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
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.
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.
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
Towards the end of May, 1812, the Sheriff finally removed from Ashestiel to Abbotsford. The day when this occurred was a sad one for many a poor neighbor--for they lost, both in him and his wife, very generous protectors. In such a place, among the few evils which counterbalance so many good things in the condition of the peasantry, the most afflicting is the want of access to medical advice. As far as their means and skill would go, they had both done their utmost to supply this want; and Mrs. Scott, in particular, had made it so much her business to visit the sick in their scattered cottages, and bestowed on them the contents of her medicine-chest as well as of the larder and cellar, with such unwearied kindness, that her name is never mentioned there to this day without some expression of tenderness. Scott's children remember the parting scene as one of unmixed affliction--but it had had, as we shall see, its lighter features.