[32] James Byers, 1733-1817.
[33] Anne Scott of Harden, afterwards wife of Lord Jerviswoode, and
Elizabeth of Colonel Charles Wyndham.
[34] James Hope, W.S., Scott's school-fellow, died in Edinburgh 14th
November 1842.
[35] _Greville_, vol. i. pp. 110-113.
[36] Sir W. Rae, who was Lord Advocate from 1819 to 1830.
[37] See letter to Duke of Buccleuch on James Hogg at p. 40.
[38] No. 10 Walker Street.
[39] Scott's unwearied interest in James Hogg, despite the waywardness
of this imaginative genius, is one of the most beautiful traits in his
character. Readers of Mr. Lockhart's _Life_, do not require to be
reminded of the active part he took in promoting the welfare of the
"Ettrick Shepherd" on many occasions, from the outset of their
acquaintance in 1801 until the end of his life.
Hogg was a strange compound of boisterous roughness and refinement in
expression, and these odd contrasts surprised strangers such as Moore
and Ticknor. The former was shocked, and the latter said his
conversation was a perpetual contradiction to the exquisite delicacy of
_Kilmeny_.
The critics of the day, headed by Professor Wilson, declared he was
Burns's rival as a song-writer, and his superior in anything relating to
external nature! indeed they wrote of him as unsurpassed by poet or
painter in his fairy tales of ancient time, dubbing him Poet Laureate to
the Queen of Elfland; and yet his unrefined manner tempted these friends
to speak of him familiarly as the greatest hog in all Apollo's herd, or
the Boar of the Forest, etc. etc.
Wordsworth, however, on November 21, 1835, when his brother bard had
just left the sunshine for the sunless land, wrote from his heart the
noble lines ending--
"Death upon the Braes of Yarrow Closed the Poet Shepherd's eyes."
[40] Another, sister Georgiana, married General the Honourable Sir
Alexander Hope, G.C.B., grandfather of Mrs. Maxwell Scott.
[41] _Chronicles of the Canongate_. First Series, ending with the story
of _The Surgeon's Daughter_.
[42] Mr. Lockhart justly remarks that this entry "paints the man in his
tenderness, his fortitude, and happy wisdom."
[43] Charles Rose Ellis had been created Baron Seaford in 1826.
[44] See Cromek's _Reliques of Burns_, p. 210.