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  Large-Paper Edition

  LOCKHART'S
  LIFE OF SCOTT

  COPIOUSLY ANNOTATED AND ABUNDANTLY ILLUSTRATED

  IN TEN VOLUMES

  VOL. VI




[Illustration: WALTER SCOTT IN 1820

_From the painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence_]



  MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE
  OF
  SIR WALTER SCOTT
  BART.

  by

  JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART

  In Ten Volumes

  VOLUME VI


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  Boston and New York
  Houghton, Mifflin and Company
  The Riverside Press, Cambridge
  MCMI

  Copyright, 1901
  by Houghton, Mifflin and Company
  All Rights Reserved

  Six Hundred Copies Printed
  Number,




TABLE OF CONTENTS


  Chap.                                                           Page

  XLIII. Declining Health of Charles, Duke of Buccleuch. --
    Letter on the Death of Queen Charlotte. -- Provincial
    Antiquities, etc. -- Extensive Sale of Copyrights to Constable
    & Co. -- Death of Mr. Charles Carpenter. -- Scott accepts the
    Offer of a Baronetcy. -- He declines to renew his Application
    for a Seat on the Exchequer Bench. -- Letters to Morritt,
    Richardson, Miss Baillie, the Duke of Buccleuch, Lord Montagu,
    and Captain Ferguson. -- Rob Roy played at Edinburgh. -- Letter
    from Jedediah Cleishbotham to Mr. Charles Mackay. 1818-1819      1

  XLIV. Recurrence of Scott's Illness. -- Death of the Duke of
    Buccleuch. -- Letters to Captain Ferguson, Lord Montagu, Mr.
    Southey, and Mr. Shortreed. -- Scott's Sufferings while
    dictating The Bride of Lammermoor. -- Anecdotes by James
    Ballantyne, etc. -- Appearance of the Third Series of Tales of
    my Landlord. -- Anecdote of the Earl of Buchan. 1819            24

  XLV. Gradual Reestablishment of Scott's Health. -- Ivanhoe in
    Progress. -- His Son Walter joins the Eighteenth Regiment 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, etc. -- Abbotsford visited by
    Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg. -- Death of Mrs. William
    Erskine. 1819                                                   69

  XLVI. Political Alarms. -- The Radicals. -- Levies of
    Volunteers. -- Project of the Buccleuch Legion. -- Death of
    Scott's Mother, her Brother Dr. Rutherford, and her Sister
    Christian. -- Letters to Lord Mont