XXXII. Diary continued. -- Cave of Egg. -- Iona. -- Staffa. -- Dunstaffnage. -- Dunluce Castle. -- Giant's Causeway. -- Isle of Arran, etc. -- Diary concluded. 1814 206 XXXIII. Letter in Verse from Zetland and Orkney. -- Death of the Duchess of Buccleuch. -- Correspondence with the Duke. -- Altrive Lake. -- Negotiation concerning The Lord of the Isles completed. -- Success of Waverley. -- Contemporaneous criticisms on the Novel. -- Letters to Scott from Mr. Morritt, Mr. Lewis, and Miss Maclean Clephane. -- Letter from James Ballantyne to Miss Edgeworth. 1814 237 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Page WALTER SCOTT IN 1817 _Frontispiece_ From the water-color portrait by William Nicholson, R. S. A., in the possession of W. C. C. Erskine, Esq. Through the courtesy of David Douglas, Esq., Edinburgh. ABBOTSFORD IN 1812 6 ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE 50 From the painting by Sir Henry Raeburn, R. A., at Braeburn, Currie, Mid-Lothian. By permission of William Patrick Bruce, Esq. J. B. S. MORRITT 100 From the painting by Sir M. A. Shee, P. R. A., in the possession of R. A. Morritt, Esq., of Rokeby. WILLIAM ERSKINE, LORD KINNEDDER 124 From the water-color portrait by William Nicholson, R. S. A., in the possession of W. C. C. Erskine, Esq. Through the courtesy of David Douglas, Esq., Edinburgh. JAMES HOGG 250 From the water-color portrait by Stephen Poyntz Denning, in the National Portrait Gallery. SIR WALTER SCOTT CHAPTER 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