quoted, ii. 43; corrected, 234, 315;
a circumstantial misstatement by,
iii. 65; quoted, 83, 134, 198, 199, 208, 289.
Cunningham, a player and poet, iv. 282.

, Lady E.. letter to, iii. 179.

, Mr Alexander, a friend of
the poet, ii. 59; letter to, iii. 38; letter
from, 122; letters to, 123, 138. 174, 185,
230, 286; song on an event in his life,
iv. 23; letter to, 56; song addressed to.
169; letter to, 203; his exertions for
the family of Burns, 223.
Cunninghame, Mr, of Enterkin, ii. 281.
Curling, a game on the ice, i. 187.
Currie, Dr James. i. 16; iv. 138, 223;
publication of his edition of Burns's
works, 228.

Daer, Lord, Burns dines with, i. 319.
Daily life of Burns at Dumfries, iv. 130.
Dalgarnock, allusion to, in a song, iv. 167.
Dalrymple, Dr William, i. 16, 21, 126;
anecdote of, iii. 56.

Dalrymple, James. Esq., of Orangefield,
ii. 14, 18; letter to, 19.

Dalrymple, school of, attended by Burns,

i. 19.

Dalrymple, Sir John, ii. 41.

Dalzell, John of Barncroch, iv. 16.
Davidson, Betty, her legendary lore,
i. 10, 17.

Davidson, John,' Souter Johnny,' iii. 161.
Davies, Miss, letter to, iii. 196; songs to,
197; letter to, 198; fate of, 199.

Dean of Faculty, the, a satirical ballad,
iv. 182.

Debts of Burns, iv. 221.

Delany, Captain, iii. 199.

Delia, an ode, iii. 39.

Delolme on the English Constitution, a
copy of, anecdote of, iv. 44.
Democratic effusion of Burns, iv. 87.
sentiments of Burns in

1793-4, iv. 86-89.

Dempster, George, of Dunnichen, i. 185.
De Peyster, Colonel, versified note to,
iv. 185.

Dissipation in country towns of Burns's
time, iii. 209.

Distillers, Scotch, i. 203; iv. 292.

Distress, national, in 1793, iv. 13, 181.
Dogs, Burns's, iii. 39.

Domestic circumstances of Burns at
Dumfries, iv. 124.

Doon, river, ii. 33; iii. 159, 244.

Douglas, Mr William, his inquiry into
the date of Burns's attachment to
Highland Mary, i. 248; ii. 217.
Dove, John, innkeeper in Mauchline,

'Dumbarton Drums,' a tune, iv. 287.
Dumfries, Burns at, ii. 96; theatre in,
iii. 102: Burns removes to, 209; his
style of living there (1792), 266; letter
to magistrates of, 290; library at, iv. 44;
king's birthday (1794), celebrated at,
81; Burns's style of living at, 124;
Burns's daily life at, 130; volunteers at,
150; Burns's funeral at, 210.
Dumfries election, ballad on the, iii. 87;
a second ballad on, 89; description of
in verse, 129.

Dumourier, General, iii. 299.

Dunbar, Burns at, ii. 91.

Mr William, ii. 41; letters to,
54, 252; iii. 103, 164.

Duncan, William, recommended by
Burns, iii. 149.

Dundas, Lord President, verses on the
death of, ii. 179.

Dundas, Mr Henry, ii. 125.
Dunfermline, Burns at, ii. 155.
Dunlop, Mrs, of Dunlop, becomes the
friend of Burns, i. 324; letters to, 325;
ii. 29, 55, 57, 75, 200, 225, 241, 257,258,
259,263, 275, 277, 278, 289, 295, 299, 305;
iii. 27, 35, 49, 62, 92. 100, 105, 126, 138,
162, 179, 180, 205, 227, 248, 253, 272, 276
bis; iv. 83, 126, 178, 204; gives up
Burns's letters for publication, 224.
Dunn, Jean, a suspected contrabandist,
iii. 83.

Dunscore, parish kirk of, iii. 49.
Dunse, Burns at, ii. 78, 89.

Ecclefechan, Burns at, in a snow-storm,
iv. 137; the lass of, 269.

Edinburgh, Burns arrives in, ii. 15; Ad-
dress to, 22; society in, in 1787, 57;
Burns's final visit to, iii. 211.
Eglintoun, Earl of. letter to, ii. 27; 71.
Eliza, a heroine of Burns, i. 252.
Ellisland, a farm in Dumfriesshire,
taken by Burns, ii. 243; he commences
living there, 263; description of, 276;
ceremonial at entering the new house,
iii. 59; crop sold at, 193; character as
a farm, 206; quitted by Burns, 207.
Elphinstone, James, epigram on his
translation of Martial, ii. 195.
English gentlemen, two, visit Burns,
iii. 191.

Erskine, Hon. Andrew, iii. 17, 232; post-
script from, 283; his death, iv. 46.
Erskine, Hon. Henry, ii. 16, 17; letter
to, 51; sketch of, 54; displaced from the
deanship of Faculty, iv. 181.

Erskine, J. F., Esq., letter to, iii. 300.
Excise, a situation in, for Burns, ii. 202;
applies for an appointment in his own
district, iii. 69.

Excise Board reprimands Burns, iii. 274.
Excursions, dates of Burns's, examined,
ii. 314.

Eyemouth, Burns made royal-arch
mason at, ii. 90.

Highlands, epigram on hospitality in
the, ii. 103.

Highlands, the, song upon, iii. 113.
tour in, ii. 113-136.

West, short tour of Burns

in, ii. 98.
Hill, Mr Peter, bookseller, ii. 273; letters
to, 273, 291; iii. 29, 33, 117, 125, 164,
184, 190, 220, 308; iv. 13, 107; a kipper
sent to, iv. 184.

Hogg, James, anecdote related by, ii. 84.
Howden, Mr Francis, letter to, ii. 181.
Howff, Burns's, at Dumfries, iv. 192.
'Howlet face'-epigram, iv. 242.
Hoy, Mr James, letters to, ii. 160, 162.
Humphry, James, i. 170; iv. 236.
Hunter, W., of Cockrune, his testimony
regarding the Whistle contest, iii. 71.
Hyslop, John, of Globe Tavern, Dum-
fries, iv. 49; his wife, 192.

Income of Burns at Dumfries, estimated,
iv. 124; Excise salary reduced, 203.
Innerleithen, Burns at, ii. 87.
Intemperance, excess of, at Dumfries in
1794, iv. 57.

Inverary, Burns at, ii. 99.
Inverness, Burns at, ii. 130.
Irvine, Burns resides at, i. 40, 59.

Isle, the, a house occupied by Burns,
ii. 298.

Jacobitism of Burns, ii. 25, 50, 137, 293;
iii. 87, 95.

JEAN,' Burns's (Jean Armour), i. 98,
232; withdraws to Paisley, 253; 270;
her first children, 290; Burns's renewed
intimacy with, ii. 98, 202, 235; finally
married to Burns, 254; marriage for-
mula, 277; comes to Ellisland, 297.
See Burns, Mrs Robert.'
Jedburgh, Burns at, ii. 81.

Jeffrey, Miss, The Blue-eyed Lassie,'
iii. 96, 98.

Jeffrey, Rev. Mr, of Lochmaben, iii. 96.
Johnson, James, his Musical Museum,

ii. 77, 160; songs of Burns in 2d volume,
212-217; letter to, 297; songs in 3d
volume, iii. 108-115; songs in 4th
volume, 234-247; letter to, iv. 67;
songs of Burns in 5th volume of his
Museum, 67-74; songs of Burns in
6th volume, 74-76; letter to, 201.
Johnstone, Captain, a democratic editor,
iii. 270.

Johnston, Sir James, of Westerhall, in
an election contest, iii. 87.

J. T., Burns answers the petition of,
iii. 147.

Miss Peggy, heroine of 'Ye
Banks and Braes of Bonnie Doon,'
i. 197 letter to, 197; song upon, 198;
allusion to her story, 325; ii. 34;
iii. 244.

Ker, Mr, postmaster, ii. 300.
Kilbagie whisky, i 177.
Kilmarnock, i. 220; 257, 270.

mason-lodge, i. 279.
respectables, i. 219.

Kilpatrick, Nelly, the poet's first love,
i. 29.

Kilravock, Burns at, ii. 130.

Kirk wad let me be,' an anecdote,
iv. 288.

Kirk's Alarm, the, a satirical poem,
iii. 55.

Kirkcudbright election of 1795, iv. 141;
election of 1796, 195.
Kirkoswald, Burns resides at, i. 31, 32;
iii. 153.

Kirkpatrick of Dunscore, a Calvinistic
clergyman, ii. 293; iii. 49; 118, 202.
Kirn, the, at Ellisland, 1790, iii. 151.

Ladyman, Mr, anecdote communicated
by, iv. 49.

Langhorne quoted, ii. 65.

Lapraik, John, i. 115, 119, 139.

Lass o' Patie's Mill, a song by Ramsay,
anecdote respecting, iii. 297.

Lawrie, Rev. Archibald, i. 300; letters
to, 326, 327.

Lawrie, Rev. George, of London, i. 299,
304, 325; ii. 35.

Lawrie, Sir R., of Maxwelton, iii. 67, 72.
Leglen Wood, a haunt of Wallace, i. 48.
Leith, scheme to remove Burns to, iv. 164.
Lewars, Jessy, a young friend of Mrs

Burns her kind services, iv. 194;
songs upon, 193, 195; epigrams upon,
198, 199, 246.

Lewars, John, a brother-officer of Burns,
iii. 83; iv. 194, 222.

Liberty, Tree of,' a poem, iv. 87.
Library, a parish, Burns's care of, iii.
33, 125; account of by Burns, 203.
Licentious traditionary poetry described,
iv. 52.

Light, New, described, i. 131.

Lindsay, Isabella, admired by Burns at
Jedburgh, ii. 82, 84.
Linlithgow, Burns at, ii. 114.

Little, Janet, the poetical milkmaid,
iii. 162, 179.

Lochlea, Burns family at, i. 31.

Lockhart, Mr, biographer of Burns,
quoted, iii.152, 223; iv. 66.

Lockhart, Mr George, of Glasgow, letter
to, ii. 274.

Logan, Major William, epistle to, i. 322.

Miss, verses to, ii. 27.

Mr John, of Knockshinnoch,

letter to, iii. 54; 59.
Lorimer, Miss Jean, iii. 235; her story,
iv. 103. See 'Chloris.'
Lounger, Burns criticised in the, ii. 18;
Burns's opinion of, iii. 127.
Love-letters, early, of Burns, i. 55.
Love-letter to an unknown lady, 'My
dear Countrywoman,' ii. 103.

Love letters written by Burns for a
friend, iv. 128.

Lowe, author of Mary's Dream, iv.
14, 18.

Lumsdale, Henry, Highland Harry,'
iii. 109.

Mabane, Miss, note to, ii. 172.

M'Adam, Mr, of Craigengillan, i. 297.
M'Auley, Mr, of Dumbarton, letter to,
iii. 47.

M'Creery, John, of Liverpool, printer of
Currie's edition, iv. 229.

M'Culloch, David, of Ardwell, iv. 81.
M'Gill, Rev. Mr, of Ayr, iii. 54, 119.
M'Guire, the Ayr violer, ii. 16.
Mackenzie, Henry, author of 'The Man
of Feeling,' ii. 18; remarks on his
writings, iii. 127; ballads by, iv. 290.
Mackenzie, Mr John, surgeon at Mauch.
line, i. 267, 279, 319; letters to, 321;
ii. 28, 172.

Mackenzie of Applecross, satirised by
Burns, i. 256.

Mackinlay, Rev. James, i. 220; iii. 57.
Maclauchlan, Mrs. a song upon, ii. 216.
M Lehose, Mrs (Clarinda), account of,
ii. 175; letters to, 175, 176, 177, 178, 183;
lines by. 185; letters to, 185, 187, 189,
190, 192, 194 bis, 195, 196, 197, 206; a
farewell to, 207; letters to, 207, 208,
209, 210, 211; her religious views, 219;
letters to, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224 bis,
230 bis, 232, 237, 238, 245; remarks on
the correspondence with, 255; letters
to, iii. 25, 105; song to, 106; letter to,
with verses, 212; her voyage to the
West Indies, 213; letters to, 213; songs
upon, 214, 215, 216, 217; returns from
the West Indies, 268; letter to, 285;
last letter to, iv. 83; final allusion of
Burns to, 107; letters of Burns in her
possession, 224.

M'Leod, Isabella, of Raasay, a song
upon, ii. 215.

M'Leod, John, on the death of, ii. 106.
of Dunvegan, iii. 272.

333

M'Murdo, Phillis, song referring to,
iv. 21, 27.

Macpherson, Jares, a Highland robber,
ii. 213.

Macquechan's, Rob, elshon, an incident
in life of Bruce, iii. 142.
M'Whinnie, Mr, writer, Ayr, i. 235.
Marriage, Burns's, question if it was
ever annulled, ii. 317.

Marriage, irregular, not to be annulled
except by divorce, ii. 201.

Martial, epigram on a translation of,
ii. 195; a paraphrase upon one of his
epigrams, iv. 149.

Mary, Highland, see Campbell, Mary.'
Queen of Scots, iii. 170.
Mason-lodge at Dumfries, notes from its
book, iv. 191.

Masterton, Allan, iii. 64, 68; iv. 50.

-, Ann, Bonnie Ann,' iii. 110.
Mauchline, i. 84, 98, 101; description of,
168; Burns's return to, ii. 96.
Maxwell, Dr, a physician at Dumfries,
iv. 95, 173, 198, 223.

Maxwell, John, Esq. of Terraughty,
verses to, iii. 204; iv. 143.

Maxwell, Provost, of Lochmaben, letter
to, iii. 95.

Mayne, John, a Scottish poet, i. 154;
iii. 310.

'Merry Beggars,' an old song, prototype
of Burns's Jolly Beggars,' i. 181.
Michie, William, epitaph upon, iv. 241.
Miller, Captain, of Dalswinton, iii. 87,

129; iv. 55.

Miller, Mr James, produces air of 'Ye
banks and braes,' &c., iv. 114.

Miller, Patrick, of Dalswinton, ii. 21, 28,
96; letters to, 139, 157; lets a farm to
Burns, 242; his concern in originating
steam navigation, 244; iii. 184, 207;
letter to, 291.

Miller, Peter, junior, iv. 123.
Mill-Mannoch on the Coyl, scene of a
song, iii. 294.

Mill Vennel, Dumfries, Burns removes
to, iii. 307.

Ministry, neglect of Burns by the,
iv. 152.

Mirecleuch prosecution, iii. 146.
Mirry, Mrs Anne, i. 73.

Mitchell, Collector, iii. 148; letter to,
149; referred to by Burns as a critic,
iv. 156; rhymed note to, 180.
Mitchelson, Mr Samuel, W.S., ii. 77.
Moir, J., printer, anecdote told by, ii. 23.
Monboddo, Lord, ii. 21.

the, ii. 105.

M'Math, Rev. John, i. 127, 140.

M'Morine, Rev. Mr, minister of Caer-
laverock, iii. 278.

M'Murdo, John, Esq., letters to, iii. 13,
134, 292; 314; iv. 52, 224.
M'Murdo, Mrs, letter to, iii. 37.

for, iii. 173, 316.

Monkland Friendly Society, iii. 33, 125,
202, 203.

Mons Meg, a cannon, iii. 130.
Monteath, Sir James, of Closeburn,
anecdote communicated by, iii. 115.
Montgomery, Maj.-gen. James, i. 278.

Montgomery's Peggy, i. 73, 102.
Montrose, Burns at, ii. 136.
Mondie, Rev. Alexander, i. 124, 266.
Moore, Dr John. ii 19; letters to, 31, 43,
72, 107, 307; iii. 31: letter from, 32;
letters to, 128. 172; advice from, 173.
Morine, Mr. purchases Ellisland, iii. 208.
Morning Chronicle. Burns asked to con-
tribue to, iv. 123; writes a letter to
the editor of 129.
Morrison, Mary. a song, i. 71; ii. 217.

Mr, Mauchline, note to. ii. 286.
Mossiel, Burns's farm, i. 84; Burns's
room at, i. 144, 187

Muir, Robert, of Kilmarnock, an early
friend of Burns. i. 219; letters to, 230,
291; ii. 71, 116, 240.

Muir W., of Torbolton Mill, i. 110; ii. 236.
Muirhead, Rev. James of Urr, iv. 148,
149. 197.

Murdoch, John, first teacher of Burns,
i. 17, 18. 21, 24; letter of the poet to,
Jan. 1783, 64; letter from, ii. 163;
iii. 119; letter to, 133.
Murray,

་

Esq., of Broughton, iv. 141,

146, 148, 196.
Murray, Euphemia, of Lintrose, ii. 150.
Sir William, of Ochtertyre,

ii. 123, 145.

Murray's Literary History of Galloway
quoted, iii. 59.

Mylne, Mr, poems of, iii. 28, 29.

Na-myth, Alexander, paints Burns's
portrait, ii. 42; iv. 163.

Newal, Mr David, writer, ii. 298; iii. 141;
iv. 130.

Newcastle, Burns at, ii. 93.
Nicholson. Peg, a horse, iii, 118.
Nicol, Mr William, ii. 93; letters to, 91,
97; his character and history, 111; ac-
companies Burns in Highlands, 113-
136; letter to, 149; affair of Willie
brewed a peck o' Maut,' iii 64; pur-
chases an estate, 65; letter to, 117;
letter of Nicol to Ainslie, 144; letter
to, 222; with Allan Masterton at
Dumfries, iv. 50; epitaph upon, 241.
Nielson, Rev. Mr, of Kirkbean, iii. 118.
Nith, song on the, iii. 114.
Niven, Rev. Dr, of Dunkeld, i. 133.

, William, a companion of Burns
at Kirkoswald, i. 33, 244, note, 290.

Ochtertyre on the Teith, Burns at, ii. 152.
Ochtertyre. Strathearn, Burns enter-
tained at, ii. 148.

Officer, military, quarrel of Burns with,
at Dumfries, iv. 57.

Old Rome Forest, Burns concealed at,
i. 283.

Oswald, Mrs, of Auchincruive, satire on,

iii. 19.

Oswald, Richard A., Esq. of Auchin-
cruive, iv. 144; letter to, 153; song upon
his wife, 155.

Paine's Rights of Man, &c., anecdote of
a copy of. iv. 45.

Paisley, Burns at, ii. 100.
Parker, Hugh epistle to, ii. 266.

—, W., Kilmarnock. i. 219, 279.
Patron, an unknown, letter to, iii. 17.
Pattison, Mr, of Kelvin Grove, rencon.
tre of, with Burns, iv. 173.
Pattison, Mr, of Paisley, letter to, ii.
89; 100, 231.

Peacock, Miss Mary (Mrs James Gray),
ii. 209; letter to, iii. 268; 285.
Peebles, Rev. William, i. 267; iii. 57.
Penn, Matthew, solicitor, iv. 205, 209.
Percy's Reliques of English poetry,
iii. 172.

Perry, Mr, of the Morning Chronicle,
makes an offer to Burns, iv. 123.
Phrenological view of Burns's head,
iv. 307.

Pickering, author of 'Donocht-Head,'
iv. 99.

Pindar, Peter, iii. 282, 284; iv. 27.

Pitt. William, his opinion of Burns's
poetry, iv. 153.

Poet's Progress, the, fragment of, iii. 15.
Poet, wretchedness of the, depicted by
Burns, iv. 19. **

Political feelings of Burns, ii. 50, 293;
iii. 87, 210; iv. 45, 57, 86.
Portraits of Burns: Nasmyth's, ii. 42;
Miers's, 168, 181; iv. 163.

Posthumous child, verses on birth of,
iii. 162; curious history of, 163, 205.
Poverty of Burns overstated, iv. 124.
Prentice, Archibald, of Manchester
Times,' ii. 13.

Prentice, Mr, farmer at Covington
Mains, entertains Burns, ii. 13.
Psalms, verses of, quoted by Burns,
iii. 47, 48.

Punch-bowl, Burns's, iii. 191.

Queensberry, Duke of, iii. 87, 129; iv. 171.

Ramsay. Mr David, of Edinburgh Cou-
rant, iii. 30.

Ramsay, Mr John, of Ochtertyre, ii. 145,
147; iii. 142.

Rankine, John, a friend of Burns, i. 90;
iv. 238.

Religion, state of in west of Scotland in
Burns's time, i. 121.

Religious feelings and views of Burns,
i. 122, 159; ii. 55, 190, 219; iii. 49, 63,
93; iv. 65.

Renton, Mr, of Lamerton, ii. 90.
Renwick, Mrs, of New York, iii. 97.
Revolution, French, Burns's sympathy
with the, iii. 210, 269; iv. 87.
Richardson, Gabriel, epitaph on, iv. 245.
Richmond, John, an early companion of
Burns, i 143. 181; letters to, 226, 271,
283; ii. 25, 104.

Riddel, Captain, of Glenriddel, ii. 270,
285; verses on returning him a news-