18 Life and Letters, p. 661.
19 In the following year (1882) he received the degree of LL.D. from Edinburgh University.
20 Life and Letters, p. 743.
21 Life and Letters, p, 769.
22 Six years later the sister who had so long lived with him was laid in the same grave. William Cairns sleeps with his kindred in Cockburnspath churchyard.