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 the "Tweed and Brunswick Advocate", published by John William Kilner. On 26 July 1905, publisher P.W. Tarlinton renamed it the "Tweed Times and Brunswick Advocate", also known as the "Tweed Times". In July 1893 George Niklin started publishing the "Tweed Herald and Brunswick Chronicle", also known as the "Tweed Herald". On 1 January 1914, the first edition of "The Tweed Dail"y was published; this incorporated the "Tweed Herald" and the "Tweed Times". The "Tweed Daily" was replaced by the "Tweed and South Coast Daily" on 18 April 1949, which was then continued by "The Daily News", on 1 July 1957,