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The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
Maxwell-Scott for permitting me to retain for the last three years the precious volumes in which the Journal is contained, and for granting me access to the correspondence of Sir Walter preserved at Abbotsford, and I have likewise to acknowledge the courtesy of His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch for allowing me the use of the Scott letters at Dalkeith. To Mr. W.F. Skene, Historiographer Royal for Scotland, my thanks are warmly rendered for intrusting me with his precious heirloom, the volume which contains Sir Walter's letters to his father, and the Reminiscences that accompany them—one of many kind offices towards me during the last thirty years in our relations as author and publisher. I am also obliged to Mr. Archibald Constable for permitting me to use the interesting Memorandum by James Ballantyne.
Finally, I have to express my obligation to many other friends, who never failed cordially to respond to any call I made upon them.
D.D.
EDINBURGH, 22 DRUMMOND PLACE,
October 1, 1890.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
VOL. I.
PORTRAIT, painted by JOHN GRAHAM GILBERT, R.S.A., for the Royal Society, Edinburgh. Copied by permission of the Council of the Society, Frontispiece
VIGNETTE on Title-page
"The Dial-Stone" in the Garden, from drawing made at Abbotsford by GEORGE REID, R.S.A.
"WORK WHILE IT IS DAY."
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"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.
MAP OF ABBOTSFORD, from the Ordnance Survey, 1858, to face p. 414.
VOL. II.
PORTRAIT, painted by SIR FRANCIS GRANT, P.R.A., for the Baroness Ruthven, and now in the National Portrait Gallery of Scotland. Copied by permission of the Hon. The Board of Manufactures, Frontispiece
VIGNETTE on Title-page
"The Dial-Stone" in the Garden, from drawing made at Abbotsford by George Reid, R.S.A.
"THE NIGHT COMETH."
ΝΥΞ ΓΑΡ ΕΡΧΕΤΑΙ.
"I must home to work while it is called day; for the night cometh when no man can work. I put that text, many years ago, on my dial-stone; but it often preached in vain."—Scott's Life, x. 88.