Front matter

'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.