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Miscellaneous Prose Available as E-Texts

Follow the links below for online texts of miscellaneous (non-fictional) prose by Scott made available by external sites. Only freely available texts have been listed. In most cases, the link will take you directly to the text. In others, it will direct you to a clickable list of the Scott texts published by the provider. Where known, we have indicated the source edition for the e-text.

Since this page was inaugurated, a large number of Scott etexts have been made available by the Internet Archive and Google Books. Rather than maintain a full listing of these, we have listed only the earliest edition (in many cases the First Edition) supplied by these providers.

The list of texts should not be regarded as comprehensive, but the page editor would be pleased to hear of significant omissions. For further information on the original publications, see Works.

A. Book-Length Texts (and Extracts)

  1. Description of the Regalia of Scotland
  2. The History of Scotland
  3. Journal
  4. Letters of Malachi Malagrowther
  5. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
  6. Life of Napoleon Buonaparte
  7. Memorials of the Haliburtons
  8. Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk
  9. Religious Discourses
  10. Tales of a Grandfather

1. Description of the Regalia of Scotland

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2. The History of Scotland

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3. The Journal of Sir Walter Scott

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4. Letters of Malachi Malagrowther

*Letters 1 and 2 are from the Second Edition, Letter 3 from the First.

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5. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft

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6. The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte

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7. Memorials of the Haliburtons

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8. Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk

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9. Religious Discourses

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10. Tales of A Grandfather

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B. Selections

All 28 volumes of the 'Magnum Opus' edition of the Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1834-36) are now available alone. Below we list only volumes containing shorter prose texts not covered by section A.

1. Miscellaneous Prose Works, vol. I (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1834)

  • Contents: 'The Life of John Dryden’.

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2. Miscellaneous Prose Works, vol. II (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1834)

  • Contents: ‘Memoir of Jonathan Swift’.

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3. Miscellaneous Prose Works, vol. III (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1834)

  • Contents: ‘Memoir of Samuel Richardson’ – ‘Henry Fielding’ –  ‘Tobias Smollett’ – ‘Richard Cumberland’ – ‘Oliver Goldsmith’ – ‘Samuel Johnson’ – ‘Laurence Sterne’ – ‘Horace Walpole’ – ‘Clara Reeve’ – ‘Mrs Ann Radcliffe’ – ‘Alain René Le Sage’ – ‘Charles Johnstone’ -- ‘Robert Bage’.

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4. Miscellaneous Prose Works, vol. IV (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1847)

  • Contents: ‘Memoir of Henry Mackenzie’ – ‘Charlotte Smith’ – ‘Sir Ralph Sadler’ – ‘John Leyden, M.D.’ – ‘Miss Anna Seward’ – ‘Daniel De Foe’ – ‘Charles Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry’ – ‘John Lord Somerville’ – ‘King George III’ – ‘Lord Byron’ – ‘The Duke of York’.

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5. Miscellaneous Prose Works, vol. V (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1834)
  • Contents: Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk – 'Abstract of the Eyrbiggia-Saga’.

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6. Miscellaneous Prose Works, vol. VI (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1834)
  • Contents: ‘Essay on Chivalry’ – 'Essay on Romance' – 'Essay on the Drama''.

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7. Miscellaneous Prose Works, vol. VII (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1834)
  • Contents: ‘Essay on Border Antiquities’ – 'Provincial Antiquities of Scotland' – 'Regalia of Scotland'.

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8. Miscellaneous Prose Works, vol. XVII (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1835)
  • Contents: ‘On Ellis's Specimens of the Early English Poets’ – ‘Ellis' and Ritson's Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances’ – ‘Godwin's Life of Chaucer’– ‘Todd's Edition of Spenser’ – ‘Herbert's Poems’ – ‘Evans' Old Ballads’ – ‘Moliere’ – ‘Chatterton’ – ‘Reliques of Burns’ – ‘Campbell's Gertrude of Wyoming’ – ‘The Battles of Talavera: A Poem’ – ‘Southey's Curse of Kehama’ – ‘Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto VI’.

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9. Miscellaneous Prose Works, vol. XVIII (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1835)
  • Contents: ‘Amadis of Gaul’ – ‘Southey's Chronicle of the Cid’ – ‘Life of John Bunyan’ – ‘Godwin's Fleetwood’ – ‘Cumberland's John De Lancaster’ – ‘Maturin's Fatal Revenge’ – ‘Women; or, Pour et Contre’ – ‘Miss Austen's Novels’ – ‘Remarks on Frankenstein’ – ‘Novels of Ernest Theodore Hoffmann’ – ‘The Omen’ – ‘Hajji Baba in England’.

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10. Miscellaneous Prose Works, vol. XIX (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1835)
  • Contents: ‘Tales of my Landlord’ – ‘Thornton's Sporting Tour’ – ‘Two Cookery Books’ – ‘Johnes’ Translation of Froissart’ – ‘Miseries of Human Life – ‘Carr’s Caledonian Sketches’ – ‘Lady Suffolk's Correspondence' – ‘Kirkton's Church History’ – ‘Life and Works of John Home’.

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11. Miscellaneous Prose Works, vol. XX (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1835)
  • Contents: ‘The Culloden Papers’ – ‘Pepys' Memoirs’ – ‘Life of Kemble’ – ‘Kelly's Reminiscences’ –‘Davy's Salmonia’ – ‘Ancient History of Scotland’..

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12. Miscellaneous Prose Works, vol. XXI (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1836)
  • Contents: ‘On Planting Waste Lands: Monteath’s Foresters’ Guide’ – ‘On Landscape Gardening: Sir H. Steuart’s Planters’ Guide’ – ‘Tytler’s History of Scotland’ – ‘Pitcairn’s Criminal Trials’ – Letters of Malachi Malagrowther on the Currency,  I-III.

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C. Individual Essays

1. 'Gabions of Abbotsford'

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