John gibson lockhart biography of michael

CHAPTER XVI

LONDON, 1832-1836

Social relations in London.—Benjamin Disraeli.—“A tenth-rate novelist.”—Friends.—Birth of Charlotte.—Scottish holidays.—Anne Scott’s death.—Death of Lockharr’s mother.—Lockhart and Maginn.—Letter to Mrs. Maginn.—Guests and hosts.—Death of Mr. Blackwood.—Lockhart on literature and rank.—Letter to Hayward.—Portrait of Lockhart.—His review of Tennyson.—Editing Scott’s works.—Relations with Milman.—Letters.—Jeffrey in the House.—Scott’s debts.—Southey and “The Doctor.”—A mystification.—The British Association.—Bad times.—Southey on Scott’s death.—” Birds of prey.”—Troubles with Hogg.—Wrath of Wilson.—Attack on Scott.—Extraordinary proposal by Hogg.—Hogg’s “domestic manners.”—Correspondence as to “Life of Scott.”—Mrs. Lockhart to Cadell.—Cadell’s praise of Lockhart.—Lockhart on his own work.—Letter to Laidlaw.—Criticisms of Scott’s “Life.”—Mr. Carlyle.—Remarks on the Biography of Scott.—Wrath of Fenimore Cooper.—Americans and Scott.

It has seemed desirable to finish the story of Lockhart’s relations with Scott, before sketching his London life, and describing his connection with one, at least, of his most important allies in the Quarterly. The letters to that friend, Milman, were partly written in Scott’s last days. The society which Lockhart f

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