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Excerpt from Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence, Vol. 5: Of Thomas Moore
Edinburgh. Some talk among the people in the coach about Scott; said he was a very peculiar man, and seemed all to agree that he had chosen a very bad situ ation for his house. Went outside for the last two or three stages, in order to see the country, but it was all dreary and barren. The entrance, however, into Edin burgh most striking; the deep ravine between the two towns, the picturesque sites of the buildings on the heights and in the depths, the grand Openings to the sea, all is magnificent and unlike every thing else. By the by, talking with the guard about Abbotsford, he told me Lady Scott had said that it was quite an hotel in every thing but pay. Took a hackney coach and drove to William Murray's (husband to Bessy's sister), having received a letter from him at Abbotsford, entreating me to take' a. Bed at his house. Found Anne not so much altered (though it is fourteen years since we last met) as Bessy led me to expect. A note while we were at dinner from Murray's sister, Mrs. Siddons, to ask me, if not too fatigued, to drink tea there. We went; none but herself and daughters; sung a little, though very hoarse; one Of the Miss S.'s also sung. Had written to Jeffrey after dinner to say I was come, and would be out with him at Craigcrook to-morrow; an answer from him to say, Why not to night?
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