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he Journal read by Prof. David W. Purdie
This is the entry in Scott's Journal for December 18th 1825. After several days and indeed weeks of mounting tension due to the evolving financial crisis in London Scott had a visitor on that morning which announced that he had failed financially and that The Crash was upon him. This is his entry in his Journal of that fatal morning.
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Permission was obtained from Canongate Books to reproduce the extracts from the 1972 edition shown below.
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