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Excerpt from A Descriptive Account of the Portraits, Busts, Published Writings, and Manuscripts, of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Collected and Exhibited at Edinburgh on Occasion of the Scott Centenary in 1871 In the Summer and Autumn of 1870 preparations were set on foot by the Border Counties Association, a Society which had existed for some years in Berwick, Roxburgh, Selkirk, and Dumfries, for the celebration of the Hundredth Anniversary of the birth of Sir Walter Scott. It was at first intended to hold this celebration within the bounds of the Associated Border Counties, but the scheme of the Association gradually enlarging itself, it was resolved to make the event National instead of Local, and the Scottish Capital its scene. As President of the Association, Lord Jerviswoode naturally became Chairman of the Committee, by which the plan of the Festival was devised and matured. In course of conversation with his Lordship, in the spring of 1871, Sir William Stirling Maxwell remarked that a Loan Exhibition of Pictures, MSS., and other Relics and Works of Art, for the illustration of the life and labours of Sir Walter Scott, would form an interesting and appropriate feature of the Commemoration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.