The Journal of Sir Walter Scott is a personal diary kept by the Scottish author from 1825 to 1832, published from the original manuscript at Abbotsford. It records his daily life, reflections, and literary work amid financial troubles and declining health. It offers a candid, historical view of the man and his era.
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Opening of the book
THE JOURNAL OF
SIR WALTER SCOTT
FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT
AT ABBOTSFORD
"The Dial-Stone" in the Garden, from drawing made at Abbotsford by
GEORGE REID, R.S.A.
BURT FRANKLIN
NEW YORK
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.
There is no longer any reason why the Journal should not be
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