Religion 370 C. To the Rev. John Skinner. Tullochgorum. Skinner’s Latin 370 CI. To Mr. Richard Brown. His arrival in Glasgow 371 CII. To Mrs. Rose of Kilravock. Recollections of Kilravock 371 CIII. To Mr. Richard Brown. Friendship. The pleasures of the present 372 CIV. To Mr. William Cruikshank. Ellisland. Plans in life 372 CV. To Mr. Robert Ainslie. Ellisland. Edinburgh. Clarinda 373 CVI. To Mr. Richard Brown. Idleness. Farming 374 CVII. To Mr. Robert Muir. His offer for Ellisland. The close of life 374 CVIII. To Miss Chalmers. Taken Ellisland. Miss Kennedy 375 CIX. To Mrs. Dunlop. Coila’s robe 375 CX. To Mr. Richard Brown. Apologies. On his way to Dumfries from Glasgow 375 CXI. To Mr. Robert Cleghorn. Poet and fame. The air of Captain O’Kean 376 CXII. To Mr. William Dunbar. Foregoing poetry and wit for farming and business 376 CXIII. To Miss Chalmers. Miss Kennedy. Jean Armour 377 CXIV. To the same. Creech’s rumoured bankruptcy 377 CXV. To the same. His entering the Excise 377 CXVI. To Mrs. Dunlop. Fanning and the Excise. Thanks for the loan of Dryden and Tasso 378 CXVII. To Mr. James Smith. Jocularity. Jean Armour 378 CXVIII. To Professor Dugald Stewart. Enclosing some poetic trifles 379 CXIX. To Mrs. Dunlop. Dryden’s Virgil. His preference of Dryden to Pope 379 CXX. To Mr. Robert Ainslie. His marriage. 379 CXXI. To Mrs. Dunlop. On the treatment of servants 380 CXXII. To the same. The merits of Mrs. Burns 380 CXXIII. To Mr. Robert Ainslie. The warfare of life. Books. Religion 381 CXXIV. To the same. Miers’ profiles 382 CXXV. To the same. Of the folly of talking of one’s private affairs 382 CXXVI. To Mr. George Lockhart. The Miss Baillies. Bruar Water 383 CXXVII. To Mr. Peter Hill. With the present of a cheese 383 CXXVIII. To Robert Graham Esq., of Fintray. The Excise 384 CXXIX. To Mr. William Cruikshank. Creech. Lines written in Friar’s Carse Hermitage 385 CXXX. To Mrs. Dunlop. Lines written at Friar’s Carse. Graham of Fintray 385 CXXXI. To the same. Mrs. Burns. Of accomplished young ladies 386 CXXXII. To the same. Mrs. Miller, of Dalswinton. “The Life and Age of Man.” 387 CXXXIII. To Mr. Beugo. Ross and “The Fortunate Shepherdess.” 388 CXXXIV. To Miss Chalmers. Recollections. Mrs. Burns. Poetry 388 CXXXV. To Mr. Morison. Urging expedition with his clock and other furniture for Ellisland 390 CXXXVI. To Mrs. Dunlop. Mr. Graham. Her criticisms 390 CXXXVII. To Mr. Peter Hill. Criticism on an “Address to Loch Lomond.” 391 CXXXVIII. To the Editor of the Star. Pleading for the line of the Stuarts 392 CXXXIX. To Mrs. Dunlop. The present of a heifer from the Dunlops 393 CXL. To Mr. James Johnson. Scots Musical Museum 393 CXLI. To Dr. Blacklock. Poetical progress. His marriage 394 CXLII. To Mrs. Dunlop. Enclosing “Auld Lang Syne” 394 CXLIII. To Miss Davies. Enclosing the song of “Charming, lovely Davies” 395 CXLIV. To Mr. John Tennant. Praise of his whiskey 395