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MEMOIRS
OF THE LIFE
OF
SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.
VOLUME THE SECOND.
SECOND EDITION.
ROBERT CADELL, EDINBURGH.
WHITTAKER & CO. LONDON.
MDCCCXXXIX.
828 S430
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1839 V. 2
STEVENSON AND CO. PRINTERS, THISTLE STREET,
CONTENTS
OF VOLUME SECOND.
Early Married Life
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CHAPTER IX.
- Lasswade Cottage - Monk Lewis -
Translation of Goetz von Berlichingen, published - Visit
to London House of Aspen - Death of Scott's Father
- First Original Ballads Glenfinlas, &c. - Metrical
Fragments Appointment to the Sheriffship of Selkirk-
shire
CHAPTER X.
-
.1798-1799,
The Border Minstrelsy in preparation - Richard Heber -
John Leyden-William Laidlaw - James Hogg - Cor-
respondence with George Ellis-Publication of the Two
First Volumes of the Border Minstrelsy....1800-1802,
CHAPTER XI.
Preparation of Volume III. of the Minstrelsy—and of Sir
Tristrem Correspondence with Miss Seward and Mr
Ellis Ballad of the Reiver's Wedding - Commence-
ment of the Lay of the Last Minstrel -Visit to London
and Oxford Completion of the Minstrelsy of the Scot-
tish Border....... ....1802-1803,
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87
CHAPTER XII.
Contributions to the Edinburgh Review.
Progress of the
Tristrem -
of Wordsworth - Publication of "Sir Tristrem,”.
and of the Lay of the Last Minstrel - Visit
1803-1804, 134
CHAPTER XIII.
Removal to Ashestiel - Death of Captain Robert Scott -
Mungo ParkCompletion and Publication of the Lay
of the Last Minstrel................ ......1804-1805, 181
CHAPTER XIV.
Partnership with James Ballantyne — Literary Projects -
Edition of the British Poets-Edition of the Ancient
English Chronicles, &c. &c.— Edition of Dryden under-
taken Earl Moira Commander of the Forces in Scot-
land
- Sham Battles-Articles in the Edinburgh Review
Commencement of Waverley Letter on Ossian
Mr Skene's Reminiscences of Ashestiel- Excursion to
Cumberland. · Alarm of Invasion -Visit of Mr Southey
- Correspondence on Dryden with Ellis and Words-
worth.......
.......1805,
CHAPTER XV.
229
Affair of the Clerkship of Session-Letters to Ellis and
Lord Dalkeith-Visit to London-Earl Spencer and
Mr Fox Caroline, Princess of Wales - Joanna Baillie