OF THE LIFE

OF

SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.

VOLUME THE FOURTH.

SECOND EDITION.

ROBERT CADELL, EDINBURGH.

WHITTAKER & CO. LONDON.

MDCCCXXXIX.

23 FEB 1973

LIBRARY

STEVENSON AND CO. PRINTERS, THISTLE STREET.

- Correspondence with Crabbe-Life of Patrick Carey,

&c. Publication of Rokeby.

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Triermain.

PAGK

and of the Bridal of

Affairs of John Ballantyne and Co. Causes of their de-

-

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rangement - Letters of Scott to his Partners - Negotia-

tion for relief with Messrs Constable - New purchase of

Land at Abbotsford - Embarrassments continued-John

Ballantyne's Expresses - Drumlanrig - Penrith, &c.

Scott's meeting with the Marquis of Abercorn at Long-

town His application to the Duke of Buccleuch-Offer

of the Poet-Laureateship — considered - and declined-

Address of the City of Edinburgh to the Prince-Regent―

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its reception-Civic Honours conferred on Scott-Ques-

tion of Taxation on Literary Income Letters to Mr

Morritt Mr Southey- Mr Richardson-

Miss Baillie, and Lord Byron............

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Mr Crabbe

.....1813,

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73

CHAPTER XXVII.

Insanity of Henry Weber Letters on the Abdication of

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Napoleon, &c. Publication of Scott's Life and Edition

of Swift-Essays for the Supplement to the Encyclo-

pædia Britannica - Completion and Publication of Wa-

verley.........

.1814,

CHAPTER XXVIII.

Voyage to the Shetland Isles, &c. - Scott's Diary kept on

board the Lighthouse Yacht......July and August 1814,

CHAPTER XXIX.

Diary on Board the Lighthouse Yacht continued The

Hoy - The Standing Stones of

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Orkneys - Kirkwall

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Cape Wrath-Cave of Smowe-The Hebrides-Scalpa,

&c.

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....1814,

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CHAPTER XXXI.

Diary continued-Isle of Harris-Monuments of the Chiefs

of Macleod - Isle of Skye - Dunvegan Castle Loch

Corriskin-Macalister's Cave.......................1814,

297