Abbotsford House Abbotsford House Abbotsford is a historic country house in the Scottish Borders, near Melrose, on the south bank of the River Tweed. It was formerly the residence of historical novelist and poet, Sir Walter Scott. It is a Category A Listed Building. The nucleus of the estate was a small farm of , called Cartleyhole, nicknamed Clarty (i.e., muddy) Hole, and was bought by Scott on the lapse of his lease (1811) of the neighbouring house of Ashestiel. He first built a small villa and named it Abbotsford, creating the name from a ford nearby where previously abbots of Melrose
On the Banks of Plum Creek and her sister have to quit school because it closed when the grasshoppers arrive. Pa becomes lost near their home during a severe four-day blizzard. The novel ends with the happy family reunited on Christmas Eve. Although Plum Creek (in Redwood County, Minnesota) is near the town of Walnut Grove, the name is not mentioned in the novel. Virginia Kirkus had handled Wilder's debut novel "Little House in the Big Woods" for Harper & Brothers as its book editor from 1926 to 1932. In "Kirkus Reviews", her semi-monthly bulletin from 1933, she awarded this novel a starred review (as she