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Lockhart’s Life of Scott Copiously Annotated and Abundantly IllustratedIn Ten VolumesVol. 6Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.ByJohn Gibson Lockhart Volume 6.Chapter 43.Declining Health of Charles, Duke of Buccleuch. Letter on the Death of Queen Charlotte. Provincial Antiquities, Etc. Extensive Sale of Copyrights to Constable and Co. Death of Mr. Charles Carpenter. Scott Accepts the Offer of a Baronetcy. He Declines to Renew his Application for a Seat on the Exchequer Bench. Letters to Morritt, Richardson, Miss Baillie, The Duke of Buccleuch, Lord Montagu, and Captain Ferguson. Rob Roy Played at Edinburgh. Letter from Jedediah Cleishbotham to Mr. Charles Mackay.1818-1819Chapter 44.Recurrence of Scott’s Illness. Death of the Duke of Buccleuch. Letters to Captain Ferguson, Lord Montagu, Mr. Southey, and Mr. Shortreed. Scott’s Sufferings while Dictating the Bride of Lammermoor. Anecdotes by James Ballantyne, Etc. Appearance of the Third Series of Tales of My Landlord. Anecdote of the Earl of Buchan.1819Chapter 45.Gradual Reëstablishment of Scott’s Health. Ivanhoe in Progress. His Son Walter Joins the Eighteenth Regiment of Hussars. Scott’s Correspondence with Hhis Son. Miscellaneous Letters to Mrs. Maclean Clephane, M. W. Hartstonge, J. G. Lockhart, John Ballantyne, John Richardson, Miss Edgeworth, Lord Montagu, Etc. Abbotsford Visited by Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg. Death of Mrs. William Erskine.1819Chapter 46.Political Alarms. The Radicals. Levies of Volunteers. Project of the Buccleuch Legion. Death of Scott’s Mother, her Brother Dr. Rutherford, and her Sister Christian. Letters to Lord Montagu, Mr. Thomas Scott, Cornet Scott, Mr. Laidlaw, and Lady Louisa Stuart. Publication of Ivanhoe.1819Chapter 47.The Visionary. The Peel of Darnick. Scott’s Saturday Excursions to Abbotsford. A Sunday there in February. Constable. John Ballantyne. Thomas Purdie, Etc. Prince Gustavus Vasa. Proclamation of King George IV. Publication of the Monastery.1820Chapter 48.Scott Revisits London. His Portrait by Lawrence, and Bust by Chantrey. Anecdotes by Allan Cunningham. Letters to Mrs. Scott, Laidlaw, Etc. 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.1820Chapter 49.Autumn at Abbotsford. Scott’s Hospitality. Visit of Sir Humphry Davy, Henry Mackenzie, Dr. Wollaston, and William Stewart Rose. Coursing on Newark Hill. Salmon-fishing. The Festival at Boldside. The Abbotsford Hunt. The Kirn, Etc.1820Chapter 50.Publication of the Abbot. The Blair-Adam Club. Kelso, Walton Hall, Etc. Ballantyne’s Novelists’ Library. Acquittal of Queen Caroline. Service of the Duke of Buccleuch. Scott Elected President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The Celtic Society. Letters to Lord Montagu, Cornet Scott, Charles Scott, Allan Cunningham, Etc. Kenilworth Published.1820-1821Chapter 51.Visit to London. Project of the Royal Society of Literature. Affairs of the 18th Hussars. Marriage of Captain Adam Ferguson. Letters to Lord Sidmouth, Lord Montagu, Allan Cunningham, Mrs. Lockhart, and Cornet Scott.1821Chapter 52.Illness and Death of John Ballantyne. Extract from his Pocketbook. Letters from Blair-Adam. Castle-Campbell. Sir Samuel Shepherd. “Bailie Mackay,” Etc. Coronation of George IV. Correspondence with James Hogg and Lord Sidmouth. Letter on the Coronation. Anecdotes. Allan Cunningham’s Memoranda. Completion of Chantrey’s Bust.1821Chapter 53.PUBLICATION OF MR. ADOLPHUS’S LETTERS ON THE AUTHORSHIP OF WAVERLEY1821Chapter 54.New Buildings at Abbotsford. Chiefswood. William Erskine. Letter to Countess Purgstall. Progress of the Pirate. Franck’s Northern Memoir, and Notes of Lord Fountainhall, Published. Private Letters in the Reign of James I. Commencement of the Fortunes of Nigel. Second Sale of Copyrights. Contract for “Four Works of Fiction.”