The Keepsake Stories
contributor: Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.)
creator: Scott, Walter, Sir
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language: en
publisher: Wiretap Electronic Text Archive
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subject: philip
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subject: scott
subject: walter
subject: keepsake
subject: english
subject: literature
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full text: Walter Scott: The Keepsake Stories ================================== a machine-readable transcription [For archival on the Internet Wiretap, the three stories have been concatenated. No other changes have been made.] Version 1.0: 1993-02-06 1.1: 1993-03-06 several transcription errors fixed, mainly in the Mirror The text of the three stories is taken from Waverley Novels, vol. XLI: 'The Highland Widow', published by Archibald Constable and Co, Westminster, 1896. The order of the stories in the original is: Aunt Margaret's Mirror The Tapestried Chamber The Laird's Jock Each story is placed in a separate file, and each file contains the author's introduction to the story. The lines of the files follow that of the text, except that end-of-line hyphenations have been removed. Three misprints have been removed: p. ???: extraneous period (Mrs. Swinton) (Mr and Mrs is set without periods in the text) p. 328: a double (re- || remain) p. 344: a missing inner quote (how then shall I ask it?'') all of which where found in the Mirror. Special markup: _ _ indicates italics in the original text --- indicates an em-dash <oe> indicates the oe ligature <c,> indicates the c-cedilla <e'> indicates e acute Small capitals have been replaced with lower-case letters. Notes: The sequence `L.20' which appears in the introduction to the `Mirror' is so printed in the text. The Centenary Edition of the Waverley Novels uses a pound sterling sign instead of the `L.'. The transcription and proof-reading were done by Anders Thulin, Rydsvagen 288, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden. Email: ath@linkoping.trab.se I'd be grateful to learn of any errors you find in the text. [1. My Aunt Margaret's Mirror] INTRODUCTION. The species of publication which has come to be generally known by the title of _Annual_, being a miscellany of prose and verse, equipped with numerous engravings, and put forth every year about Christmas, had flourished for a long while in Germany, before it was imitated in this country by an …