INDEX

Abbotsford, [227]
Aberdeen Almanac, [45]
Aberfoyle, [47]
Adam, Alexander, [119]
Addison, Joseph, [40], [234]
Adventures of John Cheap the Chapman, The, [46]
Adventures of Telemachus (Fénelon), [51]
‘Ae fond kiss,’ [149], [172], [264]
Agriculture in Scotland, [10-16], [188]
Agriculture, Professorship of, Edinburgh, [155]
Aiken, Robert, [93-96], [98], [142], [144], [147], [193], [194]
Ainslie, Robert, [65], [107], [110], [112-115], [144], [150], [151], [167], [168], [170], [173], [186], [214]
Albert, Prince Consort, [306]
Allen, John, [110], [291]
Alloway, [11], [36-41], [48], [279]
Alloway Kirk, [36], [266]
Almack, William, [30]
‘A Man’s a Man,’ [289], [292]
American Colonies. See [United States]
American Revolution, [70], [82], [225], [290]
Anderson, Robert, [196], [247]
Anne, Queen, [60], [287]
‘An’ O for ane-and-twenty, Tam,’ [264]
Antigua, [176]
Arbroath, [266]
Archers, Royal Company of, [108]
Argyll, John, Duke of, [5]
Armour, James, [77], [94], [139], [142-143], [150], [165], [192]
Armour, Mrs. James, [168]
Armour, Jean. See [Burns, Jean Armour]
Army, Burns’s opinions of, [155], [179]
Arnot, John, [191]
Arran, [47]
Athole, Jane Cathcart, Duchess of, [116-117]
Athole, John, Duke of, [116-117]
Auchencruive, [144]
Auld Brig, Ayr, [31]
Auld Farmer’s New Year’s Morning Salutation, The, [58], [249], [250]
Auld Lang Syne, [260]
Auld, Walter, [120], [228]
Auld, William, [173], [279]
Austen, Jane, [278]
Aylmer, Rose, [250]
Ayr, [195], [279]
Ayr, Brigs of, [31]
Ayr, Presbytery of, [92-93]
Baker, —, [127]
Ballads, [25-27], [38], [43-44], [246], [252], [259], [269]
Ballantine, John, [61], [93-96], [202]
Ballenden, Braes of, [256]
Balmerino, Arthur Elphinstone, Baron, [229], [287]
Banks of Cree, [271]
Bannockburn, [48], [272], [300]
Barncailzie, [125]
Barrack-Room Ballads, [305]
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, [305], [307]
Bayard, [28]
Beattie, James, [25], [29], [75], [104], [270], [302]
Bede, [23]
Beethoven, Ludwig von, [275]
Begbie, Alison, [69-70], [189]
Begg, Isabella Burns, [147]
Bell, West-Indiaman, [192-193]
Benson, Anna Dorothea, [132]
Beugo, John, [175]
Bible, [23]
Black Bull Inn, Glasgow, [166]
Blacklock, Thomas, [99], [195]
Blair, Athole, [116-117], [207]
Blair, Hugh, [29], [97], [104], [118], [155], [195], [244], [302]
Blair, Sir James Hunter, [240]
Blair, Robert, [259]
Blake, William, [243], [278]
Bloody Assizes, [293]
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, [60]
Bonnie Dundee, [261-262]
Border tour, Burns’s, [113], [200], [208], [240], [247], [255]
Boston, Thomas, [19], [37], [281]
Boswell, Sir Alexander, [274]
Boswell, Euphemia, [165]
Boswell, James, [11], [29], [60], [91], [103], [107], [111], [129], [278], [302], [304]
Boyd, Thomas, [120], [213]
Brawne, Fanny, [250]
Braxfield, Robert M’Queen, Lord, [102], [108], [129]
Bremner, Robert, [242]
Brigs of Ayr, The, [248]
Broadsides, Scottish, [45]
Brontë, Emily, [162]
Brown, Richard, [80-83], [84], [89], [92], [137-138], [163], [166], [169], [237]
Brown, Samuel, [56]
Browning, Robert, [250], [251]
Brow Well, [133], [184-187]
Bruce, King Robert the, [272], [300]
Brussels, [32]
Buchan, David Stuart Erskine, Earl of, [100-101], [255]
Buchan, John, [305]
Burke, Edmund, [278], [292], [295]
Burn, Robert, [221]
Burnes, Agnes Broun (mother of the poet), [37-38], [44], [90], [135-136], [138-139], [203]
Burnes, Robert (grandfather of the poet), [36]
Burnes, Robert (uncle of the poet), [36], [60]
Burnes, William (father of the poet), [8], [34], [35], [36-39], [41], [42-43], [48], [49-50], [55], [59], [62], [70], [71-73], [84], [85-88], [90], [279]
Burness, James, [117], [232]
Burnet, Elizabeth, of Manboddo, [240]
Burns, Agnes (sister of the poet), [49]
Burns, Elizabeth Paton (daughter of the poet), [74], [138-139], [143], [150], [203]
Burns, Elizabeth Riddell (daughter of the poet), [183-184]
Burns, Gilbert (brother of the poet), [11], [34], [37], [41], [48], [50], [55], [59], [63], [68], [73], [87], [88], [90], [95], [122], [138], [143], [186], [202-203], [208], [214], [220], [245]
Burns, Isabella (sister of the poet). See [Begg, Isabella Burns]
Burns, Jean Armour, [13], [83], [90], [91-92], [109], [110], [113], [114-115], [118], [126], [133], [136], [138], [139-144], [146-148], [150], [153], [156], [164], [165], [167-170], [172-176], [185], [187], [189], [192-193], [201], [212], [214], [217], [220], [221], [232], [233]
Burns, John (brother of the poet), [88]
Burns, Robert, Poems. See [Poems, Burns’s]
Burns, Robert, the poet, passim. Specific references are to be found in association with other persons, topics, or places.
Burns, Robert (son of the poet), [167], [174], [185]
Burns, William (brother of the poet), [166], [203-204], [215]
Burns, William Nicol (son of the poet), [119]
Burns Clubs, [301], [306-308]
Burton, Robert, [42]
Bush aboon Traquair, The, [48], [255]
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, [5], [301]
Butler, Samuel, [300]
Byron, George Noel Gordon, Lord, [109], [278]
Cadell and Davies, [199]
Caedmon, [23]
Ça Ira, [295-296]
Caledonian Hunt, [99], [127], [197]
Caller Oysters, [248]
Calton Hill, [118]
Calvin, John, [19]
Calvinism, [5], [16-23], [66], [162], [163], [279-287]
Cameron, Meg, [113], [118], [148], [151], [152], [165], [208]
Campbell, Mary, [138], [144-149], [250], [307]
Canada, [190]
Candlish, James, [30], [62], [281]
Cape Club, Edinburgh, [105]
Caroline lyrics, [42]
Carronades, Burns’s purchase of, [227], [295], [297]
Carswell, Catherine, [84], [180]
Catalan, [23]
Catrine House, [96-97], [195]
Cawdor Castle, [48]
Centlivre, Susannah, [295]
Chalmers, Margaret, [148], [160-161], [164], [256]
Channing, William Eilery, [280], [285]
Chapbooks, Scottish, [45-46]
Chapman, George, [49], [75]
Chatterton, Thomas, [62], [79]
Chaucer, Geoffrey, [23], [42], [46]
Chesterton, G. K., [66]
Children, Burns’s feelings toward, [150-153]
Chloris. See [Lorimer, Jean.]
Christabel, [243]
Chronicle, London, [134], [206]
Clarinda. See [M’Lehose, Agnes.]
Clarke, Samuel, [128]
Clarke, Stephen, [257-258]
Class-consciousness, Burns’s, [52-53]
Claverhouse, John Graham of, Viscount Dundee, [301]
Cleghorn, Robert, [109-111], [253], [291]
Clint, Henry, [120]
Clochnahill, [36]
Clow, Jenny, [113], [118], [144], [146], [148], [152], [165], [170-171], [221]
Clydesdale, [50]
Cockburn, Alison, [43]
Cockburn, Henry, [103], [108], [293]
Cockney dialect, [30], [247]
Coila, [157]
Cole, Elisha, [281]
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, [243]
Comical Sayings of Paddy from Cork, The, [46]
‘Coming thro’ the rye,’ [26]
Commonplace Book, Burns’s, [236-239], [242-244], [259]
Composition, Burns’s methods of, [241-246]
Connaught, [81]
Constable, Archibald, [106]
Copyrights, Burns’s, [199-201], [274]
Corbet, William, [129], [294], [296]
Corri, Domenico, [28]
Cotter’s Saturday Night, The, [58], [154], [246], [269], [307]
Court of Equity, The, [111], [146]
Court of Session, [86]
Cowper, William, [278]
Craig, Lord, [162], [165]
Craigdarroch, [121]
Crane, Ichabod, [39]
Creech, William, [100], [105], [106], [161], [165], [169], [197-201], [204-205], [220]
Criffel, [187]
Crochallan Fencibles, [104-109], [253], [254], [255]
Cromek, Robert Hartley, [161]
Cullen, William, [155]
Cunningham, Alexander, [107-109], [110], [112], [118], [125], [126], [133-134], [167], [205], [240], [253], [268], [285], [286]
Currie, James, [125], [182], [246], [273]
‘Cutty stool,’ [17]
Daer, Basil William, Lord, [96], [131], [291], [293]
Daft Days, The, [25], [248]
Dalrymple, [51]
Dalrymple, William, [279]
Dalswinton, [114], [207-212]
Dalyell, Sir John Graham, [124]
Dalziel, Alexander, [98], [99], [195]
Darien Expedition, [7]
Davidson, Betty, [44], [136]
Davies, Deborah Duff, [149]
Deans, Jamie, [283]
Deans, Jeanie, [305]
Death and Dr. Hornbook, [39], [46], [83]
Death, Burns’s, [133]
Deists, [20], [22], [281], [286]
Democracy, Scottish, [32-33]
Dempster, George, [32], [290]
Dickens, Charles, [65], [266], [300]
Dinmont, Dandie, [305]
Dods, —, [127-128]
Dods, Meg, [305]
Don, Lady Harriet, [61], [132]
Doonholm, [36]
Douglas and Heron Bank, [16], [70], [85], [230]
Douglas, Charles, [192]
Douglas, Gawain, [23], [247]
Douglas, Lady Mary, [132]
Douglas, Tragedy of, [21], [40]
Douglas, William, [250]
Dover, [227]
Drama, Burns and the, [251-252]
Drama, in Edinburgh, [21]
Dramatic lyric, Burns’s use of, [250-251]
Dramatic monologue, Burns’s use of, [250-251]
Drummond, William, of Hawthornden, [23]
Dryden, John, [42]
Dumfries, [68], [110], [113], [118], [124-134], [152], [160], [171], [177], [208], [219], [221-233], [267], [294-297], [298]
Dumfries Academy, [224]
Dumfries Burgh Council, [224]
Dumfries Public Library, [106]
Dumfries Theatre, [179], [295-296]
Dumfries Volunteers, [228], [231], [232], [295], [299]
Dunbar, William (the poet), [23], [247]
Dunbar, William (Edinburgh), [106], [157], [254]
Duncan, Adam, [303]
Dundas, Henry, [5], [101], [108], [116], [207], [292], [301]
Dundas, Robert, [107], [108]
Dunlop, Andrew, [82]
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, [61], [96], [101], [148], [150], [151], [152], [153-160], [167], [194], [199], [206], [209], [240], [260], [267], [282-283], [284], [286], [297-298], [302]
Dunlop House, [156], [167]
Dunlop, Keith, [157], [167]
Dunlop, Rachel, [156], [167]
Dunlop, Thomas, [154]
Dunnottar, [36]
Dunscore, [288]
Dunse, [112], [113]
Durham, [127]
East India Company, [6], [190]
East Lothian, [208]
Easy Club, Edinburgh, [105]
Eclogues, Virgil’s, [252]
Edinburgh, [7-10], [75], [78], [94], [99-119], [124], [153], [162-172], [195-202], [209-210], [216], [221], [245], [252], [291-293], [294]
Edinburgh High School, [116], [119]
Edinburgh University, [8], [96]
Eglinton, Archibald Montgomerie, Earl of, [197], [202]
Eglinton, Countess of, [197]
Eglinton Wood, [82]
Elegies (Shenstone), [57]
Elegy on the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair, [240]
Elibanks and Elibraes, [48], [255]
Elizabethan lyrics, [42]
Elliot, Jean, [43]
Ellisland, [101], [110], [113-115], [119-122], [158], [174], [202], [203], [207-222], [262]
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, [261], [280], [285]
Encyclopædia Britannica, [105]
Epistle to John Rankine, [77]
Erskine, Andrew, [91], [99]
Erskine, Henry, [108], [293]
Erskine, John Francis, of Mar, [291], [297]
Esopus to Maria, [181]
Evening Courant, Edinburgh, [288]
Eve of St. Agnes, The, [250]
Excise, [55], [98], [101], [109], [115], [116], [129-130], [133], [165], [169], [170], [190], [206-207], [209-210], [212], [214-233], [262], [269], [277], [289], [294], [296]
Faculty of Advocates, [293]
Falstaff, [167]
Farington, Joseph, [121], [165]
Farming, Burns’s, [204], [210-222]
Fénelon, François, [51]
Ferdinand Count Fathom, [58]
Fergusson, Alexander, of Craigdarroch, [121-122], [291]
Fergusson, Robert, [25], [61], [75], [91], [104], [105], [134], [221], [237], [241-242], [247-248], [252], [304]
Fergusson, William, [36], [50], [53]
Ferrara, Duke of, [250]
Fifeshire, [247]
’Fifteen, Rebellion of, [36], [287], [304]
Findlater, Alexander, [96], [129-130], [217], [219], [229], [296]
Fisher, Edward, [281]
Flax-dressing, Burns and, [71], [79-84]
Fletcher, Andrew, of Saltoun, [301]
Flowers of Edinburgh, The, [272]
Flowers of the Forest, The, [43]
Folk-songs, Scottish, [26-28], [38], [43-44], [75], [132], [252-263], [269]
Fornicators’ Court, [112]
’Forty-five, Rebellion of, [4], [7], [26], [46], [287], [292], [304]
Four-Fold State (Thomas Boston), [19], [37], [279], [281]
Fox, Charles James, [294]
Franklin, Benjamin, [22], [61], [100], [103], [266]
Freemasonry, [67-68], [87], [99], [104], [144], [145], [297]
French, Burns’s knowledge of, [51-52]
French Convention, [227], [295]
French Revolution, [51], [119], [128], [159-160], [182], [226-228], [270], [272], [290-299], [306]
Friars Carse, [120], [176], [177], [181], [182], [212], [265]
Friars Carse Hermitage, Written in, [262]
Friends of the People, [293-294]
Gala Water, [255]
Galileo, [297]
Galloway, Burns’s tour in, [229]
Galloway, John Stewart, Earl of, [131]
Galt, John, [305]
Gazetteer, Edinburgh, [297]
Gentlemen’s Magazine, [31]
George III, [292], [296-297]
Geographical Grammar (Guthrie), [48]
Gillicrankie, [237]
Glasgow, [7], [83], [166]
Glasgow University, [20], [30]
Glenbervie, [36]
Glencairn, Elizabeth M’Quire, Countess of, [132]
Glencairn, James, Earl of, [95], [98-101], [107], [120], [195-197], [209], [210], [216], [240]
Glenconner, [211]
Globe Inn, Dumfries, [120], [174]
God Save the King, [295-296]
Godwin, William, [278]
Goldielea, [122], [178]
Goldsmith, Oliver, [31], [302]
Gordon Castle, [117]
Gordon, Jane, Duchess of, [117], [132], [159]
Gow, Neil, [27]
Graham, Dugal, [11], [45-46]
Graham, Robert, of Fintry, [68], [111], [116], [207], [216], [223], [224], [294], [297]
Grave, The (Blair), [259]
Gray, James, [124], [152]
Gray, Thomas, [103], [157]
Greenfield, William, [252]
Greenock, [192-193], [306]
Grieve, James, [85]
Grizzel Grimme, Ballad of, [246]
Grose, Francis, [121], [176-177], [265], [268]
Guthrie, William, [48]
Guy Mannering, [104]
Halleaths, [182]
Hallowe’en, [248]
Hamilton, Charlotte, [256]
Hamilton, Gavin, [72], [76], [78], [87-88], [90], [92-93], [142], [202]
Hamilton, John, of Sundrum, [85-86]
Hamilton, William, of Gilbertfield, [24], [45]
Hamlet, [40]
Hampstead Heath, [244]
Handsome Nell, [236], [242]
Hannibal, [45], [234]
Hanover, House of, [4], [26], [287-289], [294]
Hardyknute, [27], [43]
Harry, Blind, [25], [45]
Hastings, Warren, [5], [302]
Hay, Charles (Lord Newton), [106-107], [108], [253]
Hay, Lewis, [161]
Health, Burns’s, [54], [83-84], [184-187], [217], [231-233]
Helenore (Alexander Ross), [24]
Henley, William Ernest, [138], [144], [145], [168]
Henri, Susan Dunlop, [152], [286]
Henry VIII, [40]
Henryson, Robert, [23]
Herald’s Office, Edinburgh, [35]
Herd, David, [27], [43], [110], [252]
‘Here is the glen and here the bower,’ [272]
Heron, Lady Elizabeth, [271-272]
Heron, Patrick, of Heron, [16], [131], [230], [271]
Hey, Johnie Cope, [26]
Hey tutti taitie, [272], [300]
Highland clans, suppression of, [4]
Highland Lassie, [145]
Highland Mary. See [Campbell, Mary]
Highland tours, Burns’s, [116-118], [256]
Hildebroad, John, [283]
Hill, Peter, [106], [200], [281]
History of Sir William Wallace, The, [234]
History of the Bible (Stackhouse), [48]
Hogg, James, [102], [135]
Holinshed, Raphael, [261]
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, [19], [280]
Holy Fair, The, [76], [248]
Holy Willie’s Prayer, [46], [76], [111], [249], [250], [307]
Home, John, [21], [28], [40], [42], [75]
Homer, [49], [75]
Hopetoun, James Hope, Earl of, [228]
Horace, [236]
Housman, A. E., [244-245]
‘How are Thy servants blest’ (Addison), [40]
Hume, David, [29], [31], [197], [278], [279], [300], [304]
Humphry, James, [83]
Hutcheson, Francis, [20], [22], [281], [285]
Hyslop, William, [120]
Immortality, Burns’s views on, [284-286]
‘I murder hate,’ [82], [155], [237]
India, [190]
Inquisition, Spanish, [17]
Irvine, [67], [71], [72], [79-84], [87], [88]
Irving, Washington, [266]
‘I’ve seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling,’ [43]
Jacobitism, Burns’s, [209], [229], [287-290], [304]
Jamaica, [93], [98], [147], [151], [162], [171], [172], [191-193], [206], [239]
James I, of Scotland, [23]
James VI, of Scotland, I of England, [3], [23], [287]
Jefferson, Thomas, [272]
Jeffrey, Francis, [29]
Jeffreys, George, [293]
Jocky and Maggie’s Courtship, [46]
John Anderson, [26], [264]
John Barleycorn, [246]
John o’ Badenyon, [43], [256]
Johnson, James, [120], [132], [214], [220], [254-264], [269], [273]
Johnson, Samuel, [11], [24], [29], [31], [43], [102], [300]
Johnston, William, [297]
Jolly Beggars, The, [59], [111], [144], [249], [307]
Journalism, Burns and, [205-206]
Junius, [61]
Kames, Henry Home, Lord, [102], [108], [129]
Keats, John, [11], [35], [49], [75], [79], [239], [250]
Kemp, John, [162], [164], [165]
Kilmarnock, [76], [167], [193-194], [198], [306]
Kilpatrick, Nellie, [63], [68], [82], [137], [234-235]
King’s Arms, Dumfries, [120]
Kinmonth, [36]
Kipling, Rudyard, [247], [305]
Kirk, Scottish, [16-23]
Kirkcudbright, [125], [131], [230]
Kirkoswald, [37], [55-60], [69], [72]
Kirkpatrick, Joseph, [282], [288]
Kiwanis Club, [104]
Knox, John, [16], [19], [22]
Lake District, [47]
Lamb, Charles, [278]
Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn, [240]
Landor, Walter Savage, [250]
Lapraik, John, [249]
Lapraik, Tod, [305]
Laurie, Annie, [250]
Laurie, Sir Robert, [121-122]
Lawrie, George, [99], [195]
Lawrie, Mrs. George, [153]
Leader Haughs and Yarrow, [255]
Leeward Islands, [176]
Lewars, Jessie, [130], [148], [149], [277]
Lewars, John, [130], [295]
Lewis Gordon, [272]
Letters, Burns’s, [60-61]
Letters Moral and Entertaining (E. Rowe), [60]
Linlithgow, [90]
Lippo Lippi, Fra, [250]
Lisbon, [9]
Little, Jenny, [158-159]
Livingstone, David, [303]
Lochaber, [256]
Lochiel, Donald Cameron of, [301]
Lochlie, [62-63], [70], [72-73], [74], [84-88], [90], [138], [208], [214]
Lochmaben, [182]
Lochmaben Harper, The, [258]
Locke, John, [22]
Lockerbie, [182]
Lockhart, John Gibson, [118]
Logan Braes, [299]
Lomond, Loch, [47]
London, [204], [287], [293], [295]
Longtown, [204]
Lorimer, Jean, [148], [149], [219]
Lorimer, William, [219]
Loudoun, [99], [153], [195]
Louis XVI, [160], [292], [294], [298]
Lounger, The, [31], [302]
Lowell, James Russell, [247]
Loyal Natives Club, Dumfries, [126-127]
M’Auley, John, [151]
Macbeth, [261], [266]
Mackenzie, Henry, [12], [31], [58], [60], [66], [75], [84], [93], [118], [125], [197], [199], [201], [251], [252], [301], [305]
Mackenzie, John, [90-92], [99]
Mackenzie, S. (Dumfries), [124]
Mackintosh, James, [292]
McKnight, —, [274]
‘Maclaren, Ian.’ See [Watson, John]
M’Lehose, Agnes, [70], [114], [125], [144], [148], [152], [153], [156], [160-172], [174], [176], [179], [209], [210], [212], [221], [251], [258], [281], [283], [284], [307]
M’Lehose, James, [162], [166], [171], [172]
M’Lure, David, [62], [70], [72], [85-88]
M’Murdo, John, [111], [133]
Macpherson, James, [27], [43]
M’Pherson’s Farewell, [264], [307]
Mallet, David, [30]
Man of Feeling, The, [31], [35], [58], [60], [84], [144], [189], [279], [299], [306]
Man Was Made to Mourn, [236]
Manners, Burns’s, [102-104], [144], [153-157]
Manual of Religious Belief (William Burnes), [59], [279]
Marie Antoinette, [160], [298]
Marischal, George Keith, 10th Earl of, [36]
Marriage, Burns’s, [168-176], [189]
Marrow of Modern Divinity, The, [281]
Marxism, [18]
Mary Morison, [251]
Mary, Queen of Scots, [300-301]
Masons. See [Freemasonry]
Massachusetts, [16], [20]
Masson, Arthur, [40], [41-42], [58], [60]
Mathieson, W. L., quoted, [18-19]
Mauchline, [67], [75], [83], [89], [90], [93], [124], [138], [150], [165], [166], [170], [173], [174], [195], [212]
Mauchline Wedding, The, [240]
Maule, Ramsay, of Panmure, [127]
Maxwell, James, [133], [294], [298]
Maxwell, Robert, [111]
Melrose, [266]
Merry Muses of Caledonia, The, [111-112], [253-254]
Mill, Mill O, The, [242]
Mill Street, Dumfries, [133], [222]
Millan, —, [30]
Miller, Eliza, [13], [145]
Miller, Patrick, [101], [114], [120], [133], [202], [207-212], [220]
Miller, Mrs. Patrick, [220]
Miller, Patrick, Jr., [206]
Milne, A. A., [307]
Milton, John, [42], [164], [244], [282]
Minstrel, The (Beattie), [25], [29]
Mirror, The, [31], [302]
Mississippi Bubble, [7]
Mitchell, John, [111], [217], [218]
Moderates. See [New Lights]
Moffat, [228]
Monboddo, James Burnet, Lord, [108]
Monkland Friendly Society, [106], [281]
Monody on a Lady Famed for her Caprice, [181-182]
Montgomerie, Margaret, [103]
Montrose, [117]
Montrose, James Graham, Marquis of, [303]
Moodie, Alexander, [76]
Moore, John, [78], [104], [199], [201], [252]
Morison, Mary, [68]
Mossgiel, [13], [73-74], [87-88], [95], [138], [143], [167], [190], [202], [204], [208], [211], [214]
Mound, Edinburgh, [8]
Mount Oliphant, [34], [41], [48], [50], [54-56], [59], [61-62], [70], [72], [208], [220], [279]
Muir, Robert, [150], [198], [284]
Muir, Thomas, [293], [294]
Muir, Mrs. William, [165]
Mundell, James, [120]
Munro, Neil, [305]
Murdoch, John, [34-35], [39-43], [44], [47], [48], [49], [51-55], [57], [204]
Murray, Sir James, [272]
Murray, John, of Broughton, [4], [30]
Murry, John Middleton, [250]
Music, Scottish, [26-28], [40], [120-121]
Music, influence on Burns, [236-237], [240-244], [246], [248]
‘My father was a farmer,’ [236]
‘My Love is like a red red rose,’ [26], [107], [261]
Nairne, Margaret Mercer Elphinstone, Baroness, [261], [305]
Nancy, West-Indiaman, [192]
Napoleon, [7], [28], [225], [226]
Nationalism, Scottish, [303]
New Brig, Ayr, [31]
Newcastle, [204]
New England, [16-17], [247], [280]
New Lights, [21-23], [66-67], [75-78], [95], [280-287], [299]
Newton, Charles Hay, Lord. See [Hay]
Nicol, William, [98], [112], [115-119], [207]
Night Thoughts (Young), [169]
Nimmo, Erskine, [162], [209]
Nith, River, [220], [226], [245]
Niven, William, [56], [61], [63]
Norval, Charles, [85]
Observations on the Scottish Dialect (Sinclair), [29-30]
Ochiltree, [244]
Ochiltree, Edie, [188], [305]
Ochtertyre, [256], [287]
‘Of a’ the airts,’ [149], [174]
Oldbuck, Jonathan, [265]
Old Lights, [21-23], [66-67], [75-78], [279-287]
On God’s Sovereignty, [281]
On the Death of Lord President Dundas, [107]
‘O poortith cauld,’ [271]
Ordination, The, [76]
Orr, Thomas, [61]
Ossian (Macpherson), [27], [43]
Oswald, James, [27]
Oswald, Mary Ramsay, of Auchencruive, [144]
Oswald, Richard, of Auchencruive, [291]
‘O wat ye wha that lo’es me,’ [110]
‘O wert thou in the cauld blast,’ [251], [277]
Paine, Thomas, [226], [290]
Paisley, [167], [198], [306]
Palmer, Thomas Fyshe, [293], [294]
Pamela, [58]
Pantheon, The (Tooke), [49]
Park, Anne, [146], [148], [174]
Park, Mungo, [303]
Parliament, [3-4], [5-6], [289], [290-294], [295], [302]
Parnell, Charles Stuart, [4]
Paton, Elizabeth, [74], [76], [138-139], [140], [141], [143], [147], [148], [150], [193], [194], [203]
Patriotism, Burns’s, [234], [278], [287-306]
Patronage, Kirk, [22]
Pattison, Alexander, [198]
Peacock, —, [80], [83]
Peggy Bawn, [236]
Percy, Thomas, [25], [43]
Perry, James, [206]
Philosophy of Natural History (Smellie), [105]
‘Pindar, Peter.’ See [Wolcot, John]
Pinkerton, John, [43]
Pitt, William, [226], [290]
Plane-stanes and the Causey, The, [248]
Pleyel, Ignaz Joseph, [268], [270]
Poems, Burns’s, Kilmarnock ed., [29], [82], [94], [98], [118], [139], [142], [154], [191], [193-196], [202], [239], [244], [247-249]
Poems, Burns’s, 1st Edinburgh ed., [95], [98], [105], [106], [118], [127], [195-201], [203], [254]
Poems, Burns’s, 2nd Edinburgh ed., [204-205]
Poems, Burns’s, Gilbert Burns’s ed., [203]
Poet’s Progress, The, [234]
Poet’s Welcome to his Bastart Wean, A, [111], [150]
Politics, Burns’s, [102], [131], [225-226], [230-231], [278], [287-299]
Poosie Nansie, [57]
Pope, Alexander, [42], [49], [60], [181], [216]
Port Antonio, [192]
Potterrow, Edinburgh, [165]
Prayer in the Prospect of Death, [84]
Preaching, Scottish, [19-20]
Prelude (Wordsworth), [234]
Prestonpans, [26]
Prior, Matthew, [42]
Princes Street, Edinburgh, [8]
Provençal, [23]
Psalms, [40], [135], [151], [236]
Puritanism, [16-17]
Queensberry, William Douglas, Duke of, [225]
Raeburn, Sir Henry, [107]
Ramsay, Allan, [23-25], [75], [91], [104], [247], [248-249], [252], [301], [304]
Ramsay, David, [288]
Ramsay, John, [287]
Rankine, Anne, [68]
Rankine, John, [74], [77], [98], [249]
Rantin’ Rovin’ Robin, [307]
‘Rape of the Sabines, The,’ [122], [180-181]
Reformation, Scottish, [23], [290]
Regency Bill, [226]
Reid, Alexander, [183], [229]
Religion, [59]
Religion, Burns’s, [278-287]
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (Percy), [25], [43]
Revolution of 1688, [288-289]
Riccarton, [76]
Richardson, Samuel, [58]
Richmond, John, [13], [65], [89-90], [112], [141], [143], [144], [147], [151]
Riddell, Elizabeth Kennedy (Mrs. Robert), [177], [181], [182]
Riddell, Jean Fergusson, [177]
Riddell, Maria Banks Woodley, [105], [110], [122-123], [125], [144], [148], [152], [175], [176-187], [219], [267], [295], [298]
Riddell, Robert, [61], [96], [120-124], [148], [176], [181], [182], [260], [265], [267], [291], [294]
Riddell, Walter, [122], [127], [176-177], [178], [181], [182]
Rights of Man, The, [292], [299]
Robertson, William, [22], [31], [155]
Robertson, William, of Lude, [291]
Rochester, [11]
Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, [225]
Rodger, Hugh, [55]
Rosamond, schooner, [226-227], [295], [297]
Ross, Alexander, [24]
Rossetti, Christina, [162]
Rotary Club, [104]
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, [272], [299], [300]
Rowe, Elizabeth, [60]
Russell, John, [76]
Ryedale, [126], [130]
Sabbath, Scottish, [17], [92]
St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, [9]
St. James’s Lodge, Tarbolton, [67-68], [91]
St. Kitts, [176]
St. Mary’s Isle, [131-132]
Samothrace, Victory of, [250]
Sanitation, [9-13]
Satan, Milton’s, [164], [282]
Savannah-la-Mar, [192]
Schetki, Theodor, [28]
Schoolmistress, The (Shenstone), [57]
Schools, Scottish, [38-42]
Scotch Drink, [248]
Scotland and the Union (W. L. Mathieson), quoted, [18-19]
Scots language, [23-31], [75]
Scots Magazine, [31], [100], [228]
Scots Musical Museum, The, [120-121], [214], [220], [254-264], [269], [273-274], [276]
‘Scots wha hae,’ [272-273], [292], [300]
Scott, Sir Walter, [6], [9], [44], [47], [65], [100], [104], [121], [135], [197], [246], [261], [265], [267], [274], [293], [300], [304], [305]
Scottish National Gallery, [8]
Seasons, The (Thomson), [25], [57]
Sedition trials, [272]
Select Collection of Scotish Airs (Thomson), [205], [257], [264], [268-277]
Selkirk, Dunbar Douglas, Earl of, [96], [131-132], [293]
Sentimentality, [58]
Sentimental Tommy, [153]
Shadow of the Glen, The (Synge), [46]
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, [22]
Shakespeare, William, [11], [34-35], [42], [261]
Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, [102]
Shaw, George Bernard, [65]
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, [35], [239], [306]
Shenstone, William, [57], [75], [238]
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, [278]
Sheridan, Thomas, [29]
Sidney, Sir Philip, [28]
Sillar, David, [65], [89]
Simpson, William, [244], [249]
Sinclair, Sir John, [29-30], [301], [302]
Six Excellent New Songs, [45]
Skinner, John, [43], [256]
Smellie, William, [103], [105-106], [110], [121], [177-178], [181], [253], [254]
Smith, Adam, [31], [206], [278]
Smith, James, [13], [89-90], [112], [150], [173], [249]
Smith, Leonard, [215], [216]
Smollett, Tobias, [58]
Smuggling, [56]
Snyder, Franklyn Bliss, [145], [147], [199]
Solway, [184-187], [226]
Sorrows of Werther, The, [115], [125]
Souter Johnie, [97]
South Sea Bubble, [7]
Southey, Robert, [197]
Sow’s Tail to Geordie, The, [26]
Spectator, The, [31], [42], [164], [302]
Spenser, Edmund, [42], [157]
Spenserian stanza, [57]
Spinoza, Baruch, [281]
Stackhouse, Thomas, [48]
Staig, David, [223], [224]
Star, London, [205]
Steenson, Steenie, [305]
Sterne, Laurence, [42], [66]
Stevenson, Robert Louis, [305]
Stewart, Catherine Gordon, of Stair, [153]
Stewart, Dugald, [61], [96-97], [98], [99], [118], [195]
Stewart, Mrs. —, [165], [209]
Stewart, William, [229]
Stinking Vennel, Dumfries, [221], [222]
Stirling, [209], [294]
Stobbie, Adam, [130], [232]
Stuart, House of, [4], [287-289], [294]
Stuart, Peter, [205]
Surgeoner, Jenny, [13], [143]
Sweet Afton, [307]
Swift, Jonathan, [60], [304]
Syme, John, [57], [96], [109], [111], [125-134], [174], [181], [203], [229], [267], [295], [296]
Synge, John Millington, [46]
Tam Glen, [264]
Tam o’ Shanter, [59], [121], [204], [264-268], [305]
Tarbolton, [62-67], [89], [90], [124]
Tarbolton Bachelors’ Club, [63-66], [88], [89]
Tarbolton Mill, [165], [167]
Tatler, The, [42], [302]
Taylor, John, [100]
Tea-Table Miscellany (Ramsay), [25]
Telford, Thomas, [127], [213]
Tennant, John, [211]
‘The last time I cam o’er the moor,’ [179]
‘The robin cam to the wren’s nest,’ [277]
Thompson, Harold William, [305]
Thomson, George, [61], [109], [133-134], [148], [186], [205], [232], [241], [243], [244], [249], [256], [258], [260], [264], [268-277]
Thomson, James, [25], [28], [31], [42], [57], [151], [302]
Thomson, Peggy, [56], [59], [69], [146]
‘Thou Lingering Star,’ [148]
Thrawn Janet, [305]
Tinwald House, [182]
Titus Andronicus, [34-35]
To a Haggis, [248]
To a Mountain Daisy, [59], [307]
To a Mouse, [307]
Toddlin hame, [275]
‘To Fanny fair could I impart,’ [242]
Tooke, Andrew, [49]
Tooke, John Horne, [226]
Tories, [225-226]
Treatise on Solitude (Zimmermann), [125]
Tudor, House of, [288]
Tullochgorum, [43], [256]
Twa Dogs, The, [154]
Twa Herds, The, [76], [92-93]
Twain, Mark, [65], [280]
Tytler, William, [253]
Union, Act of, [3], [6], [16], [23], [302-303]
Unitarianism, [280]
United States, [7], [29], [190], [218], [289], [290]
Urbani, Pietro, [28]
Versailles, [100]
Vicar of Wakefield, The, [31]
Virgil, [252], [276]
Vocabulary, Burns’s, [247]
Voltaire, [300]
Wallace, Lady Antonia, of Craigie, [155]
Wallace, Lady Eglintoune Maxwell, [155]
Wallace, Sir William, History of (Blind Harry), [25], [45]
Wallace, Sir William, [82], [153], [154], [234]
Walpole, Horace, [278]
Wardlaw, Lady Elizabeth, [27], [42-43]
Washington, George, [290]
Watson, John, [305], [307]
Wedderburn, Alexander, [301]
Wesley, John, [14], [278]
West Indies, [7]
Westminster, [293]
‘When Princes and Prelates,’ [111]
Whigs, [102], [131], [225-226], [230-231], [287], [294]
Whistle, The, [121-122], [225]
‘Whistle and I’ll come to you, my lad,’ [264]
Whitefoord, Sir John, [91], [99]
Wig Club, Edinburgh, [104]
Wigglesworth, Michael, [20]
Wilkes, John, [287], [289]
Wilson, John (‘Dr. Hornbook’), [39], [83]
Wilson, John (Kilmarnock), [194]
Wolcot, John, [270]
Wolsey, Cardinal, [40]
Women, Burns’s views on, [149-150]
Women, education of, [37], [135-136]
Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret, The, [295]
Wood, Alexander, [210]
Woodley Park, [122-123], [178-179], [180], [182]
Wordsworth, William, [226], [234], [241], [278], [284], [304], [306]
World War, [303]
Young, Edward, [169], [279]
‘Young Jocky was the blithest lad,’ [272]
York, House of, [288]
Zimmermann, Johann Georg von, [125]