CONTENTS

OF VOLUME TENTH.

CHAPTER LXXIX.

Winter at Abbotsford - Parliamentary Reform in agitation

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- William Laidlaw-John Nicolson-Mrs Street - Fit

of Apoplexy in November - Count Robert of Paris-

Fourth Epistle of Malagrowther written and suppressed

- Unpleasant discussions with Ballantyne and Cadell -

Novel resumed-Second Dividend to Creditors, and their

gift of the Library, &c. at Abbotsford-Last Will executed

in Edinburgh-Fortune's Mechanism-Letter on Poli-

tics to the Hon. H. F. Scott-Address for the County of

Selkirk written and rejected by the Freeholders-County

Meeting at Jedburgh-Speech on Reform-Scott insulted

-Mr F. Grant's Portrait......Oct. 1830 April 1831,

CHAPTER LXXX.

Apoplectic Paralysis-Miss Ferrier-Dr Mackintosh Mac-

kay-Scenes at Jedburgh and Selkirk-Castle Dangerous

- Excursion to Douglasdale -Church of St Bride's, &c.

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-Turner's Designs for the Poetry-Last Visits to Smail-

holm, Bemerside, Ettrick, &c.—Visit of Captain Burns,

Mr Adolphus, and Mr Wordsworth-" Yarrow revisited,"

and Sonnet on the Eildons............. April-Oct. 1831,

CHAPTER LXXXI.

Rokeby London - Epitaph on Helen Walker

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Ports-

mouth - Voyage in the Barham - Graham's Island

Letter to Mr Skene-Malta-Notes by Mrs John Davy-

Sept-Dec. 1831,

CHAPTER LXXXII.

Residence at Naples-Excursions to Pæstum, Pompeii, &c.

-Last attempts in Romance-Sir William Gell's Memo-

.Dec. 1831-April 1832,

randa........

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CHAPTER LXXXIII.

Death of Goethe-Rome-Memoranda by Sir W. Gell and

Mr Edward Cheney-Journey to Frankfort-The Rhine

Steam-boat- Fatal seizure at Nimeguen Arrival in

London Jermyn Street - Edinburgh ·

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Abbotsford

Death and Burial..... .......................... April — Sept. 1832

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CHAPTER LXXXIV.

Conclusion..........

APPENDIX.

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Chronological List of the Publications of Sir Walter Scott, 269

MEMOIRS

OF THE

LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.

CHAPTER LXXIX.

Winter at Abbotsford-Parliamentary Reform in agitation-William Laidlaw-John NicolsonMrs Street-Fit of Apoplexy in NovemberCount Robert of Paris-A Fourth Epistle of Malagrowther written and suppressed — Unpleasant discussions with Ballantyne and Cadell -Novel resumed. Second Dividend to Creditors, and their gift of the Library, &c. at Abbotsford-Last Will executed in EdinburghFortune's Mechanism Letter on Politics to the Hon. H. F. Scott-Address for the County of

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