i. 17; 51 (); 86; 102; 106; Small, James, On Ploughs, ii. 213 (n); 387 Shepherd, Rev. John, Muirkirk, iii. Small, Jolin, iii. 240
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, iv. 143 (n); 144; 144 (n); 165 Sheriff, Agues, ('My Nanie, O'), i. 101 (n) Sheriffmuir, iv. 412
Shield, William, composer, iv. 144; 144 (n)
Shirrefs, Andrew, poet, ii. 173 (μ) Sibbald, James, bookseller, Edin- burgh, i. 444; ii. 32; 32 (n) Siddons, Mrs, in Edinburgh, ii. 88; 88 (n)
Sidmouth, Lord, verses by, ii. 171 Silence, value of, iii. 43, 44 Sillar, David, i. 66; 67, 68 (re- collections of B.); 87, 88; 144; 148 (n); 210; iii. 89; 90 (letter)
Simpson, Johnie, iii. 77; 77 (n) Simpson, Rev. Richard, Dunscore,
Simpson's tavern, Ayr, i. 419; 421 () Simpson, William, schoolmaster, Ochiltree, i. 177; 177 (n)
Smeaton, Rev. D., Kilmaurs, ii. 186
Smellie, Alexander, on Maria Riddel, iv. 520
Smellie, William, Edinburgh, printer of 1787 edition, ii. 51 — ; iii. 27; 165; 311 (letter intro- ducing Mrs Walter Riddel); 313 (visits Dumfries); iv. 16
Smith, Adam, i. 104; ii. 71; 71 (n); iii. 73 (Wealth of Nations); 77 (1) Moral Sentiments
Smith, Charlotte, iii. 181 Smith, James, Mauchline, after-
wards Linlithgow, i. 230; 244 ; 254 (n); 306; 312 (letter that B. will never marry Jean Armour); 385 (letter as to West Indies); ii. 122 (on return to Mossgiel); 131 (West Highland journey); 149; 334 (announcing B.'s mar- riage)
Smith, J. Parker, ii. 42 (n)
Sincerity of B., iv. 448; 450; 452; Smith, Rev. Andrew, Langton, ii. 453; 463
Sinclair, Sir John, iii. 290 (letters to, as to Monkland Library); 290 (n)
Skateraw, B. at, ii. 116
Smith, Rev. George, Galston, i. 176 (n); 362 (n); iii. 94 (n) Smith, Rev. W. Wye, i. 428 (n) Highland Mary
Skerrington, see Maxwell Camp- Smugglers, bell
Skinner, Bishop, ii. 173; 174 (n) Skinner, Dean (Tullochgorum '), ii. 174; 174 (»); 181, 182 (rhymed letter from); 183 (answer to, referring to Scottish songs); 184 (reply); 296 (letter on Scot- tish songs); iv. 397; 404, 405;
Skirvan, Mr, Haddington, iv. 386 Sloan, Thomas, Dumfries, iii. 259; 276 (sale of crop at Ellisland)
Burns's adventure with, and The Diel's awa wi' th' Exciseman,' iii. 316, 317; 320 Smuggling, i. 46
Sneddon, David, i. 356 (n) Snowstorm, great, of 1795, iv. 192;
Soldier's Return, The,' origin of, iii. 418 (n)
Solemn League and Covenant, lines on, iv. 313
Somerville, Dr Thomas, ii. 105
Somerville, John, writer, Edin- Steven, Isabella, i. 53 (n)
Somerville, Mrs Mary, ii. 1
Steven, Rev. James (The Calf'), i.
Thomas, ii. Stevenson, R. L., on Jean Armour,
Songs, Burns's, elaboration of, iii. Stewart, Anne (Alexander Cun-
Songs, Scottish, i. 140–142 (thoughts on); ii. 146; 183, 184; 200; iv. 142; 146; 171; and correspond- ence with Thomson passim, see Thomson: B.'s, in Thomson's collection, payment for, iv. 226: scarce in south-western counties, iv. 371; 391 Song-writing important in Burns's eyes, iv. 185; 443; 459 Sorrow, individuality of, iii. 80 Souter Johnie, original of, i. 50 (n); iii. 222; 223 (n)
Speculative powers of B., iv. 483 Spinoza, ii. 69 (»)
Staig, David, provost of Dumfries, iii. 151 (n): letters, iii. 151; iv. 242 (on town affairs) Staig, Jessie (Young Jessie'), iii. 417 (n); iv. 143 Stair, i. 69
Stair MSS., i. 411 and 411 (n) Star newspaper, ii. 59; 383 (B.'s letter to, in defence of House of Stewart); iii. 53-55 (offer to B. of engagement on); 59; 64; 66; 99; 127; 169 (B. invited to con- tribute to); 243-246; 444; 446 (Duchess of Gordon controversy): other places pieces of B.'s that appeared in paper Statues of poet, iv. 535
Steam navigation, early, ii. 320 Stenhouse, iv. 100 (n); 347; 349; 355; 358: 363
ningham's sweetheart), ii. 357; iii. 37
Stewart, James, letter to, with verses and promising to celebrate Prince Charles Edward Stewart's birthday, ii. 236
Stewart, Mary (Lovely Polly Stewart'), iv. 97; 113; 114 (n) Stewart, Mrs Dugald, i. 212 (n); iv. 411
Stewart, Mrs, of Stair (and Afton), i. 148 (n) B. introduced to; 337 (Afton Water'); 411 and 411 (n) copies of poems for Stair MSS., which see; ii. 380 (death of her only son); iii. 285 (Afton MSS., which see)
Stewart, Professor Dugald, i. 259 (n); 434 436; ii. 12; 17; 25 (letter, with poems); 66; 73; 77 (on B. in Edinburgh); 87; 89; 139; 205; 337 (letter with poems); iii. 24 (letter with poems); 117, 118; iv. 291
Stewart, William, Closeburn (father of Lovely Polly Stewart'), letters to, iv. 113, 114; 189 Stewarton, iii. 41 and 41 (n) Stirling, ii. 151, 152; 155; 156 (verses on window in inn); 187, 188
Stock and horn, iv. 174
Stodart, James, and Burns's first Edinburgh journey, ii. 10
Stool, B.'s, in Smellie's office, ii.
Stephen, Leslie, on Burns's religion, Storace, Stephen, composer, iv. 144;
Sterne, 'Eliza Episode,' i. 57; iv. 147 Tristram Shandy, i. 160 (n)
'Story, But that is another,' ii. 186 (n)
Strathallan, Viscount, ii. 287
'Strathmore, The Flower of,' ii. 193; iv. 395
'Strephon and Lydia,' iv. 387 Struggle for existence, iii. 22 Stuart-Menteath, Sir James, of Closeburn, iii. 53; 162 (anecdote of B. and his songs) Stuart, Peter (Star newspaper), ii. 59 (Fergusson's monument); iii. 53-55 (his brothers, and offer of press engagement to B.); 98, 99 (Fergusson's monument); 169; 444; see also Star newspaper Style, B.'s deftness of, iv. 454;
imagined, iv. 448; 455; 473, 474; 478, 479
Sutherland, George S., Dumfries Theatre, iii. 143 (letter with prologue); 149 (letter); 150 (pro- logue)
Syme, John, Ryedale, iii. 372; 372 (n); iv. 16; 38 (visits Galloway with B.); 132; 183; 200 (n); 201; 206; 211 (letter); 217-219 (recollections of B.); 219 (n); 287 (n); 291, 292 (helps B.'s widow and family)
first draft of, i. 50 (n); originals of Tam and his wife, i. 49; 49 (n); iii. 222; 223 (); prose version of, iii. 220-; scenery of, iii. 215
Tam the Chapman,' iv. 303 Tannock, Nance, see Tinnock Tantallan, iii. 270, 271 Tarbolton, i. 57; 65; 66; 67; 69 (Bachelors' Club and Debating Society); 336 (Highland Mary); 396 (B.'s children baptised at): masonic lodge (St James's), i. 129; 150; 156 (n); 376, 377—; 379 (n); 462-; ii. 139; 148 Tarbolton Mill (Willie's Mill '), i. 151 (n); iii. 101 (n)
Taylor, Dr John, of Norwich (Doc- trine of Original Sin), i. 69; 171 (n); 461
Taylor, John, Wanlockhead, lines to, iii. 58
Tears of Scotland, The,' iv. 389 Tenderness, B. greatest in, iv. 500 Tender poems of B., iv. 499 Tennant, David, i. 38 (n) Tennant family, iii. 79 (n) Tennant, James, Glasgow, iii. 217 (n) Deil in Tam o' Shanter' Symington, William, inventor, ii. Tennant, James, Glenconner, iii.
Taits of Harvieston, iii. 208 (n) "Tak' your auld cloak about ye,' iv. 393
Text of poems, variations in, i. 479; ii. 412 —; iii. 460 —; iv. 537
'Tam o'Shanter,' composition of, iii. 210 ; Devil in, origin of idea, iii. 217 (n); estimate of, iv. 490;The Blathrie o 't,' iv. 377
Thanksgiving for national victory, iv. 317 (n)
The collier's bonie lassie,' iv. 381
The mucking of Gordie's byre,' iv. 386
Theologic schemes not ingredients
of B.'s poetry, iv. 483
'There's nae luck about the house,' iv. 380
"The tears I shed must ever fall,' iv. 411
'This is no mine ain house,' iv. 399
Thomson, George (The Melodies of Scotland), i. 347 (μ); 341 ; ii. 393; iii. 329; iv. 226 (presents to B.); | 292; 293 (n) gives up songs and letters letters from and to, iii. 329, 330 (B. asked to con- tribute to Melodies, and answer); 353-356 (The Lea-rig'); 357 ('My wife's a winsome wee thing'); 358, 359 (Highland Mary'); 366–369 (The Lea-rig,' second version); 369 ('Auld Rob Morris,' and 'Duncan Gray '); 387 ('O poortith cauld,' and 'Galla Water'); 390-394 (Lord Gre- gory'); 399 (Mary Morison,' and Wandering Willie'); 406-411; 415-417 (Young Jessie,' 'The soldier's return,'Bonie Jean,' and Meg o' the mill '); 421, 422 (The last time I cam o'er the moor'); 426, 427 (Blythe hae I been on yon hill'); 429-434 (Logan Braes,' and 'Bonie Jean'); 437 (B.'s refusal of money, subscribers to Melodies); iv. 22–25 ('Phillis the fair'); 25, 26 (' Had I a cave on some wild distant shore'); 27-29 ( By Allan stream I chanc'd to rove'); 30-32 ('O whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad'); 32, 33 ('Come, let me take thee to my breast,' and 'Daintie Davie '); 34-36 (Behold the hour'); 36-40 ('Scots wha hae ');
41-48 (Thou hast left me ever,'
Where are the joys I hae met in the morning?'Auld Lang Syne,' and notes by B. on a large number of songs); 48-50 ('Scots wha hae,' second version); 50, 51 (Where are the joys?' English version); 51-54 (The Primrose,' and 'Deluded Swain'); 56-58 (Thine I am, my faithful fair,' and songs by Gavin Turnbull); 61-63 (My spouse Nancy'); 115 (Allan's sketch for Cotter's Saturday Night'); 120 (The banks of Cree'); 129 ('A tippling ballad,' and 'Here where the Scottish Muse '); 136-138 (On the seas and far away'); 138-140 ('Ca' the yowes to the knowes '); 140-143 ('She says she lo'es me best of a''); 143 (dramatic writ- ing); 146 (Thomson on Pindar, Ritson, and Pinkerton); 147-154 (B. on various songs, and with
Saw ye my Phely,' 'How long and dreary is the night,' 'Let not woman e'er complain,' The lover's morning salute,' and 'The auld man'); 160-168 (My Chloris,' 'It was the charming month of May,' 'Lassie wi' the lint-white locks,'Farewell the stream that winding flows,'The last time I cam o'er the moor'- altered); 168-174 (Philly and Willy,' 'Contented wi' little,' 'Canst thou leave me'); 176, 177 (My Nanie 's awa '); 185-188 (Ode to Spring,' A man's a man,' and 'Craigieburn Wood'); 191, 192 (O wat ye wha's in yon town?'-fragment); 194, 195 ('O lassie are ye sleeping yet?'); 219-222 ('Oh wat ye wha 's in you town?' 'Address to the woodlark,’ 'On Chloris being ill,' 'Cale- donia,' 'Twas na her bonie blue
e'e '); 222–226 ( How cruel are the Twa Herds, The,' i. 173; 176, parents,' 'Mark yonder pomp,'
and portraits); 229–232 (' Forlorn, my love;' Last May a braw wooer,' 'Why, why tell thy lover,' 'I see a form, I see a face'); 232-237 (This is no my ain lassie,' Now Spring has clad,' 'O bonie was yon rosy brier'); 259-261 (Hey for a lass wi' a tocher,' subscribers to Melodies, gifts from Thomson to B., etch- ings by Allan); 264 (illness in 1796); 265 (plagiarism); 266 ('Jessy'); 275 (last illness); 281- 282 (during last illness asking money, and Thomson's reply) Thomson, James, poet, influence on B., 16; 51 (n); 87; iii. 63; 277 — (monument to); 387 (com- memoration of)
Thomson, Peggy, see Kirkoswald Peggy' Thoroughness of B., iv. 415; 448; 455; 458; 460; 473, 474; 478, 479
Thriepland, Sir Stewart, Fingask, Veitch, Professor, quoted, iv. 171
Thurlow, Lord, iii. 64 (n); 74 (n) Tinnock, Nanse's change-house, i. 229; 281 (n); 410 (n); ii. 335 (n)
Townshend, Hon. Charles, ii. 157 (n)
Train, Joseph, i. 132 (and the Buchanites); 134; 473 (Highland Mary); iii. 122; 317 (n) "Tranent-muir,' iv. 386 Traquair, Burns at, ii. 111
Turnbull, Gavin, iii. 56 (n); iv. 56, Walker, Professor, i. 43; 59 (n);
57, 58 (songs by); 58 (n) Turner, Andrew, commercial tra veller, iv. 316 "Turnimspike, The,' iv. 375
'Twa Dogs, The,' origin of, i. 287
66 (n); 183 (anecdote of B.); 415 (n); 416; 418 (); ii. 73-76; (B. in 1786); 160-(B. at Blair Athole); 165; 165 (n) both on same; 191; 198 (n); iv. 247, 248
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