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Irving had been up to Abbotsford to see Scott; he had gamboled in Paris with Thomas Moore; the fame which he had won by amusing himself (with his Knickerbocker's History of New York, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) was at its height. In Madrid he buckled down to his first job of scholarly writing, a life of Columbus. Young Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, passing through, noted that Irving was at his desk every morning at six; that in society he "said very pleasant agreeable things in a husky, weak, peculiar voice." He liked everybody, but he especially liked...
...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...
...Bamie Mama, Papa and I went to Abbotsford in the cars. We saw his (Scott's) clothes, study rooms, roman pots and petrified things and amour and curiousities and went...
...British Isles will include several days in London, short visits at Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Edinburgh and the industrial centers of Manchester and Glasgow, with brief stays at many places identified with the joint heritage of the English-speaking peoples such as Stratford-on-Avon, Melrose, Kenilworth, Abbotsford, and Loch Lomond. In addition there will be a three days' coaching trip through North Wales, three days more in the lake district, and nearly a week in the Scottish Highlands. The party is also scheduled to visit several Cathedral towns on the east coast of England and will then cross...