Chapter I: Front Matter

Large Paper Edition

LOCKHART'S
LIFE OF SCOTT

COPIOUSLY ANNOTATED AND ABUNDANTLY ILLUSTRATED

IN TEN VOLUMES
VOL. IV

MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE
OF
SIR WALTER SCOTT
BART.

by

JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART

In Ten Volumes
VOLUME IV

Boston and New York
Houghton, Mifflin and Company
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
MCMI

Copyright, 1901
by Houghton, Mifflin and Company
All Rights Reserved

Six Hundred Copies Printed
Number, 200

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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XXV. The "Flitting" to Abbotsford. -- Plantations. --
George Thomson. -- Rokeby and Triermain in Progress. --
Excursion to Flodden. -- Bishop-Auckland, and Rokeby
Park. -- Correspondence with Crabbe. -- Life of Patrick
Carey, etc. -- Publication of Rokeby, -- and of The
Bridal of Triermain. 1812-1813 1

XXVI. Affairs of John Ballantyne and Co. -- Causes of
their Derangement. -- Letters of Scott to his Partners.
-- Negotiation for Relief with Messrs. Constable. --
New Purchase of Land at Abbotsford. -- Embarrassments
continued. -- John Ballantyne's Expresses. --
Drumlanrig, Penrith, etc. -- Scott's Meeting with the
Marquis of Abercorn at Longtown. -- 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.
-- Its Reception. -- Civic Honors conferred on Scott.
-- Question of Taxation on Literary Income. -- Letters
to Mr. Morritt, Mr. Southey, Mr. Richardson, Mr.
Crabbe, Miss Baillie, and Lord Byron. 1813 50

XXVII. Insanity of Henry Weber. -- Letters on the
Abdication of Napoleon, etc. -- Publication of Scott's
Life and Edition of Swift. -- Essays for the Supplement
to the Encyclopædia Britannica. -- Completion and
Publication of Waverley. 1814 100

XXVIII. Voyage to the Shetland Isles, etc. -- Scott's
Diary kept on Board the Lighthouse Yacht. 1814 124

XXIX. Diary on Board the Lighthouse Yacht continued. --
The Orkneys. -- Kirkwall. -- Hoy. -- The Standing
Stones of Stennis, etc. 1814 163

XXX. Diary continued. -- Stromness. -- Bessy Millie's
Charm. -- Cape Wrath. -- Cave of Smowe. -- The
Hebrides. -- Scalpa, etc. 1814 178

XXXI. Diary continued. -- Isle of Harris. -- Monuments
of the Chiefs of Macleod. -- Isle of Skye. -- Dunvegan
Castle. -- Loch Corriskin. -- Macallister's Cave. 1814 193

XXXII. Diary continued. -- Cave of Egg. -- Iona. --
Staffa. -- Dunstaffnage. -- Dunluce Castle. -- Giant's
Causeway. -- Isle of Arran, etc. -- Diary concluded.
1814 206

XXXIII. Letter in Verse from Zetland and Orkney. --
Death of the Duchess of Buccleuch. -- Correspondence
with the Duke. -- Altrive Lake. -- Negotiation
concerning The Lord of the Isles completed. -- Success
of Waverley. -- Contemporaneous criticisms on the
Novel. -- Letters to Scott from Mr. Morritt, Mr. Lewis,
and Miss Maclean Clephane. -- Letter from James
Ballantyne to Miss Edgeworth. 1814 237

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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WALTER SCOTT IN 1817 _Frontispiece_
From the water-color portrait by William Nicholson,
R. S. A., in the possession of W. C. C. Erskine, Esq.
Through the courtesy of David Douglas, Esq., Edinburgh.

ABBOTSFORD IN 1812 6

ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE 50
From the painting by Sir Henry Raeburn, R. A., at Braeburn,
Currie, Mid-Lothian. By permission of William Patrick
Bruce, Esq.

J. B. S. MORRITT 100
From the painting by Sir M. A. Shee, P. R. A., in the
possession of R. A. Morritt, Esq., of Rokeby.

WILLIAM ERSKINE, LORD KINNEDDER 124
From the water-color portrait by William Nicholson,
R. S. A., in the possession of W. C. C. Erskine, Esq.
Through the courtesy of David Douglas, Esq., Edinburgh.

JAMES HOGG 250
From the water-color portrait by Stephen Poyntz Denning,
in the National Portrait Gallery.

SIR WALTER SCOTT