INDEX

"Address to the De'il," 15, 63.
to Edinburgh," the, 99, 116.
to the Haggis," 116.

to the Unco' Guid," 116.

Agriculture, chair of, and Burns, 146.

Aiken, Robert, mutilates the "paper," 75; assistance in
publishing the Edinburgh edition, 94, 97.

Alloway, 8.

Armour, Jean, the poet's courtship of, 69; irregular marr-
iage, 71; rejection of Burns, 75; renews relations with
him, 125; driven from her home, 137; acknowledged
as his wife by Burns, 140.

Arnot, John, letter to, 75.

Auld, Rev. William, and marriage, 74; treatment of Burns,
78, 86, 143.

Begbie, Elison, 32.

Begg, Mrs., sister of Burns, quoted, 22, 69.

Bibliography, 191.

"Birks of Aberfeldy,” the, 123.

Blacklock, Dr., 96, 97.

Blair, Dr. Hugh, Burns on, 101; on Burns, 169.

Brice, David, letter to, 82, 85.

Broun, Agnes, mother of the poet, 2, 3.

Brown, Richard, influence on Burns, 36.

Burnes, William, the poet's father, settles in Ayrshire, 5;
his care for his children, 6; disapproves of dancing, 23;
removal to Lochlea, 24; desperate circumstances and
death, 38.

Burns, Gilbert, the poet's brother, quoted, 4, 12, 25, 58,
102; letter to, 157.

Burns, Robert, genealogy, 1; origin of the name, 2;
Jacobitism, 3; birth, 6; education, 8; early traits, 9;
drudgery, 11; studies, 12; at Dalrymple, 15; French
and Latin, 16; first love, 16; at Kirkoswald, 19;
frequents taverns, 20; flirtation with Peggy Thomson,
21; attends a dancing school, 23; incurs parental
displeasure, ib. ; love affairs, 25; ecclesiastical disputes,
27; course of reading, 28; early poetry, 29; jilted,
31; at Irvine, ib.; shop burned, 34; First Common-
Place Book, 39; joins the Freemasons, 45; amour with
Elizabeth Paton, 46; kirk-session dealings with, 49;
influence of Fergusson on, 50; removes to Mossgiel, 52;
poetic hopes, 56; sociality, 58; subjects for verse, 59;
ecclesiastical satires, 60; religious beliefs, 66; courtship
of Jean Armour, 69; irregular marriage, 72; destruc-
tion of the "paper," 75; relations with Auld, ib., 86;
in hiding, ib.; poetical productiveness, 87; publication
of Kilmarnock edition, 89; its reception, 90; character
of his poetry, 91; emigration prospects, 93; proposed
second edition, 94; sets out for Edinburgh, 97; im-
pressions of, 99; reception in, 100; at the Crochallan
Club, 106; with "the brothers of the mystic tie," 110;
personal appearance, III; subscriptions for new
edition, 112; publication, 115; Southern tour, 116;
returns to Ayrshire, 117; West Highland tour, 120;
Northern tour, 121;
renews relations with Jean
Armour, 125; flirtations, ib. ; friendship with Miss
Chalmers, 126; meets Mrs. Maclehose, 127; corres-
pondence with, 128; their flirtation, 129; takes
Ellisland, 135; obtains promise of excise commission,
ib.; sets up house with Jean Armour, 140; friendship
with Mrs. Dunlop, 145; with Captain Riddell, 147;
song-writing, 149; poetic hopes, 150; connection
with Johnson's Museum, 151; English verses, 154; be-
comes exciseman, 156; failure of farm project, 157;
poetic ambitions, ib.; leaves Ellisland, 160; settles
in Dumfries, 161; hard lot, 163; convivialities,
165; as politician, 166; contributes to Thomson's
Scottish Airs, 172; new Edinburgh edition, 176; de-
cline of health, 177; quarrel with the Riddells, 180;
its effects, 181; Dumfries gossip, 183; last illness
and death, 184; burial, 187; increasing influence,
188.

Campbell, Mary, 79, 95, 96.

Walter, supposed ancestor of Burns, 1.

Candlish, James, letter to, 66.

Carlyle, "Jupiter," his opinion of Burns, 106.

Thomas, and Christianity, 68.

Celtic genius and Burns, 3.

Chalmers, Miss, her friendship with Burns, 126; letter to, 144.
Chambers, Robert, on Jean Armour, 69; on the character

of Burns, 183.

Clarinda, 66. See also Maclehose, Mrs.

Cleghorn, Robert, letter to, 150.

Common-Place Book, First, 39; Second, 100.
"Cotter's Saturday Night," the, 65.

Creech, William, 100, 112, 121, 124, 142, 176.

Crochallan Club, the, 106.

Cunningham, Alexander, letters to, 67, 181, 186.
Lady Elizabeth, letter to, 150.

Currie, Dr., 167, 183.

"Cutty Stool, The," 48.

Dalrymple, 15.

"Death and Doctor Hornbook," 15, 59, 115.

"De'il, The Address to," 15, 63.

Dumfries, 161, etc.

Dunbar, William, 107.

Dunlop, Mrs., 67; letter to, 144; her friendship with Burns,
145; letters to, 156, 167, 178, 179; last letter to, 187.

Ecclesiastical satires, 60.

Edinburgh, 97, etc.

Ellisland, lease of, by Burns, 135; vacated, 160.

English poetry of Burns, 154.

"Epistle to Davie," 71.

Lapraik," 54.

Major Logan," 96.
Rankine," 47.

William Simson," 57.

Erskine, Henry, 112.

Excise, 135, 161.

Fergusson, Robert, 50.

Fisher, William, 62.

Fleming, Agnes, 41.

Freemasons, Lodge at Tarbolton, 45; at Edinburgh, 110.

Friars Carse, 147.

Geddes, Dr. John, letter to, 151.

Genealogy of Burns, 1.

Glencairn, Earl of, the, 97, 101, 112.
Globe tavern, Dumfries, 165.
"Gloomy Night," the, 96, 116.
Gordon, Duchess of, the, 105, 123.
Duke of, 123.

Gow, Neil, 123.

Graham of Fintry, 156, 166.

Graham, Mr. Henry Grey, quoted, 64, 169.
"Green grow the Rashes, O',” 44, 116.

Grose, Captain, 155

Jamaica, 86, 93.

Johnson, James, his Scots Musical Museum, 151.

"Jolly Beggars," the, 190.

Mackenzie, Henry, on the Kilmarnock edition, 113.
Maclehose, Mrs., meets Burns, 127; characteristics, ib.;
correspondence with Burns, 128; flirtation, 129; her
pity for Jean Armour, 139.

Mar, Earl of, the, letter to, 167.
Maxwell, Lady Winifred, 3.

Maxwell, Provost, letter to, 178.

Miller, Captain, his proposal to Burns, 162.

Miller, Patrick, of Dalswinton, 112; leases Ellisland,

135.

Moodie of Riccarton, 60, 65.

Moore, Dr., letters to, 103, 112; advice on poetry, ib.
Morning Chronicle, the, 162.

Star, the, 153.

Morison, Mary, 71.

Mossgiel, 52.

Murdoch, John, teacher of Burns, 8.

Nicol, William, letter to, 118; Northern tour with, 121.

"No Churchman am I," 45.

Northern tour, 121.

"Now Westlin' Winds," 21.

"Paper," the Unlucky, 72, and passim.

Paton, Elizabeth, 46.

"Poet's Welcome," the, 50.

Ramsay of Ochtertyre, 124.

"Rankine, John, Epistle to," 47.

"Rattlin', Roarin' Willie," 108.

Richmond, John, letter to, 85; his lodgings in Edinburgh,

99.

Riddell, Captain, of Glenriddell, 147.

Riddell, Mrs. Maria, her quarrel with Burns, 181; eulogy
of Burns, 182.

Russell of Kilmarnock, 60, 65.

Scott, Sir Walter, on Burns, III.

Sillar, David, quoted, 27; "Epistle to," 71.

"Simson, William, Epistle to," 57.

Sloan, Thomas, letterto, 159.

Smellie, William, 107, 109.

Smith, Adam, 146.