INDEX 



Accident to Mrs. Wilson, 276, 277. 



to Mrs. Gordon, senior, 401. 



Achlian. visits to. See Campbell. 



Airil, Thomas, 299, 319, 415. 



letters to, on Bums, 394-396. 



on the Festival, 4 1 7, 418. 



Alison, Sir A., Ill, 121,415. 



Allan, Mr., of the Caledonian Mercury, 98. 



Allan, Sir William, 201, 413. 



Ambleside, fair at, 309, 310. See Elleray. 



America and the Americans, 426. 



Anderson, Samuel, 181. 



Anecdotes of College life, 49-55. 



Anglers' Tent, the, 84. 



Angling, early fondness for, 8, 4, 7, 12. See 

 Fishing Excursions. 



his last " cast," 446. 



Animals, love of — 



the peaseweep in the moor, 9. 



- — — cock-fighting, 45. 



— spiders and their habits, 92. 



game-cocks, 92, 116. 



ponies and cows, calves and pigs, 297. 



chickens and dogs, 379. 



the dog Rover and the witch, 371, 372. 



— — two pet dogs shot, 3S6. 



list of dogs, 389. 



his four-footed friends, 390. 



Bronte, Tory, and Grog, 3S9-392. 



his "aviary" in the back-green, 392-394 



interference in behalf of an ill-used horse, 



424, 425. 



Anniversary, The, an annual of Allan Cun- 

 ningham^, 314-318. 



" Apperdeen stockingks," 237. 



Aristocracy, the, Wilson admired from a dis- 

 tance, 427. 



Art. love of, 427, 428, 453. 



Astley, the Messrs., 84. 



Audubon, John James, the ornithologist, 361, 



363, 364. 

 " Auld lang syne," as sung by Wilson, 431. 

 Authors, calamities of, 303, 304, 398, 399. 

 » Aviary," the, 392. 



treatment of its invalids, 393. 



Awe, Loch, 139-142, 154, 400-402. 



Aytoun, Professor W. E., 238. 



marriage of, to Jane Emily Wilson, 434 



Babies, the Professor's " way" of carrying, 437, 



438. 

 Bachelor degree, examination for, at Oxford, 



72-74 



Baillie, Joanna, 112. 



Baird, Principal, 222. 



letter from, 277. 



Ballantynes, the, 103, 108, 110, 112, 115, 181, 183, 

 303. 



Balmer, Billv. a boatman on Windermere, 88-90, 

 134, 136, 149, 212. 



Some account of, 43S-440. 



Bar, Scottish, called to the, 117, 121. 



Barber, Samuel, 297, 308, et seq. 



Barley-sugar, fondness lor, 23, 389. 



Barlow, Mrs., 309, 330. 



Barton, Mr., 143. 



Baxter, Mr., 134 



Bell, Henry Glassford, 317, 318, 421. 



Bell. Mi-., 143. 



Ben Cruachan, 124. 



Bentham, Jeremy, 274 275. 



Beresford, Admiral Sir J., 345. 



Berkeley's philosophy, papers on, In Black- 

 wood, 217. 



Bible, remarks on the, 459. 



Billholm, the residence of his son John, de- 

 scription of, 404-406. 



a summer at, 407. 



letter to, 413. 414. 



visits to. 4o>. 447. 



Blackwood, Captain. 349. 



Blackwood, Sir Henry, 343. 



Blackwood, John, 463. 



Blackwootl, William, 115, 164, 167. 



his saloon described by Lockhart, 171. 



letters from, 259, 260,264-270, 2b9-290. 



his illness and death, 374-;JT->. 



Blackwood's Magazine versus Edinburgh Re- 

 view, 156, 164, 175. 



account of the rise of the Magazine, 160 



162. 



its early defects, 164 



contributors to, 171. 



fictitious names used in, 176, ISO. 



troubles occasioned by its assaults, 184-198. 



— — Wilson's allegiance to, 258. 



his contributions to, 294 313, 329, 334, 335, 



361, 378, 394 400, 406, 420, 422. 



his last papers, 449. 



For titles of contributions see Appendix 



III., 470-475. 



Blair, Dr. Alexander, 25. 98, 



letters to Findlay on Wilson's attachment 



to Margaret of Dychruont, 65-73, See Love 

 episode. 

 visit to Elleray, S4 65. 



letter from, 117. 



