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ABBOTSFORD AND NEWSTEAD ABBEY
BY
WASHINGTON IRVING
CONTENTS
ABBOTSFORD
NEWSTEAD ABBEY
ARRIVAL AT THE ABBEY
ABBEY GARDEN
PLOUGH MONDAY
OLD SERVANTS
SUPERSTITIONS OF THE ABBEY
ANNESLEY HALL
THE LAKE
ROBIN HOOD AND SHERWOOD FOREST
ROOK CELL
LITTLE WHITE LADY
ABBOTSFORD.
By WASHINGTON IRVING.
I sit down to perform my promise of giving you an account of a visit
made many years since to Abbotsford. I hope, however, that you do not
expect much from me, for the travelling notes taken at the time are so
scanty and vague, and my memory so extremely fallacious, that I fear I
shall disappoint you with the meagreness and crudeness of my details.
Late in the evening of August 29, 1817, I arrived at the ancient little
border town of Selkirk, where I put up for the night. I had come down
from Edinburgh, partly to visit Melrose Abbey and its vicinity, but
chiefly to get sight of the "mighty minstrel of the north." I had a
letter of introduction to him from Thomas Campbell, the poet, and had
reason to think, from the interest he had taken in some of my earlier
scribblings, that a visit from me would not be deemed an intrusion.
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