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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
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)
Aiken, Grace, account of Burns in Alexander, Claud, of Ballochmyle,
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)
Armour, Adam, i. 247; 247 (n); Arnot, John, of Dalquhatswood,
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,
419 (enclosing Brigs of Ayr'); 447 (enclosing Winter's Night'); ii. 12; 20 (Edinburgh doings); 36 (patrons, and masonic affairs); 58 (Edinburgh edition, 1787); 93 (price of Edinburgh edition of poems); iii. 285 (with money) Ballochmyle, i. 379; 446; 467; see also Alexander and Whitefoord: The Braes of,' iv. 403 ii. Balmerino's, Lord, dirk, iv. 87 Banff, ii. 172
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;
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-
BACHELORS' CLUB, Tarbolton, i. Begbie's tavern, Kilmarnock, i. 299 65-69
Bacon (Brownhill Inn), see Brown- Beggars, i. 122 (n); 145 (n); 232 hill
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);
'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
Belles of Mauchline, see Mauchline
Benson, Miss (Mrs Basil Montagu), account of, iii. 402 (n); anecdote of B., iii. 401; letter to, iii. 400; iv. 74
Holy Fair'); 417; 449; ii. 75; 86; 86 (n) B.'s opinion of; 97 (letter of thanks to, his stilted reply and good advice)
Blair, Sir David H., ii. 143 (n)
Berry well, ii. 99 (n); 102; 112; Blair, Sir James H., ii. 137; 141;
Bertinnazzi, iv. 115 (n) Berwick, Burns at, ii. 114
'Bessie Bell and Mary Gray,' ii. 176; 191
'Bess the Gawkie,' iv. 371 Bengo, John, engraver, ii. 55; 55 (n); iii. 54; engraving of B., ii. 100; letter to, ii. 366 Beuronville, iii. 411 (n) 'Bible, Complete
142, 143 (death of); 181 (») Blair Athole, ii. 160, 162
Blane, John, Burns's gaudsman,' i. 200; 336
Blink o'er the Burn, Sweet Bettie,' iv. 382
Bloomfield, iii. 381 (n)
Blythsome Bridal, The,' iv. 382 Blythswood, Lord, early edition of poems, iv. 228
Bob o' Dunblane, The,' iv. 412 Bonie brucket Lassie, The,' iv. 382 'Bonie Dundee,' air of, iv. 327 Bookkeeper in West Indies, i. 315; 394 position of, i. 394 (») Books, see Burns, Robert, reading Border Tour, ii. 94; 102-
Family,' ii. 356; 356 (n) Biggar, Misses, Kirkoswald, anec- dote of B. and, i. 49 Birtwhistle, Alexander, Kirkend- bright, iii. 127 (n); iv. 200; 200 (n) 'Black Bonnet,' meaning of, i. 193; Borrowed materials of B., iv. 477 360 (n) Borrowstouness, ii. 149
Black Bull Inn, Glasgow, ii. 299 Boston, Rev. Thomas, iii. 77; 77 (n)
'Blackfoot,' office of, i. 337 (n) Blackguards, something good in all, i. 105
'Black Jock,' see Russell, Rev.
John, Kilmarnock
Blacklock, Dr, i. 416; 416 (π); 417 (letter in praise of B.'s poems to Rev. Mr Lawrie, Loudon); 448 (second letter); ii. 41 (B. visits); 43; 74; letter from, iii. 111, 112 (rhymed); 183; 201: letters to, ii. 387; iii. 113 (rhymed): iv. 372; 387; 389; 391; 392; 393; 396; 397; 398; 400; 401; 404 'Black Monday,' ii. 17 (n) Blackstock, Jane, iii. 390
Blair, Alexander, Catrine House, letter to, ii. 330
Blair, David, letter to, iii. 36
Boswell, James, of Auchinleck, i.
279 (n); 467 (n); ii. 373 Bowmaker, Rev. Dr, Duns, ii. 103; 116
Boyd, Rev. William, of Fenwick, i. 301 (2)
Breadalbane, fourth Earl of, i. 347 ; | 347 (n)
Breslau, conjurer, anecdote of, ii. || 356 (n)
Brice, David, Glasgow, letters to, as to Jean Armour and poems, i. 345; 345 (n); 368 British and English, iii. 178 Brodie of Brodie, ii. 169 (n); 177 Brougham, The, Glasgow, ii. 151
(publishes letter to Robert Muir) Broun, Agnes, see Burnes, Mrs, mother of poet
Blair, Rev. Dr, i. 361 (»); 367 (on Brownhill Inn, ii. 123 (n); iii. 65;
(The Soldier's Return') 418 ("); Burnes, Mrs, mother of poet, i. 23;
27; 42; 453; 454; iii. 97; 203; iv. 533 Burnes, Robert,
Brown, Rev. Dr John (Self-Inter- preting Bible), iii. 77 (n) Brown, Richard, i. 18; 78; ii. 299, 300; letters to, ii. 235; 297; 305; 316; 325; iii. 79; 123 Brown, Samuel, Kirkoswald, letter Burnes, Sir Alexander, i. 26 (~1) ; ii.
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),
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 (»)
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
Burnes, James, Montrose, i. 26 (n); Burns family, i. 22; 26 ; 38-45;
Burnes, John (‘Thrummy Cap'), ii.
54 (n); iv. 532-534; see also Burns, Robert, ancestry and children
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