tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8704237975096102484.post1796085149843528724..comments2024-03-17T06:47:15.292+00:00Comments on The Brooknerian: To AbbotsfordThe Brooknerianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15396427983022927448noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8704237975096102484.post-58459105107996915242020-08-28T06:00:41.166+01:002020-08-28T06:00:41.166+01:00The library was apparently completely preserved. H...The library was apparently completely preserved. How this was achieved I don't know, but it looked genuine. There was, for example, a large section on Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. Volumes and volumes of Beaumont and Fletcher!The Brooknerianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15396427983022927448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8704237975096102484.post-43054037689615368762020-08-27T22:48:32.694+01:002020-08-27T22:48:32.694+01:00I didn't know (or at least don't remember)...I didn't know (or at least don't remember) about Scott dying on a camp-bed in the dining room. <br /><br />Your selection of photos does bring to mind, if I remember correctly, a lovely passage in Lockhart where Scott, returning from the continent, gets wheeled around his house with boyish glee, so glad was he to be home.<br /><br />The library looks wonderful!Stevennoreply@blogger.com