paper,
iii. 18; letter to, 18; affair of the
Whistle,' 67; 203; his death, iv. 77;
sonnet on,
ibid.
Riddel, Mrs R., letter to her sister, iv. 78.
Riddel, Mr Walter, of Woodley Park,
iii. 219; iv. 58; epigram upon, 108.
Riddel, Mrs Walter, an intimate friend
of Burns, iii. 218, 249; letters to, 258,
259; impromptu on her birthday,
iv. 48; lives solitarily at Woodley Park,
55; letter to, 56; offended by Burns,
58; letters to, 59, 60; lampoons on,
61-64, 85; allusion to, 113; song upon,
119, 121; song by, addressed to Burns,
121; another song addressed to Burns,
137; letter to, 184 last interview with,
202; writes an obituary notice of Burns,
213; plants laurels on Burns's grave, 214.
[Robertson], Captain, [of Lude], letter
to, iv. 54.
Robertson, Principal, ii, 25; iii. 186.
Rocking, a social meeting, explained,
Rodger, Hugh, schoolmaster at Kirk-
Oswald, i. 33.
Ronald, Misses, of Bennals, i. 46.
Mr, iii 86.
William, his admiration of
Burns's prayers, i. 160.
Rose, Mrs, of Kilravock, ii. 130, 227;
letter to, 228.
Russell, Rev. John, i. 124, 268; iii. 56.
Samson, Tam, of Kilmarnock, i. 294.
Sanquhar, Burns at, iii. 19.
Schetki, Mr, musician, ii. 206.
Scolding, literary, iii. 188.
Scott, Mrs, of Wauchope House, ii. 37, 83.
Sir Walter, meets Burns at Dr
Ferguson's, ii. 64; in opposition to
Burns in a public question, iv. 183.
Seal cut for Burns, iii. 286.
Selkirk, Burns at, ii. 84.
Earl of, iv. 15, 16, 142.
Sharpe, Charles, of Hoddam, letter to,
iii. 200; presents a mason's apron to
Burns, 202.
Shaw, Rev. Drs A. and D., i. 126.
Shaw, Sir James, his benevolent
tions for Burns's family, iv. 306.
Sheep's head, a dinner of, iv. 50.
Shepherd, Rev. John, Muirkirk, iii. 58.
Sillar, David, an early friend of the
poet, i. 50, 65, 105, 155.
Simpson, William, schoolmaster
Ochiltree, i. 128.
Sinclair, Sir John, letters to, iii. 202, 203.
Skinner, Rev. John, ii. 135, 140; letter
to, 141; letter from, 142; letters to, 226;
songs by, noticed, iv. 289, 290.
Skirving, Mr, writes a song; anecdote of,
iv. 286.
Slave-trade, a poem of H. M. Williams,
iii. 50.
Sloan, Mr Thomas, a companion of
Burns, iii. 21, 192.
Smellie, Alexander, anecdotes commu-
nicated by, ii. 40; iv. 214.
Smellie, William, Burns's poems printed
by, ii. 40; verses on, 41; letter to, iii.
220; 249.
Smith, Elizabeth, a servant of Burns,
ii. 298; iii. 59, 72.
Smith, James, an early friend of Burns,
i. 170; epistle to, 182; letters to, 284;
ii. 96, 101, 255.
Smith, Rev. George, i. 266.
Smuggling vessel, affair of a, iii. 223.
Snow storm, an extraordinary, iv. 138.
Songs, Scotch, usually sung too slow,
Spunkie'-apostrophe to, iii. 306.
Staig, Miss Janet, song upon, iii. 291;
epigram upon, iv. 95.
Star (newspaper), the, Burns writes a
letter to, ii. 293; corresponds with,
iii. 61.
Steven, Rev. William, i. 292.
Stewart, Mrs, of Stair, i. 108; letter to,
298; 311; ii. 290; iii. 246.
Stewart, Willie, epigram, iv. 243.
Polly, a heroine of Burns, iv. 72.
Professor Dugald, i. 304, 319;
ii. 59; his account of Burns in Edin-
burgh, 63; letters to, 257; iii. 14.
Stewart, Rev. Mr, of Luss, iii. 142.
Stirling, Burns writes disloyal lines at,
ii. 120; second visit to, 146.
St Mary's Isle, Burns at, iv. 15; 142.
Stobie, Mr, does duty for Burns, iv. 191.
Stock and horn, a Scottish musical in-
strument described, iv. 119.
Stonehaven, Burns at, ii. 135.
Strang's Germany in 1830' quoted, iv. 53.
Strathallan, Viscount, his Lament,'
Strephon and Lydia, anecdote of, iv. 287.
Stuart, Mr Daniel, iii. 61, 121.
-, Peter, letter to, ii. 45; iii. 37;
noticed, 40; letter from, 61; letter to,
62; versified epistle to, 121.
Stuart, Prince Charles, his birthday cele-
brated by Burns, ii. 25; 139.
Sutherland, Mr, a player, iii. 102; pro-
logue for, 107; 256.
Sword-cane, story of a, iv. 158.
Syme, John, Esq., a friend of Burns, iii.
266; excursion with Burns in Gallo-
way, iv. 14; 32; 60; 144; letter to, 154;
account of in 1826, 156; exertions for
Burns's family, 223.
Tait, Crawford, Esq., letter to, iii. 149.
Mr, of Harvieston, ii. 118.
Tam o' Shanter, iii. 152.
Taylor, Dr John, of Paisley, ii. 100.
John, Wanlockhead, iii. 20.
of Norwich, his work on Original
Sin, i. 122, 343.
Tennant, Mr James, of Glenconner,
ii. 232; letter to, 302; versified epistle
to, iii. 43.
Tennant, Mr, of Ayr, his recollections of Tytler, Mr William, of Woodhouselee,
Burns, i. 20.
Thomson, Mr George, of Edinburgh,
collection of Scottish Melodies pro-
jected by, iii. 232; letter to Burns, 232;
Burns's letters to, 233, 251, 253, 254,
263, 264, 279, 283, 287, 290, 291, 294, 297,
303, 304, 308, 309, 312, sends a present
of money to Burns, 312; letters to, 314;
iv. 21 bis, 23, 24, 25, 27, 29, 30, 33, 35,
39, 41, 43, 46, 51, 80, 85, 90, 92, 93, 97,
110, 115, 126, 133, 138, 139, 158, 162 bis ;
Mr T. attempts to remunerate Burns,
164; letters to, 165 bis, 167, 188; sends
Allan's etchings to Burns, 189; letters
to, 192, 193, 201; Burns asks assistance
from, 205; sends L.5 to Burns, 207; his
assistance to Currie's edition of Burns,
225; his Melodies. 227, note; letter of
Gilbert Burns to, 227.
Thomson, Peggy, an early flame of Burns,
i. 32, 36, 74.
Thomson, the poet, temple to, iii. 193;
address to the shade of, 194; quoted,
273.
Thrush, sonnet on hearing one sing,
iii. 281.
Tinnock, Nanse, alewife in Mauchline,
i. 169.
'Toast for the 12th of April,' iv. 152.
Toothache, Burns afflicted by, and his
address to, iii. 46.
Torbolton, Bachelors' Club of, i. 49.
Freemasons' Lodge of, i. 94;
farewell to, 277; books of, 278; account
of, 342.
Train, Joseph, anecdote communicated
by, iii. 84; 225; iv. 17.
Traquair, Burns at, ii. 88.
ii. 168; iii. 282; iv. 283.
'Vision, a,' a song, iv. 69.
Vision, the, a poem, i. 187; additional
stanzas of, ii, 32, 311.
Volunteers, Dumfries, iv. 150.
Walker, Professor, ii. 59, 124; letter to,
128; iv. 176.
Walks, favourite, of Burns at Dumfries,
iv. 25.
'Wallace,' Blind Harry's, quoted, iii. 63.
Mr, writer in Dumfries, iv. 67.
Wanlockhead, Burns at, iii. 20.
Washington, General, Burns proposes
celebrating his birthday, iv. 83.
Wauchope House, ii. 38; Burns's letter
to wife of, ii. 38.
Whelpdale, Mr, husband of Jean Lori-
mer, iv. 103.
'Whistle, the,' affair of, and poem so
called, iii. 67, 68.
Whitefoord, Sir John, i. 156; ii. 28;
letter to, 172; Lines sent to, iii. 178.
Williams, Helen Maria, ii. 32, 43; letter
to, iii. 50; answer from, 53.
Williamson, an actor, iv. 61.
Mr David, clothier, iv. 205.
Rev. David, hero of 'Dainty
Davie,' iv. 29.
Willie, Holy, i. 135, 170; iv. 58.
Wilson, Hugh, a herd-boy, i. 66.
John (Dr Hornbook), i. 109.
-, John, printer at Kilmarnock,
i. 257, 349; iv. 236.
Wilson, Mrs David, innkeeper at Roslin,
verses on, ii. 43.
Wood, Alexander, surgeon, ii. 184, 204.
Troggin' Wha'll buy troggin?'-a bal- Woodley, Maria, see 'Riddel, Mrs
lad, iv. 196.
Turit, Loch, Burns visits, ii. 150.
Turnbull, Gavin, songs by, iv. 46–48.
Turner, Andrew, epigram upon, iv. 243.
Tytler, Alexander Fraser, letter from,
iii. 181; letter to, 183.
Tytler, Balloon, iv. 284.
Woodley Park, iii. 219.
Woods, Joseph, the player, ii. 69.
Wordsworth, William, remark by, iv.
218. Writes a pamphlet on Burns, 231.
'Yarrow Visited,' quotation from, ii. 85,
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