VI 11 CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER VI. 



MARRIAGE. — THE ISLE OF PALMS. 



1811-T5. 



LettertoMr. Findlay, on the day of his Marriage— Letters to Mr. Smith about "The Isle of Palms 1 '' 

 —Lines on James Grahame— Edinburgh, 53 Queen Street— Letters to Mr. Smith— Plans for future 

 work at Klleray— Loses his Fortune— Studies for the Scottish Bar— Note from Mr. Blair— De- 

 parture from Elleray— Letter to De Quincey Pages 105-119 



CHAPTER VII. 

 LIFE IN EDINBURGH. — THE BAR. — THE HIGHLANDS. — ELLERAT. 



1815-'17. 

 Edinburgh— Mrs. Wilson, Senior— Called to the Bar— Letter to Mrs. Wilson, from the "Head of 

 the Yarrow"— The Shepherd at Home— An Adventure at Peebles— A Pedestrian Tour in the 

 Highlands by Mr. and Mrs. Wilson : their Adventures— The great Caird— Letter to Hogg, giv- 

 ing an account of the Tour— Criticism on the Poets— Letter to Mr. Smith, proposing a new vol- 

 ume of Poems— Publication of "The City of the Plague"— Letters to his Wife— Letter to Mr. 

 Smith— Letter from Jeffrey on his Poems — Loch Awe— Letter to Mrs. Wilson, from Achlian— 

 Adventure with Tinkers— His mode of Fishing— Letters to Mrs. Wilson, from Blair- Athole and 

 Dingwall— Adventure at Tomintoul— Mrs. Grant of Laggan's remarks on Wilson— At Elleray— 

 Patrick Robertson 119-152 



CHAPTER VIII. 



LITERATURE. — BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. 



1817-'20. 



His Connection with Periodical Literature — Edinburgh Monthly Magazine — Letter to Mrs. Wil- 

 son from Kinloch Rannoch— Review of Lalla Eookh— Fishing Tour— Letters from Jeffrey re- 

 garding' Contributions for the Edinburgh Review — Fragment from Jeffrey regarding a Vindica- 

 tion of Wordsworth— State of Parties in Edinburgh in 1817 — Establishment of Blackwood — 

 Early Editors and Contributors—The Scot* Magazine — A change in the Management — Number 

 VII. — The New Contributors — The Scorpion — The Leopard — Mr. Lockhart — John Wilson — Mr. 

 Robert Sym — James Hogg — Mystifications — Leigh Hunt and Sir J. G. Dalyell — More Mystifica- 

 tion — Dr. James Scott, 7 Miller Street, Glasgow, alias The Odontist — Captain Paton's Lament 

 — The Dilettanti Club — Letters from Mrs. Wilson to her Sister Miss Penny on the Magazine — 

 Ensign O'Doherty — A Magazine Row, etc. — The Style of Criticism adopted— Letter to Professor 

 Laugner — The Attack upon Professor Playfair — 111 Results — Hypocrisy Unveiled — Correspond- 

 ence with the Author — Letter from Mr. Morehead — Letter to Mr. Morehead — Letter from Jeff- 

 rey, vindicating the Edinburgh Review from the Charge of Infidelity 153-198 



CHAPTER IX. 

 MORAL PHILOSOPHY CHAIR. 

 1820. 

 Removes to Ann Street — Sir Henry Raeburn — Sir John Watson Gordon — Sir William Allan — 

 1 leath of Dr. Thomas Brown — Announces himself as a Candidate for the Chair of Moral Philos- 

 Ophy — Sir William Hamilton — Fierce opposition by the Whig party — Letters from Mrs. Wilson 

 on the struggle — Letters to Rev. J. Fleming and Mrs. Grant of Laggan for a Certificate as to 

 Character— Mrs Grant's reply— Letter from Sir Walter Scott— His Election— Letter from Mrs. 

 Wilson on her husband's Buccess— Letter to Mr. Smith — Preparations for his Lectures — Corre- 

 spondence with Dr. Blair — A Fancy Sketch of the new Professor in his Study — Correspondence 

 with Blair— Opening Lecture of his First Course 19S-223 



