LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.
Scott revisits London - His Portrait by Lawrence, and Busi by Chantrey-Anecdotes by Allan Cunningham — Letters to Mrs. Scott, Laidlaw, &c. His Baronetcy gazetted · 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.
At the rising of his Court on the 12th of March, Scott proceeded to London, for the purpose of receiving his baronetcy, which he had been prevented from doing in the spring of the preceding year by his own illness, and again at Christmas by accumulated family afflictions. On his arrival in town, his son the Cornet met him; and they both established themselves at Miss Dumergue's.
One of his first visitors was Sir Thomas Lawrence, who informed him that the King had resolved to adorn