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Johnnie opines that it is not very pretty, and grandpapa supposes it to be like other new-born children, which are as like as a basket of oranges. January 7. Wrought at the review, and finished a good lot of it. Mr. Stewart left us, amply provided with the history of Abbotsford and its contents.
It will soon give way to my usual state of mind, and my friends will not find me much different from what I have usually been. "Mr. Ramsay, who I find is a friend of yours, appears an excellent young man. My kind love to Mrs. Skene, and am always, yours truly, "WALTER SCOTT. ABBOTSFORD, 23d May." The Highland Widow, Waverley Novels, vol. xli. See February 10, 1826.
Be that as it may, this portion of the manuscript was laid aside in the drawers of an old writing-desk, which, on my first coming to reside at Abbotsford in 1811, was placed in a lumber garret and entirely forgotten.
"So wise so young, they say, do ne'er live long." Saw also at Abbotsford two Frenchmen whom I liked, friends of Miss Dumergue. One, called Le Noir, is the author of a tragedy which he had the grace never to quote, and which I, though poked by some malicious persons, had not the grace even to hint at.
So it would be easy to go there to dinner from Abbotsford, starting at six in the morning, or seven would do very well. B. But I am not sorry to have a day to write letters, and besides I have a box of books to arrange. It is a bad mizzling day, and might have been a good day for work, yet it is not quite uselessly spent. October 10.
At this time Sir Walter was not known as the author of the "Waverley Novels," but in later years Landseer painted a picture which he called "Extract from a Journal whilst at Abbotsford," to which the following was attached: "Found the great poet in his study, laughing at a collie dog playing with Maida, his favorite old greyhound, given him by Glengarry, and quoting Shakespeare 'Crabbed old age and youth cannot agree. On the floor was the cover of a proof-sheet, sent for correction by Constable, of the novel then in progress.
I never can forget, however, the description Sir Adam Ferguson gave me of a morning he had passed with Scott at Abbotsford, which at that time was still unfinished, and, swarming with carpenters, painters, masons, and bricklayers, was surrounded with all the dirt and disorderly discomfort inseparable from the process of house-building.
Gillis, he said to himself, 'Ah! you have been travelling by express train! Very soon after this, bronchitis set in, and rapidly became acute, and the case was pronounced hopeless. To herself, indeed, it was perhaps more or less sudden, though she had virtually made a retreat of preparation during the preceding six months, and left everything in the most perfect order at Abbotsford.
Skene, and remained in his possession till 1831, when it was sent to Abbotsford, where it now hangs. See Letter, Scott to Skene, under January 16th, 1831. Spean a wean, i.e. wean a child. H.W. Williams, a native of Wales, who settled in Edinburgh at the beginning of this century. His Travels in Italy and Greece were published in 1820, and the Views in Greece in 1827.
Poor Tom Purdie! this will be news to wring your heart, and many a poor fellow's besides to whom my prosperity was daily bread." After touching on some other matters he comes back to Abbotsford, "Yet to save Abbotsford I would attempt all that was possible. My heart clings to the place I have created.
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