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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.

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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

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of Abbotsford House. Letters to Joanna

Baillie, Terry, Lord Montagu, etc. Com-

pletion and Publication of Peveril of the

Peak. 1822-1823

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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.

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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.

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worth, Mr. Terry, etc.

LX. Publication of Redgauntlet.

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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

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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

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- 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-

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ford in 1825.

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1825.

LXIII. Excursion to Ireland. Reception in Dub-

lin. Wicklow. Edgeworthstown. — Kil-

Letters from Moore and Canning.

gollen. Elleray. Storrs. Lowther.

1825.

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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.

1825.

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LXV. Sir Walter's Diary begun, November 20,

1825. Sketches of Various Friends.

William

Sharpe.

Clerk.

Charles Kirkpatrick

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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

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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.

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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.

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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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