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Search - Memoirs Of The Life Of Sir Walter Scott, Bart; Vol. I.

Memoirs Of The Life Of Sir Walter Scott Bart Vol I
Author: J. G. Lockhart

MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART. VOLUME THE FIILST - PREFACE - IN obedience to the instructions of Sir JValter Scotts last will, 8 1 had made some progress in a narrative of his personal history, before there was discovered, in an old cabinet at Abbotsford, an autobiographical fragment, composed by him in 1808-shortly after the pub1ic... more ». ation of his Marmion. This fortunate accident rendered 16 Ilecessav that I should altogether remodel the work which I had corn-. menced. The first Chapter of the following Blemoirs consists of the Ashestiel fragment which gives a clear outline of his early life down to the period of his call to the bar-July, 1792. All the notes appended to this Chapter are also by himself. They are in a handwriting very different from the text, and seem, from various circumstances, to have beeh added in 1826. I t appeared to me, however, that the authors mo clesty had prevented him from telling. the story of his yonth with that fuIness of detail which would now satisfy the public. I have therefore recast my own collections as to the period in question, and presented the substzkce of them, in five succeeding chapters, as illus trations of his too brief autobiography. This procedure has been attended with many obvious disadvantages but I greatly preferred it to printing the precious fragment in an Appendix. I foresee that some readers may be apt to accuse me of trenching upon delicacy in certain details of the sixth and seventh chapters in this volume. Though the cir- cumstances there treated of had no trivial influence on Sir Walter Scotts history and character, I should have been inclined, for many reasons, to omit them but the choice was, in fact, not left to me,-for they had been mentioned, and misrepresented, in various preceding sketches of the Life which I had undertaken to illustrate. Such being the case, I considered i t as my duty to telI the story truly and intelligibly but I trust I haGe avoided any unnecessary disclosures and, after all, there was nothing to disclose that could have attnchcd any sort of blame to any of the parties C - concerned. - For the copious materials x hicli the friends of Sir Wilter have filaced at my disposal, I feel just gratitude. PREFACE. iii Several of them are naqed in , the course of the present volume but I must take this opportunity of expressing my sense of the deep obligations under which I have been laid by the frank . commpnications, in particular, of William Clerk, Esq., of Eldin,-John Irving, Esq., W. S.,, LSir Adarn Ferguson,-James Skene, Esq., of R bisla,-Pati-Miculrr ay, Esq., of Simprirn,-J. B. S. Morritt, Esq., of Rokeby,-WilLiarn ordsworth, , Esq.,-Robert Southey, Esq., Poet Laureate,-Samuel Rogers, Esq.,- lTilliam Stewart Rose, Esq.,-Sir Alexander Wood,-the Right Hon. the Lord Chief Comrnissioner Atlam,-the Right Hon. Sir William Rae, Bart., - the late Right Hon. Sir William Knighton, - Bart.,-the Right Hon. J. W. Croker,-Lord Jeffrey,-Sir Henrv Halford, Bart., G. C. H.,-the late Major-General Sir John Malcolrn, G. C. B.,-Sir Francis Chantrey, E. A.,-Sir David Wilkie, R. A.,-Thomas Thomson, Esq., P. C. S.,-Charlcs Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq, William Scott, of Raeburn, Esq.,-John Scott, of Gala, Esq. ,-Alesander Pringle, of Whytbank, Esq., RI. P,-John Swinton, of Inverleith-place, ES.,- ohn Itichardson, Esq., of Fluclyer S treet,-John Murray, Esq., of Albemnrle Street,-Robert Bruce, Esq., Sheriff of Agylc,-Iiobert Ferguson, Esq., BI. D.,-G. P. R. James, Esq.,-William La - i dlaw, s q ...

ISBN-13: 9781408620441
ISBN-10: 1408620448
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 430
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