OF

Sir Walter Scott

BY

J. G. LOCKHART

VOL. VII.

EDINBURGH

ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK

1882

NTEN

OF VOLUME SEVENTH.

CHAPTER LV.

William Erskine promoted to the Bench-Joanna Baillie's

Miscellany- Halidon Hill and Macduff's Cross Letters

to Lord Montagu

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- Last Portrait by Raeburn Con-

stable's Letter on the appearance of the Fortunes of Nigel

Halidon Hill published.............

CHAPTER LVI.

.1822,

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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

Lord Kinnedder-Departure of the King-Letters from

Mr Peel and Mr Croker....

....1822,

CHAPTER LVII.

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Mons Meg-Jacobite Peerages-Invitation from the Gala-

shiels Poet-Progress of Abbotsford House-Letters to

Joanna Baillie, Terry, Lord Montagu, &c. - Completion

and Publication of Peveril of the Peak......1822-1823, 85

CHAPTER LVIII.

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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, &c.-Mechanical

Devices at Abbotsford-Gasometer-Air-Bell, &c. &c.-

The Bellenden Windows..........
.1823, 127

CHAPTER LIX.

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Quentin Durward published-Transactions with Constable-

Dialogues on Superstition proposed-Article on Romance

written-St Ronan's Well begun-"Melrose in July”-

Abbotsford visited by Miss Edgeworth, and by Mr Adol-

phus-His Memoranda-Excursion to Allanton-Anec-

dotes-Letters to Miss Baillie, Miss Edgeworth, Mr Terry,

&c.-Publication of St Ronan's Well......

.......1823, 181

CHAPTER LX.

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 Edin.

burgh.........
.....1824, 218

CHAPTER LXI.

Tales of the Crusaders begun—A Christmas at Abbotsford,

in Extracts from the MS. Journal of Captain Basil Hall,

R. N................................
....Dec. 29, 1824-Jan. 10, 1825,

284

CHAPTER LXII.

Marriage of Lieutenant Walter Scott-Letter to Lady

Davy-Project of Constable's Miscellany - Terry and

the Adelphi Theatre - Publication of the Tales of the

Crusaders Preparations for the Life of Buonaparte -

Letters to Mr Terry, Mrs Walter Scott, &c-Description

of Abbotsford in 1825,.....

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....1825, 844