Chief Baron Shepherd.
Solicitor-General Hope. Thomas Moore.
Charles Mathews. Count Davidoff,
etc., etc. Society of Edinburgh. — Re-
ligious Opinions and Feelings. Various
Alarms about the House of Hurst, Robin-
son & Company. "Storm blows Over
- and Song of Bonny Dundee, written at
Christmas. 1825.
LXVI. Constable in London.
Extract from James
Ballantyne's Memorandum. - Scott's Diary
resumed. Progress of Woodstock. Re-
view of Pepys's Diary. Skene, Scrope,
Mathews, etc. Commercial Alarms re-
newed at Intervals. Catastrophe of the
Three Houses of Hurst & Robinson, Con-
stable, and Ballantyne.
1826
LXVII. Extract from James Ballantyne's Memo-
randa. Anecdote from Mr. Skene. - Let-
ters of January and February, 1826, to J.
G. Lockhart, Mr. Morritt, and Lady Davy.
Result of the Embarrassments of Con-
stable, Hurst, and Ballantyne. Resolu-
tion of Sir Walter Scott. Malachi Mala-
growther. 1826
LXVIII. Diary resumed.
Anecdote of Culloden.
Letter from Mackintosh. Exhibition
of Pictures. Modern Painters. - Habits
Glengarry. Advo-
cates' Library. Negotiations with Credi-
First Letter of Malachi Mala-
growther. Chronique de Jacques de
Lalain. Progress of Woodstock and Buo-
naparte. Novels by Galt, Miss Austen,
and Lady Morgan. Second and Third
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