13 Life and Letters, p. 295.
14 His eldest brother, Thomas, had died from the effects of an accident in 1856.
15 In accordance with the old Scottish custom, Dr. Cairns wore gloves during the "preliminary exercises," but took them off before beginning the sermon. On the Sunday after a funeral he discarded his Geneva gown in the forenoon, and, as a mark of respect to the deceased, wore over his swallow-tail coat the huge black silk sash which it was then customary in Berwick to send to the minister on such occasions.
16 Life and Letters, p. 560.
17 "All fair things be thine."