Preface
Contents
List of Illustrations
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
INDEX
FOOTNOTES:
ABBOTSFORD
'O bear me back to all to Memory dear,
'Twill to my faded brow be health restored
To feel the breeze that waves the woods of Abbotsford.'
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ABBOTSFORD FROM THE RIVER TWEED
'Within that pile he dwelt whose ardent soul
Filled with bright dreams, and aspirations high,
And boundless knowledge, wonder-chained the whole
Of human kind, but turned its glorious eye
Of love on Caledon's bleak hills and cloudy sky.'
ABBOTSFORD
PAINTED BY
WILLIAM SMITH, Jr.
DESCRIBED BY
W. S. CROCKETT
MINISTER OF TWEEDSMUIR; AUTHOR OF 'THE SCOTT COUNTRY,' ETC.
WITH
TWENTY FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
IN COLOUR
LONDON
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
1905
TO
SIR WALTER'S SUCCESSORS
AT
ABBOTSFORD,
THE HON. MRS. MAXWELL SCOTT,
HIS GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER,
AND
WALTER MAXWELL SCOTT,
GREAT-GREAT-GRANDSON,
THESE CHAPTERS ARE DEDICATED.
