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 the Old Raritan song, or "alma mater". Fuller wrote the lyrics in two hours setting them to the tune of a popular melody "On the Banks of the Old Dundee." According to a later interview with the "Rutgers Alumni Monthly", Fuller stated he chose "On the Banks of the Old Dundee" as the song "immediately struck me that the air of that song had the right melody and the stirring and martial swing for an effective college song." "On the Banks of the Old Raritan" and thirteen other Rutgers songs appeared in the second edition of the "Carmina Collegensia", published in 1876. It