CONTENTS

OF

VOLUME FIFTH.

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CHAPTER XXXVIII.

1817.

Harold the Dauntless published - Scott aspires to be a Baron of

the Exchequer - Letter to the Duke of Buccleuch concerning

Poachers, &c. First attack of Cramp in the Stomach - Let-

ters to Morritt, Terry, and Mrs. Maclean Clephane - Story of

the Doom of Devorgoil - John Kemble's retirement from the

Stage William Laidlaw established at Kaeside Novel of

Rob Roy projected - Letter to Southey on the Relief of the

Poor, &c.

Letter to Lord Montagu on Hogg's Queen's Wake,

and on the Death of Frances Lady Douglas,

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CHAPTER XXXIX.

1817.

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Excursion to the Lennox, Glasgow, and Drumlanrig - Purchase

of Toftfield Establishment of the Fergusson family at Huntly

Burn-Lines written in Illness - Visits of Washington Irving,

Lady Byron, and Sir David Wilkie - Progress of the Building

at Abbotsford Letters to Morritt, Terry, &c. Conclusion of

Rob Roy,

CHAPTER XL.

1818.

Rob Roy published - Negotiation concerning the Second Series

of Tales of My Landlord - Commission to search for the Scot-

tish Regalia - Letters to the Duke of Buccleuch, Mr. Croker,

Mr. Morritt, Mr. Murray, Mr. Maturin, &c. - Correspondence

on rural affairs with Mr. Laidlaw-and on the Buildings at

Abbotsford with Mr. Terry- Death of Mrs. Murray Keith and

Mr. George Bullock,

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CHAPTER XLI.

1818.

Dinner at Mr. Home Drummond's

ners

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Scott's Edinburgh Den-

Details of his Domestic Life in Castle Street - His Sunday Din-

His Evening Drives, &c. - His conduct in the general

society of Edinburgh Dinners at John Ballantyne's Villa,

and at James Ballantyne's in St. John Street, on the appear-

ance of a New Novel - Anecdotes of the Ballantynes, and of

Constable..

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May,

CHAPTER XLII.

1818.

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Publication of the Heart of Mid-Lothian - Its reception in Edin-

burgh and in England - Abbotsford in October - Melrose Ab-

bey, Dryburgh, &c. - Lion-Hunters from America — Tragedy

of the Cherokee Lovers - Scott's Dinner to the Selkirkshire

Yeomen,

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CHAPTER XLIII.

1818-1819.

Declining health of Charles Duke of Buccleuch Letter on the

Death of Queen Charlotte - Provincial Antiquities, &c. - Ex-

tensive Sale of Copyrights to Constable & Co. - Death of Mr.

Charles Carpenter Scott accepts the offer of a Baronetcy -

He declines to renew his application for a seat on the Exchequer

Bench-Letters to Morritt, Richardson, Miss Baillie, the Duke

of Buccleuch, Lord Montagu, Captain Fergusson

Rob Roy

played at Edinburgh — Letter from Jedediah Cleishbotham to

Mr. Charles Mackay,

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CHAPTER XLIV.

1819.

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Recurrence of Scott's illness - Death of the Duke of Buccleuch -

Letters to Captain Fergusson, Lord Montagu, Mr. Southey, and

Mr. Shortreed - Scott's sufferings while dictating the Bride of

Anec-

Lammermoor-Anecdotes by James Ballantyne, &c. Ap-

pearance of the Third Series of Tales of my Landlord

dote of the Earl of Buchan,... March - June,

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CHAPTER XLV.

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1819.

Gradual reëstablishment of Scott's health

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ress His son Walter joins the Eighteenth Regiment of Hus-

sars Scott's Correspondence with his Son- Miscellaneous

Letters to Mrs. Maclean Clephane, M. W. Hartstonge, J. G.

Lockhart, John Ballantyne, John Richardson, Miss Edgeworth,

Lord Montagu, &c. - Abbotsford visited by Prince Leopold of

Saxe-Coburg - Death of Mrs. William Erskine,

CHAPTER XLVI.

1819.

Political Alarms - The Radicals - Levies of Volunteers - Project

of the Buccleuch Legion - Death of Scott's Mother, her Brother

Dr. Rutherford, and her Sister Christian - Letters to Lord Mon-

tagu, Mr. Thomas Scott, Cornet Scott, Mr. Laidlaw, and Lady

Louisa Stewart - Publication of Ivanhoe, .

CHAPTER XLVII.

1820.

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The Visionary-The Peel of Darnick

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- Scott's Saturday Excur-

sions to Abbotsford - A Sunday there in February - Constable

-John Ballantyne - Thomas Purdie, &c. - Prince Gustavus

Vasa - Proclamation of King George IV. - Publication of the

Monastery,

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MEMOIRS

OF THE

LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

Harold the Dauntless published — Scott aspires to be a Baron of the Exchequer — Letter to the Duke of Buccleuch concerning Poachers, &c. — First attack of Cramp in the StomachLetters to Morritt, Terry, and Mrs. Maclean ClephaneStory of the Doom of Devorgoil — John Kemble's Retirement from the Stage- William Laidlaw established at Kaeside Novel of Rob Roy projected - Letter to Southey on the Relief of the Poor, &c. - Letter to Lord Montagu on Hogg's Queen's Wake, and on the Death of Frances Lady Douglas.

1817.

WITHIN less than a month, the Black Dwarf and Old Mortality were followed by "Harold the Dauntless, by the author of the Bridal of Triermain." This poem had been, it appears, begun several years back; nay, part of it had been actually printed before the appearance of Childe Harold, though that circumstance had escaped the author's remembrance when he penned, in 1830, his Introduction to the Lord of the Isles; for he there says,