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XVI. Dryden. Critical Pieces. Edition of

Slingsby's Memoirs, etc.

Marmion begun.

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Visit to London. Ellis. Rose.

Canning. Miss Seward. Scott Secretary

to the Commission on Scotch Jurisprudence.

- Letters to Southey, etc.

Marmion. Anecdotes. The Edinburgh

Review on Marmion. 1806-1808.

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Publication of

XVII. Edition of Dryden published, and criti-

cised by Mr. Hallam. Weber's Romances.

Editions of Queenhoo-Hall. - Captain

Carleton's Memoirs. - The Memoirs of

Robert Cary, Earl of Monmouth.— The Sad-

ler Papers, and the Somers' Tracts.

Edition of Swift begun. - Letters to Joanna

Baillie and George Ellis on the Affairs of

the Peninsula. John Struthers. James

Hogg. Visit of Mr. Morritt. Mr. Mor-

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ritt's Reminiscences of Ashestiel.

Domestic Life. 1808

Scott's

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XVIII. Quarrel with Messrs. Constable and Hunter.

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- John Ballantyne established as a Book-

seller in Edinburgh. Scott's Literary Pro-

jects. The Edinburgh Annual Register,

etc. Meeting of James Ballantyne and

John Murray. Murray's Visit to Ashe-

stiel. - Politics.. The Peninsular War.

Project of the Quarterly Review. - Corre-

spondence with Ellis, Gifford, Morritt,

Southey, Sharpe, etc. 1808-1809.

XIX. Case of a Poetical Tailor condemmed to

Death at Edinburgh. His Letters to Scott.

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Death of Camp. Scott in London.

Mr. Morritt's Description of him as "A

Lion" in Town. Dinner at Mr. Sotheby's.

-Coleridge's Fire, Famine and Slaughter.

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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. -

Miss Baillie's Family Legend acted at Edin-

burgh. Theatrical Anecdotes. - Kemble.

Siddons.—Terry. Letter on the Death

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XX. Affair of Thomas Scott's Extractorship dis-

cussed in the House of Lords. - Speeches of

Lord Lauderdale, Lord Melville, etc.- Lord

Holland at the Friday Club. - Publication

of The Lady of the Lake. Correspondence

concerning Versification with Ellis and Can-

ning. The Poem criticised by Jeffrey and

Mackintosh. - Letters to Southey and Mor-

ritt. Anecdotes from James Ballantyne's

Memoranda. 1810

XXI. First Visit to the Hebrides. - Staffa.

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Baillie Southey-and Morritt. 1810. 187

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XXII. Life of Miss Seward. Waverley resumed.
-Ballantyne's Critique on the First Chap-
ters of the Novel. Waverley again laid
aside. Unfortunate Speculations of John
Ballantyne and Co.; History of the Culdees;
Tixall Poetry; Beaumont and Fletcher;
Edinburgh Annual Register, etc.; Scott's
Essay on Judicial Reform. His Scheme of
going to India. Letters on the War in the
Peninsula. Death of Lord President Blair,

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and of Lord Melville. - Publication of

- The Inferno

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of Altisidora, etc. 1810-1811.

XXIII. New Arrangement concerning the Clerks of

Session. Scott's First Purchase of Land.

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-Abbotsford; Turn-again, etc.—Joanna

Baillie's Orra, etc. Death of James Gra-

hame, and of John Leyden. 1811 . . 229

XXIV. The Poem of Rokeby begun.

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Correspon-

dence with Mr. Morritt. Death of Henry,

Duke of Buccleuch. George Ellis. - John

Wilson. Apprentices of Edinburgh.

Scott's "Nick-nackatories." Letter to

Miss Baillie on the Publication of Childe

Harold. Correspondence with Lord By-

ron.

1811-1812.

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XXV. The "Flitting to Abbotsford. Planta-

tions. George Thomson. Rokeby and

Triermain in Progress. Excursion to Flod-

den. Bishop-Auckland, and Rokeby Park..

Correspondence with Crabbe. Life of

Carey, etc. Publication of

Rokeby, and of The Bridal of Triermain.

1812-1813

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XXVI. Affairs of John Ballantyne and Co. -

Causes of their Derangement.

Letters of

Scott to his Partners. Negotiation for

Relief with Messrs. Constable. New Pur-

chase of Land at Abbotsford. - Embar-

rassments continued. - John Ballantyne's

Expresses. Drumlanrig, Penrith, etc. -

Scott's Meeting with the Marquis of Aber-

corn at Longtown. - His Application to the

Duke of Buccleuch. Offer of the Poet-Lau-

reateship, considered, and declined.

Address of the City of Edinburgh to the

Prince Regent. Its Reception. - Civic

Honors conferred on Scott.

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