"Madam, --I have taken the liberty to make you the heroine of the song on the foregoing page. Being little in the secret of young ladies' loves and lovers-how should I, you know ?—I have formed in my fancy a little love story for you. The air, you know, is excellent, and the verses, I hope and think, are in my best manner. It goes into Pleyel's songs."

If I mistake not, Mr Thompson, of Dumfries, was among the bidders; but the letter and song fell at £70 to Mr Marriott.

Glasgow Herald.

The above is a fac-simile of part of a page from the minute book of Lodge St. Mungo, Mauchline, kindly forwarded to us by Mr Taylor Gibb, of that The signatures of the contemporaries of Burns-Smith, Dr M'Kenzie, Richmond, and John Dove ("Johnie Pigeon") can easily be made out.-[ED.]

town.

A RELIC OF BURNS.

The following interesting paragraph is lifted from the Aberdeen Journal of Wednesday, 9th October, 1872:

Mr James Hurnand writes to the Athenæum-At the sale of the effects of the late Mr Fiske Harrison, of Copford Hall, near Colchester, on the 30th ult., an interesting relic of Burns was sold. It was the Scotch mull, or snuffbox, presented to Burns for having composed his poem on "The Whistle" by one of the competitors for that convivial trophy. The mull is a beautifully twisted and polished horn, with silver lid inlaid with a pebble, together with its appendages-a long-handled silver spoon and a little hammer, both of silver, suspended by silver chains, also a hare's foot, suspended in the same manner. The inscription round the rim is "Craigdarroch to Robert Burns, the Bard of The Whistle,' October 16, 1790." How this Scotch mull came in the possession of the eccentric owner of Copford Hall does not appear.

71 Bon-Accord Street, Aberdeen.

ROBERT MURDOCH-LAWRANCE.

"CLARINDA'S" TOMB.

Permission has been granted by the Public Parks Committee of Edinburgh Town Council to Mr William J. Hay to renew the memorial tablet on "Clarinda's" Tomb in the Canongate Churchyard, and the work is being proceeded with under the care of the Ninety Burns Club.

Glasgow Herald, 10th September, 1909.

BURIAL PLACE OF "UNCLE ROBERT'S" FAMILY. The following is the result of my search amongst the records of the old churchyard in Stewarton :

Robert Burns buried 6th January, 1789.

At 40 Ladbroke Square, Kensington Park, London, on the 19th inst., Sophia, wife of James Burnes, Esq., K.H., late Physician-General of the Army at Bombay, second daughter of the late Major General George Holmes,

K.C.B.

Glasgow Courier, 24th March, 1855.
[W. INNES ADDISON].

MOTTO—“ A MAN'S A MAN FOR A THAT."

The Burns Federation.

INSTITUTED 1885.

Hon. Presidents-The Right Hon. The EARL OF ROSEBERY, K.G, K. T. ANDREW CARNEGIE, LL.D., Skibo Castle.

Hon. Vice-President —Wm. WALLACE, LL.D., 42 Athole Gardens, Glasgow.

OFFICE-BEARERS.

President-Captain D. SNEDDON, V.D., J. P., Dean House, Kilmarnock.

Vice-Presidents-Sir JAMES SIVEWRIGHT, K.C.M.G.

Professor LAWSON, D. D., The University, St. Andrews.
Rev. JAMES FORREST, M. A.. 8 Holland Place, Glasgow.
JAMES BALLANTYNE, 21 Rose Street, Garnethill, Glasgow.

THOMAS BROWN, Maryfield, Low-waters, Hamilton.

Ex-Bailie HUGH MAYBERRY, J. P., St. Vincent Street, Glasgow.
HUGH ALEXANDER, J.P., Eastfield House, Rutherglen.

J. JEFFREY HUNTER, 109 Bath Street, Glasgow.

A. M'CALLUM, News Office, Pollokshaws.

ALEXANDER POLLOCK, 52 West Nile Street, Glasgow.
JOSEPH MARTIN, 163 West George Street, Glasgow.
Alderman WILLIAM BURNS, Sunderland.

W. H. TURNER, 9 The Oaks, Sunderland.

P. PATERSON. 23 Bruce Street, Dunfermline.

HENRY DURHAM, F.C.S., F. Ph.Sc., 13 Colherne Road, S. Kensington,
London, S. W.

JOHN CARMICHAEL, 27 Blytheswood Drive, Glasgow.
Ex-Dean of Guild STEVENSON, Falkirk.

Hon. Secretary-THOS. AMOs, M. A., 19 Glebe Road, Kilmarnock.
Assistant Secretary-GEO. A INNES, F. E. I.S., Kilmarnock.
Hon. Treasurer-JOSEPH BROCKIE, J.P., Royal Bank, Kilmarnock.
Editor Burns Chronicle”—D. M‘Naught, J.P., Benrig, Kilmaurs.
Auditors-Captain D. YUILLE and ADAM MACKAY, Kilmarnock.

CONSTITUTION.

1. The Federation shall consist of an Hon. President, Executive Council, and the affiliated members of each Club.

2. The Executive Council shall consist of a President, Vice-Presidents, Hon. Secretary, Hon. Treasurer, Editor of Annual Burns Chronicle, and two Auditors-all of whom shall be elected annually and be eligible for

re-election also of the President, Vice-President, and Secretary, or any other three members of, and nominated by, each affiliated Club, and other gentlemen of eminence as Burnsites nominated by the Executive.

3. All Past Presidents of the Federation shall ex officio be members of the Executive Council.

OBJECTS OF THE FEDERATION.

1. To strengthen and consolidate the bond of fellowship existing amongst the members of Burns Clubs and kiudred societies by universal affiliation.

2. To superintend the publication of works relating to Burns.

3. To acquire a fund for the purchase and preservation of Holograph Manuscripts and other Relics connected with the Life and Works of the Poet, and for other purposes of a like nature, as the Executive Council may determine.

RULES.

1. The Headquarters of the Federation shall be at Kilmarnock, the town in which the Federation was inaugurated and carried to a practical issue, and which contains the only properly organised Burns Library and Museum in the United Kingdom.

2. Properly organised Burns Clubs, St. Andrew's Societies, and kindred Associations may be admitted to the Federation by application in writing to the Hon. Secretary, enclosing copy of Constitution and Rules.

3. The Registration Fee is 21s, on receipt of which the Diploma of the Federation shall be issued, after being numbered and signed by the President and Hon. Secretary.

4. Members of every Burns Club or Kindred Association registered by the Federation shall be entitled to receive a pocket Diploma on payment of Is. (These payments are final-not annual.)

5. The Funds of the Federation shall be vested in the Executive Council for the purposes before-mentioned.

6. A meeting of the Executive Council shall be held annually during the Summer or Autumn months at such place as may be agreed upon by the Office-bearers, when reports on the year's transactions shall be submitted by the Hon. Secretary and Hon. Treasurer, and Office-bearers elected for the ensuing year.

7. A meeting of the Office-bearers shall take place some time before the Annual Meeting of the Executive Council, to make the necessary arrangements for the same.

8. That each Federated Club shall subscribe 10s 6d per annum towards the fund for the publication of the Burns Chronicle.

9. Notice of any amendment or alteration of the Constitution or Rules of the Federation, to be considered at the Annual Meeting, must be in writing to the Hon. Secretary not later than 31st March.

BENEFITS.

1. Registered Clubs are supplied free with copies of newspapers containing accounts of meetings, demonstrations, etc., organised, conducted, or attended by the Executive Council of the Federation, and of the Annual Meeting of the Kilmarnock Burns Club.

2. Exchange of fraternal greetings on the anniversary of the Poet's natal day.

3. Members of Registered Clubs who have provided themselves with pocket diplomas are entitled to attend meetings of all Clubs on the Roll of the Federation, they being subject to the rules of the Club visited, but having no voice in its management unless admitted a member according to local form.

4. Members are entitled to be supplied through the Secretaries of their respective Clubs, with copies of all works published by the Federation, at a discount of 33 per cent.

BOOKS PUBLISHED BY THE FEDERATION.

BURNS HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS in the Kilmarnock Monument Museum, with

A few copies of the back vols. may still be had on application to the Hon. Secretary.

Increased prices are charged when the vols. are out of

print.