Chapter I: Front Matter

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Large-Paper Edition

LOCKHART'S
LIFE OF SCOTT

COPIOUSLY ANNOTATED AND ABUNDANTLY ILLUSTRATED

IN TEN VOLUMES

VOL. VI

_From the painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence_]

MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE
OF
SIR WALTER SCOTT
BART.

by

JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART

In Ten Volumes

VOLUME VI

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,

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chap. Page

XLIII. Declining Health of Charles, Duke of Buccleuch. --
Letter on the Death of Queen Charlotte. -- Provincial
Antiquities, etc. -- Extensive 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,
and Captain Ferguson. -- Rob Roy played at Edinburgh. -- Letter
from Jedediah Cleishbotham to Mr. Charles Mackay. 1818-1819 1

XLIV. Recurrence of Scott's Illness. -- Death of the Duke of
Buccleuch. -- Letters to Captain Ferguson, Lord Montagu, Mr.
Southey, and Mr. Shortreed. -- Scott's Sufferings while
dictating The Bride of Lammermoor. -- Anecdotes by James
Ballantyne, etc. -- Appearance of the Third Series of Tales of
my Landlord. -- Anecdote of the Earl of Buchan. 1819 24

XLV. Gradual Reestablishment of Scott's Health. -- Ivanhoe in
Progress. -- His Son Walter joins the Eighteenth Regiment of
Hussars. -- 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, etc. -- Abbotsford visited by
Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg. -- Death of Mrs. William
Erskine. 1819 69

XLVI. 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 Montagu, Mr. Thomas Scott, Cornet
Scott, Mr. Laidlaw, and Lady Louisa Stuart. -- Publication of
Ivanhoe. 1819 106

XLVII. The Visionary. -- The Peel of Darnick. -- Scott's
Saturday Excursions to Abbotsford. -- A Sunday there in
February. -- Constable. -- John Ballantyne. -- Thomas Purdie,
etc. -- Prince Gustavus Vasa. -- Proclamation of King George
IV. -- Publication of The Monastery. 1820 132

XLVIII. Scott revisits London. -- His Portrait by Lawrence, and
Bust by Chantrey. -- Anecdotes by Allan Cunningham. -- Letters
to Mrs. Scott, Laidlaw, etc. -- His Baronetcy gazetted. --
Marriage of his Daughter Sophia. -- Letter to "the Baron of
Galashiels." -- Visit of Prince Gustavus Vasa at Abbotsford. --
Tenders of Honorary Degrees from Oxford and Cambridge. --
Letter to Mr. Thomas Scott. 1820 147

XLIX. Autumn at Abbotsford. -- Scott's Hospitality. -- Visit of
Sir Humphry Davy, Henry Mackenzie, Dr. Wollaston, and William
Stewart Rose. -- Coursing on Newark Hill. -- Salmon-fishing. --
The Festival at Boldside. -- The Abbotsford Hunt. -- The Kirn,
etc. 1820 172

L. Publication of The Abbot. -- The Blair-Adam Club. -- Kelso,
Walton Hall, etc. -- Ballantyne's Novelists' Library. --
Acquittal of Queen Caroline. -- Service of the Duke of
Buccleuch. -- Scott elected President of the Royal Society of
Edinburgh. -- The Celtic Society. -- Letters to Lord Montagu,
Cornet Scott, Charles Scott, Allan Cunningham, etc. --
Kenilworth published. 1820-1821 189

LI. Visit to London. -- Project of the Royal Society of
Literature. -- Affairs of the 18th Hussars. -- Marriage of
Captain Adam Ferguson. -- Letters to Lord Sidmouth, Lord
Montagu, Allan Cunningham, Mrs. Lockhart, and Cornet Scott.
1821 219

LII. Illness and Death of John Ballantyne. -- Extract from his
Pocketbook. -- Letters from Blair-Adam. -- Castle-Campbell. --
Sir Samuel Shepherd. -- "Bailie Mackay," etc. -- Coronation of
George IV. -- Correspondence with James Hogg and Lord Sidmouth.
-- Letter on the Coronation. -- Anecdotes. -- Allan
Cunningham's Memoranda. -- Completion of Chantrey's Bust. 1821 241

LIII. Publication of Mr. Adolphus's Letters on the Authorship
of Waverley. 1821 267

LIV. New Buildings at Abbotsford. -- Chiefswood. -- William
Erskine. -- Letter to Countess Purgstall. -- Progress of The
Pirate. -- Franck's Northern Memoir, and Notes of Lord
Fountainhall, published. -- Private Letters in the Reign of
James I. -- Commencement of The Fortunes of Nigel. -- Second
Sale of Copyrights. -- Contract for "Four Works of Fiction." --
Enormous Profits of the Novelist, and Extravagant Projects of
Constable. -- The Pirate published. -- Lord Byron's Cain,
dedicated to Scott. -- Affair of the Beacon Newspaper. 1821 288

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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WALTER SCOTT IN 1820 _Frontispiece_
From the painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence, P. R. A., in the
Royal Gallery, Windsor Castle.

CHARLES MACKAY AS BAILIE NICOL JARVIE 22
From the painting by Sir D. Macnee, P. R. S. A., in the
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.

ANNE RUTHERFORD, MOTHER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT 106
After the painting at Abbotsford.

SOPHIA SCOTT (Mrs. J. G. LOCKHART) 136
After the painting at Abbotsford by William Nicholson,
R. S. A.

WALTER SCOTT IN 1820 150
From the pencil sketch by Sir Francis Chantrey, R. A.

CHIEFSWOOD 288
After the drawing by J. M. W. Turner, R. A.

SIR WALTER SCOTT