Large Paper Edition LOCKHART'S LIFE OF SCOTT COPIOUSLY ANNOTATED AND ABUNDANTLY ILLUSTRATED IN TEN VOLUMES VOL. IV [Illustration: WALTER SCOTT IN 1817 _From the water-color portrait by William Nicholson_] MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT BART. by JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART In Ten Volumes VOLUME IV 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, 200 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page XXV. The "Flitting" to Abbotsford. -- Plantations. -- George Thomson. -- Rokeby and Triermain in Progress. -- Excursion to Flodden. -- Bishop-Auckland, and Rokeby Park. -- Correspondence with Crabbe. -- Life of Patrick Carey, etc. -- Publication of Rokeby, -- and of The Bridal of Triermain. 1812-1813 1 XXVI. Affairs of John Ballantyne and Co. -- Causes of their Derangement. -- Letters of Scott to his Partners. -- Negotiation for Relief with Messrs. Constable. -- New Purchase of Land at Abbotsford. -- Embarrassments continued. -- John Ballantyne's Expresses. -- Drumlanrig, Penrith, etc. -- Scott's Meeting with the Marquis of Abercorn at Longtown. -- His Application to the Duke of Buccleuch. -- Offer of the Poet-Laureateship, -- considered, -- and declined. -- Address of the City of Edinburgh to the Prince Regent. -- Its Reception. -- Civic Honors conferred on Scott. -- Question of Taxation on Literary Income. -- Letters to Mr. Morritt, Mr. Southey, Mr. Richardson, Mr. Crabbe, Miss Baillie, and Lord Byron. 1813 50 XXVII. Insanity of Henry Weber. -- Letters on the Abdication of Napoleon, etc. -- Publication of Scott's Life and Edition of Swift. -- Essays for the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica. -- Completion and Publication of Waverley. 1814 100 XXVIII. Voyage to the Shetland Isles, etc. -- Scott's Diary kept on Board the Lighthouse Yacht. 1814 124 XXIX. Diary on Board the Lighthouse Yacht continued. -- The Orkneys. -- Kirkwall. -- Hoy. -- The Standing Stones of Stennis, etc. 1814 163 XXX. Diary continued. -- Stromness. -- Bessy Millie's Charm. -- Cape Wrath. -- Cave of Smowe. -- The Hebrides. -- Scalpa, etc. 1814 178 XXXI. Diary continued. -- Isle of Harris. -- Monuments of the Chiefs of Macleod. -- Isle of Skye. -- Dunvegan Castle. -- Loch Corriskin. -- Macallister's Cave. 1814 193