there was room for a personal narrative of the
character, it would answer admirably."

[447] This gentleman, a brother to the Laird of Raeburn, had made some
fortune in the East Indies, and bestowed the name of Ravenswood on a
villa which he built near Melrose. He died in 1831.--J.G.L.

[448] The Manuscripts were sold by auction in London on August 19th,
1831, and the prices realised fell far short of what might have been
expected, _e.g._ (1) _Monastery_, L18; (2) _Guy Mannering_, L27, 10s.;
(3) _Old Mortality_, L33; (4) _Antiquary_, L42; (5) _Rob Roy_, L50; (6)
_Peveril of the Peak_, L42; (7) _Waverley_, L18; (8) _Abbot_, L14; (9)
_Ivanhoe_, L12; (10) _Pirate_, L12; (11) _Nigel_, L16, 16s.; (12)
_Kenilworth_, L17; (13) _Bride of Lammermoor_, L14, 14s.--Total
L317.--See David Laing's Catalogue, pp. 99-108, for an account of the
dispersion and sales of the original MSS., prose and poetry.

[449] Miss J. Erskine, a daughter of Lord Kinnedder's. She died in
1838.--J.G.L.

[450] The Rev. N. Paterson, author of _The Manse Garden_; afterwards
minister of St. Andrew's, Glasgow. He died in 1871. Mr. Paterson was a
grandson of Robert Paterson, "Old Mortality," and brother of the Rev.
Walter Paterson, minister of Kirkurd, author of the _Legend of Iona_--a
poem written in imitation of the style of Scott, and in which he
recognises his obligations to Sir Walter in the following terms:--"From
him I derived courage to persevere in an undertaking on which I had
often reflected with terror and distrust."--_Legend_, notes, p. 305.

[451] Mr. John Smith of Darnick, the builder of Abbotsford, and
architect of these bridges.--J.G.L.

[452] This gentleman died in Edinburgh on the 4th February 1838.--J.G.L.

[453] The late Captain Watson, R.N., was distantly related to Sir
Walter's mother. His son, Sir John Watson Gordon, rose to great eminence
as a painter; and his portraits of Scott and Hogg rank among his best
pieces. He became President of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1850, died
in 1864, leaving funds to endow a Chair of Fine Arts in the Edinburgh
University.

[454] Mr. W.F. Skene, Historiographer Royal for Scotland, and son of
Scott's dear friend, has been good enough to give me his recollections
of these days:--

"On referring to my Diary for the year 1831 I find the following entry:
'This Spring, on 31st April, I went with my father to Abbotsford and
left on Sir Walter Scott being taken ill.' The date here given for my
vis