CONTENTS

OF VOLUME THIRD.

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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 Com-

mission on Scotch Jurisprudence-Letters to Southey,

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

burgh Review on Marmion.

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CHAPTER XVII.

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..1806-1808,

Edition of Dryden published—and criticised by Mr Hal-

Editions of Queenhoo-Hall;

lam-Weber's Romances

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-

Visit of Mr

insula John Struthers-James Hogg -

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Morritt Mr Morritt's Reminiscences of Ashestiel.

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Scott's Domestic Life.....

....1808,

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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 - Correspondence

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

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Case of a Poetical Tailor condemned to death at Edinburgh

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

don. Mr Morritt's description of him as 66 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-

Siddons Terry Letter on the Death of Miss

ble

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Seward...

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..1809-1810,

CHAPTER XX.

Affair of Thomas Scott's Extractorship discussed in the House

Speeches of Lord Lauderdale, Lord Melville,

of Lords

&c.

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- 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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CHAPTER XXI.

First Visit to the Hebrides-Staffa-Skye

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Mull-Iona,

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

Ballantyne's

Life of Miss Seward - Waverley resumed.

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.......

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....1810-1811,

CHAPTER XXIII.

New Arrangement concerning the Clerks of Session -

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

&c. Joanna Baillie's Orra, &c.

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Death of James

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CHAPTER XXIV.

The Poem of Rokeby begun.

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Correspondence with Mr

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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 Byron...

...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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