Today, we mark 193 years since the life of Sir Walter Scott, Scotland's greatest author and antiquarian, came to an end. Scott's final moments were spent in the dining room of Abbotsford, overlooking the River Tweed - A view he had cherished all his life. On September 21st 1832, surrounded by family, Scott found rest to the sound of the water outside. 🤍 "It was so quiet a day that the sound he best loved, the gentle ripple of the tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around
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