Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Ferrier visited Walter Scott at Ashiestiel Farm and House on the banks of the River Tweed, near Clovenfords in the Scottish Borders, and again in 1829 and 1831 at his new house, Abbotsford. They enjoyed each other's company and he wrote of her: "This gifted personage besides having great talents has conversation the least exigeant of any author, female at least..., simple, full of humour, and exceedingly ready at repartee, and all this without the least affectation of the blue stocking." He mentioned her in the same sentence as Maria Edgeworth and Frances Burney in 1825. Ferrier's account of the
The Tweed Daily with W.T.K Baird as publisher. On 1 November 1986, the Tweed Newspaper Company commenced publication of the "Tweed and Gold Coast Daily News", which split into the "Tweed Daily News" and the "Gold Coast News" in 1989. The "Tweed Daily News" changed its name to the "Daily News" in 1993, then to the "Tweed Daily News" in 2007. In 2011 it changed back to the "Daily News", also published as the "Daily News: Tweed, Murwillumbah and Southern Gold Coast". In 2014, the name changed to the "Tweed Daily News" and it became available online. This paper has been digitised as