ABERDEEN, ii. 173 (lazy town)
Aberfeldy, ii. 158

Abergeldie, ii. 158

Abraham, Heights of, i. 233 (n)
Acquaintanceship often disappoint-
ing, ii. 314

Adair, Dr, iv. 390; accompanies
Burns to Ochtertyre, ii. 187; ¦
187 (n); 197; marries Charlotte

Hamilton, ii. 188

Adam, Dr, Edinburgh High School,
ii. 395

Adam, R. B., Buffalo, Burns MSS.

belonging to, iii. 441

Adam, Robert, architect, i. 422 (n)
Adams, Dr, iv. 159 (n); 164 (n)
Afton, Glen, i. 337 and 337 (n)
Afton MSS., iii. 285; 459, 460

Aiken, Andrew H., son of Robert,
i. 332; 332 (n)

Ainslie, Douglas, ii. 102; 117
Ainslie family, ii. 102, 103; 116, 117
Ainslie, John, map of Scotland, iii.
53 (n)

Ainslie, Rachel, ii. 102, 103; 116
Ainslie, Robert, W.S., ii. 99; 102,
103; 116; 122; 187; 311; iii. 81 ;
iv. 128 letters to, ii. 117 (Border
tour); 128 (West Highland tour);
136; 147 (northern tour); 210;
273; 308; 339; 343 (on entering
Ellisland); 349, 353 (Myers pro-
files); 365 (on Nicol's affairs);
iii. 22; 82; 122; 299; 424: visits
Burns at Ellisland, iii. 210.
Airds, iv. 16; 20

Aitken, George A., and Highland
Mary, i. 470

Albany, Duchess of, ii. 178, 179,
180 (n)

of Nature and Principles of Taste
to Burns, iii. 232; and poet's
letter of thanks, iii. 233
Alison, Stephen, iv. 193 (n)
Allan, David, painter, iii. 354; iv.
86; 114; 118; 172; 174; 259:
drawing for John Anderson,' iv.
25 portrait of Burns, iv. 222;
225; 226

Allan Water, iv. 380
Alloway, i. 22; 28; 38

Alloway Kirk, account of, iii. 215
(n): Devil in, origin of, iii. 217
(n): Burns Cottage, see Ayr
Almanacs, notable, ii. 17 (n)
Alnwick, ii. 117

American Independence, leaders in
war of, i. 348 (n)

American War, Ballad on, ii. 63
Anacharsis, iv. 190; 253

Ancestry of B., see Burns, Robert
Anchor Close, ii. 52; 53
Anderson, Dr James, iii. 201 : letter
to, iii. 202

Angus Fencible Infantry, iv. 287
Angus, W. Craibe, Glasgow, iv.
428 (n)

Animals, tenderness of B. for, iii.
74

Antiquary, The, iv. 365

Arbigland, iii. 196 (n); 401; iv. 518
Argument, fondness for, see Burns,
Robert

Argyll, fifth Duke of, ii. 127; 128:
fourth Duke of, and Sheriffmuir,
iv. 412

247; 257 (n); 312 ; 321; 335;
344 (at Paisley); 344 (n); 368;
382-384; 388; 396, 397; 418; ii.
122; 124; 246; 308, 309; 317;
331 -;
iii. 21; 33; 38; 39;
211; 350; 372 (n); iv. 93 (n);
402; 408 her beauty, i. 226 (n);
257 (n): and B. publicly rebuked
in church, i. 367 (n): children,
see under Burns, Robert: B.'s
duty towards, ii. 339; 341; 358;
iii. 45; iv. 416-
-: expelled from
her father's house, ii. 308, 309: B.'s
feelings for, i. 312; 345; 368;
389; ii. 33; 306; 309; 317; 331 ;
338; iv. 413; 416-: a good
wife, ii. 333; iii. 197; 365; iv.
417: household management, iii.
197 letter to, from Ellisland, ii.
372; from Brow, iv. 283: B.'s
love for, iv. 417: magnanimity,
iii. 365; iv. 417: marriage ac-
knowledged, ii. 334 -: marriage
private, i. 313; 313 (π) ; 317; 321;
ii. 266, 267; see also under Burns,
Robert, marriage: singing, gift
of, ii. 376; iii. 163; 345; 432; iv.
122; 148; 408; 417; 426: Steven-
son, R. L., on, i. 344 (n): songs
to, ii. 347, 348; iv. 328; 401; 402;
after B.'s death, 290; 292-: death
of, 295: sale of furniture, 295 (n)
Armstrong, John, journalist and
poet, iii. 164 and 165 (n)
Arnold, Matthew, on Burns, iv.
460; on 'Jolly Beggars,' i. 243 (n)

ii. 361; iii. 296

Armour family, ii. 122

Armour, James, Jean's father, i.
313, 314; 314 (π); 317; 383, 384
(threatens legal proceedings) :
Burns's notes to during last ill-
ness, iv. 278; 284
Armour, Jean, i. 100 (n); 120; 134
(n); 135; 137, 138 (B. first meets);
137 (); 138 (n); 140 (n); 229;

letter to, as to publication of
poems and poet's feelings in
1786, i. 319

Athole, fourth Duke of, ii. 160-
162; family of, ii. 161; 166
Auchenbay, iii. 77
Auchencruive, iii. 56 (n); see also
Oswald

'Auld Lang Syne,' air of, iii. 92

(n): early versions of, ii. 408—:

mystifications about, ii. 392,

393

Auld Lights, i. 167-169; 172
Auld, Rev. Dr William, Mauchline
(Daddy Auld'), i. 167, 168; 175
(n); 184-186; 184 (n); 186 (n);
190; 227 (n); 230 (n); 299 (n);
356 (n); 367; 367 (n) rebukes
B. and Jean Armour in church;
391; iii. 95; iv. 418; 493
Autobiography of Burns, i. 9
140; 241; 399 -

;

Ayr, Auld Brig, i. 419; 423 (n);
424 (u); Burns Cottage at, i. 27;
fair, iii. 18; in seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, i. 302 (n);
New Bridge, i. 419; 422 (n); 423
(n); 425 (n); old jail, i. 421 (n);
Wallace Tower, i. 421 (n)
Ayr Observer, ii. 66 (letter to Henry
Erskine with When Guilford
good')

Ayrshire, districts of, i. 46; 139;
140 (n); 178 (n); 259 (n); 288
(n); iii. 160 in 1783, i. 107
Ayrshire Ploughman, The, ii. 46;

71

Ayton, Sir Robert, iv. 409

Bannatyne, Rev. George, of Craigie,
ii. 41 (n)

Bannockburn, ii. 151; 151 (n)
Barbauld, Mrs, iii. 271 (n): on B.,
ii. 57 (n)

Barbour, James, Dumfries, iv. 114
(n)

Barclay, Rev. John, iii. 157
Barskimming, i. 259 (n)
Beattie, Dr James, i. 261 (n); 302
(n); ii. 171; 183; 201
Beauty, B.'s feeling for, iv. 523
'Beds of sweet roses, The,' iv. 372
Bee, The, iii. 201 (B. asked to write
for)

Begbie, Ellison, B.'s admiration for
and letters to, i. 69-

(n)

Baillie, Lady Grissel, iv. 389
Baillie, Lesley (Bonie Lesley '),
beauty of, ii. 357; iii. 323, 324;
327; 358; 368; 428: letter to,
iii. 428

Baird, Principal, iii. 239
Balfour, James, singer, iv. 48
Ballad literature, Burns's want of
interest in, iv. 467
Ballantine, John, banker, Ayr, i.
419; 419 (n); 445 (offers loan
for second edition of poems);
ii. 12; 58; iii. 92 (n): letters to,
i. 317 (publishing proposals);

(n)

'Beggars, The Jolly,' see 'Jolly
Beggars'

Begg, J. Stevenson, Irvine, iii. 41
(n)

Begg, Isabella, recollections, i. 108;
119; 157; 271

Begg, Mrs, sister of poet, and

family, iv. 354; reminiscences, i.
29 (n); 42 (n); 43 (n); 53 (n); 64
(n); 72; 87, 100, 101; 108; 109;
134; 198; 216; 217 (n); 336;
431; 454; ii. 122; 125; 329; 333

(n)

Belles of Mauchline, see Mauchline

iv. 60; 60 (n); 61

27; 42; 453; 454; iii. 97; 203;
iv. 533
Burnes, Robert,

174; 177 (n)

Stonehaven, ii.

to, ii. 338

Brow village, B. goes to, iv. 275;
279; 283, 284; returns from, iv. 284
Bruar Water, ii. 161, 162; 163 (π)
Bruce, James (the African traveller),

ii. 150; 150 (n)

Bruce, King Robert, i. 201 (n);
grave of, ii. 197; helmet and
sword of, ibid.

Bruce, Michael, new edition of, B.
offers all his unpublished poems
for, iii. 239

Bruce, Mrs, Clackmannan, ii. 196
Bruce, Rev. John, Forfar, ii. 175
Brunswick, Duke of, iv. 130
Brydone, Patrick, traveller, i. 260
(); ii. 104; 104 (n)
Buchan, Bullers of, ii. 173
Buchan, Earl of, ii. 46, 47 (letter of
advice from, and B.'s reply); iii.
277, 278 (inviting B. to the un-
veiling of monument to Thom-
son the poet, and B.'s reply); iii.
387 (Thomson monument); iv. 71
(letter with copy of Scots wha
hae')

Buchanites, i. 131 — ; 134 ; 134 (n);
iv. 372

'Buckskin,' nickname of, i. 123
Bullers of Buchan, ii. 173; 173 (#);
iii. 185

Bunyan, iii. 77 (n)

Burgoyne, General, ii. 64 (n)
Burn, Robert, architect, iii. 313
Burnes, Dr James, i. 23

Burnes, Robert, uncle of poet, iii.
40 (death of, at Stewarton); 41 (»)

175

Burnes, William, father of poet, i.
10; 14, 15 (passions strong); 17;
23; 26, 27, 28, 29 (letter to James
Burnes); 35, 36 ('Cotter's Satur-
day Night'); 38; 40--; 43
(opinion of poet); 49; 56; 72; 80
(letter to from B. at Irvine, low
spirits); 101 (admires My Nanie
O'); 107 (last illness); 109 (death
and character); 110 (grave, and
inscription); 36; 167 (Arminian-
ism); 216 (religious views); 36;
455 (Manual of Religious Belief)
Burness, James, writer, Montrose,
i. 28 letters to, i. 107 (illness of
B.'s father, and state of Ayr-
shire); 110 (announcing death of
poet's father); 130, 131 (Buchan-
ites); 346; 408 (as to B.'s going
abroad); ii. 167 (meeting at
Stonehaven); 175 (hurriedly leav-
ing Montrose); 177 (with copies
of poems); iii. 39 (on B.'s mar-
riage); iv. 280 (asking money
during B.'s last illness); and
reply, 281; 290 (help to B.'s
widow)

Burnett, Elizabeth, of Monboddo,
beauty and wit of, ii. 24; 24 (n);
30; 304; elegy on, iii. 231
Burns Celebrations, iv. 536
Burns Chronicle, iv. 536
Burns Clubs, iv. 357

Burns Cottage, see Ayr

28 (n)

Burnes, John (‘Thrummy Cap'), ii.

174 (n)

54 (n); iv. 532-534; see also
Burns, Robert, ancestry and
children