350

Dalgarnock, allusion to, in a song, iv. 167.
DALRYMPLE, Dr William, i. 9, 14, 126;
anecdote of, iii. 48.

DALRYMPLE, James, Esq., of Orangefield,
ii. 4, 6; letter to, 8.

Dalrymple, school of, attended by Burns,
i. 12.

DALRYMPLE, Sir John, ii. 30.

DALZELL, John, of Barncroch, iv. 4.
DAVIDSON, Betty, her legendary lore, i. 3,

10.

DAVIDSON, John, 'Souter Johnny,' iii. 153.
DAVIES, Miss, letter to, iii. 189; songs to,
189; letter to, 191; fate of, 192.

Dean of Faculty, the, a satirical ballad,
iv. 182.

Debts of Burns, iv. 222.
DELANY, Captain, iii. 192.
Delia, an ode, iii. 29.

DELOLME on the English Constitution, a
copy of, anecdote of, iv. 35.
Democratic effusion of Burns, iv. 78.
sentiments of Burns in 1793-4,

iv. 77-81.

DEMPSTER, George, of Dunnichen, i. 187.
DE PEYSTER, Colonel, versified note to,
iv. 185.

Dissipation in country towns of Burns's
time, iii. 202.

Distillers, Scotch, i. 206; iv. 293.
Distress, national, in 1793, iv. 1, 181.
Dogs, Burns's, iii. 29.

Domestic circumstances of Burns at Dum-
fries, iv. 120.

Doon, river, ii. 22; iii. 151, 238.

DOUGLAS, Mr William, his inquiry into the
date of Burns's attachment to Highland
Mary, i. 254; ii. 217.

DOVE, John, innkeeper in Mauchline, i. 171.
Dramatic writing recommended to Burns,
iv. 87.

Drumlanrig, woods of-verses

on

their

destruction, iv. 171.
DRUMMOND, Mrs, of Perth, ii. 149.
DUDGEON, Mr, a poet, ii. 71.
'Dumbarton Druins,' a tune, iv. 288.
Dumfries, Burns at, ii. 89; theatre in, iii.
92; Burns removes to, 202; his style of
living there (1792), 259; letter to magis-
trates of, 284; library at, iv. 34; king's
birthday (1794) celebrated at, 72; Burns's
style of living at, 120; Burns's daily life
at, 126; volunteers at, 147; Burns's
funeral at, 211.

Dumfries election, ballad on the, iii. 77; a
second ballad on, 79; description of in
verse, 121.

DUMOURIER, General, iii. 294.
Dunbar, Burns at, ii. 84.
DUNBAR, Mr William, ii. 31; letters to,
45, 253; iii. 93, 156.

DUNCAN, William, recommended by Burns,
iii. 140.

DUNDAS, Lord President, verses on the
death of, ii. 178.
DUNDAS, Mr Henry, ii. 121.
Dunfermline, Burns at, ii. 153.

DUNLOP, Mrs, of Dunlop, becomes the
friend of Burns, i. 333; letters to, 334;
ii. 18, 46, 47, 66, 200, 226, 242, 258, 259,
261, 265, 277, 280, 281, 292, 299, 303, 309;

.

iii. 16, 25, 40, 54, 82, 90, 94, 118, 130,
153, 172, 173, 198, 221, 241, 246, 266,
269, bis; iv. 73, 122, 177, 205; gives up
Burns's letters for publication, 226.
DUNN, Jean, a suspected contrabandist,
iii. 73.

Dunscore, parish kirk of, iii. 40.
Dunse, Burns at, ii. 70, 81.

Ecclefechan, Burns at, in a snow-storm,
iv. 134; the lass of, 270.

EDGAR, Mr John, letters to, iii. 156;
iv. 154.

Edinburgh, Burns arrives in, ii. 3; Address
to, 10; society in, in 1787, 48; Burns's
final visit to, iii. 204.

EGLINTOUN, Earl of, letter to, ii. 16; 63.
ELIZA, a heroine of Burns, i. 258.
Ellisland, a farm in Dumfriesshire, taken
by Burns, ii. 244; he commences living
there, 265; description of, 278; cere-
monial at entering the new house, iii. 51;
crop sold at, 185; character as a farm, 200;
quitted by Burns, 201.
ELPHINSTONE, James, epigram
translation of Martial, ii. 195.
English gentlemen, two, visit
iii. 184.

on his

Burns,

ERSKINE, Hon. Andrew, iii. 6, 226; post-
script from, 277; his death, iv. 36.
ERSKINE, Hon. Henry, ii. 5; letter to, 41;
sketch of, 45; displaced from the deanship
of Faculty, iv. 181.

ERSKINE, J. F., Esq., letter to, iii. 295.
Excise, a situation in, for Burns, ii. 202;

applies for an appointment in his own
district, iii. 50.

Excise Board reprimands Burns, iii. 267.
ii. 319.
Excursions, dates of Burns's, examined,

Eyemouth, Burns made royal-arch mason
at, ii. 83.

FALCONER, William, author of The Ship-
wreck, iii. 95.

Falkirk, Burns at, ii. 110.
FERGUSON, Dr A., entertains Burns,
ii. 55.

FERGUSSON, Alexander, of Craigdarroch,
iii. 57, 60, 83, 138.
Robert, the Scottish poet,
FERGUSSON, Mrs, of Craigdarroch, ii. 293.

i. 269; ii. 35, 36; verses under the portrait
of, 37; described by Peter Stuart, iii. 53-
account for his monument, 214.
Ferintosh whisky, i. 205.

FERRIER, Miss, verses to, ii. 104.
FINDLATER, Mr Alexander, a brother-officer
and friend of Burns, iii. 269; iv. 174, 192,
301.

FINDLAY, Mr James, trains Burns for the
Excise, ii. 252.

FLEMING, Agnes [My Nannie O], i. 38,
352.

FLINT, Kirsty, a singer of songs to Burns,
iii. 106.

Flower of Yarrow, the,' iv. 285.
FONTENELLE, Miss, an actress, address
written for her, iii. 249; letter to, 250;
epigram upon, 251; address for iv. 178.
Fox, C. J., i. 266; sketch of, iii. 25.

Leith, scheme to
iv. 163.
LEWARS, Jessy, a young friend of Mrs Burns
-her kind services, iv. 194; songs upon,
193, 195; epigrams upon, 199, 247.
LEWARS, John, a brother-officer of Burns,
iii. 72; iv. 194, 223.

Liberty, Ode to, an uncompleted poem of
Burns, iv. 82, 176.

Liberty, Tree of,' a poem, iv. 79.
Library, a parish, Burns's care of, iii. 23,
116; account of, by Burns, 196.
Licentious traditionary poetry described,

iv. 43.

Light, New, described, i. 131.
LINDSAY, Isabella, admired by Burns at
Jedburgh, ii. 74, 76.

Linlithgow, Burns at, ii. 109.

LITTLE, Janet, the poetical milkmaid, iii.
154, 171.

Lochlea, Burns family at, i. 25.
LOCKHART, Mr, biographer of Burns, quoted,
iii. 143, 216; iv. 57.

LOCKHART, Mr George, of Glasgow, letter
to, ii. 277.

LOGAN, Major William, epistle to, i. 331.
Miss, verses to, ii. 16.

Mr John, of Knockshinnoch, letter

LORIMER, Miss Jean, iii. 229; her story,
iv. 96. See 'CHLORIS.'

Lounger, Burns criticised in the, ii. 7;
Burns's opinion of, iii. 119.

Love-letter to an unknown lady, 'My dear
Countrywoman,' ii. 97.
Love-letters, early, of Burns, i. 50.

LOWE, author of Mary's Dream, iv. 2, 6.
'Highland Harry,'
LUMSDALE, Henry,

KILPATRICK, Nelly, the poet's first love, M'ADAM, Mr, of Craigengillan, i. 305.

Kilravock, Burns at, ii. 126.

'Kirk wad let me be,' an anecdote, iv.
289.

Kirk's Alarm, the, a satirical poem, iii.
46.

Kirkcudbright election of 1795, iv. 137;
election of 1796, 196.

Kirkoswald, Burns resides at, i. 25, 26;
iii. 144, 149.
KIRKPATRICK of Dunscore, a Calvinistic
clergyman, ii. 296; iii. 40; 109, 195.
Kirn, the, at Ellisland, 1790, iii. 142.

LADYMAN, Mr, anecdote communicated by,
iv. 39.

LANGHORNE quoted, ii. 56.
LAPRAIK, John, i. 115, 119, 139.

Lass o' Patie's Mill, a song by Ramsay,
anecdote respecting, iii. 292.

LAWRIE, Rev. Archibald, i. 307; letters to,
335, 336; letter to, ii. 112.

LAWRIE, Rev. George of Loudon, i. 307, 311,
334; ii. 24.

LAWRIE, Sir R., of Maxwelton, iii. 57, 62.
haunt
a
Leglen Wood,

of Wallace,

verses, 205; her voyage to the West |
Indies, 216; letters to, 216; songs upon,
207, 208, 209, 210; returns from the West
Indies, 261; letter to, 279; last letter
to, iv. 83; final allusion of Burns to,
101; letters of Burns in her possession,
226.

M'LEOD, Isabella, of Raasay, a song upon,
ii. 215.

M'LEOD, John, on the death of, ii. 100.
of Dunvegan, iii. 265.
M'LEODS of Raasay, Burns intimate with
the, ii. 99.

M'MATH, Rev. John, i. 127, 141.

M'MORINE, Rev. Mr, minister of Caerlave-
rock, iii. 272.

M'MURDO, John, Esq., letters to, iii. 1, 126,
286, 309; iv. 42, 245.
M'MURDO, Mrs, letter to, iii. 27.

Phillis, song referring to, iv. 10,

16.
MACPHERSON, James, a Highland robber,
ii. 213.

MACQUECHAN's, Rob, elshon, an incident in
life of Bruce, iii. 135.

M'WHINNIE, Mr, writer, Ayr, i. 240.
Marriage, Burns's, question if it was ever
annulled, ii. 321.

Marriage, irregular, not to be annulled
except by divorce, ii. 201.

Martial, epigram on a translation of, ii. 195;
a paraphrase upon one of his epigrams,

iv. 146.

Mary, Highland. See 'CAMPBELL, Mary.'
MARY, Queen of Scots, iii. 162.

Mason-lodge at Dumfries, notes from its
book, iv. 191.

MASTERTON, Allan, iii. 55, 58; iv. 40.

Ann, Bonny Ann,' iii. 101.
Mauchline, i. 82, 97, 100; description of,
170; Burns's return to, ii. 89.
MAXWELL, Dr, a physician at Dumfries,
iv. 86, 173, 198, 224.

MAXWELL, John, Esq., of Terraughty, verses
to, iii. 197; iv. 140.

MAXWELL, Provost, of Lochmaben, letter to,
iii. 85.

MAYNE, John, a Scottish poet, i. 155;
iii. 305.

MERKLAND, Miss, ii. 251.

'Merry Beggars,' an old song, prototype of
Burns's Jolly Beggars,' i. 183.
MICHIE, William, epitaph upon, iv. 242.
MILLER, Captain, of Dalswinton, iii. 76, 121;

iv. 46.

MILLER, Mr James, produces air of 'Ye
Banks and Braes,' &c., iv. 108.
MILLER, Patrick, of Dalswinton, ii. 9, 18,

89; letters to, 135, 155; lets a farm to
Burns, 243; his concern in originating
steam-navigation, 245; iii. 177, 201; letter
to, 286.

MILLER, Patrick, junior, iv. 119.

Mill-Mannoch, on the Coyl, scene of a song,
iii. 289.

Mill Vennel, Dumfries, Burns removes to,
iii. 302.

Ministry, neglect of Burns by the,

150.

Mire cleuch prosecution, iii. 137.

MIRRY, Mrs Anne, i. 70.

VOL. IV.

iv.

W

353

MITCHELL, Collector, iii. 140; letter to, 140;
referred to by Burns as a critic, iv. 154;
rhymed note to, 180.

MITCHELSON, Mr Samuel, W. S., ii. 69.
MOIR, J., printer, anecdote told by,
ii. 12.

MONBODDO, Lord, ii. 10.

Money, Burns's objections to writing for,
iii. 165, 310.

Monkland Friendly Society, iii. 23, 116, 195,
196.

Mons Meg, a cannon, iii. 122.

MONTEATH, Sir James, of Closeburn, ancc-
dote communicated by, iii. 106.
MONTGOMERY, Maj.-gen. James, i. 284.
-'s Peggy, i. 70, 101.

Montrose, Burns at, ii. 132.
MOODIE, Rev. Alexander, i. 124, 272.
MOORE, Dr John, ii. 16; letters to, 20, 33,
64, 101, 311; iii. 21; letter from, 22;
advice from,
letters to, 120, 164;

165.

MORINE, Mr, purchases Ellisland, iii. 201.
Morning Chronicle, Burns asked to con-
tribute to, iv. 118; writes a letter to the
editor of, 126.

MORRISON, Mary, a song, i. 68; ii. 217.
Mr, Mauchline, note to, ii.

289.

Mossgiel, Burns's farm, i. 82; Burns's room
at, i. 145, 189.

MUIR, Robert, of Kilmarnock, an early
friend of Burns, i. 223; letters to, 235,
298; ii. 63, 112, 241.

MUIR, W., of Torbolton Mill, i. 110; ii.
237.

MUIRHEAD, Rev. James, of Urr, iv. 145,
146, 197.

MURDOCH, John, first teacher of Burns,
i. 9, 11, 14, 17; letter of the poet to,
Jan. 1783, 60; letter from, ii. 161; iii. 111;
letter to, 125.
MURRAY,

Esq., of Broughton, iv. 138,

142, 145, 196.
MURRAY, Euphemia, of Lintrose, ii. 148.
Sir William, of Ochtertyre, ii. 119,

142.
MURRAY's Literary History of Galloway
quoted, iii. 51.

MYLNE, Mr, poems of, iii. 17, 18.

NASMYTH, Alexander, paints Burns's por-
trait, ii. 32; iv. 161.
NEWALL, Mr David, writer, ii. 301; iii. 134;
iv. 127.

Newcastle, Burns at, ii. 86.
Nicholson, Peg, a horse, iii. 110.
NICOL, Mr William, ii. 87; letters to, 87,
90; his character and history, 105;
accompanies Burns in Highlands, 109-
133; letter to, 146; affair of 'Willie
brewed a Peck o' Maut,' iii. 55; purchases
an estate, 315; letter to, 108; letter of
Nicol to Ainslie, 135; letter to, 215;
with Allan Masterton at Dumfries, iv. 40;
epitaph upon, 242.

NIELSON, Rev. Mr, of Kirkbean, iii. 109.
Nith, song on the, iii. 105.

NIVEN, Rev. Dr, of Dunkeld, i. 134.

William, a companion of Burns at

Kirkoswald, i. 27, 249, note, 297.

KILPATRICK, Nelly, the poet's first love, M'ADAM, Mr, of Craigengillan, i. 305.