Note 246 — FIFTH WEEK.

See Lockhart’s Life of Scott for an account of this visit, vol. i. pp. 402–7. Mr. L. says, ‘I have drawn up the account of this meeting from my recollection, partly of Mr. W.’s conversation, partly from that of his sister’s charming “Diary,” which he was so kind as to read to me on the 16th May 1836.’—Ed.