[13] Moore’s Life of Byron was published in two vols. 4to in 1830, and dedicated to Sir Walter Scott by “his affectionate friend, T.M.”  See this Journal under March 4 1828.

[14] “I parted from Scott,” says Moore, “with the feeling that all the world might admire him in his works, but that those only could learn to love him as he deserved who had seen him at Abbotsford.”  Moore died February 26, 1852; see Moore’s Life, vol. iv. pp. 329-42, and vol. v. pp. 13-14.

[15] Hurst and Robinson, Booksellers, London.

[16] Woodstock was at this time nearly completed.

[17] Probably Sir Walter’s dog-Italian for “great donkey.”

[18] Cymbeline, Act II.  Sc. 5.

[19] “My Jo Janet,” Tea-Table Miscellany.

[20] The Right Hon. David Boyle, who was at the time residing at 28 Charlotte Square.

[21] A quarterly journal edited by Leigh Hunt, “The Liberal—­Verse and Prose from the South,” of which four numbers only were published. 1822-1823.

[22] See Dowden’s Life of Shelley, vol. ii. pp. 448-9, 507-8; also Moore’s Byron, vol. v. pp. 313-321, and Russell’s Moore, vol. iii. p. 353.

[23] William Bankes, of whom Rogers said, “Witty as Sydney Smith was, I have seen him at my own house absolutely overpowered by the superior facetiousness of W.B.”  Mr. Bankes died in Venice in 1855.

[24] Lord Leveson Gower, afterwards first Earl of Ellesmere, had already published his translation of Faust in 1823, and a volume of “original poems,” and “translations,” in the following year.

[25] Henry J.G.  Herbert, Lord Porchester, afterwards third Earl of Carnarvon, had published The Moor in 1825, and Don Pedro in 1826.

[26] St. Catherine’s, the seat of Sir William Rae, Bart., then Lord Advocate, is about three miles from Edinburgh.—­J.G.L.  Sir William Rae’s refusal of a legal appointment to Mr. Lockhart (on the ground that as a just patron he could not give it to the son-in-law of his old friend!!) was understood to be the cause of Mr. Lockhart’s quitting the Bar and devoting himself entirely to literature.  Sir William Rae died at St. Catherine’s on the 19th October 1842.

[27] David Boyle of Shewalton, L.J.C. from 1811, and Lord President from 1841 till 1852.  He died in 1853.

[28] See Autobiography, 1787, in Life, vol. i. pp. 39, 40.

[29] Virg. AEn. i. 122.

[30] M. Davidoff has, in his mature life, amply justified Sir Walter’s prognostications.  He has, I understand, published in the Russian language a tribute to the memory of Scott.  But his travels in Greece and Asia Minor are well known, and considered as in a high degree honourable to his taste and learning.—­[1839.]—­J.G.L.

[31] King Richard III., Act III.  Sc. 1.  Count Orloff Davidoff lived to falsify this “saying.”  He revisited England in 1872, and had the pleasure of meeting with Scott’s great-granddaughter, and talking to her of these old happy Abbotsford days.