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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20061120
Author:Ian Irvine

SIR WALTER SCOTT ( above) writes in his diary: "I have all my life regretted that I did not keep a regular journal. I have bethought me on seeing lately some volumes of Byron's notes that he had probably hit upon the right way of keeping such a memorandum- book by throwing aside all pretence to regularity and order and marking down events just as they occurred to recollection. I will try this plan - and behold I have a handsome locked volume such as might serve for a Lady's Album. Nota Bene: John Lockhart and Anne and I intend raising a society for the suppression of Albums. It is a most ...

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