INDEX. 



479 



Dobson, Mr., 135. 



Dogs, the, at Thirlstane Castle, 371-373. 



anecdote of two shot at Roslin, 386. 



list of Wilson's dogs, 3S9. 



Douglas, Mr., of Glasgow, his fracas with Mr. 



Blackwood, 188. 

 Dow, John, 270. 

 Dovle, John, 409, 410. 

 Doyle, Richard, 409. 



Drawing, early attempts at, 4. See Art. 

 Dress, peculiarities of, 423. 

 Drovers, King of the, Wilson's match with, in 



a Highland -village, 127. 

 Drummond, Mr. Home, 49. 

 Dumfries, visit to, 3!>6. 

 Duncan, Thomas, Wilson in his studio, 428. 

 Dundas, Admiral, 354. 

 Dundas, Robert, 279. 

 Dundas, William, 279. 

 Du Perron, Cardinal, as a leaper, 47. 

 Dunlop, William, 24, 26, 72, 139. 

 Dunlops, the, of Garnkirk, 2. 

 Dvehmont, 22. 

 — — the ladies of, 33-37. 



Eari;t companions, 25, 26. 



"Edderline's Dream," 316-31S. 



Edgeworth, Miss, 262, 292. 



Edinburgh, removal of the family to, 118-121. 



Ann street and its associations, 198-201. 



removal to Gloucester Place, 278. 



Edinburgh Monthly Magazine, 154, 160-162. 

 Edinburgh Review, strictures of, on education 



at Oxford, 55. 



'• Isle of Palms" reviewed in, 115. 



Wilson's contributions to, 120, 158. See 



■ Jeffrey. 



review of the " City of the Plague," 137. 



the Review versus Blackwood, 156, 164. 



Ellerav, purchase of, 68, 69. 



description of, by De Quincey, 7S, 79. 



society in the district, 81, 96. 



excursions around, 84, 87, 88, 149, 150. 



boating on Windermere, 88-90. 



regattas, 97, 285. 



plans of composition at, 116. 



departure from, 117-119. 



visits to, 133-136, 148-150, 259, 269. 



the new house at, 269. 



visit of Sir Walter Scott, 284, 2S5. 



letters to Mrs. Wilson and family from, 



294-297, 307-311, 331, 332 ; to Sheriff Gordon, 



420, 421. 



intention to let, 305. 



visits in 1845 and 1848, 420, 422. 



resolution not to return, 422. 



Elliot, Ebenezer, the Corn-Law Rhymer, 361- 



363. 

 Ellison, Nathaniel. 49. 



Eloquence, the Gormandizing School of, 262. 

 Equestrian adventure, 90. 



Fairt, funeral of a, described, 402, 403. 



Fairy-land, Lavs from, 256. 



Fang, the dog, 872, 889. 



Father, death of Wilson's, 14, 15. 



Ferguson, Dr. Adam, 223. 



Fergusson, sir Adam, 201. 262, 263. 



Fergusson, James, 112. 139. 



r, rrier, Professor, 108. 294. 330. 



marriage of, to Miss Wilson, 886. 



Findlay, Robert, 24, 25. 



correspondence with, on the Orphan Maid, 



60-77. {See Love episode.) 

 letter to, on his marriage with Miss Penny, 



105. 

 letter to, on the death of Mrs. Findlay, 



senior, and of Mrs. Wilson, senior, 277, 278. 



mentioned. 329. 



note to, 380. 



letter to, from Rothesay, 400. 



invited to the marriage 'of John Wilson, 



jun., 421. 

 letter to, congratulating him on his son's 



marriage, 455. 



his death, 455. 



Finlay, John, a young poet, 68, 71, 101, 104. 



Finlay, Mr., of Glencorse, 121. 



Fish, the first, 8. 



Fishing excursions — to the Tweed and Yarrow, 



121. 



to the Highlands, 126. 



to Loch Awe, 138-142. 



to the wilds of Rannoch, 154. 



to the Dochart, 418, 419, 445. 



his last excursion, 445, 446. 



Fleming, Rev. John, of Rayrig, 81. 



letters to, 207, 208, 304-307, 320, 821. 



Forbes, Professor Edward, 151. 



" Foresters, The," 26S, 209, 2S2. 



Fortune, unencumbered, 39. 



circumstances connected with the loss of 



it, 118. 

 Fraser, P. S., 4.33, 463. 

 Fraser's Magazine, 189, 289, 366, 370. 

 Free Trade, views on, 279, 301, 302. 

 Frit nil, The, a serial of Coleridge's referred to, 



85. 



GAisFor.D, Dr. Thomas, 50. 



Gale House and its inmates, 96, et seq. 



Gait. John, 201, 267, 268. 



" Gangrel bodies" from the South, 126. 



Garnet, William, 149, 296, 309, 310, 331. 



Gas versus Candle, 399. 400, 436. 



" Gemm eggs, a pouchfu' o'," y4. 



Gilib. Mr., an Edinburgh artist, 320-322, 333. 



Gill, Mr., 112. 



Gillies, E. P., 160, 161, 168, 171. 



Gipsies, the Howitts' story of his joining a gang 

 of, 48. 



Gladstone, W. E., 385. 



Glasgow University, enters, 15. 



college life, 14-26. 



recollections of, 38, 39. 



Glassford, Mr., 112. 



Gloniffer, 1. 



Gloucester Place, removal to new house in. 

 278. 



" Gold Medal, Professor Wilson's," 254. 



Gordon. Sir John Watson, 200, 463. 



Gordon, Mrs., senior, accident to, 401. 



Gordon, John Thomson, 238. 



marriage of, 8S6. 



letters to, 415, 416, 420. 



letter to, from the Lord Advocate, inti- 

 mating the grant of a pension to Wilson of 

 £300 per annum, 447. 



Gordon, John, 322. 



"Goulden Vanitee, The;" music and words of 

 this quaint ballad, 431-433. 



Graham, Dr.. 283. 



Graham, Sir James, 356, 411. 



