Title:  The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford

Author:  Walter Scott

Release Date:  February 1, 2005 [EBook #14860]

Language:  English

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THE JOURNAL OF

SIR WALTER SCOTT

FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT

AT ABBOTSFORD

[Illustration]

VOLUME I

Burt Franklin
new York

Published by Burt Franklin
235 East 44th St., New York, N.Y. 10017
Originally Published:  1890
Reprinted:  1970
Printed in the U.S.A.

S.B.N. 32110
Library of Congress Card Catalog No.:  73-123604
Burt Franklin:  Research and Source Works Series 535
Essays in Literature and Criticism 82

[Illustration:  [Greek:  Nux gar ERCHETAI.]]

“I must home to work while it is called day; for the night cometh when no man can work.  I put that text, many a year ago, on my dial-stone; but it often preached in vain.”—­Scott’s Life, x. 88.]

“I shall have a peep at Bothwell Castle if it is only for half-an-hour.  It is a place of many recollections to me, for I cannot but think how changed I am from the same Walter Scott who was so passionately ambitious of fame when I wrote the song of Young Lochinvar at Bothwell; and if I could recall the same feelings, where was I to find an audience so kind and patient, and whose applause was at the same time so well worth having, as Lady Dalkeith and Lady Douglas?  When one thinks of these things, there is no silencing one’s regret but by Corporal Nym’s philosophy:  Things must be as they may. One generation goeth and another cometh.”—­To lord montagu, June 28th, 1825.

PREFACE.

On the death of Sir Walter Scott in 1832, his entire literary remains were placed at the disposal of his son-in-law, Mr. John Gibson Lockhart.  Among these remains were two volumes of a Journal which had been kept by Sir Walter from 1825 to 1832.  Mr. Lockhart made large use of this Journal in his admirable life of his father-in-law.  Writing, however, so short a time after Scott’s death, he could not use it so freely as he might have wished, and, according to his own statement, it was “by regard for the feelings of living persons” that he both omitted and altered; and indeed he printed no chapter of the Diary in full.