E-text prepared by Thierry Alberto, Henry Craig, Christine P. Travers, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected; all other inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling has been retained. Page numbers have been retained as {p.xxx}. Page 96: The "u" in "Cadil gu lo" has a breve in the original. Page 218: The marker for footnote 88 could not be found in the text. MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT BART. by JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART In Ten Volumes VOLUME V 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, {p.v} TABLE OF CONTENTS Chap. Page XXXIV. Progress of The Lord of the Isles. -- Correspondence with Mr. Joseph Train. -- Rapid completion of The Lord of the Isles. -- "Refreshing the Machine." -- "Six Weeks at a Christmas." -- Publication of the Poem, -- and of Guy Mannering. -- Letters to Morritt, Terry, and John Ballantyne. -- Anecdotes by James Ballantyne. -- Visit to London. -- Meeting with Lord Byron. -- Dinners at Carlton House. 1814-1815. 1 XXXV. Battle of Waterloo -- Letter of Sir Charles Bell. -- Visit to the Continent. -- Waterloo. -- Letters from Brussels and Paris. -- Anecdotes of Scott at Paris. -- The Duke of Wellington. -- The Emperor Alexander. -- Blücher. -- Platoff -- Party at Ermenonville, etc. -- London. -- Parting with Lord Byron. -- Scott's Sheffield Knife. -- Return to Abbotsford. -- Anecdotes by Mr. Skene and James Ballantyne. 1815. 39 XXXVI. Field of Waterloo published. -- Revision of Paul's Letters, etc. -- Quarrel and Reconciliation with Hogg. -- Football Match at Carterhaugh. -- Songs on the Banner of Buccleuch. -- Dinner at Bowhill. -- Design for a Piece of Plate to the Sutors of Selkirk. -- Letters to the Duke of Buccleuch, Joanna Baillie, and Mr. Morritt. 1815. 76 XXXVII. {p.vi} Publication of Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk. -- Guy Mannering "Terry-fied." -- Death of Major John Scott. -- Letters to Thomas Scott. -- Publication of The Antiquary. -- History of 1814 for the Edinburgh Annual Register. -- Letters on the History of Scotland projected. -- Publication of the First Tales of my Landlord by Murray and Blackwood. -- Anecdotes by Mr. Train. -- Quarterly Review on the Tales. -- Building at Abbotsford begun. -- Letters to Morritt, Terry, Murray, and the Ballantynes. 1816. 94