Nemoirs

OF

ir Walter cont

BY

J. G. LOCKHART

VOL. III.

EDINBURGH

ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK

1882

Dryden-Critical Pieces. - Edition of Slingsby's Memoirs,

&c. Marmion begun -Visit to London-Ellis - Rose

-Canning-Miss Seward-Scott Secretary to the Com-

mission on Scotch Jurisprudence Letters to Southey,

&c. - Publication of Marmion-Anecdotes-The Edin-

burgh Review on Marmion ...................1806-1808,

CHAPTER XVII.

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Edition of Dryden published and criticised by Mr Hal-

lam-Weber's Romances -Editions of Queenhoo-Hall;

Captain Carleton's Memoirs; The Memoirs of Robert

Cary, Earl of Monmouth; The Sadler Papers; and the

Somers' Tracts-Edition of Swift begun-Letters to

Joanna Baillie and George Ellis on the affairs of the Pen-

insula John Struthers -James Hogg - Visit of Mr

Morritt Mr Morritt's Reminiscences of Ashestiel.

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Scott's Domestic Life................ ............1808,

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68

CHAPTER XVIII.

Quarrel with Messrs Constable and Hunter-John Ballan-

tyne established as a Bookseller in Edinburgh- Scott's

Literary Projects The Edinburgh Annual Register, &c.

-Meeting of James Ballantyne and John Murray-Mur-

ray's visit to Ashestiel - Politics The Peninsular War

- Project of the Quarterly Review

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Correspondence

with Ellis, Gifford, Morritt, Southey, Sharpe, &c.

1808-1809,

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116

CHAPTER XIX.

Case of a Poetical Tailor condemned to death at Edinburgh

- His Letters to Scott-Death of Camp-Scott in Lon-

don- Mr Morritt's description of him as "a Lion" in

Town - Dinner at Mr Sotheby's - Coleridge's Fire, Fa-

mine, and Slaughter The Quarterly Review started.

First Visit to Rokeby - The Lady of the Lake begun —

Excursion to the Trossachs and Loch Lomond Letter

on Byron's English Bards and Scotch Reviewers - Death

of Daniel Scott. Correspondence about Mr Canning's

Duel with Lord Castlereagh

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Miss Baillie's Family Le-

gend acted at Edinburgh-Theatrical Anecdotes - Kem-

ble - Siddons - Terry - Letter on the Death of Miss

Seward.........

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..1809-1810,

CHAPTER XX.

Affair of Thomas Scott's Extractorship discussed in the House

of Lords. Speeches of Lord Lauderdale, Lord Melville,

&c. - Lord Holland at the Friday Club - Publication

of the Lady of the Lake - Correspondence concerning

Versification with Ellis and Canning The Poem criti-

cised by Jeffrey and Mackintosh - Letters to Southey

and Morritt Anecdotes from James Ballantyne's Me-

moranda....

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...1810,

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230

CHAPTER XXI.

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First Visit to the Hebrides -Staffa — Mull—Iona,

&c.—The Lord of the Isles projected-Letters to Joanna

..1810,

Southey and Morritt....................

Baillie

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271

Critique on the First Chapters of the Novel-Waverley

again laid aside Unfortunate Speculations of John Bal-

lantyne & Co.; History of the Culdees-Tixall Poetry;

Beaumont and Fletcher- Edinburgh Annual Register,

&c.-Scott's Essay on Judicial Reform His scheme of

going to India - Letters on the War in the Peninsula

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Death of Lord President Blair and of Lord Melville -

Publication of the Vision of Don Roderick-The Inferno

of Altisidora, &c...................................

.1810-1811,

297

CHAPTER XXIII.

New Arrangement concerning the Clerks of Session

Scott's first purchase of land- Abbotsford; Turn-again,

&c. Joanna Baillie's Orra, &c. . Death of James

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The Poem of Rokeby begun - Correspondence with Mr

Morritt Death of Henry Duke of Buccleuch -

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Ellis John Wilson Apprentices of Edinburgh

"Nick-Nackatories"- Letter to Miss Baillie on

Scott s

the Publication of Childe Harold-Correspondence with

Lord Byron....

....1811-1812, 367