text: ABBOTSFORD AND NEWSTEAD ABBEY
  
  BY 
  
  WASHINGTON IRVING 
  
  ABBOTSFORD. 
  
  By WASHINGTON IRVING. 
  I sit down to perform my promise of giving you an account of a visit made many years since to Abbotsford. I hope, however, that you do not expect much from me, for the travelling notes taken at the time are so scanty and vague, and my memory so extremely fallacious, that I fear I shall disappoint you with the meagreness and crudeness of my details. 
  Late in the evening of August 29, 1817, I arrived at the ancient little border town of Selkirk, where I put up for the night. I had come down from Edinburgh, partly to visit Melrose Abbey and its vicinity, but chiefly to get sight of the "mighty minstrel of the north." I had a letter of introduction to him from Thomas Campbell, the poet, and had reason to think, from the interest he had taken in some of my earlier scribblings, that a visit from me would not be deemed an intrusion.
tokens: ABBOTSFORD AND NEWSTEAD ABBEY BY WASHINGTON IRVING ABBOTSFORD . By WASHINGTON IRVING . I sit down to perform my promise of giving you an account of a visit made many years since to Abbotsford . I hope , however , that you do not expect much from me , for the travelling notes taken at the time are so scanty and vague , and my memory so extremely fallacious , that I fear I shall disappoint you with the meagreness and crudeness of my details . Late in the evening of August 29 , 1817 , I arrived at the ancient little border town of Selkirk , where I put up for the night . I had come down from Edinburgh , partly to visit Melrose Abbey and its vicinity , but chiefly to get sight of the " mighty minstrel of the north . " I had a letter of introduction to him from Thomas Campbell , the poet , and had reason to think , from the interest he had taken in some of my earlier scribblings , that a visit from me would not be deemed an intrusion .
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