Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1901 — Walter Scott’s Old Home. [ARTICLE]
Walter Scott’s Old Home.
"Abbottsford,” Walter Scott’s beautiful house, is to be let, with its 1,300 acres of shooting. The novelist’s family have always found the place an expensive one to maintain. It is now owned by his great-granddaughter, Mrs. Maxwell Scott.
