CONTENTS

OF VOLUME THIRD.

CHAPTER XVI.

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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

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burgh Review on Marmion.

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-Anecdotes-The Edin-
.......................1806-1808,

CHAPTER XVII.

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.

Scott's Domestic Life............

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PAGE

.....1808,

68

CHAPTER XVIII.

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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 Correspondence

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

PAGE

1808-1809, 116

CHAPTER XIX.

Case of a Poetical Tailor condemned to death at Edinburgh

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66

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- 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 - Miss Baillie's Family Le-

gend acted at Edinburgh-Theatrical Anecdotes Kem-

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

Seward.

.....1809-1810,

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177

CHAPTER XX.

&c.

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Affair of Thomas Scott's Extractorship discussed in the House

of Lords Speeches of Lord Lauderdale, Lord Melville,

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.....

.......1810,

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230

CHAPTER XXI.

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

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

Baillie Southey- and Morritt.................... 1810,

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CHAPTER XXII.

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Life of Miss Seward - Waverley resumed Ballantyne's

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 -

Death of Lord President Blair and of Lord Melville-

Publication of the Vision of Don Roderick-The Inferno

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

.........1810-1811,

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CHAPTER XXIII.

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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

Grahame and of John Leyden.............................................................1811,

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271

297

333

Scott's "Nick-Nackatories"- Letter to Miss Baillie on

the Publication of Childe Harold-Correspondence with

Lord Byron..

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.......1811-1812, 367

MEMOIRS

OF THE

LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.

CHAPTER XVI,

Dryden-Critical Pieces-Edition of Slingsby's Memoirs, &c.-Marmion begun-Visit to London-Ellis - Rose - Canning Miss Seward

Scott Secretary to the Commission on Scotch Jurisprudence—Letters to Southey, &c.—Publication of Marmion—Anecdotes- The Edinburgh Review on Marmion.

1806-1808.

DURING the whole of 1806 and 1807, Dryden continued to occupy the greater share of Scott's literary hours; but in the course of the former year he found

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