OF THE LIFE

OF

SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.

[Lockhart, John G.]

VOLUME THE SIXTH.

SECOND EDITION.

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Extensive Sale of Copyrights to Constable & Co.

- Death of Mr Charles Carpenter

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Scott accepts the

offer of a Baronetcy - He declines to renew his appli-

cation for a seat on the Exchequer Bench Letters to

Morritt, Richardson, Miss Baillie, the Duke of Buccleuch,

Lord Montagu, Captain Fergusson - Rob Roy played at

Edinburgh Letter from Jedediah Cleishbotham to Mr

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Charles Mackay.........

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..1818-1819, 1

CHAPTER XLIV.

Recurrence of Scott's illness - Death of the Duke of Buc-

cleuch Letters to Captain Fergusson, Lord Montagu,

Mr Southey, and Mr Shortreed Scott's sufferings while

dictating the Bride of Lammermoor-Anecdotes by James

Ballantyne, &c. Appearance of the Third Series of

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- Anecdote of the Earl of Buchan,

March-June, 1819,

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CHAPTER XLV.

Gradual re-establishment of Scott's health Ivanhoe in

progress His son Walter joins the Eighteenth Regi-

ment 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, &c.

botsford visited by Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Death

of Mrs William Erskine........

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CHAPTER XLVI.

Levies of Volunteers

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Political Alarms- The Radicals.

Project of the Buccleuch Legion - Death of Scott's Mo-

ther, her Brother Dr Rutherford, and her Sister Christian

- Letters to Lord Montagu, Mr Thomas Scott, Cornet

Scott, Mr Laidlaw, and Lady Louisa Stewart - Publica-

tion of Ivanhoe........

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CHAPTER XLVII.

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The Visionary The Peel of Darnick-Scott's Saturday

Excursions to Abbotsford - A Sunday there in February

-Constable John Ballantyne-Thomas Purdie, &c.-

Prince Gustavus Vasa Proclamation of King George

Publication of the Monastery........ .......1820, 181

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CHAPTER XLVIII.

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Scott revisits London. - His Portrait by Lawrence, and

Bust by Chantrey-Anecdotes by Allan Cunningham

Letters to Mrs Scott, Laidlaw, &c. His Baronetcy ga-

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zetted 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, 200