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i. 17; 51 (); 86; 102; 106; Small, James, On Ploughs, ii.
213 (n); 387
Shepherd, Rev. John, Muirkirk, iii. Small, Jolin, iii. 240

94 (n)

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,

iii. 13; 296 (n)

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,

belles of

Jean, see Mauchline,

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

111 (n)

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;

406

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;

196

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)

burgh, iii. 253

Somerville, Mrs Mary, ii. 1

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Steven, Rev. James (The Calf'), i.

397, 398; iii. 178

Thomas, ii. Stevenson, R. L., on Jean Armour,

i. 344 (n)

Songs, Burns's, elaboration of, iii. Stewart, Anne (Alexander Cun-

162 and 163 (n)

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.

52

Stephen, Leslie, on Burns's religion, Storace, Stephen, composer, iv. 144;

i. 169 (n)

Sterne, 'Eliza Episode,' i. 57;
iv. 147 Tristram Shandy, i. 160
(n)

144 (2)

'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;

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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

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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.

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Taits of Harvieston, iii. 208 (n)
"Tak' your auld cloak about ye,' iv.
393

76, 77

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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)

620

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,'

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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

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e'e '); 222–226 ( How cruel are the Twa Herds, The,' i. 173; 176,
parents,' 'Mark yonder pomp,'

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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

177

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Thriepland, Sir Stewart, Fingask, Veitch, Professor, quoted, iv. 171

ii. 176

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

Tullochgorum,' iv. 405

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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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