Word: abbotsford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only half successful, but later royalties wiped out the remainder. In the last year of his life. Scott was given a vessel by the British Government in which to seek health cruising the Mediterranean. Soon he gave it up, traveled across Europe to die at 61 in Abbotsford, 100 years ago last week...
...Provost of Edinburgh led a procession from St. Giles's Cathedral to the Scott Monument in Princes Street. In Waverley Market, school children performed a masque based upon the Waverley Novels. Miss Patricia Scott, great-great-great-granddaughter, unveiled a memorial in Galashiels, across the River Tweed from Abbotsford. Sir Robert Home, onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer, made a speech extolling Scott's "shining immortality." From Galashiels, whither went many a Scottish pilgrim, was broadcast a musical version of the Lay of the Last Minstrel. In Dryburgh Abbey there were ceremonies commemorating Scott's burial there...