ACCIDENT to Mrs. Wilson, ii. 80.

to Mrs. Gordon, senior, ii. 269.
Achlian, visits to, see Campbell.
Aird, Thomas, ii. 115, 144, 291.

letters to, on Burns, ii. 260-262.
on the Festival, ii. 294-296.
Alison, Sir A., i. 170, 185; ii. 292.
Allan, Mr., of the Caledonian Mer-
cury, i. 151.

Allan, Sir William, i. 300; ii. 288.
Ambleside, fair at, ii. 129-131.

Elleray.

See

America and the Americans, ii. 308,
309.

Anderson, Samuel, i. 270.

Anecdotes of College life, i. 76-82.
Anglers' Tent, the, i. 130.

Angling, early fondness for, i. 4, 5,
10, 17. See Fishing excursions.
his last "cast," ii. 340.
Animals, love of—

the peaseweep in the moor, i. 13.
cock-fighting, i. 69.

spiders and their habits, i. 140.
game-cocks, i. 141, 178.

ponies and cows, calves and pigs,
ii. 111.

226.

chickens and dogs, ii. 236.

letter from, ii. 81.

a pet dog shot, ii. 247.

list of dogs, ii. 252.

his four-footed friends, ii. 253.
Brontë, Tory, and Grog, ii. 252-
255.
his "

aviary" in the back-green,

ii. 256-259.

interference in behalf of an ill-
used horse, ii. 305, 306.
Anniversary, The, an annual of Allan
Cunningham's, ii. 137-143.

mere, i. 135-137, 205, 208, 230, 316.
-some account of, ii. 328-331.
Bar, Scottish, called to the, i. 179,
185.

Barber, Samuel, ii. 111, 127, et seq.
Barley-sugar, fondness for, i. 35; ii.
251.

Barlow, Mrs., ii. 129, 161.
Barton, Mr., i. 219.
Baxter, Mr., i. 205.

Bell, Henry Glassford, ii. 142, 143,
388.

Bell, Mr., i. 218, 219.
Ben Cruachan, i. 190.

Bentham, Jeremy, ii. 77, 78.
Beresford, Admiral Sir J., ii. 184.
Berkeley's philosophy, papers on, in
Blackwood, i. 324.

Bible, remarks on the, ii. 360.
Billholm, the residence of his son
John, description of, ii. 274-277.
a summer at, ii. 277.
letter to, ii. 289-291.

visits to, ii. 328, 342.

Blackwood, Captain, ii. 191.
Blackwood, Sir Henry, ii. 181.
Blackwood, John, ii. 368.
Blackwood, William, i. 176, 250, 254.
his saloon described by Lock-
hart, i. 258.

letters from, ii. 54, 60-70, 98-
100.

his illness and death, ii. 228-234.
Blackwood's Magazine versus Edin-
burgh Review, i. 238, 250, 251, 265.
account of the rise of the Maga-
zine, i. 244-247.

268.

its early defects, i. 250, 251.
contributors to, i. 257.
fictitious names used in, i. 263,

troubles occasioned by its as-
saults, i. 276-295.

Wilson's allegiance to, ii. 51.
his contributions to, i. 106, 135,
159, 160, 168, 208, 234, 235, 259,
268, 278, 298, 302.

his last papers, ii. 344.

"Breeches Review," the, ii. 78.
Brewster, Sir David, i. 257; ii. 285.
British Critics," North's Specimens
of the, ii. 298, 299.
Bridges, David, ii. 58.
Bronte, the dog, ii. 252.
Brougham, Lord, i. 144; ii. 43, 283,
286.

Brown, Dr. John, ii. 103, 226.
Brown, Peter, Bishop of Cork, i. 328.
Brown, Dr. Thomas, i. 301, 307. 332.
Browne, Dr. James, editor of the
Caledonian Mercury, ii. 151.
Bryant, Jacob, i. 324.

Bull, midnight chase of a, i. 138-140.
Bull (John) Magazine, ii. 71-96.
Burke and Hare, the Edinburgh
murderers, ii. 147, 253.

Burney, Charles Parr, Archdeacon of
Colchester, i. 75, 113; ii. 184.
Burns Festival, ii. 291-295.
Burns, Robert, i. 242.

essay on, ii. 259-262.
Burnside, Mary, the friend of the
"Orphan Maid," ii. 261.
Burt, Dr. John, ii. 368.

Burton, John Hill, his reminiscences
of the Professor and his class, ii.
11-29.

Byron, Lord, i. 200, 240.

paper on his Address to the
Ocean," ii. 302.

letters to Findlay on Wilson's
attachment to Margaret of Dych-
mont, i. 99-111. See Love episode.
visit to Elleray, i. 130, 131.
letter from, i. 179.
correspondence with, when pre-
paring Moral Philosophy Lectures,
i. 321-330.

mentioned, ii. 178, 214, 331.
accompanies Wilson to the High-
lands, ii. 296-298.

reminiscences of his friendship
with Wilson, ii. 333-335.
Blantyre Priory, i. 32.

Boating, love of, i. 135-137.
Bothwell Banks, i. 56, 86.

Boxing-Wilson "a varra bad un to
lick," i. 69, 146.
Boyd, John, ii. 89.
Boyhood, i. 1-20.

Caird, the great, and his wife, i. 194.
Calder Bank, i. 32, 51.
Calderwood, i. 51.

Calvinus, attack by, on Drs. M'Crie
and Andrew Thomson, i. 257, 282.
Campbell, Captain Archibald, i. 218.
Campbell, Dugald, of Achlian, i. 192;
visit to, i. 212-220, 225.
Campbell, Thomas, ii. 184, 204, 237.
Canning, George, ii. 72.

letter from, ii. 86.

Cleghorn, James, i. 244-247.
Cockburn, Lord, ii. 249, 313, 367.
Cock-fighting, i. 69-71.

Cocks, establishment of, at Elleray,
i. 70, 140-143.

Codrington, Sir Edward, ii. 191.
Colburn, Henry, ii. 73.

Coleridge, Hartley, ii. 127, et seq.,
133, 134, 164.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, i. 125, 205,
207.

his Biographia Literaria, i. 248.
review of his poetical works, ii.

234.
College life at Glasgow, i. 21-39.

at Oxford, i. 56-118. See Oxford.

Collier, Sir F., ii. 177, et seq.

friendship with Wilson, ii. 155-

De Tabley, Lord, ii. 148.
Diary in 1801, i. 26. See Memoran-
dum-book.

Dickens, Charles, i. 69; ii. 250.
public dinner to, ii. 268.
"Dies Boreales," composition of the,
ii. 320.

the last contributions to Black-
wood, ii. 344, 350.

"Dilettanti Club," i. 275.
"Dim acclivity," the, ii. 300.

of, ii. 111-113.

Combe, George, i. 247.

Commonplace Books, begun at Oxford,
plan of, i. 61-65, 103.

extracts from, in prose and
verse, i. 131, 135.
Composition, habits of, ii. 265-268.
Constable, Archibald, í. 176, 204, 247;
ii. 90.

Coop, the, in the attic, ii. 257, 250.
Copleston, Rev. Edward, i. 328.
Copy, copy!" ii. 266.
Cranstoun, Mr., i. 171, 318.
Critic, Wilson as a, ii. 114, 206.
Croker, John Wilson, ii. 71, 72, 75.
Cruikstone, i. 56.
Cunningham, Allan, ii. 70.

letters from, ii. 136-143.

Cupples, Mr., extract from his "Me-
morial" of Wilson, ii. 247.
Curwen, William, i. 205, 208.

DALYELL, Sir J. G., i. 271, 272.

Dixon, Rev. Richard, i. 111.
Dobson, Mr., i. 207.

Dogs, the, at Thirlstane Castle, ii.
224-227.

anecdote of one shot at Roslin,
ii. 247.

list of Wilson's dogs, ii. 252.
Douglas, Mr., of Glasgow, his fracas
with Mr. Blackwood, i. 278, 279.
Dow, John, ii. 71.

Doyle, John, ii. 283.

Doyle, Richard, ii. 283.

Drawing, early attempts at, i. 6.
See Art.

Dress, peculiarities of, ii. 304.
Drovers, King of the, Wilson's match
with, in a Highland village, i. 194.
Drummond, Mr. Home, i. 75.
Duel, Scotsman-Mercury, ii. 151.
Dumfries, visit to, ii. 262.

Duncan, Thomas, Wilson in his
studio, ii. 311, 312.
Dundas, Admiral, ii. 199.

Dundas, Robert, ii. 84.
Dundas, William, ii. 84.

Du Perron, Cardinal, as a leaper, i.
73.

Dunlop, William, i. 36, 38, 109,
213.

Dunlops, the, of Garnkirk, i. 3.
Dychmont, i. 32.

the ladies of, i. 50-56.

EARLY companions, i. 38.
"Edderline's Dream," ii. 140-143.
Edgeworth, Miss, ii. 58, 104.
Edinburgh, removal of the family to,

i. 181-185.

Ann Street and its associations,
i. 296-300.

removal to Gloucester Place, i.
81, 82.
Edinburgh Monthly Magazine, i. 234,
244-247.

Edinburgh Review, strictures of, on
education at Oxford, i. 82.

176.

240.

"Isle of Palms" reviewed in, i.

Wilson's contributions to, i. 186,
See Jeffrey.
review of the " "City of the
Plague," i. 209.

the Review versus Blackwood, i.
238, 250, 251.
Elleray, purchase of, i. 105, 106.

description of, by De Quincey,
i. 120-122.

- society in the district, i. 125,
147

excursions around, i. 129, 130,
133-135, 228.

- boating on Windermere, i. 135-
137.

regattas, i. 149; ii. 92.

plans of composition at, i. 178.
departure from, i. 179-182.
visits to, i. 204-208, 226-230; ii.
53, 68.

the new house at, ii. 68.

visit of Sir Walter Scott, ii. 91-
93.

letters to Mrs. Wilson and
family from, ii. 107-111, 126-133,
162-164; to Sheriff Gordon, 299.

intention to let, ii. 124.

visits in 1845 and 1848, ii. 299,
301.

resolution not to return, ii. 302.
Elliot, Ebenezer, the Corn-Law Rhy-
mer, ii. 208-212.
Ellison, Nathaniel, i. 76.

Eloquence, the Gormandizing School
of, ii. 58.

Equestrian adventure, i. 137, 138.

FAIRY, funeral of a, described, ii, 271-
273.

Fairy-land, Lays from, ii. 49.
Fang, the dog, ii. 225, 252.

Father, death of Wilson's, i. 21, 22.
Ferguson, Dr. Adam, i. 332.
Fergusson, Sir Adam, i. 300; ii. 58,

59.

Fergusson, James, i. 171, 213.
Ferrier, Professor, i. 249; ii. 106,

161.

marriage of, to Miss Wilson, ii.

247.

Findlay, Robert, i. 36, 38.

correspondence with, on the
Orphan Maid, i. 92-118 (see Love
episode).

letter to, on his marriage with
Miss Penny, i. 161, 162.

letter to, on the death of Mrs.
Findlay, senior, and of Mrs. Wil-
son, senior, ii. 80-82.

mentioned, ii. 159.
note to, ii. 237.

letter to, from Rothesay, ii. 269.
invited to the marriage of John
Wilson, jun., ii. 301.

letter to, congratulating him on
his son's marriage, ii. 353.

his death, ii. 353.

Finlay, John, a young poet, i. 103,
109, 155, 159.

Finlay, Mr., of Glencorse, i. 186.
Fish, the first, i. 4.

Fishing excursions--to the Tweed and
Yarrow, i. 185.

to the Highlands, i. 194.
to Loch Awe, i. 212-218.

to the wilds of Rannoch, i. 234.
to the Dochart, ii. 296-298, 339.
his last excursion, ii. 338-340.
Fleming, Rev. John, of Rayrig, i.
125.

referred to, i. 130, 131.

GAISFORD, Dr. Thomas, i. 77.

Gale House and its inmates, i. 147,
et seq.

Galt, John, i. 300; ii. 65, 67.

66

Gangrel bodies" from the South, i.
193.

Garnet, William, i. 228; ii. 110, 130,
131, 162.

Gas versus Candle, ii. 267, 325.
"Gemm eggs, a pouchfu' o'," i. 143.
Gibb, Mr., an Edinburgh artist, ii.
147, 148, 165.
Gill, Mr., i. 172.

Gillies, R. P., i. 244, 245, 255, 257.
Gipsies, the Howitts' story of his
joining a gang of, i. 74.
Gladstone, W. E., ii. 161.

Glasgow University, enters, i. 22.
college life, i. 21-39.

recollections of, i. 58, 59.
Glassford, Mr., i. 171.
Gleniffer, i. 1.

Gloucester Place, removal to new
house in, ii. 82.

"Gold Medal, Professor Wilson's,"
ii. 46.

Gordon, Sir John Watson, i. 299; ii.
368.

Gordon, Mrs., senior, accident to, ii.
269.

Gordon, John Thomson, ii. 21.

marriage of, ii. 247.
letters to, ii. 292, 299.
letter to, from the Lord Advo-
cate, intimating the grant of a pen-
sion to Wilson of £300 per annum,
ii. 341.

Gordon, John, ii. 149.

"Goulden Vanitee, The;" music and
words of this quaint ballad, ii. 317-
319.

Graham, Dr., ii. 89.

Graham, Sir James, ii. 201, 285.
Grahame, Rev. James, author of

"The Sabbath," publication of
"Lines" to his memory, i. 168-171.
Grandfather, Wilson as a, ii. 325-328,
359, 361.

Grant, Mrs., of Laggan, i. 188, 193,
225, 311-313.

Grants of Lifforchy, i. 222.

Gray, James, author of "Cona," i.
199.

Gray, Lieutenant Charles, i. 201; ii.
178.

Grenville, Lord, i. 152.

Grey, Sir Charles E., i. 76, 113.
Grieve, John, i. 186, 195.

letter to, on Hogg's dispute with
Blackwood, ii. 219-223.

Grog, the dog, ii. 255.

Grosart, Rev. A. B., of Kinross, his
account of an illness of the Pro-
fessor, ii. 335, 336.

HADDINGTON, Lord, ii. 178.
Hall, Mrs. S. C., ii. 204.
Hallam, Henry, ii. 235.

Hallside, Professor Jardine's resi-
dence, society and diversions at,
i. 31, 32, 51.

Hamilton, Archibald, i. 38.
Hamilton, Captain Thomas, i. 257,
278, 300.

Hamilton, Sir William, i. 185, 249,
257, 300.

contest with, for the Chair of
Moral Philosophy, i. 301, et seq.

at Wilson's lectures, ii. 32, 38.
Harden, Allan, of Brathay, i. 131.
letter to, i. 151-154.
Harden, Captain, of Altnagoich, i.
235.
Hawick fair, adventure at, ii. 7-9.
Hay, Andrew, ii. 178.

Hazlitt, William, i. 271.

H. B. political sketches, ii. 283.
Health giving way, ii. 335, et seq.
residence at Woodburn, ii. 344-

354.

return to Edinburgh, ii. 354.
paralytic stroke, ii. 362.
Heber, Reginald, i. 75.
Helensburgh, regatta at, ii. 235,
236.

Herbert, William, Dean of Manches-
ter, i. 200.

Highlands, tour in the, i. 109.

pedestrian tour, accompanied by
Mrs. Wilson, i. 188-197.

tour of 1816, i. 212-225.
of 1817, i. 234-236.

short excursion in 1836, after the
Paisley festivities, ii. 239.

and again in 1841, ii. 269.

his last excursion to, in search
of health, ii. 338.

Hill, D. O., his calotype of Wilson,
ii. 285, 304.

Hogg, James, the Ettrick Shepherd,
visit to, i. 186.

letters to, i. 197-202; ii. 215-219.