Category: Biographies
The present Memoir of Sir Walter Scott was written by my brother, the late Dr R. Chambers, immediately after the decease of the great novelist, and having been issued at a small price for popular reading, had what was then considered a large circulation--180,000 copies. It was...
The present Memoir of Sir Walter Scott was written by my brother, the late Dr R. Chambers, immediately after the decease of the great novelist, and having been issued at a small...
2. Part 2It may be said, indeed, that, of all places in the south of Scotland, the attention of the great novelist was first fixed upon Liddesdale. In his second literary effort--the _La...
3. Part 3It was the custom of Dr Ferguson to have a conversazione at his house in the Sciennes once a week, for his principal literary friends. Dr Dugald Stewart, on this occasion, offer...
4. Part 4Scott now commenced house-keeping in Edinburgh, where he had hitherto lived in the paternal mansion. We now see him as a young married man, spending the winter in the bosom of a...
5. Part 5The success of _Waverley_, and the necessity of money to relieve the Ballantyne concern, quickly urged Scott to a new effort in the same walk. During the short vacation at the C...
6. Part 6It has been hinted that Scott’s eldest son, Walter, had become an officer in a hussar regiment. This youth, in 1825, wedded a young heiress, Miss Jobson, much to the satisfactio...
7. Part 7The spring of 1827 was past, and summer had gone to June, ere Scott’s great task was completed. He then finished the last volume of his _Life of Napoleon_, which he had been eng...
8. Part 8During the time of the funeral, all business was suspended at the burgh of Selkirk and the villages of Darnick and Melrose; and in the former of these hamlets several of the sig...
9. Part 9Scott’s early excursions to Liddesdale and Ettrick form one of the most interesting epochs of his life. He was then young, not great, but prosperous, high-spirited, and overflow...
10. Part 10‘MY DEAR SIR--I am very much obliged to you for your letter and the enclosure. The _Laird o’ Logie_ is particularly acceptable, as coming near the real history. Carmichael, ment...
11. Part 11It is pleasant to see from the Laidlaw manuscripts with what alacrity and zeal the noble friends of the poet came forward with kindly contributions. The Duke of Buccleuch sent b...
12. Part 12Thomas Campbell used to relate, as an instance of Sir Walter’s extraordinary memory, that he read to him his poem of _Locheil’s Warning_ before it was printed; after which his f...
13. Part 13‘All that I have said is for your consideration and making up your mind, for nothing can be certain till we hear what the persons principally concerned please to say. But then,...
14. Part 14The government, as is well known, placed a frigate at his disposal for the voyage to the Mediterranean. The reception at Portsmouth, and the arrangements on board the _Barham_,...
15. Part 15--On the occasion of an excursion with a friend to Dumfriesshire and Galloway, Scott’s money happened to run out; and he borrowed from his companion a pound-note at Tinwald Mans...