Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-04-29 | Page 4 | Scott at Abbotsford

SCOTT AT ABBOTSFORD. This is a noUible year in the history of Abbotaford, for it is the centonary of Sir Walter Scott's entry Into possession pos-session of the lands every afterward closely associated with his name. On May 12, 1811, he wrote to his publisher, pub-lisher, James Ballantyne, that he had "resolved to purchase a piece of ground sufficient for a cottago and a few fields " That first purchase, which cost 4,000 pounds, was n wrotched farm by the riverside; tho houso, says Lockhart, "small and poor with a common kall-3'ard on ono flank and a staring barn on tho othor, while in front appeared a filthy" pond covered cov-ered with ducks and duckweed, from which tho whole tenement had derived the unharmonious designation of Clarty Hole" Scott spent 50.000 pounds in extending extend-ing and beautifying the eHtato, and In Abboisford, timid the music so delicious de-licious to his car, "the gentle ripple of tho Tweed over Ha pebbles," ho broathod his last on the sunny afternoon after-noon of September 21, 1832. Westminster West-minster Gazette.