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1969 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY WILUAU HODGE AND CO., LTD., GLASGOW LIST OF CONTENTS PAGE

A Work For All Time. The Poems and Songs of Robert Bums. Edited by James Kinsley. Reviewed by Alex. MacMillan

The Best Biography of Burns. The Life of Robert Burns. By Franklyn Bliss Snyder. Reviewed by the Editor 5

Is This Really Burns? By George A. Young 8

Auguste Angellier. Translations from his Work on Burns by Jane Burgoyne 11

Burns and Immigration 29

The Letters of Jean Armour (11) by Alex. MacMillan 30

The Bums Pilgrimage. By John Gray 34

The Quiet Gentleman. New Poem by Alice V. Stuart 38

Rosebery Burns Club's Oldest Member 39

A Burns Night Spectacular .. 40

The Bums Club of London, 1868-1968 41

Obituaries 44

Book Reviews 46

Burns House Museum, Mauchline .. 54

Junior Burns Chronicle 55

The Bums Federation-

(a) List of Hon. Presidents, Hon. Vice-Presidents, Executive Committee, Office-bearers and District Representatives, Sub-committees, Auditors and Associate Members . . 65

,I . I / ) I (b) List of Past Presidents 70 List of Places at which the Annual Conferences of the Council have been held 71

(c) Constitution and Rules 72

(d) List of Districts 77

(e) Minutes of the Annual Conference, 1968, incor- porating the Hon. Secretary's Report, Financial Statement, Burns Chronicle and Schools Competi- tions reports 86

(f) Club Reports 104

(g) Numerical List of Clubs on the Roll 137

(h) Alphabetical List of Clubs on the Roll 166

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Robert Donaldson, President, Bums Federation frontispiece

James Kinsley, Professor of English Studies University of Nottingham facing page 1

Portrait, believed to be a contemporary one of Bums, now in Lady Stair's House Museum, Edinburgh facing page 8

The Jean Armour Letters facing page 32

Ii EDITORIAL NOTE

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NEWBIGGING, TWEEDSMUIR, BIGGAR, LANARKSHIRE. ROBERT DONALDSON President Burns Federation JAMES KINSLEY Professor of English Studies University of Nottingham A WORK FOR ALL TIME

THE POEMS AND SONGS OF ROBERT BURNS, Edited by James Kinsley. In three volumes (Volume I, II Text, Volume III, Commentary). Oxford University Press, £9 10s. Reviewed by ALEX. MACMILLAN

This monumental work, the definitive edition of the Poet's songs and poems, has been a long time a-making. Professor Kinsley has worked on it for twelve years. Before that, as he gladly acknowledges in his Preface, a great deal of preliminary work had been done by the late Professor Dewar, of Reading University. In paying tribute to him, Professor Kinsley mentions 'his engrossing talk about a poet whom he understood as much by instinct and spiritual kinship as by study'. Dewar was born in Dundonald in Ayrshire, the son of a head gardener, and had his schooling at Irvine Royal Academy. Kinsley tells us. that his concern was to provide a complete list of Burns's original poems, and of songs and ballads which he recovered and re-shaped from oral tradition. In addition to this, he gives us the airs of the songs in their eighteenth century form. He bases his texts on a critical examination of 800 manuscripts, includes songs collected by Bums, and those about which there is some doubt in authorship. Not only does he list the sources of the poems, and where they are now to be found, but he provides a lively commentary on every poem and song. He relates many to their association with Scottish tradition, and demonstrates how their roots were often in folk-lore, no matter what was the occasion which set the Poet's 'barmy noddle working prime'. This is not merely the whole of the Burns legend, this is it explained and related to Scots thinking, to Scots manners, and to Scottish history. Added to all this, Professor Kinsley has added to the Commentary volume an appendix giving the contemporary impressions of Bums from such diverse personalities as Dugald Stewart and Maria Riddell, among others. This will provide the back-ground to many a future Immortal Memory. Inevitably there are surprises. In the first section, which the Editor states includes poems and songs written 1774-1784, number 8 is 'Corn Rigs'. Ayrshire tradition has it that the girl of this poem was Annie Rankine, whom Bums did not meet till his Mossgiel days. 2 A WORK FOR ALL TIME

But apart from this, one must marvel at the ease of lyric-writing already shown by the poet. It will be remembered that Professor DeLancy Ferguson believed that Bums's lyrical gift was the fore­ most one, and David Daiches, too, spends considerable time dis­ cussing the poetic merits of 'Corn Rigs', obviously written to be sung, not recited. No. 30 is 'Mary Morrison', another song written before Bums had become a poet by habit. We have the Poet's word for it that it was 'one of my juvenile works,' but a critic like Crawford has a huge opinion of it, and Kinsley has the discerning note 'it is a notable early attempt to marry words to music'. I Bums declared that 'the first of my poetic offspring that saw the light' was 'The Holy Tulzie'-the story of the quarrel between the I Rev. Mr. Moodie of Riccarton and Russel of Kilmarnock, who were later to be immortalised in 'The Holy Fair'. A perfect example of the erudition the Kinsley brings to bear on a poem is seen in his remarks on 'The Holy Fair'. First nailing the poem to the date 1785, he proves that it was revised in 1786 for publication. He quotes from Gilbert Bums-'most of the incidents he mentions had actually passed before his eyes,' goes on to mention references to such celebrations in rural parishes, and then leaves the social for the poetic back-ground. Quoting Lockhart's phrase that with the publication of 'The Holy Fair'-'national manners were once more in the hands of a national poet,' he goes on to give many instances in literature of the peasant brawl. Kinsley then has 'this to say, ' "The Holy Fair" lifts the brawl to a new level of com­ plexity, satiric art and social significance'. It is good to find a scholar placing this magnificent but underrated poem in the high category to which it belongs. The text of Book II begins at the Ellisland period, when the Poet was turned song-writer, but of course in the autumn of 1790, turned aside from this to write the immortal 'Tam O' Shanter' for Captain Grose. It was in November of that year when Bums sent part of 'Tam O' Shanter' to Mrs. Dunlop at Loudon Castle. When she asked for and received the whole poem, as Kinsley says, 'her response was priggish'. Bums defended himself, saying that the poem 'had a finishing polish I despair of ever excelling' as well as a 'spice of roguish waggery that might perhaps be as well spared'. Mrs. Dunlop criticises-'the sweat and smoke of one line which I felt rather a little too strong for me'. Kinsley's criticism of the lady is apt. The Editor quotes various interpretations of the poem, and gives a splendidly forthright interpretation of his own. This is A WORK FOR ALL TIME 3 criticism at its best, and must be read by all who love the poem. Professor Kinsley makes very clear the distinction between James Johnson and George Thomson as collectors and editors of Scots song. Johnson became the Principal Music-engraver in ScotlandinBums'sday. 'Thefirst volume of his "Musical Museum" proved to be the climax of a century of Scottish song collection.' 'Bums's meetings with Johnson ... deepened and enriched his growing sense of vocation as a national poet.' Almost everything the Poet wrote between the summer of 1787 and late 1792-more than 200 songs-went to Johnson for the 'Museum'. Thomson, on the other hand was a carping dilettante compared with Johnson. Professor Kinsley quotes his letter to Bums, inviting the author of the 'Cottar's Saturday Night' to take up the pen for him. He had got 'the most agreeable composer living' (Pleyel) to agree to orchestrate what were folk-songs! No wonder Bums replied, 'My Dear Sir, you are too fastidious in your ideas of songs and ballads'. But songs began to pass between them, although Bums always preferred the honest work of Johnson. When we come to Volume III, it is borne in on us just why there exists the great love for our poetic genius wherever there are Scots. On page after page, the Editor bids us pause and admire. The commentary itself is helped by the ample biographical notes pre­ ceding each section, e.g., 1774. 'We lived very sparingly. For several years butcher's meat was a stranger in the house.' And here are samples of the Commentary-'In Mauchline their dwells six proper young belles'-their names and subsequent marriages are here. The commentary on 'Holy Willie's Prayer'-'with every line Willie appears more trivial and contemptible and the croney in his assurance of election grows deeper'. On 'The Vision': 'From the first, "The Vision" was a monologue on the Scottish cultural achievement, and the art of poetry, in a descriptive frame, with a series of subsidiary "prospects".' On 'Highland Lassie O': The author first quotes the Poet's reputed annotation of this song, which tells of the romantic farewell with Highland Mary on the banks of Ayr. He then tells us that a much less ethereal and more convincing portrait is Joseph Trainst's story of her being a mistress of a brother of Lord Eglinton's. Of 'Ae Fond Kiss':-'the air-has been a great deal titivated in modem practice.' Of the ballad 'Last May a braw wooer', he has this splendidly positive criticism: 'An endearing blend of the romantic and the 4 A WORK FOR ALL TIME self-interested realist, she begins in the pretences of the convention­ ally indifferent mistress, and ends by accepting her suitor-though with the humorous understatement characteristic of the Scots. He too develops: he begins with the traditional protestations of the sophisticated lover, falls back on appeals to greed and ambition, and in the end betrays a natural comically desperate passion. The reduction of courtly love-talk to realistic colloquialism has a Scottish history as old as Dunbar.' These are some appetisers for folk who are really interested in Burnsiana. The undated poems and doubtfully-attributed poems are handled with the same command of his material and expertise as the well-known poems and lyrics. Many of them are based on bawdy folk-song, 'wicked and witty'; some of them have obviously had the hand of Burns upon them. The appendix contains poems, or their early lines, which have been attributed to Burns on insuffi­

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THE BEST BIOGRAPHY OF BURNS THE LIFE OF ROBERT BURNS. By Franklyn Bliss Snyder. (Archon Books, 22 South Audley Street, London, W.1.) £5 17s 6d. Reviewed by THE EDITOR Considering the number of biographies of Burns that have appeared since James Currie's four volumes, The Works of Robert Burns, with an Account of his Life, in 1800, it is almost incredible that so few are of real worth. Scotland itself has a poor record in this respect. Lockhart's Life of Robert Burns (1828) is unreliable and is best left alone. It was Robert Chambers, with his four volumes, The Life and Works of Robert Burns, who first did justice to the Poet. In 1896, William Wallace gave us his revised edition of Chambers-he practically re-wrote the whole thing-and today the Chambers-Wallace, as it is known, is still of considerable account. Why is this so? Because no Scot since Wallace has made his mark in this particular field. Even with a wealth of material in Scotland's top libraries to be studied and sifted, none of our writers rise above a commonplace and, in some cases, a mediocre performance. Catherine Carswell made a brave effort, but she mixed fact and fiction in a most misleading manner. The plain truth is that, for the best biographies of Burns, we have to look beyond Scotland. In 1919, Professor Hans Hecht published Robert Burns, with the firm of Carl Winter at Heidelberg, and this work, translated by Jane Lymbum (Mrs. Jane Burgoyne) was published by Messrs. William Hodge & Company, Limited, in 1936. A second revised edition appeared in 1950. It is accurate and reliable. Yet the biography which remains the most authoritative of all is The Life of Robert Burns by Franklyn Bliss Snyder. Published in America in 1932, it has now been reprinted, unaltered and unabridged, and reissued for the first time in Britain. In a review in the 1933 Burns Chronicle, John Purdie, B.A., F.E.l.S., declared that 'the book is bound to become, and for a long time to remain, the standard record of Burns's life'. Mr. Purdie then went on to say: 'No poet has suffered so much from the vagaries and bias of biographers as Burns, and the author of this Life has set himself the task of telling the story of Burns's career "as truthfully as possible". This means, among other things, that he undertook to set forth in the biography nothing concerning 6 THE BEST BIOGRAPHY OF BURNS

Burns unless it could be substantiated by fact.' To seek and present the truth ought to be the first aim of all biographers. Assumption, conjecture and the like are fatal. Before he even began this book, Professor Snyder steeped himself in nearly everything that had been written about Burns. He brought to his task a keen sense of perception and a finely balanced judgment. The Times Literary Supplement rightly noted a 'healthy suspicion of all undocumented evidence'. Do not jump to the conclusion, however, that this book is of interest only to scholars and students. Throughout its five hundred­ odd pages, it is essentially readable. The first chapter gives a masterly account of Burns's Ayrshire. Among other things, it shows clearly how agriculture was undergoing drastic change. It is amusing, too, to find Snyder observing, 'The mails, which were carried by post boys on horseback, were even more leisurely than the stages; in 1790 it still took four days for an Edinburgh letter to reach London'. With our two-tier postal system, have we pro­ gressed so much after all? As the story of Burns's life is unfolded, a great deal is put in true perspective. After his return from Irvine, the situation at Lochlie was far from easy. The American Revolution had played the devil with Britain's overseas trade and Ayrshire weavers had a gey thin time o't. 'Food prices were high, crops scanty, and rents out of proportion to the real value of Ayrshire farm land ... All in all, the years from 1776 to 1786 were lean years for the south­ western counties of Scotland.' Conditions at Mossgiel were little better; but things take a different slant when we remember the time in which Burns lived. In farming, his lot was the lot of many. Professor Snyder examines the Mary Campbell story in detail. 'And when,' he says, 'in November of 1920 the remains of Mary Campbell were exhumed from their resting place in the Greenock Old West Kirkyard, and re-interred in the Greenock Cemetery, one hitherto virtually overlooked piece of evidence came to light, on the basis of which a new hypothesis may be constructed. Archibald Macphail, a member of the Greenock Burns Club, described the entire proceedings for the Greenock Telegraph, and recorded, without comment, the fact that "at the foot of the grave the bottom of an infant's coffin was found. This, while sodden, was quite sound". If the child whose body lay thus at the feet of Mary Campbell was her child, the whole situation becomes crystal clear.' Yet the author points out that the evidence is inconclusive.

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'The burial records of the Old West Kirk seem to be lost; there may have been other interments in that grave.' All the same, the reader will be left with the feeling that Professor Snyder himself is inclined to believe that the child buried in the same grave was Mary Campbell's baby and that Burns was the father. Nevertheless, he is careful to add that 'Something like that may have been the story of Burns and Mary Campbell'. In short, the truth will probably never come to light .•. unless the burial records of the Old West Kirk are found. The chapters on Edinburgh are first-class and here we see Burns growing in stature. In the Clarinda episode, it is clear that 'though it was the woman who made the first move, the man was not slow in response'. Snyder finally concludes, 'That Burns held himself in check, and saved Clarinda from the disaster which she invited, is to his credit. It is also to his credit that when he fully realized the hopelessness of his love, he went back to Mauchline and married the girl whose claim on him was infinitely greater than he had allowed Clarinda's to become'. Ellisland and Dumfries are, of course, the background against which Burns's story moves to its close, and both periods are dealt with in the same meticulous and enthralling fashion. In his Preface, in fact, Professor Snyder pays warm tribute to Mr. G. W. Shirley, then Librarian of the Ewart Public Library at Dumfries. Mr. Shirley read the entire manuscript and put a large amount of material from the collections in the Ewart Library at the author's disposal. The last chapter, 'The Man and the Poet,' examines the enigma of Burns's personality and the qualities of his genius-a fascinating conclusion to a tremendous achievement. The notes regarding sources, documents and letters are given at the end of each chapter, and there is also a valuable appendix and an exhaustive index. The frontispiece is from the original miniature painted in 1795 probably by Alexander Reid in the collection of Mr. Oliver R. Barrett. Illustrations throughout the book include pen and ink drawings of William Burnes's Cottage · at Alloway, the Back Causeway, Mauchline, and the Mill Venne!, Dumfries, 1802. This great biography, in company with Professor Kinsley's monumental work, The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns, made 1968 a rich and memorable year. It will be a long time before we see, in the space of twelve months, two such distinguished works on Robert Burns.

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IS THIS REALLY BURNS?

by GEORGE A. YOUNG, Huntly House Museum, Edinburgh

High on the wall of the main hall of Lady Stair's House Museum, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh, there hangs a large oil painting with the caption underneath 'Robert Bums: artist unknown, but believed to be a contemporary portrait of the poet'. · This portrait is so unlike the Bums depicted by so many artists, and so very far away from the romanticised Nasmyth in particular that the question has been asked: Is this really Bums? In the view of the Bums family there was only one authentic portrait. This was, of course, the Alexander Nasmyth. This por­ trait, which is now in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery has (or had) on the back a statement signed by Bums's eldest son Robert which said: 'I hereby certify that this is the original Portrait of the Poet by Alexander Nasmyth, Landscape painter in Edinburgh, and is the only authentic Portrait of him in existence, or at least the only Portrait of the Poet whose authenticity is indisputable'. This statement was dated April 28th 1834, thirty-eight years after the Poet's death, and it is on this statement that many possible or alleged portraits of Bums come to grief. However, there are one or two more which have serious claims to be representations of Bums. Peter Taylor, for instance, in 1786 painted a small half-length picture in an oval, and it is recorded that Gilbert Bums paid a visit to the artist's widow to see the picture. Bums, too, in a letter to Mrs. Walter Riddell in 1796, mentions I I he is giving sittings to Alexander Reid. I Skirving's drawing is another which comes to mind. Is this portrait under discussion an authentic contemporary painting from life or some imaginary likeness done some years later? The portrait in Lady Stair's House was recently bequeathed to the city by the late Mrs. Green, whose husband, the late Mr. C. E. Green (of the well-known Edinburgh firm of legal publishers) who was a collector of some discernment, bought the picture about 1914. It was bought in Dowell's saleroom and was described at the time , , as 'Robert Bums, by an unknown artist'. I: I i

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When Mr. Green originally bought the picture it seems he had doubts himself about its genuineness, but further careful examination of the picture finally convinced him that it was a contemporary por­ trait of Bums and of some national and literary interest. Mr. Green first of all tried to trace its origin, but, when put in touch with the seller of the picture, was given only scant informa­ tion that 'it has been in the possession of the late Dr. James Seaton Smyth and of my father for over forty years, but beyond that I cannot tell you anything'. That, however, only takes us back to about 1870 or so. The portrait, however, is a striking one, and is obviously the work of a competent artist. It measures 50 ins. by 40 ins. and is encased in a heavy gilt frame to which is attached the label: 'Robert Bums born 1759, died 1796'. The condition of the painting is good and has been well preserved. It looks as if it had been remounted during the latter part of the 19th century, and in a few places carefully restored. Mr. Green in his time showed this portrait to many art experts and he was assured that it must have been painted from life during the late 18th century. An expert of the 20's, Mr. E. Barrington Nash, wrote that, 'it is undoubtedly by Raebum, a very fine portrait indeed'. However, he did not consider it to be of Bums because 'the blue eyes are impossible in relation to Bums, whose eyes were black'. The face of the portrait has the general appearance of the face of Bums, and Mr. Green's opinion was that the face is much more I i like what one would expect Bums to be than the Nasmyth represents. ! The question arises again: were any of the portraits of Bums really like him? Mr. James L. Caw in 'Scottish Portraits' says 'None of them is a fine work of art, or even a satisfactory likeness'. When we examine this portrait, we notice first of all the slight stoop, which it has been said Bums had; the face is similar in appearance; the hair is arranged, rather like the 'Beatie' style, and is dark and heavy, and spread across his forehead. His left hand is resting on a volume of Shakespeare, and beside it is an inkstand under which is a book in pasteboard covers with uncut edges, which it has been suggested, exactly matches the first Edinburgh edition of Bums's poems. Why should there have been a book at all under the inkstand? Another interesting feature is the seal with the masonic emblem hanging from his fob. Burns, as is well known, was an enthusiastic ifl '! ,I I ~i i I 10 IS THIS REALLY BURNS?

Freemason and the seal matches the one shown in . the Burns Exhibition of 1896 as having belonged to him. Perhaps the most interesting point remains. The most extra­ ordinary feature is the mouth, which is totally unlike that of the Nasmyth portrait, and indeed any that I have seen. This was a detail which also puzzled Mr. Green, so much so that he was almost mistaken into thinking that it was not Bums at all, until he dis­ covered that the Poet's brother Gilbert, criticising the Nasmyth portrait in a letter to George Thomson, Edinburgh, stated that his 'brother's lip showed a separation outwards when not speaking' and that 'to make the poet mim mou'ed wouldn't do.' Because of the above, Mr. Green was convinced he had a contemporary likeness of Robert Burns. Whether conclusive proof at this late stage is possible it is im­ possible to say, but the portrait deserves a look by all those who are interested in Bums. !! '1

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TRANSLATIONS FROM Hrs WORK ON BURNS by JANE BURGOYNE [Editor's Note: Robert Burns. La Vie. Les Oeuvres, by Auguste Angellier (2 volumes) was published in Paris in 1893. In the first volume, La Vie, Angellier examined everything available to him in order to see Bums plain in the social, political and religious life of that time. In the second volume, Les Oeuvres, he gave, in Professor Snyder's opinion, 'an acute and sympathetic study ofBums's poetry in its relations to English and Scottish literature, and to the develop­ ment of eighteenth century European thought'. Angellier's work, which marked a new approach to the study of Bums, has never been translated into English. Now Mrs. Jane Burgoyne, who, as Jane Lymburn, skilfully translated Hans Hecht's Robert Burns, has selected parts of Angellier's work for translation. Starting herewith, these will appear in future issues of the Burns Chronicle. For reasons of space it has been necessary to curtail the ballads which Angellier quoted almost in their entirety and to leave out the copious notes meantime.]

THE LITERARY ORIGINS OF BURNS-THE POPULAR POETRY OF SCOTLAND In the biographical study in this book it could be seen that Bums's literary life is sharply divided into two parts, separated from each other by his sojourn in Edinburgh. In the first period his output, apart from the poems resulting from his personal experiences, is made up almost solely of familiar epistles and little descriptive pieces. These all spring from the old Scottish tradition; they have a distinct tang of the soil; they are all inspired by real events; beside each of the poems in the Kilmarnock Volume one can put the incident which gave rise to it. They are, moreover, the longest of his works. In the second period, still leaving out of account a certain number of personal pieces, the production consists almost exclusively of songs. Its inspiration is quite different from that of the first period: it deals not with particular facts but with simple, 12 AUGUSTE ANGELLIER

general sentiments. It numbers only very brief efforts. A man's life, however, does not snap like a dead branch: rather does it break like a green twig: the fibres of the past penetrate into the present and those of the present still cling to the past-there are moments when one becomes one's old self again. It was in one of these hours that Burns wrote Tam O' Shanter, which belongs entirely to his first period by the subject-matter, the familiarity of the style and the power of the humour, as well as by the dimensions. It is a poem of the first period which has strayed into the second, but it is a unique exception. Consequently, by what he wrote before his visit to Edinburgh, Burns is the foremost painter of the manners and customs of his country, and its foremost song-writer (and one of the foremost song-writers of any country) by what he produced afterwards. We must add to the poems written during the second part of his life a series of pieces in which the influence of English literature can be felt. They are imitated from the poetry of the time, or rather of the period immediately preceding. Written in English, they are more abstract and savour more or less of a literary exercise. Although some of them, like the Elegy on the Death of Glencairn and that on Sir James Hunter Blair are very beautiful, all this part of his work may be considered adventitious. If it were to be cut out, some remarkable pieces would undoubtedly be lost, but Bums's reputa­ tion would not be diminished thereby. It is, in him, merely an interesting detail. ' He was a Scottish poet, formed by the literature of his country. Nevertheless there again, it is fitting to take a close look at things and to note carefully what parts of the national poetry influenced his. If one puts aside certain old national poems which are called epics but which are rather rhymed chronicles, such as The Bruce, by John Barbour (1316?-1395), or The Wallace by Harry the Minstrel, known also as Blind Harry (1420?-1493?), Scottish poetry, through some of its highest branches, mingles and merges with English literature. A few differences of vocabulary, a few special terms or turns of phrase, are not enough to put even a thin hedge between the two types of poetry. The King's Quair by I 111 James I (1394-1437) is an imitation of Chaucer; the Testament of Ii Cressid by Robert Henryson (1425?-1498?) is the continuation of \i Troilus and Cressida by the same old English poet. William Dunbar (1450?-1520?), 'beyond doubt the greatest of Scotland's ancient poets', continued these poems in the style of the Middle Ages: AUGUSTE ANGELLIER 13

The Thistle and the Rose, composed in honour of James IV and Margaret Tudor, elder daughter of Henry VII of England, and The Golden Targe, designed 'to shew the gradual and imperceptible influence oflove, when too far indulged over reason,' are allegories still in the style of Chaucer. The Golden Targe, says Wharton, 'is tinctured with the morality and imagery of Chaucer's Romaunt ofthe Rose, and the poem called The Flower and the Leaf.' They were belated allegories. These were still being written in Scotland after they had fallen into disuse in England. Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld (1474-1522), produced a translation of the Aeneid. It was the first translation in verse of this classical work, apart from the Consolations of Philosophy by Boece, 'which scarcely merits this title'. Surrey borrowed more than one passage from it in his translation of the Second and Fourth Books of the Aeneid. The works of Sir David Lindsay (1490?-1555), The Dream and The Complaynt of Scotland, in which he exposes the misfortunes of his country, are long satirical and political poems, mingled with visions and allegories, rather in the style of our great Agrippa d'Aubigne, without his power of vision and anger. His Satyre of the Three Estaitis, of great interest because it is the first specimen of the drama in Scotland, is a morality which contains a mixture of real and allegorical characters and remains within the general intentions of these works. The little love lyrics of Alexander Scott (c.1562) and the poem of Alexander Montgomery (1535?-1605?), the Cherry and the Slae, which 'begins as a love allegory and ends as a moral homily', are in the style of their period. The sonnets of the Earl of Ancram and the Earl of Stirling are in the manner of the sonnets of Surrey and Sydney. Both lived, moreover, at the Court in London, with James I and Charles I. Drummond of Hawthomden (1585-1649), the friend of Ben Jonson, to visit whom the latter walked from London to Edinburgh, is a poet of classical education and cosmo­ politan inspiration, like many of the men of the Renaissance. In the 18th century, the blending of the poetry of the two countries is still more perfect. ·Poems like the Seasons by Thomson, the Grave by Blair, and the Minstrel by Beattie, are purely English. This English poetry has layered in another soil and produced shoots which cling to it with a slight tang of their native earth. It is not in this part of Scottish poetry that we must seek the influences which acted upon Bums. He scarcely knew the oldest of these poets and the more recent ones whom he admired, like Thomson, have left no perceptible traces on his work. Ir

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But underneath this scholarly poetry there existed a popular poetry which was very abundant, very vigorous, very racy and very original. It had sprung from the soil. It dealt with native subjects in the native language, that is to say in the dialectal form of English 'which prevailed from the mouth of the Humber northwards and was spoken alike by the natives of Yorkshire and Aberdeen­ shire'. It is the dialect spoken in the Scottish Lowlands. This north­ ern form of English had been the literary language of Scotland up to the time of James I of England. 'English then became the vehicle of Scottish literary men when they did not employ Latin, and the old northern dialect, modified by time and circumstances, remained in use among the masses of the people, and indeed was spoken by the cultivated classes until the beginning of the present century. It was this dialect that came home to the Scottish heart, and accordingly ballads, songs and other popular works were written in it, and in this way arose a Scottish popular literature quite distinct from English, and to some extent unintelligible to English­ speaking people.' Apart from the continual movement which had brought the higher Scots literary productions and the English models together, and had drawn the Scottish language into the progress and, so to speak, the 'plundering' of English, this old language, faithful to the soil, had remained what it was. 'In fact, Scotch is for the most part old English . . . Time has replaced the Anglo-Teutonic by the modem English, but spared the Scoto­ Teutonic, which still remains a living speech.' But its domain and its functions were diminished and it was reduced to being no more than 'the dialect of conversation and of popular and distinctly national productions'. The popular literature which it served to express was still very much alive in the XVIIIth century, for it still had that great sign of vitality of being partly oral, of really speaking to the people. It was natural that Burns, with his education and the circumstances in which he produced his work, should take his models and his poetic forms from it. That is in fact what happened, and that is where one must look for his literary origins. In order to understand whence he sprang and what materials he had at his disposal, it is this popular poetry that one must know. We shall analyse it in some detail, because it is a little-known corner of literary history, and also because in it one comes across some nice, interesting things. It is made up of three main elements: (a) The old ballads; (b) The songs; AUGUSTE ANGELLIER 15

(c) A series of little popular humorous poems, quite peculiar to Scotland. As we examine them one after the other, we shall see in what proportions Bums drew upon each of these three sources. What he neglected to take will perhaps teach us as much about his mental preferences as what he borrowed. I. THE OLD BALLADS The ballads are old rhythmic recitals, generally divided into stanzas and telling the story of a historical, mythical or romantic event, which by the heroism or the misfortunes of the characters, the strangeness or the drama of the circumstances, and often by an admixture of the supernatural, lies outside the range of the ordinary conditions of life. Their characteristic feature is to be first and foremost a story and to present the subject with which they are dealing as a narrative. They are romantic and heroic laments. In a country so long disturbed by foreign war and torn by civil strife, where the rivalry of the clans and the reciprocal pillagings covered the land with battles and dyed the smallest stream red with blood, it is not surprising that these plaintive poems cropped up on all sides. The Borders in particular, with their constant struggles, their continual warfare, their raids and their forays, have furnished the greatest number of them. But other great historical events are preserved in them. The invasions of the Norsemen, the resistance of the outlaws sheltering in the woods, the struggles between Lowlanders and Highlanders, the Crusades, the wars of independ­ ence against the English, and the adventures of Mary Stuart have all left distant echoes and given rise to a certain number of ballads. When one opens a collection of these tales, one enters a world of violence and force, where human life is perpetually being im­ molated. Almost all are dramatic, a great number tragic, some shocking. The favourite subjects are battles, kidnappings, acts of vengeance, ghostly apparitions, crimes committed, discovered and punished by terrible reprisals. They deal with Border battles, between Scots and English, rather between the troops of great local chiefs than between royal armies, with challenges in the manner of Homer's heroes, furious, desperate conflicts in which the arrows fly and bury themselves in the breast of the foe up to the feathers, and in which lances splinter, and the wounded, their legs cut off, fight upon their knees. They deal with the excursions of freebooters who make predatory raids into England, and carried off the cattle: They steal'd the braked cow and the branded bull. 16 AUGUSTE ANGELLIER

They tell of the execution of these bandits, hanged either by the English or even by the Scottish king, and never lacking the sym­ pathy of the people. They tell of the feuds, of the hatreds between clans, similar to the vendettas of the Corsican families; of bold raids, carried out by shoeing the horses the wrong way round, to deliver comrades from the fortresses of Berwick and Carlisle: the rescuers arrive at night, scale the wall, kill the watchman, carry off the prisoner loaded with his chains, and clap spurs to their horses. The alarm bells ring, the pursuit is on, the riders come to a swollen river, which they cross, and when they are on the other side, they invite the English to do the same: Come thro', come thro', Lieutenant Gordon! Come thro' and drink some wine wi' me! For there is an ale-house here hard by, And it shall not cost thee ae penny. In some of these ballads, the drama reaches a shocking pitch. In Edom o' Gordon the leader, who gives his name to the ballad, appears with fifty men before Towie House, where the lady of the manor is shut in with her three children. He calls upon her to sur­ render. Come down to me, ye ladye gay, Come down, come down to me; This night ye shall lye within my arms, The morn my bride shall be. The mother refuses and he sets fire to the house. The flames rise, the smoke stifles the children who bewail their fate one after the other. Then come the mother's despairing answers. That is where one finds this scene, which is at once touching and horrible: Oh, out then spake her daughter dear, She was baith jimp and small: 'Oh, row me in a pair of sheets, And tow me o'er the wall.' They row'd her in a pair of sheets, And tow'd her o'er the wall; But on the point of Gordon's spear deadly fall. Ii She got a I'. !1 The flames reach the mother, who dies clasping her babes. Her husband arrives, sets out in pursuit of Edom of Gordon and slaughters him with all his escort. Then, returning to the burning AUGUSTE ANGELLIER 17

ruins in which is buried all that he loves, 'into the flames he flew, and bade the world adieu'. Another ballad on a similar subject, The Fire ofFrendraught, is perhaps even worse. A party of men who have been given hospitality after a false reconciliation are locked up in a tower which is then set on fire. There is one passage in which one of them calls out his last instructions through the iron bars of the window while his body is being consumed-a ghastly affair. I cannot loup, I cannot come, I cannot win.to thee; My head's fast in the wire-window, My feet burning from me. These atrocities justify Prescott's judgment that 'although the scenes of the oldest ballads are borrowed from the XIVth century, the manners and customs which they reveal are not superior to those of our American savages'. In addition to this carnage by armies or by clans, and to these crimes committed by bands of lawless men, there are family dramas. A step-mother poisons her step-daughter. A wife kills her husband because he has insulted her. A brother kills his sister because his consent to her marriage has not been asked for. A Scottish girl becomes pregnant by an English lord: her angry father has her put upon a funeral pyre. A mother poisons her son because he has married without her consent. Love in particular, exasperating these violent lives, hurls them into adventures more violent still. The women have the energy of the men, and are carried away by the same angry emotions and actions. .They hesitate at nothing, whether it be fatigue or danger. Abductions are frequent. The lovers flee on horseback; the father and brothers pursue and over­ take them; they stop, draw their swords and fight upon the heath. The swords were drawn frae o:ut their sheaths, As they rush'd to the fray, And red and rosy was the bluid Ran down the lily brae. Sometimes the lover triumphs, leaving the brothers stretched out on the ground. He set his back into an aik, He set his feet against a stane; And he has fought these fifteen men, And kill'd them all but barely ane; B 18 AUGUSTE ANGELLIER

But he has left the aged knight, For to carry the tidings hame. When he gaed to his lady fair, I wot he kissed her tenderlie: 'Thou'rt mine ain love, I have thee bought; And we shall walk the green-wood free.'

It sometimes happens too that the lover goes away fatally wounded. That is the subject of the most famous and most touching of these ballads, the Douglas Tragedy. (Professor Angellier here quotes 14 stanzas of this ballad, from 'He's mounted her on a milk-white steed, And himself on a dapple grey, With a bugelet horn hung down by his side, And lightly they rade away.' • . • to 'Lord William was dead lang ere midnight, Lady Margaret was dead lang ere day; And all true lovers that go thegither May they have better luck than they.')

Elsewhere it is a question of revenge: two brothers in love with the the same girl fight and kill each other; women, jealous or betrayed, poison or stab their rivals, as in this ballad where a bride left at the altar kills the one who is preferred to her. The bride she drew a long bodkin Frae out her gay head-gear, And strake fair Annie to the heart, I' That word she ne'er spake mair. Sweet William he saw fair Annie wax pale, And marvell'd what mote be; But when he saw her dear heart's bluid It's wud-wroth then wax'd he. He drew his dagger that was sae sharp, That was sae sharp and meet, And drave it into the nut-brown bride, Who fell dead at his feet. 'Now stay for me, dear Annie,' he said, 'Now stay, my dear,' he cried; Then strake the dagger intil his heart, And fell dead by her side. AUGUSTE ANGELLIER 19

Sometimes these distracted women lose their hearts to the man who has betrayed them. Lord William's mistress asks him for a last interview. 'Then if your love be chang'd,' she said, And better may not be, At least ye will, for auld lang syne, Come taste the wine with me.' (When he refuses she stabs him to the heart with a dagger.) All these people live ready to kill or to die, all the time. These men come home with blood on their sword or on their hands. I Why does your brand sae drap with bluid? Edward! Edward! I: Why does your brand sae drap with bluid? And why sae sad gang ye, 0? \i Oh, I hae kill'd my hawk sae guid, Mither! mither! :! Oh, I hae kill'd my hawk sae guid, 'i And I hae nae mair but he, 0. 11 Your Hawk's bluid was never sae red, Edward! Edward! \! Your hawk's bluid was never sae red, My dear son, I tell thee, 0. I: Or again this scene: Then he is on to Margerie's bower, And tir'd at the pin, O; 'Oh, open, open, Lady Margerie, Open and let me in, 0 !' (When the lady lets him in she is horrified at the blood on his garments, proof of a violent encounter. He claims a wolf has attacked him but she knows better.) Almost all these love affairs end tragically. There is always blood in the last stanzas of these ballads. They are songs whose Muse is Death. When one reads these collections, one meets nothing but corpses. Over all this poetry broods the lugubrious joy of the twa corbies of the terrible ballad: There were twa corbies sat on a tree, Large and black as black might be; And one until the other 'gan say­ 'Where shall we go and dine to-ay? Shall we dine by the wild salt sea? Shall we dine 'neath the greenwood tree?' 20 AUGUSTE ANGELLIER

The romantic fancies, the poetic reveries and the pagan or Christian superstitions of the Middle Ages are blended with these events, making them still more strange. Girls go up to the top of their towers when the knight whom they love arrives; lovers flee I to the green depths of the forests, and live a life that reminds one of the exiles in As You Like It. At other times outlaws carry off maid­ J ens and shut them up in their lairs. Birds are charged with messages I between the lovers. When a crime is committed, it is miraculously I revealed. A mistress murders her lover and throws his body into the Clyde. But a parrot sitting on a tree has seen everything. Up then spake the popinjay, As it flew o'er her head: 'Ladye, keep well your green clothing Free from the blood so red.'

And later on it denounces the guilty woman. A sister, jealous : i of her young sister, drowns her. A harpist makes a harp with the breast-bone of the dead girl, and strings it with three locks of her yellow hair. The harp plays by itself and pronounces the name of the wicked sister. During a vigil-a lyke-wake-by the body of a murdered girl, the corpse speaks in order to name the murderer. With doors ajar, and candles light, And torches burning clear, The streekit corpse, till still midnight, They waked, but naething hear. (Then the dead girl names her murderer.)

The daughter of the minister of Newark secretly gives birth to two children and kills them When she goes home, she sees two children playing at the ball. They reproach her with having killed them and tell her she will go to hell. The ghosts of those who have been murdered appear. Sometimes the ballads are real fairytales. They tell of battles between knights and giants or monsters; of enchanted rings where the sweetheart gives her lover, or the lover gives his sweetheart, a ring whose diamonds will tarnish if the recipient is faithless or dies; and one day the ring becomes quite lustreless. They tell of girls turned by a spell into some hideous creature, who will never be freed unless a knight consents to kiss them. The Queen of Elfland falls in love with Thomas the Rhymer, and keeps him for seven

/1 .I !I :1 I! ii ii AUGUSTE ANGELLIER 21 ''·I'I .I, years in wonderful II orchards, then he wakes up again one day at the ,I foot of the tree where he had fallen asleep. A knight brings his lady 1, 'I back to life by putting upon her eyes two drops of the blood of I St. Paul. Whether it is because of the heroism, the superstition or the cruelty, when one reads a collection of these ballads one is violently transported into another life which doubtless once existed but which has certainly not existed for a long time. One feels that one is in a violent, romantic and dangerous life surpassing ours in crimes and exploits, but assuredly a life which no modern man has lived or seen anyone else living. One is in the realm of history or fiction, and whichever it is, outside the bounds of reality. These tales whose web is made up of extraordinary adventures are rendered still more archaic by the embroideries with which they are covered, and which are more like ancient fabrics studded with emblems, historiated with motifs in the style of another epoch, and brocaded with a wealth of gold and silver which our time no longer calls for. Each of these accessories accentuates the date of these poems, and removes them further from us. At times this effect is produced by some simple, ready-made device. When a young man carries off a girl, he always mounts a dapple-gray steed, and she a milk-white one. When two lovers are buried beside each other, out of his grave grows a brier and out of hers a rose-tree: Lord William was buried in St. Marie's kirk, Lady Marg'ret in St. Marie's quire; Out of the lady's grave grew a red rose, And out of the knight's a brier. And they twa they met, and they twa they plat, As if fuU fain they wou'd be near; Sae that all the world might ken right weel That they grew frae twa lovers dear. This is one of the details that constantly recur and belong to all the ballad-makers. Almost always there is this lavish profusion of metals and precious stones which indicate that one is dreaming or drawing upon inexhaustible treasure-chests. One feels one's imagination becoming intoxicated with riches. The forefeet of the horses are shod with silver shoes, the hind feet with gold; they wear on their manes little silver bells which tinkle at every step. The girls smooth their hair with silver combs. Carpets of cloth of gold are spread from the castle to the kirk so that the bride may not walk upon the ground. On every side there pass brilliant marriage 22 AUGUSTE ANGELLIER

processions, the guests clad in crimson and green, all the gallants carrying a falcon on their wrist, all the ladies wearing a garland. What could be more delicately sparkling than this description: Her palfrey was a dapple gray, Like it saw I never none: As does the sun on summer's day, That fair ladye herself she shone. Her saddle was of royal bone, Full seemly was that sight to see! Stiffly set with precious stone, Compass'd about with cramoisie. Stones of orience, great plentie; Her hair about her head it hung; She rode about that lonely lea, Awhile she blew, awhile she sung. Or else let one read this pretty picture which carries into the realm of fantasy the very simple fact of a mistress looking for her lover: Oh, I will get a carpenter To build a boat to me; And I will get bold mariners, With me to sail the sea . . . The masts of burnished gold were made And far o'er the sea they shone. The bulwarks richly were inlaid With pearl and royal bone. The backgrounds complete this impression. One catches glimpses of unreal landscapes. Sometimes there are fantastic i buildings. Over an angry sea, there is a castle with a high tower, its roof covered with tin, or the facade of a feudal castle-- Most often, as in the old tapestries, there are backgrounds of trees and foliage. Here is the orchard into which the Queen of Elfland takes Thomas of Ercildoune: She led him into a fair herbere, Where fruit was growing in great plentie; Pears and apples both ripe they were, I I ! The date and also the damson tree. The fig, and also the wine-berry, The nightingales lying on their nest; The popinjays fast about 'gan fly, And throstles song, wou'd have no rest.

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Is not that really the background of an old arras with foliage dotted over with fruit and birds? There are also scenes set in the depths of forests, through which pass stags and hunters clad in green, with bow in hand, followed by their good greyhounds. Deep in these leafy glades there are astonishing evocations of the free life that the outlaws led in the great woods. In the 'Song of the Outlaw Murray', what a picture we get, in a few stanzas, of a forest alive with bounding deer and sonorous with the twanging of bows! All this ballad literature is, then, as far as form and content are concerned, outside and above the ordinary conditions of life. One finds in it legend and dream rather than observation and reality. Not only does it speak of adventures and customs which we no longer know, but it is also improbable that it itself was ever exactly contemporaneous with the events which it celebrates. The ballads were written about happenings which seemed extraordinary even in those violent times and when they already had something legendary and remote about them. It is a heroic, fabulous literature, which lies outside the range of common proportions. It was created during uncultured centuries when books did not exist, to satisfy the need for romance which lives within the roughest hearts. That is a significant point which it was well to bring out, for otherwise one would not understand why Bums had so little taste for this important part of his country's literature. His soul was passionate and not romantic. In everything he did he had to feel that he was handling something real, something belonging to the present, something of immediate import. His literary education had been formed by looking at life and at the people around him. His genius was made up of observation, rather than of imagination. He had a clear, practical mind which he had never trained to transport itself into other times. The only people he could live with were real, living people. And so his admiration for the ballads does not take up much room. It is true that he says: 'There is a noble sublimity, a heart· melting tenderness in some of these ancient fragments, which show them to be the work of a masterly hand.' But that is almost the only mark of enthusiasm that the ballads got from him, and it dates from his youth. While he knew almost all the Scottish songs, and was indefatigable in collecting the new songs he came across, he seems to set no store by the ballads and to let them go. Sending some to William Tytler of Woodhouselee, who was a great lover of old 24 AUGUSTE ANGELLIER

poetry, he wrote a letter which is very significant in this connexion: 'Inclosed I have sent you a sample of the old pieces that are still to be found among our Peasantry in the West. I had once a great many of such fragments; and some of these here entire; but as I had no idea that any body cared for them, I have forgotten them. . . . I invariably hold it sacriledge (sic) to add anything of my own to help out with the shatter'd wrecks of these venerable old composi­ tions; but they have many various readings .... If you have not seen them before, I know they will flatter your true old-style Caledonian feelings.' There is in these last words the indulgence one has for a harmless craze. Later on, in his correspondence with Thomson, he dissuades him from admitting to his collection one of the most famous ballads, the very one that had furnished the subject of the Douglas tragedy: 'Gil Morice-I am unalterably for leaving out altogether.-It is a plaguy length, which will put you to great Press-expence; the air itself is never sung; & its place can be well supplied with one or two fine Songs .. .' In contrast one has only to consider the way in which Gray spoke of that same ballad, and compare his enthusiasm with Bums's coldness. 'I have got the old Scotch ballad on which Douglas was founded; it is divine, and as long as from hence (Cambridge) to Aston. Have you never seen it? Aristotle's best rules are observed in it in a manner that shows the author had never read Aristotle. It begins in the fifth act of the play (viz. of Home's tragedy of Douglas); you may read it two-thirds through without guessing what it is about; and yet, when you come to the end, it is impossible not to understand the whole story.' One feels the total difference. Under these circumstances, it is not surprising that Bums did not imitate the ballads much, and that there is scarcely a trace of their influence in his work. It is only here and there that one finds an imitation, like Lady Mary Ann or Lord Gregory. One could not count more than half a dozen of them, perhaps not even as many. The way in which they are written is even more instructive than their l scarcity. The whole narrative part, the whole picturesque or marvellous part, in a word all that belongs to another time, is suppressed. All that is preserved is the emotion, which is ageless. II ,, Lord Gregory is borrowed from a very dramatic and very beautiful !i ballad entitled Fair Annie of Lochryan. One has only to compare the two pieces to see what Bums has kept of the original model. 'jl The ballad, as it appears in Herd's collection published in 1769 AUGUSTE ANGELLIER 25 and consequently well known to Burns, opens with the lamentations of a girl deserted by Lord Gregory. She wants to go and look for him, and she has a ship built, which is painted in the usual sumptuous colours: it is inlaid with pearl and ivory and hung with silver bells. The poor forsaken maiden sets out over the sea to search for Lord Gregory, wherever he may be. She has one of those unexpected encounters common in ancient sea-faring: she meets a 'rude sea-rover' who asks her: 'O whether art thou the queen hersell? Or ane of her Maries three? Or art thou the lass of Lochryan Seeking love Gregory?'

And the rude rover, touched no doubt, shows her a tower all covered with tin, where Lord Gregory is living. She lands and 'tirls at the pin' and beseeches him thus: 'O, open the door, Lord Gregory! 0, open and let me in! For I am the lass of Lochryan Banished by all her kin.'

But Lord Gregory's wicked mother answers from within, imitating her son's voice, and asks her to prove that she is indeed the lass of Lochryan, and to tell her what has passed between the two of them. 'Has thou na mind, love Gregory, As we sat at the wine, We changed the rings aff ither's hands, And ay the best was mine?

The wicked woman asks her again for further proof, as though these things were not enough. And the poor girl, discouraged and broken-hearted, gives up trying to convince her: Fair Annie turned her round about,­ 'Weel, since that it be sae, May ne'er a woman that has born a son, Ha'e a heart sae full of wae! Take down, take down the mast of gold Set up the mast of tree; For it disna become a forsaken lady To sail sae royallie.' 26 AUGUSTE ANGELLIER

She goes away. The son wakes up and tells his mother that he dreamed the lass of Lochryan was at the door. The mother says that in fact she was there an hour before, and that he may go back to sleep. The son repulses the wicked woman who has not let her in. And the end of the poem has all the romantic and touching fantasy which is the charm of these ballads: 'Gae saddle to me the black, he said, Gae saddle to me the brown, Gae saddle to me the swiftest steed That is in a' the town.' Whatever the artless features of such a poem, and whatever the rents and rough joins which one finds in this old material, and which are the result of the successive transmissions, it contains a simple poetry full of colour and emotion. What remains of this dream in Burns? Almost nothing. All that is strange and picturesque in that voyage at the beginning, those visions of the sea and of old castles which remind one of the ruins so often seen on Scottish promontories, that distressing pursuit at the end-all that has disappeared. Bums has suppressed the imaginative part, the story, in reality what constitutes the ballad. He has kept nothing but the emotional part, which is timeless: the cry of the woman turned out of her father's house, who comes knocking at the door of her betrayer. In a word, he transforms the i ballad into a simple song. 0 mirk, mirk is this midnight hour, And loud the tempest's roar; A waefu' wanderer seeks thy tower­ Lord Gregory, ope thy door! To be sure, this song is touching too. It is less brutal, richer in Ii: , ' ),: nuances of sentiment, its psychology is subtler and more delicate than the corresponding passage in the ballad. But that is all that remains of it. It is no use saying that in the present case Bums was bound by the requirements of Thomson's collection. The fact that the popular ballads inspired him only to this extent is enough to show that he did not care for them, and that they were not one of the sources of his poetry. That is all the more striking when we consider that from one end of the 18th century to the other these ballads were the subject of numerous imitations, some of which were masterpieces. At the AUGUSTE ANGELLIER 27 very beginning of the century, even before Addison's article on Chevy Chase, and Allan Ramsay's collection, Lady Wardlaw was writing the famous ballad of Hardyknute. Lady Wardlaw, with Lady Grizel Baillie, was at the beginning of that line of women poets which, passing through Mrs. Cockburn, Miss Jane Elliot, Miss Blamire, the unhappy Jean Glover, Miss Cranston who became Mrs. Dugald Stewart, Miss Hamilton and Lady Anne Barnard, ended with Baroness Nairn and Miss Joanna Baillie. In 1783 David Mallet, who at that time called himself Malloch and had not yet changed his Scottish name to an English one, was writing his pretty ballad of William and Margaret. About 1748 William Hamilton was composing his ballad, The Braes of Yarrow, which has the real flavour of the old poems. In 1755 John Home was drawing from the ballad of Gil Morice the subject of his Douglas tragedy. In 1770 there appeared in the poems of poor Michael Bruce the ballad of Sir James. About 1775, Julius Mickle published his ballad of Cumnor Hall, which inspired Walter Scott with his novel Kenilworth. Thus, before Bums's time, and all around him, the imitations of ancient poetry were growing in profusion. They do not always reproduce the colour, the harsh accent and the great simplicity of their models. The l 8th century had not the necessary requirements to succeed in these qualities. What these poems imitated above all was the romantic ingredient, and they sometimes changed it strangely. But they were leading up to the moment when those ancient ballads were to bring their whole influence to bear, and to operate also through their picturesque and martial element. The little lame boy whom Bums had seen in Edinburgh was becoming a young man. He was to undertake his rides along the Borders, collecting in the farms, the shepherds' cottages, in the woods and by peat fires, fragments of ballads and legends. 'The Minstrelsy of the Borders' was to be published in 1802, six years after the death of Bums. And the whole of Walter Scott's poetry, with its brilliantly pic­ turesque quality, its warlike accent, its clash of arms, its martial tread and that something which smacks of action and ardour, came from the Minstrelsy. In the Lay of the Last Minstrel and in Rokeby the ballads found their culminating point, and also their full stop. Bums, then, lived among them, and among the imitations they inspired. If he did not avail himself of them to find a subject on which to exercise his genius, it was because his taste did not lie that way. We have seen the reasons why. r

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

J. J. Ross: The Book of Scottish Poems. Thomas Warton: History ofEnglish Poetry. D. Irving: History of Scottish Poetry. Edinburgh Review, No. 324, October 1883. C. Mackay: Poetry and Humour of the Scottish Language. J.C. Shairp: Aspects of Poetry. J. C. Murray: The Ballads and Songs of Scotland. BURNS AND IMMIGRATION

When Bums declared that Its comin yet for a' that That Man to Man the warld o'er, Shall brothers be for a' that.- he could not have foreseen the problems of immigration that bedevil us today. The Burns Federation has always been strictly non-political, although, lest it be forgotten, it was the politicians who thwarted our efforts to get a Burns Bi-centenary Stamp in 1959. And now immigration in the sixties! The wonder is that one of those M.P.s who delight in the sound of their own voices has not raised a question about the underground activities of the Burns Federation. In October last year, Home Office officials in London solemnly stated that there was 'absolutely no evidence' to suggest that immigrants from Pakistan were still trying to enter Britain by claim­ ing to be 'members of the International Robert Bums Club'. There had been incidents of this sort at London Airport, but as far as I can gather, only one at Prestwick. True, there were rumours that 30 Pakistanis had been turned back at Prestwick; but the airport has never been involved in anything like that number of detainees. The reason is simple. 'We haven't accommodation for that number,' said an airport official. · A group of three Pakistanis from Karachi did arrive, with, in their possession, blue membership cards of a Karachi Bums club. It was found, according to a Home Office spokesman, that 'their claim about being members of the Burns Club fell down when it was found that they had no knowledge of the poet or his works'. Consequently, they spent the night at the airport and were despatched back to Karachi the following day. If, however, one of those immigrants had recited 'Tam O' Shanter' or had sung 'The De'il's awa wi' the Exciseman', what then? Certainly, one is left with the impression that they were refused admittance because they did not know their Bums!

'le THE LETTERS OF JEAN ARMOUR (11)

Of the letters recently discovered among the Loudoun Letters, written by Jean Bums (see Burns Chronicle 1968, pp. 42-46), one has only recently been properly transcribed. It is the letter written by Jean to her son James Glencairn Bums, Lieutenant in the Indian Army. The letter was written on the 16th July, 1818, when Jean Burns was fifty-one years of age, and the occasion of the letters, apart from 'home news' was James's engagement to Sarah Robinson. The letter was to be conveyed by the Marchioness of Hastings (the Countess of Loudoun) along with an engagement present to Sarah, when the Marchioness returned to India. The transcript of the letter follows:- Dumfries, 16th July, 1818. 'I suppose I may now congratulate you on an event which I trust will confer upon you much comfort and satisfaction. I confess­ my dear James-that I was not only astonished but vexed at the contents of your last letter-I am now convinced that my feelings then were quite selfish-I could not in short bear the idea of an entire stranger sharing your affections with me­ I might from your enthusiastic tum of mind have been prepared for your marrying, but I did not expect you would have so soon bound yourself in such an engagement from the very sensible argument you produce in favour of your system(?) I believe you have maturely considered it and from the account you give of the object of your choice, I can have no objections-I am ,, thankful that she possesses such affections as you describe you !. deserve a good wife and I trust you will not be disapointed (sic) I in each other-remember in the married state there is much to bear and much to forbear. I had a very handsome letter from Mr. Robinson-giving me a candid explicit account of himself and Family Connections

• The Archivist of the Marquis of Bute, Miss Armet, has pointed out that the 'Little Countess' of Loudoun was a ward of the Earl of Dumfries, not the Earl of Bute, as stated in the 1968 article. The Earl of Dumfries died in 1803; his grandson succeeded to the Dumfries title, but not to the Bute title till 1814. THE LETTERS OF JEAN ARMOUR 31

which seems to be very respectable-I have no titled friends to boast of-but your Father's name with your own merit will be acknowledged- The Marchioness of Hastings-I believe-Miss McN men­ tioned in her last letter-had seen me-and gave me a very gratifying account of you-she politely offered to take any letter or parcel for you when she left England. I mean to take advantage of her polite offer and send this with the trinket I have desired my Brother to purchase in London-a watch I think is the most useful one I hope it will be handsome and worthy the acceptance of your Sarah-give it to her with my blessing and tell her I trust she will faithfully discharge the important trust committed to her care-the happiness of a son is dear to me and you my dear James, be as affectionate and kind a husband as you are a son and there can be no blame attached to you. My health is not re-established. I have been in the country and at the moment I have no particular complaint but weakness and inability to undergo any exertion. I do not intend to take any long journey this season. Mr. Robinson cannot easily leave his employment so I have not an idea when we may meet. I am seriously uneasy at not hearing from William-do give me always your latest news of him. I hope you recover a parcel sent by P. Barkers containing an engraving of the Mausoleum. Mr. G. Thomson has published an add. Volume to his Coll. of songs and very politely sent me one copy and one for each of my sons in India-this shall be sent by the first opportunity ... Anna Mc(?) has written to you lately. She offers you her affectionate wishes and requests you will make her compli­ ments acceptable to Mrs. Bums-we are all going on much in the usual way. Miss Newall is with me and sends her kind regards.' Your ever affectionate Mother JEAN BURNS. \," i (On the letter's address side, bottom half) !' 'I had a letter from your Uncle Gilbert he mentions a Mr. Veitch a friend of yours is in that country and that he intends to pay me a visit-you mention your wish that I should enclose a Court to my house this is impossible. Mr. Maxwell has built a stable in the place you describe.' The Jean Armour Letter I (See page 30)

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(Top Half) 'I have however taken a lease of it and repaired it very neatly altho not elegant it is at least comfortable. My heart fills at the fever(?) of never seeing you under its roof. As you value my peace write to me often. God bless you both and direct you in all your undertakings. Mrs. Perochon is still as warmly your friend and desires her kind wishes may be sent.' All the evidence (internal) points to this letter being written in Jean's own hand. It is true that there are some phrases that appear at odds with the mental picture we have of her, but on the other hand the spelling, and in the later part of the letter, the handwriting, as the writer tires, suggests a literate person to whom letter-writing is a task. There is no doubt that the letter was written with all Jean's heart. She is fond of this boy (he was very like her in appearance) vexed at hearing of his engagement-an 'entire stranger' sharing his affections-'you deserve a good wife'-'the happiness of a son is dear to me'. It is clear that she has been shaken by the proposed marriage (I trust you will not be disappointed in each other') and then the voice of experience from the widow of a poet, 'remember in marriage there is much to bear and much to forbear'. Nor does she neglect to ask for her son William-'do give me always your latest news of him'. The remainder of the letter is occupied with gossip about affairs such as might interest her son so far away­ the volumes from Thomson, lfle kind regards from Jean's friends, the letter from Gilbert, the state of her dwelling, the sudden outburst of anguish 'as you value my peace write to me often,' and finally the reference to Mrs. Perochon. (This was one of Mrs. John Dunlop of Dunlop's six daughters. She married a French ernigre, who retired to Dumfries. Mrs. Perochon showed the greatest kindness to Jean). This letter takes us a long way from the 'Bonnie Jean' on the Toast List of Burns Clubs. It has dignity, it has a bit of a mother's possessiveness, it has suffering. Above all, it has an awareness of the importance of this Burns family now-asking the Marchioness to do this favour for her, asserting to her son 'your Father's name with your own merit will be acknowledged'. (This with reference to Sarah's father, who had written to her.) The impression one is left with is not that of a tearful love-lorn romantic woman like Clarinda, and certainly not of a country maid, but of a woman respected as a mother and a friend who has endured The Jean Armour Letter I (See page 30) The Jean Armour Letter II (See page 30) The Jean Armour Letter Ill (See page 31) The Jean Armour Letter IV (See page 31) THE LETTERS OF JEAN ARMOUR 33 the difficulties of life with some equanimity. There is still no evidence as to how the letters arrived among the Loudoun collection of letters, now at Dumfries House,* Cumnock. ALEX. MACMILLAN. NoTE: William Nicol Burns served for more than 30 years in the 7th Madras Regiment. He retired, a Lieut.-Colonel in 1843.

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c THE BURNS PILGRIMAGE, 1968

This outstanding event, which took place from 9th till 18th September, will be long remembered by all who took part. While this Pilgrimage was the brain child of Mr. William C. Anderson, Florida, a descendant of the Burnes family, great credit must be given to Mr. Tom Dalgleish, Hon. Secretary and Treasurer of the Bums Federation, by whom all arrangements for travel and accommodation had to be made. Also to Mr. Charles Easton, Mr. Lawrence Burness of Aberdeen and the Glenbervie Memorials Committee for their great help in conjunction with Kincardine County Council in having the Headstones in Glenbervie Churchyard restored, and the Cairn erected at Clochnahill. The Pilgrimage started from Kilmarnock and travelled via Glasgow and Edinburgh where Pilgrims from overseas joined the party. Arriving in Montrose in the evening where accommodation had been reserved in two hotels, we were met by Mr. Lawrence Burness from Aberdeen, who was to be our 'Guide, Philosopher and Friend,' for the next four days, and by officials of Montrose Burns Club who extended a warm welcome. On Tuesday an extensive tour of Aberdeen was made and a visit paid to the grave of John Burness, author of 'Thrummy Cap' who was a cousin of Robert Burns. In the afternoon a visit was paid to the farm of Stonehouse of Mergie. On Wednesday visits were paid to the farms of Bogjorgan and Brawlinmuir before proceeding to Glenbervie Churchyard to witness the unveiling of the restored Burnes family tombstones. Mr. Charles Easton, Chairman, described to the large crowd present, the history of the tombstones and the endeavours of the Glenbervie Memorials Committee to have them restored. Tributes were paid to the architects of the shelter in which the tombstones are now placed, and also of the Cairn at Clochnahill, Mr. Fenton Wyness and Mr. Norman G. Marr. The unveiling was by Miss Jean Scrimgeour, whose father had been Chairman of the Memorials Committee. Prayer and re-dedication were by Rev. Iverach N. Macdonald, and a short address was given by Mr. Coull Anderson. Among those who then went to the newly erected Cairn in a layby on the main Aberdeen-Perth Road were Mr. Tom Mann, a former President of Arbroath Burns Club, and Mr. Norman

I I THE BURNS PILGRIMAGE, 1968 35 i' Crawford, Arbroath Librarian. The inscription on the memorial cairn commemorates the fact that Clochnahill farm was the family home of Burns' father and grandparents and reads 'This memorial cairn overlooks Clochp.ahill, from which between 1740-50 William Burness, the father of Scotland's national poet, left for Edinburgh and then Ayrshire. Erected by William Coull Anderson, Esq., U.SA., a family descendant, 1968'. The unveiling ceremony of the Cairn was performed by another family descendant, Mr. John W. Begg, Sydney, Australia. Also taking an active part in the ceremony was Mr. Lawrence R. Begg, F.R.G.S., Aberdeen, another family descendant. After the ceremonies the visitors and other guests were entertained by Stonehaven Town Council. On Thursday, Montrose Town Council, Provost and Magistrates gave a Civic Reception to the Pilgrims, followed by visiting other places of Burnsian interest in Montrose. Dr. J. Taylor, President, Burns Federation, placed a wreath on the statue of Burns in the public park. An afternoon bus tour around the County of Angus was provided by Montrose Burns Club. i On Friday morning we left Montrose to attend a Civic Reception by Arbroath Town Council. We were entertained in the Council Chambers by the Provost and Magistrates, who are proud of the important part the Town of Arbroath has played in ancient Scottish history. Leaving Arbroath we travelled via Dundee and Tay Road Bridge into Fife. We had an invitation to call at the home of Captain J. C. L. Anderson, W.S., who with his daughter Sonia had attended the unveiling ceremonies at Glenbervie and Oochnahill. Captain Anderson's home, Pittormie, is situated on a beautiful estate near Dairsie. Mrs. Anderson is a direct descendant from the Burnes family. The walk through these lovely gardens and the hospitality provided by the family were much appreciated. The weekend was spent attending the Federation Conference in Falkirk. . On Monday morning the Pilgrims proceeded to Ayr via Glasgow where a bus tour of the City arranged by the Glasgow and District Burns Association was greatly enjoyed, in the afternoon a visit was paid to Kirk Lane Churchyard, Pollokshaws, where Elizabeth Thomson, nee Burns, is buried. On Tuesday morning visits were made to the Cottage, Alloway Auld Kirk, Brig O' Doon, the Monument and Alloway Cairn, Burns Statue and the Tam O'Shanter Museum. While in the Museum, 36 THE BURNS PILGRIMAGE, 1968

Mr. John Begg, Sydney, handed over to the Curator a Carpenter's Plane which had been taken to Australia in 1841 by a grandson of Isabella Begg (the Poet's youngest sister). He used this plane in building his own house in Rye Park, N.S.W, It had been a family possession of John Begg for many years but he felt that the proper place for this plane was the Tam O'Shanter Museum. The Auld Brig O' Ayr and Leglen Wood were visited on the way to Tarbolton where we spent some time in the Bachelors' Club. We passed Willie's Mill on the way to Kay Park Monument in Kilmarnock. There we were met by the Provost, the Town Clerk and officials of Kilmarnock Town Council. A visit to the wonderful Museum recently opened by Irvine Burns Club completed a most interesting tour of Ayrshire. In the evening Ayr Town Council entertained the visitors and friends to a Civic Reception in the Monument Hotel. On Wednesday morning we left Ayr to visit the Memorial Homes in Mauchline. The lady residents in the homes provided morning coffee for the visitors in the new communal room. Sir Claude Alexander welcomed the visitors and said the houses were regarded as the finest of all the memorials to Robert Bums. We next went on to visit Ellisland Farm where we were joined by Provost Robertson of Dumfries, with his Town Clerk and Mr. George McKerrow, J.P., Past-President, Burns Federation. After spending some time at Ellisland we resumed our journey to Dumfries where a Civic Luncheon was provided by Dumfries Town Council. In the afternoon visits were paid to Bums Statue, to Burns House, the Mausoleum and to the Globe Inn where afternoon tea was served. Later, the return journey was made to Ayr. JOHN GRAY

Overseas Visitors on Pilgrimage ! : William C. Anderson, Florida-Descendant of Burnes family. Mrs. Jean London, Australia. Mrs. Margaret Hollander, Australia. Miss Grace Campbell, Australia. Mr. and Mrs. George A. Lamb, Australia. Mrs. Catherine C. Briggs, Australia. Mrs. Isabella Wylie, Australia. Mrs. Agnes Legge, New Zealand. Mrs. Jean Bryant, Australia-Direct descendant of Isobel Burns. Mrs. Allison Webb, Australia-Direct descendant of Isobel Burns. Mr. John Begg, Australia-Direct descendant of Isobel Bums. I'' i!'

THE BURNS PILGRIMAGE, 1968 37 I i Mr. and Mrs. A. Johnstone, Australia. I',, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Koster, Holland. Ii' Mrs. Mary E. Lawson, Australia. II Mr. and Mrs. J. Murray, Australia. Mr. Stanley Lewin, Australia. Mrs. Alice Watson, New Zealand-Direct descendant of Gilbert Burns. Mr. Macoustra, Australia. Mr. and Mrs. W. Oliver, New Zealand.

Other Descendants in Attendance

Mrs. Jean B. Robinson, Sale, Cheshire-Direct descendant of Robert Bums and 'Dear Bought Bess'. Mr. Lawrence Burness, Aberdeen-'-Descended from the Burnes family. Captain J. C. L. Anderson and Miss Sonia Anderson, Pittormie­ Descended from the Burnes family. Miss Helen A. Coull, Cumnock-Descended from the Burnes family. The Rev. T. H. Bums Begg, Balfron-Descended from the Burnes family. I,

THE QUIET GENTLEMAN

For Mrs. R. J. ALLAN My grandfather was a quiet gentleman, Reserved in his attachments; not for him The skirling bagpipes and the countless toasts Year after year, to the Immortal Memory. He was not gregarious; he joined no clubs. He spoke straightforward English; only the warm Deep timbre of his voice, the pure open vowels Showed him to be a Scot. As his youngest grandchild Sitting upon his knee, I often played With the objects on his fob; they were not many, A seal with the family crest, and this tiny book, Its silver casing now worn thin with age. Look how it fits in the hollow of my palm As I hold it out to you. You ask 'What is it?' A miniature copy of the Kilmarnock Burns, The print so fine that only good eyes can read it. But see, this circle of glass let into the cover Serves to magnify it somewhat. I doubt if he Much needed to refresh his memory thus. It was sufficient that the book was there,

I I Attached to the watch-chain, near to the watch itself, That faithful deputy heart, with its steady beat Measuring out his dutiful God-fearing days. But if he fo1got a line or two from the Mouse, Or the Mountain Daisy, or the Cotter's Saturday Night, There was the poem to hand in its entirety To murmur in solitude or, in his mind's recesses Silently con, a refuge from life's daily harassments. The Kilmarnock Burns! I think he liked to reflect On the bravery of that venture, the turning point In the poet's life it proved to be. A first book Has something of pristine freshness, of youth's proud challenge

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Entering the lists of the world, which no later volume Can ever hope to recapture. Let me put it away My grandfather's inch-wide treasure of minted thought, Since men no longer wear fobs. Sometimes I think If I were a poet, not merely a poetry lover, And had passed from our mortal midst, such constant remembrance On the part of the single, the lifelong devoted reader Would reach me and move me more than these annual orgies Of routine celebration, occasion-engendered enthusiasm.

ALICE V. STUART

ROSEBERY BURNS CLUB'S OLDEST MEMBER

Is there a Burns Club which can claim to have an older member than the Rosebery Burns Club, Glasgow? One of its Honorary Members, Mrs. Alice Forrest, celebrated her one hundredth birthday on lst September, 1968. A Glaswegian by birth, Mrs. Forrest has been for more than a decade an inmate of Watson House Eventide Home, Gargunnock. She has always been an enthusiastic lover ofBurns's works and takes a lively part in the annual Burns suppers at Watson House. At her special birthday party, which was highlighted by a telegram of congratulation from H.M. the Queen, her daughter, Mrs. Alice Jackson, and grandson, Mr. George Jackson, were at her side. In the afternoon, a special service at Watson House was conducted by the Rev. Angus T. Stewart, B.D., PH.D., from St. Stephen's Church, Glasgow, where Mrs. Forrest was baptised at the beginning of her long life. Amongst the friends who attended the service were members of the Rosebery Oub. Dr. Stewart, who called to see her with a gift from his Harvest Services, reported in his parish church magazine that Mrs. Forrest 'looks younger than ever'. No wonder the Rosebery Burns Club is proud of its auldest member. A BURNS NIGHT SPECTACULAR

NEW IDEA FROM MONTREAL

To celebrate the anniversary of Burns's birth on 25th January, 1968, the Caledonian Society of Montreal decided it was time to change things. The aim was to present Burns without, I am told, 'the empty rhetoric, drivelling sentiment and nationalistic nostalgia which all too often is dished up like skimpy porridge on the usual Burns i. Nights'. I •~ The key figure in this experiment was Mr. James Sheridan, a Glasgow-born executive in radio advertising and a leading member of the Fossils Club which, by producing an annual musical comedy of its own creation, raises large sums of money for under-priviledged children in Montreal. Whilst the dinner, which included haggis from Scotland, was in progress, a colourful spectacle, interspersed with speeches, songs and poems, took place in the midst of spotlights, crossfire lighting, darkness and military pageantry. 'No wonder,' writes Mr. G. N. Diack, Honorary Secretary of the Caledonian Society of Montreal, 'there appeared a sardonic smile on the face of the Burns' portrait that swept the theatre of operations from above and behind the commanding figure of the orator, for here was a convivial gathering, captured by conversation, all its emotions swept by light and sound-and 18th century poet triumph­ ing over a 20th century audience . . . 'A final and astute touch of genius transformed the theatre into a church. The darkened congregation focussed on a spotlit pulpit where an authentic minister, Rev. Alan G. Hasson, delivered, as a sermon, Bums's "Address to the Unco Guid".' The gathering was the largest ever to attend the Caledonian Society's function on Burns Night. Is there a lesson here for the Clubs at hame? It may be that our traditional celebrations have become threadbare and that we require something of the imaginative approach shown by Montreal. What do YOU think? THE BURNS CLUB OF LONDON, 1868-1968

CENTENARY DINNER

On 2nd November, 1968, the members of the Bums Club of London held a Centenary Dinner in the Piccadilly Hotel, London, W.1. The toast of 'The Bums Club of London' was proposed by Mr. Robert Donaldson, President of the Bums Federation, and the response was given by Mr. James Mason, President of the Burns Club of London. Mr. John A. Brooks, B.com., the Immediate Past President, proposed the toast of 'Our Guests', the response being by the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Kinnoull, F.L.A.s.

History of the Burns Club of London Born in Greenock and President of the 'mother' Bums Club there in 1843, founder and proprietor of Scotland's first penny newspaper, the Glasgow Daily Bulletin, organising Secretary of the 1859 Burns Centenary Celebrations in Scotland, Colin Rae Brown settled in London in 1863. A man of considerable wealth and influence, he soon became a member of the Savage Club which had many distinguished literary figures on its roll. He established the London Bums Club at Hallowe'en, 1868, with a grand inaugural Dinner at his Kensington town house when his guests included an imposing number of outstanding poets, critics, editors and artists of the day. The first twelve January celebrations were held at his home with himself as Chairman and chief orator. By 1880 the demand for invitations to these dinners had become so great that a 'public association' had to be formed, with seventy members, and with Dr. Charles Mackay as President. Colin Rae Brown remained as the power behind the throne in the role of Honorary Secretary. The annual subscription was half-a-guinea, big money in those days, yet only sixpence more than we charge today. Colin Rae Brown was President of the Club on three occasions for varying periods of time and he took a leading part in formation of the Burns Federation in 1885, becoming, like Dr. Charles Mackay, !j i one of its original Vice-Presidents. He was still proposing the

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Immortal Memory as late as 1894, three years before his death. Garibaldi, the great Italian patriot, was the first honorary member of the London Bums Club and among others closely associated with its early days was John Gordon Crawford, who, at his own expense, gifted the Burns Statue on the Embankment at which members foregather each January to lay a floral tribute. The sculptor, Sir John Steel, is also represented by a bust of the poet in Westminster Abbey, unveiled in 1885 by Lord Rosebery, who left a Cabinet meeting specially to attend. The Club's records in the 1890's and early 1900's tell or"steady progress but in some respects make strange reading today. Prizes were presented for literary and musical competitions in London and in Scotland. Functions included a fancy dress Ball and a Summer Dinner at the Star and Garter, Richmond; the 1901 Dinner was abandoned when Queen Victoria died. Later the same year the sum of two guineas was spent on acquiring the President's Badge. During World War I members were united in arranging entertain­ ment and comfort for the troops and many concerts and suppers were organised. In 1921, after years of negotiation, the London Robert Burns Club (Scots), founded in 1901 and the London Burns Club, finally merged. Towards the end of this period the Club's second father-figure emerged in the person of William Will whose association with the Club continued into living memory and who addressed one of its i meetings as recently as 1956 at the age of 89. He it was who inspired I I the formation of the Vernacular Circle, an idea which was in time copied by many similar clubs in Scotland and elswhere. He presided over the first post-war Festival Dinner in January, 1919, when General Sir Ian Hamilton proposed the Immortal Memory. His name is still kept before us in our annual William Will Memorial Lectures. The Second World War again diverted activities into channels similar to those followed in 1914-1918 and much good work was done to co-ordinate these efforts by George S. Bonnyman, President from 1940 until 1945. More recent Past-Presidents who have brought widespread recognition to the Club have included William Dalgarno and James Aitken, whose wit and eloquence made them outstanding among Burns orators and whose services were in demand far beyond the confines of this country. As to more recent names and events, we must wait until history places them in proper perspective but it is encouraging to see the Club in its hundredth THE BURNS CLUB OF LONDON, 1868-1968 43 year so hale and hearty because of the enthusiasm and energy of present-day members and officers. All augurs well for its second century, and beyond. Abridged from a short history of the Club, compiled by Past-President John Sinclair.

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MR. WILLIAM PHILLIPS, M.A., F.E.I.S. It was with profound shock that we learned of the sudden death of Bill Phillips at his home, 93 Dundonald Road, Troon, on 12th July, 1968. In the Burns Federation, he was Joint-Convener of the Schools Competitions with Mr. Fred. J. Belford and tackled the work with all his characteristic efficiency and enthusiasm. He served Irvine Burns Club well and was Honorary Secretary, a Past-President, and an Honorary member. He also gave much practical advice and help in the founding of the Burns and Galt Museum in Irvine. His scholarly work was considerable, first in the publication of M'Jannet's History of Irvine and again in the preparation of the Statistical Account of Ayrshire. At the time of his death, he was Depute Rector of Marr College, where he was greatly respected by staff and pupils alike. As one of his friends wrote in the Kilmarnock Standard, those who met him were impressed 'with the respect in which he was held for his integrity as a man and the depth and range of his intellect, devoid of all pomposity and pedantry'. We extend our deepest sympathy to his widow and family in their great loss.

MR. DAVID ROGERS It is with deepest regret that I have learned from Sydney of the passing of David Rogers, who died on 24th October, 1968, at the age of 91. Davie belonged to Edinburgh but emigrated to Australia at an early age. He was a keen collector of literature and at one time it was estimated his library contained 10,000 books. In latter years he was forced to give up his house and reside in a home. Many of his books were sold, but his collection of Burnsiana, which amounted to between 2,000 and 3,000 copies, were gifted in 1965 to the Scottish Society and Burns Club of Canberra, and they are now housed in a beautiful library and catalogued. This collection must have been one of the largest in Australia and could probably compare with that

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of the late James T. Picken. It is grand to know that these books will be in safe custody in Canberra for all time coming and will be a memorial to David Rogers. When I was in Australia in January, 1966, Davie was very per­ turbed as whilst I was travelling from Canberra to Sydney, Davie was travelling from Sydney to Canberra to be present at their Burns Supper. John Begg and I made the trip after the Sydney Burns Supper to Canberra and joined up on 30th January with the members of the Canberra Burns Club at their Supper where Davie and I met. He was one of the great Burnsians of his time and a regular attender of the meetings of the Burns Club of Australia held in Sydney. He attended a meeting the week before he died and had met up with many of the Pilgrims who visited Scotland as recently as September last. He was able to see slides and films of the complete Pilgrimage and Conference which must have been a great joy to him in his closing days. T. W. DALGLEISH BOOK REVIEWS

CLARINDA. The intimate story of Robert Burns and Agnes MacLehose, by Raymond Brown. (Martin Black Publica­ tions.) 30s.

Last year, Bums and Jean Armour. This year, Burns and Clarinda. Who is it next year? Maria Riddell? Certainly the women made famous through their association with the poet are now coming under the public eye. Mr. Brown's book, it is claimed, is the work of many year's study. It is an honest, worked-at, and worked-over book, and does not set out to be a straight Sunday-afternoon's reading. In his prologue, he gives some account of the social life of Scotland in the latter half of the 18th Century, the class distinctions, and the position of women. Nancy McLehose's background is painted in, in consider­ able detail: ample evidence is given of her genteel upbringing, her cultivated tastes, her disastrous married life, her separation from her children, and her long life in Edinburgh. Nancy Craig was the daughter of a Glasgow physician. She was 'weel connected'. Her childhood was marred by the death of her mother when she was eight years old. By the time she was fourteen I however, her attractions were being recognised and her father ! ' thought fit to send her to one of the fashionable boarding schools in Edinburgh. The author re-tells the graphic story of the fifteen-year old Nancy travelling in the same post-chaise as the young lawyer James MacLehose, who had arranged this. Although Nancy's father opposed the marriage, she married MacLehose two years later. Although she dutifully bore him three children, two of whom lived the marriage was a disaster. They were incompatible; the husband was a bully, the wife too [ spirited to submit completely. Eventually they separated, and .I Nancy was denied custody of her children. Shortly after, her father I I died, not leaving her as well-off as she might have expected, so she betook herself to Edinburgh, to the care of her cousin, the already well-thought of Advocate, William Craig. The twenty-three year old, petite, attractive, grass-widow found Edinburgh to her liking. With her cousin looking after her rent, she had few worries except about her two young ones in Glasgow. BOOK REVIEWS 47

She read copiously, she achieved a circle of literary friends, she wrote poetry! Most important of all, she became friendly with the minister of the Tolbooth Kirk. The influence of the Rev. John Kemp on Nancy's mind, and on Nancy's thinking, has, I think, been undervalued. He it was who was later to put the fear of God in her when her romantic association with Burns became the talk o' the toon. Burns's first meeting with Nancy appears to have been through her conniving, although the poet was friendly with William Nimmo, a supervisor in the Excise. Her sister was a friend of Nancy's, and it was at a tea-party in the Nimmo household that they first met. A fortnight later, Burns was writing to Richard Brown-'! am at this moment ready to hang myself for a young Edinburgh widow'. The golden locks of the five-foot-one Mistress MacLehose had ensnared his susceptible heart-or so it seemed. Thus far, the story of young Nancy MacLehose is well told. When the letters begin, one might have expected a psychological study of the Clarinda-Sylvander affair, but the author, although he has done much research into the letters, rejects the idea that he should psychologise. Why not? Others have done it, on less evidence. True, he poses a number of questions that are intriguing in themselves; for example, would Burns have married Nancy had she been free? One doubts if their romantic love-letters would have survived the reality of 'a smytrie of wee duddie weans'. Then he asks, did Nancy allow Burns to be intimate with her? His answer is that Clarinda was the only woman who entered his life whom the poet did not lust after. There will be many head-shakings over that judgement. Still, the author may advance letter 60 from Burns to Clarinda in support of his belief- 'When you call over the scenes that have passed between us, you will survey the conduct of an honest man, struggling successfully with temptations, the most powerful that ever beset humanity, and preserving untainted his honour, in situations where the austerest virtue would have forgiven a fall'. All this rings true, and explains why poor Jenny Clow suffered. The author is convinced that the poet and Nancy were in love. If it were love on his part, it was of the kind that flourishes only in the nearness of the person, for after Burns left Edinburgh, try as he might, his enthusiasm cooled, and Nancy was quick to note it in the letters. After all, there were more pressing realities in Mauchline than the pretty wee letter-writing piece of infatuation in Edinburgh. 48 BOOK REVIEWS

Nor should we forget that Nancy had always the consolation of a strong faith-indeed it appears obvious that she equated her sensual inclinations with her religious conscience-and that conscience was very strong. The author goes into considerable detail over Nancy's life subsequent to the Clarinda episode which dwaibl'd awa' in recrimin­ atory letter-writing till 1794. On the whole, Nancy had a sad life. A journey to Jamaica to become reconciled to her husband was calamitous. She found him living with a coloured woman. Three months were enough to convince her that there could be no recon­ ciliation, so she returned, nearly penniless. Once again, her kinsman, now Lord Craig, came to the rescue. Her son Andrew grew up to be a writer to the Signet in Edinburgh. But Clarinda outlived them all, and died full of years, in 1841. This book also contains the poems of Clarinda which may best be described by her own words to Burns-'the verses are inaccurate'. There are also some illustrations which show how thorough has been the research into every aspect of Nancy's life. It is a book which will be a great interest to those who seek to know every detail of the poet's story. But when all is said and done, the whole episode is epitomised in the lines quoted on page 10 of this volume. There a lyric by the poet is set down in its entirety. It is not one of Burns's best lyrics, and today it is always sung to a setting that the poet did not chose. It is-'AE FOND KISS'. ALEX. MACMILLAN 'I I it ' WITHOUT ADAM. The Femina Anthology of Poetry. Compiled by Joan Murray Simpson. (Femina Books Ltd., 1968.) Price 25s. It is nearly twenty years since an anthology of poems by women was published-The Distaff Muse, compiled by Clifford Bax and Meum Stewart. In this new collection, Without Adam, there is a wider range, and more variety, both of matter and manner. The I I great names of the past have not been neglected, notably Sappho I I (in translation), Queen Elizabeth, and the seventeenth century poets I Aphra Behn and Anne Bradstreet, but the majority of the poems are I by living authors, and this is as it should be. For it is the editor's contention, in her brief foreword, that 'in all the other anthologies that come our way the percentage of women contributors is exceed­ ingly low', to which one might add the extreme case of the antholo­ gist who admits none at all. This book then is intended to redress BOOK REVIEWS 49

the balance, and how richly it does so. It ranges over the English speaking world, with such outstanding American names as Amy Lowell, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and the living Australian poets Rosemary Dobson and Judith Wright. 'It often seems', says Miss Simpson, 'that anthologies have been prepared from other anthologies' (and how sadly true that is!) 'but in this one I have tried to select fresh poems from the poets' own collected works.' The result is one of the charms of this collection; the choice is novel, and always interesting and significant, and will surely lead the reader, as she hopes, 'to study more of the work of writers they may meet here for the first time'. Three of the contributors have 'Scotland' in brackets beneath the name, and one of these is Mrs. John Hunter, with her touching lyric 'My mother bids me bind my hair', placed in the Aspects of Love group. One may wonder at the omission of others- What of the women? Violet of Dun, And Marion Angus, sib to Lady Nairne, to quote in a different context the words of Helen Cruickshank,* herself a poet of considerable standing. However, the explanation probably lies in the selection for Without Adam being restricted to poems written in English. Allowing for this, the choice of Anne Hunter is not without aptness, and serves to revive a too little remembered name. Born at Home of Greenlaw in Berwickshire, as wife of the great eighteenth century surgeon Dr. John Hunter she spent most of her life in London. Two of her poems, 'To the Nightingale on her leaving Earl's Court' and 'A Sonnet in the manner of Petrarch' were copied by Burns into his Edinburgh Common-place Book, the only ones 'by another hand' so honoured, if we except the possibility of Clarinda's lyric 'Talk not of Love-it gives me pain' having been on one of the missing pages. Haydn's 'Six Original Canzonettas for Voice and Pianoforte' (1794) are all set to poems by Mrs. Hunter. In this connection it is interesting to learn that the most famous of them, 'My mother bids me bind my hair', had already been used by the author as text for an Andante melody from one of Pleyel's sonatas, and that 'Haydn with her consent had reversed the order of the two verses'. In 1801 a volume of her poems was published, achieving a second edition in 1803. She is in Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, where the entry

*From her latest volume The Ponnage Pool (M. Macdonald, Edinburgh). This book has recently won an Arts Council Publication Award. D IT I I• I

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begins by describing her as 'Scottish amateur poet and musician'. She is therefore representative of that considerable proportion of the Scottish women poets who have had the intertwined gifts of poetry and music, Lady Nairne and Lady John Scott being two who come most immediately to mind. With the Femina Anthology Miss Simpson has blazed a trail. Has not the time come for an anthology selected from the work of our Scottish women poets, past and present? Should such a project eve1 be realised, one hopes that it will find as enterprising a publisher as Femina Books, and an editor as well read and discriminating as Joan Murray Simpson. ALICE v. STUART

THAT YE INHERIT, by William Graham. (Smith Bros., Kilmar­ nock). 8s. 6d.

This volume of verse is written by an Ayr schoolmaster, who is Secretary of Ayr Burns Club and it is dedicated to members of that Club. In spite of the rather pretentious title, the book deserves a wider appeal. It is written for the most part in Scots, and when the verses get free of the shackles of local names and places, they run smoothly enough. Mr. Graham has a good ear for Scots words. I liked especially his poems 'The Backward Child' and 'The Song of the Young Men'. The best of the parochial verse is the poem entitled 'The Upper Classes' which might be written about any town that has a guid conceit o' itsel! I predict that 'The Auld Wives' Trip' will be recited with gusto at many a Burns Supper (men only) although the subject is hardly poetic. , I A.LEX. MACMILLAN

SIXTY RURAL YEARS by T. T. Kilbucho. (A. Walke1 & Son, Ltd., 113 High Street, Galashiels.) 10s. 6d.

At a time when so much country is disappearing under concrete and the flight from the land continues unabated, it is distressing to think what will be lost if the traditional life in the farms and villages is finally extinguished. It is this way of life, in all its variety, that T. T. Kilbucho has described in the poems he has written throughout his adult years. Now, in this book, he writes of the background which helped to I I BOOK REVIEWS 51

form his personal philosophy, an environment in many respects similar to that which moulded Bums, and with many pithy asides recounts incidents which were the basic material for the poems with which it is generously interspersed. Given these glimpses into the poet's workshop, as it were, one realises why these poems have the authentic ring of truth. They are no mere flights of fancy, but the fruits of his close observation of his fellow men (and women) and his deep compassion for them. This is an unusual book from an unusual man. There is a bigness at the heart of it which belies its modest size. It is guid gear in sma' bouk indeed and should be read by all who delight in the distinctive ways of rural Scotland. The writer may well be one of the last to celebrate them. R.H.

PORTRAIT OF THE Scorr CouNTRY, by Marion Lochhead. (Robert Hale, London.) 25s.

As a Borderer I found this book the work of a writer whose knowledge of this famous countryside must be accepted as compre­ hensive and &liable: a well-written account by one who truly loves and knows the subject. From dim and distant times right up to the recent controversies relative to a proposal to bring considerable numbers of people from our more industrialised areas into these less populated parts, every aspect of life gets full consideration in a style that holds the reader engrossed from cover to cover. Throughout, one becomes increas­ ingly aware of the true spirit of the Borders-distinct, gallant and changeless, transcending all barriers, social and otherwise, in its preference for the noblest in mankind. Here, too, we have a true historical record, both religious and secular, of the counties concerned. There is also a great wealth of authentic descriptive material concerning their pastoral grandeur, their place in legend and literary importance, as well as the industrial and agricultural pursuits of the native population, both past and present. Liberally and beautifully illustrated in black and white, this is a book that should encourage many to discover for themselves the enchantment of Abbotsford and the Scott country. T. T. KILBUCHO ~-r-~------. r ,I

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'A GIFT FROM NEssus', by William Mcllvanney. (Eyre & Spottiswood.) 25s. This young Kilmarnock novelist follows up the success of his first novel 'Remedy is None' (reviewed here last year) with another success, in 'A Gift from Nessus'-a success recognised by the Arts Council, who have made him an award. Mr. Mcllvanney does not desert his own territory as other novelists do, but writes about places he knows (in this case Glasgow and the area around it). The result is that we are closer to his characters and we live in the atmosphere he creates. His style is vigorous, concentrated, and if occasionally one feels that there is some over-writing, nevertheless the novel grips. The characters are Eddie Cameron, a successful-enough Glasgow traveller; his wife; his wife's brother; the children; his mistress, and his superior. On the surface everybody is rubbing along fairly well, but in fact his marriage is on the rocks, he hates his job, he hates his boss, Sid (a beautifully drawn character), he hates his own smart tongue, and he finally hates himself. His redemption, if it is redemption, is his decision to quit even after being offered promotion, and go back to work in a bookshop. It would be unfair to the novelist to give away the crisis of the book, and indeed one wonders if even Eddie's love for his children would lead to a non-bickering reconciliation with his toffee-nosed wife. I with the I I This is a fine novel, full of office intrigue, office parties ' ' usual snide remarks, and a real drucken Burns supper of the kind that no Burnsian ever admits to. This is followed by a thoroughly Scottish piece of writing-the car journey through the night, full of laughter, yet full of dread. This young author deserves all the applause that critics are awarding him. It is a book to be read for its integrity and its no-nonsense climax. If the novel hasn't a particularly satisfying end-well, that's life, usually. ' ALEX. MACMILLAN i ROBERT BuRNS IN IRVINE. A Guide to the Irvine Burns Club Museum-printed by R. Dinwiddie & Co., Dumfries: published by Harry Gaw, Bridgegate, Irvine, for Irvine Burns Club. 5s. 6d.

This is a most tasteful compilation. It tells the story of the founding of the Club, with the poet's friends Dr. John MacKenzie, BOOK REVIEWS 53

as first President and David Sillar as Croupier. It then gives an account of the precious Manuscripts of the first five and the thir­ teenth poems in the Kilmarnock Edition, and explains how they came to be in the possession of Irvine Burns Club. It is a good story, but probably not the whole story. One of the Club's windfalls was the bequest of Wellwood, a substantial house in Irvine, which allowed the Club to translate a room into the Irvine period of Burns's life. This has been done by a mural, which depicts graphically Burns in Irvine, and is reproduced here very successfully. The booklet contains a pull-out which is a finely drawn pictorial map of old Irvine. This is as should be, for the section of the booklet, in speaking of the Club library, mentions the association of John Galt, Edgar Allan Poe and Montgomery the hymn-writer with the town. On the reverse side of the pull-out appears the advertisements, very discreetly placed, each with an apt description from the Poet's works. Obviously, a great deal of thought has gone into this compilation, and the Irvine Club is to be congratulated on its enterprise and its artistic success. ALEX. MACMILLAN

GILBERTFIELD POEM AND VERSE, by Adam Humphries, J.P., printed by George Outram & Co., Ltd., Grange Place, Kilmarnock, for the Author, 59a Mill Road, Halfway, Cambuslang, Lanarkshire. 7s. 6d. To those of us who were associated with the Burns Federation in the early fifties, the name of Adam Humphries stirs many memories. For several years, he was one of the representatives of Lanarkshire on the Executive Committee and was also a member of the Scottish Literature Committee. Over the years, he has written a great deal of verse. Some examples of his work appeared from time to time in the Weekly Scotsman, which, not so long ago, was ruthlessly wiped out because it did not show sufficient profit in an age that rates success solely in terms of money. · In his Foreword, Mr. Humphries acknowledges the helpful advice and criticism which he received from that grand old man, Mr. W. D. Cocker, President of the Glasgow Ballad Club, in the preparation of this volume. In its pages, Mr. Humphries deals with many things-from •Auld tenements dune this mony a day' to 'the best o' Scottish bane,' IT,_------. I :I

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the 5lst Division of the Second World War. Throughout, the reader will come upon many guid Scots words: begrutten, st1avaig, glower and so on and, above all, he will find, too, that kindly, hamespun humour that is no longer fashionable in Scots verse. J. v.

BURNS HOUSE MUSEUM, MAUCHLINE

RESTORATION APPEAL As most readers will know by now, the aim of this Appeal is to restoration of the Bums ! ' collect sufficient funds to undertake the House and of Doctor McKenzie's House next door in Castle Street, Mauchline. In the Burns House, when completed, a room on the ground floor will be furnished as a period kitchen and, adjoining it, will be a folk museum. Upstairs, Jean Armour's room will have a boxed-in bed, period furniture and fireplace. Next to it will be a gallery round which visitors will be able to view facsimile manuscripts, photo­ graphs and other items in a glass-covered display. An exit from the gallery will lead into Doctor McKenzie's House, which will be completely restored as a caretaker's house, with bedroom, kitchen, livingroom and other requirements. Below, there will be two other to the courtyard and garden I. rooms and a through-way passage lj behind the building. I It Under the chairmanship of Sir Claude Alexander ofBallochmyle, a new Committee has been formed. It consists of three members from the Burns Federation, the National Memorial Homes, the Glasgow and District Burns Association, and the Mauchline Burns Club. The secretary is Mr. J. D.S. MacMillan, Solicitor, Mauchline, and the treasurer Mr. T. W. Dalgleish, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer, the .Bums Federation, 5 Park Street, Kilmarnock. Early in November, total donations amounted to £4,230, and whilst this is most encouraging, it still requires a tremendous effort to reach the target of £10,000. The Executive Committee of the Burns Federation ask that all Clubs support the Restoration Appeal at their Anniversary celebra­ tions. It would also be helpful if affiliated Clubs, knowing where other Anniversary functions are being held by organisations which are not members of the Burns Federation, would ask them to assist by taking a collection for this worthwhile Appeal. I I JUNIOR BURNS CHRONICLE

A. D. GRIFFEN AWARD, 1968 For the Best Essay in Scots on the subject, 'Ma Schule Holidays', a large number of essays was received and, even more encouraging, the standard was very high. Although there could only be one winner, the work of each and every one of you had to be carefully considered. Elizabeth Boyle, 11 years of age, 24 Fergus Gardens, Hamilton, showed, like so many of you, that she has a guid Scots tongue in her heid. The pupils of Commercial School, Dunfermline, also made a big effort. I was greatly amused by the entry of S. Dower, who began, quite seriously: 'In ma schule holidays Ah did what Ah normally dae-I went to Mars.' To this young essayist in science-fiction, I suggest that he try his hand in this year's competition for the Best Short Story in Scots. Most of the pupils of Laurencekirk Secondary School appeared to spend their holidays at the 'tattie-pickin' .' They sent a delightful photograph of themselves on Blackiemuir Farm, Laurencekirk. There was some good stuff in their essays, all the atmosphere of this hard, back-breaking work in the cauld east winds. Some of their phrases would have appealed to Lewis Grassie Gibbon. I trust they will have another go this year. I was sweirt to make up my mind, but eventually I decided that the prize must go to Henry Hepburn, Form IV, Mackie Academy, Stonehaven. During a civic reception to a number of Burns descendants by Stonehaven Town Council, Henry was present to receive the A. D. Griffen Award of ten pounds from Dr. Taylor, President of the Burns Federation. -1 l I

56 JUNIOR BURNS CHRONICLE THE WINNING ESSAY MA SCHULE HOLIDAYS

by HENRY HEPBURN 'Thra' 'is thrapple,' A thocht tae masel', near deav'd wi' 'e aul' cock scraikin' awa, bit fin A did keek oot fae aneth 'e blunkets A fun oot 'at it wisna sic a bad day efter a', in fac' 'e sin abeen 'e hull hid a gair o' cotton wool roon aboot it. At brakfist ma granfaither speirt at me if A wis wuntin' t' ging wi' 'im t' gie 'im a han' tae burn 'e fun bushes on tap o' smiddy brae. 'E's a strappin' chiel bit wi' shooders startin't ging roondit as if 'e'd bin cairryin' a muckle load aroon' wi' 'im a' 'is years, een o' 'em kin' o' fowk fa gings aroon' garrin' ye 'Hap yer hurdies, wir gan' t' hae a gey sair byre time' jist 'cos 'e fire-flakes his bin gey aften seen in 'e simmer. A said A wid fairly gang. On 'e wye up fae 'e steadin' A sa a muckle, warty wallagoo o' a puddock on a steen dyke fit ran roon' a park far a puckle kye wis rowtin' awa' lik' a' that. A teen skelpin' efter 't bit the orra wratch widna bide at peace a meenit. It stottit . I aboot lik' a knicht on a chess-board 'n' nae in a stracht line lik' a cushie-doo wid 've deen. A wis 'at flummoxed 'at A fell on ma doup in a

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JUNIOR BURNS CHRONICLE 57 'N'e wa'kit aboot as if ulky leg wyed ten times ower muckle-'e'd an affa trauchle t' drag ae leg foret 'n' 'en e'd hae jist as sair a chave t' dee'e same wi' 'e ither een. A richt dottled-like dafty fae 'is huddery heid t' 'is taikety beets. Onywye, eence we got 'e funs lichtit, 'ey crackl't 'n' splutter't 'n' ulkie noo 'n' 'en hullocks o' rick 'n' sparks wid flee up intae the air or else sum rick wid be bla'n intae yer face garrin' yer een watter. 'N' 'en a' o' a sudden ye'd hear a skid nae even a bogle wid wunt t' hearkin tull 'n' 'en ye wid smell sumthin' lik' brunt wool fae upwin' 'n' a makin or rubbit or anither furry craitur wid cam skitin' oot o' 'e bleeze, twistin' 'n' turnin' better nor ony furligig 'n' doon it wid drap, sometimes wi' a last scyal, deed or deein', jist a malegroozled mess, 'n' if ye wis t' try 'n' pick it up' 'e skin wid jist peel a:ff nae bather at a'. Time wis fan at kine o' thing wid gie's a queer feelin' somewye aroon 'e kyte, bit bidin' on 'e Ian' at 'e back o' beyon', ye've tae pit sic like things oot o' yer heid. A puckle o' days efter 'at a got up oot o' ma flech-box early kine (ower early a thocht) so 'at A could yoke wi' ma granfaither. Fan A went through t' hae ma brakfist 'e wis e'tin' sum gey peely-wally lookin' stuff fit 'e ca'd knotty tarns. 'E said 'e teen purritch maist days or drammach if 'e wis in a hurry bit 'e likit a change noo' n' 'en. We wis ga'n' t' shear 'e sheep 'at day seein' 'at 'e wither wis rickt bit we fun oot 'at ae pair o' sheep shears wis tint 'n' anither pair wis affa bladdit wi' roost 'cos it hidna bin greas't 'e year afore efter it hid been feenist wi'. 'Is meant 'ere wid jist be fower workers shearin' instead o' sax 'n' 'e rest o' 'em wid hae t' dip 'e sheep efter they'd bin clippit or e,lse pack awa' 'e fleeces inta the big pokes. 58 JUNIOR BURNS CHRONICLE Aboot seyven o'clock we hid 'e sheep roont up, 'n' 'e lambs separatit fae 'e yowes bit we got a han fae 'e fairmer a big, braid, buirdly billie 'n' 'is twa dogs. Weel, fan we got it sortit oot, 'e warkers pit on the'r knicky-tams 'n' got

I'' ' I JUNIOR BURNS CHRONICLE 59 airms 'n' legs flailin' like a droonin' man or'e reels o' a binder tho' ony gypit kintra yokel cud've telt 'im 'at 'at widna keep 'im up. Weel, ony feel kens 'at fit gings up must cam

RESULTS OF 1968 PAINTING

!,, COMPETITIONS 'i ! i~ SENIOR SECTION The subject-any scene from Burns's poem, 'The Jolly Beggars'-was not an easy one; but young artists over 14 years of age tackled it with gristo ! It was most rewarding to find how many caught the atmosphere and earthy spirit of this work. As with the essays for the A. D. Griffen Award, I the standard was remarkably high. The lst prize was awarded to Alan B. Herriot (16) of Greenhill High School, Gorebridge, with a painting that reminded me of Hogarth. Ronald J. M. Russell, Altona, 55 Titchfield Road, Troon, was placed 2nd with a painting almost on the level with the one JUNIOR BURNS CHRONICLE 61 which was awarded lst prize last year. (yle apologise to this fine young painter for getting his name wrong last year!) He is, by the way, a pupil of Marr College, Troon. 3rd prize was awarded to Margaret Kennedy (15) of Fasque Gardens, Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire, with another ex­ cellent painting. The girls evidently like 'The Jolly Beggars'! I was impressed by the work of Anne Duffney, Maureen Clark and Dorothy Pittendreigh. I look forward to seeing their paintings in this year's competition.

JUNIOR SECTION The entries on the subject, 'Christmas', over­ whelmed me. From all parts of Scotland (except the Borders, I am ashamed to say) they came in bulky packages. lst prize was won by James Sterrick (11) of 4 Lamb Street, Hamilton, and 2nd prize by Elizabeth Bain (12) of Logie Durno Schoolhouse, Pitcaple, Inverurie. Graham Cor­ bett (13) of 6 Thomson Terrace, Stonehaven, was 3rd. It is always unfortunate that everyone can't win! Ross Middleton, Andrew Gordon and Roddy MacLellan joined forces to turn out a striking piece of work on the back of a length of wallpaper. A great effort. Altogether, this was the best Junior Section, both in quantity and quality, since these competi­ tions began.

A. D. GRIFFEN AWARD 1969 This year, the prize of £10 will be awarded for the Best Short Story written in Scots. This can be in the realm of history, science-fiction, adventure or, in fact, anything you wish. Entries will be Irr-··· ·'

62 JUNIOR BURNS CHRONICLE judged solely on how well competitors know their own mother tongue. There is no limit to the num­ ber of words. Age limit is 18 and all stories must be the competitors' own unaided work. If no story reaches the required standard, the Editor reserves the right to withhold the Award until the following year. So let your imagination run riot and send in your stories IN SCOTS to The Editor, Junior Burns Chronicle, Newbigging, Tweedsmuir, Biggar, Lanarkshire, on or before April 30th, 1969.

PAINTING COMPETITIONS-1969

SENIOR SECTION For young artists over 14, paintings are invited on any scene you wish from Burns's poem 'Willie Wastle'. Send your paintings, preferably between two sheets of cardboard to protect them in the post, to The Editor, Junior Burns Chronicle, Newbigging, Tweedsmuir, Biggar, Lanarkshire. Please do not forget your name, age and address. Closing date is 30th April, 1969. Book tokens will be awarded to the winners. : I

JUNIOR SECTION Artists under 14 years of age are invited to send paintings of 'The View frae Ma Windae'. It may be that you look out on a busy street, a garden, another house of a field with trees and sheep. No matter. Do tell us about it in paint or crayon! Rules and prizes are the same as in the Senior Section. If you want your paintings returned, please enclose stamps to cover postage. JUNIOR BURNS CHRONICLE 63

A BURNS QUIZ

Compiled by FRED J. BELFORD, M.A., F.E.I.S., Honorary President and Past President, the Burns Federation 1. Where was Robert Burns born? 2. In what year was he born? 3. What was his father's christian name? 4. What was his mother's maiden name? 5. What was his wife's maiden name? 6. In what four farms did Burns work? 7. What was the name given to the first edition of his poems? 8. What was Highland Mary's real name? 9. Give the name of one of Burns's teachers? 10. What was Tam o' Shanter's real name? 11. Where did Tam's journey begin? 12. Where did he first see the witches? 13. Where was he nearly caught by one of the witches? 14. Was Burns more famous as (a) a poet (b) a writer of prose or (c) a song-writer? 15. What battle is referred to in 'Scots wha hae'? 16. To which poet did Burns erect a tombstone in Canongate Churchyard, Edinburgh? 17. Did Burns and Scott (later Sir Walter) ever meet? 18. What song of Burns is the most frequently sung at the end of social gatherings? 19. Where did Burns die? 20. In what year did he die? I I;

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ANSWERS TO 'A BURNS QUIZ' I. Alloway; near Ayr. 2. 1759. (25th January). 3. William. 4. Agnes Brown. 5. Jean Armour. 6. Mount Oliphant, Lochlie, Mossgiel, Ellisland. 7. Kilmarnock Edition. 8. Mary Campbell. 9. Mr. Campbell, John Murdoch, Hugh Rodger, Burns's father. 10. Douglas Graham. 11. High Street, Ayr. 12. Auld Alloway Kirk. 13. Brig o' Doon. 14. Song-writer. 15. Bannockburn. 16. Robert Fergusson. 17. Yes. 18. Auld Lang Syne. I I 19. Dumfries. 20. 1796. (21st July).

I I I' I MOITO-"A MAN'S A MAN FOR A' THAT" THE BURNS FEDERATION INSTITUTED 1885

Hon. Presidents. Mrs. ANNIE DUNLOP, O.B.E., LL.D., D.Litt., Ph.D., 73 London Road, Kilmarnock. ALEX. MACMILLAN, M.A.• Ed.B., 13 Kilwinning Road, Irvine. A. NEIL CAMPBELL, F.C.C.S., 141 Craiglea Drive, Edinburgh, 10. FRED. J. BELFORD, M.A., F.E.I.S., 3 Park Grove, Liberton, Edinburgh, 9. ANDREW STENHOUSE, M.A., LL.B., 82 West Nile Street, Glasgow, C.2. Mrs. S. G. BAILUE, 38 Gordon Street, Balwyn, E.8, Victoria, Australia. JOHN GRAY, "Ceres," 135 Whittlets Road, Ayr. ALEX. JOHNSTONE, 41 Benwerrin Ave., Carss Park, Blakehurst, N.S.W. WILIJAM J. OLIVER, 2 Bellevue Street, Dunedin, New Zealand. A. Y. CRAWFORD, 164 Newhaven Road, Edinburgh. Mrs. M. COULSON, 10 Queensberry Court, Dumfries. THOS. w. DALGLEISH, O.B.E., F.S.F., 5 Park Street, Kilmarnock. J. NORVAL MURRAY, Commercial Bank Buildings, Bank Street, Irvine. Hon. Vice-Presidents. Mrs. JANE BURGOYNE, 12 Lockharton Avenue, Edinburgh, 11. , Mrs. M. NICHOLSON, 3 Goldwell House, 29 Ashgate Road, Chesterfield. WILLIAM ScoTT, 28 Knockinlaw Road, Kilmarnock. Mrs. V. W. BROOM, 12 Whitecotes Lane, Chesterfield. J. D. MCBAIN, 33 Humbledon Park, Sunderland. Officials. President-ROBERT DONALDSON, 10 Bothwell Street, Glasgow, C.2. Senior Vice-President-D. J. MclLDOWIE, J.P., Invermay, Doune Road, Dunblane, Perthshire. Junior Vice-President-Mrs. JANE BURGOYNE, 12 Lockharton Avenue, Edinburgh, 11. Hon. Secretary .and Hon. Treasurer-THOMAS W. DALGLEISH, O.B.E., F.S.F., 5 Park Street, Kilmarnock. Hon. Editor-JAMES VEITCH, Newhigging, Tweedsmuir, By Biggar, Lanarkshire. Sclwols Competitions-FRED. J. BELFORD, M.A., F.E.l.S., 3 Park Grove, · Liberton, Edinburgh, 9. Assistant Hon. Secretary-ANDREW STENHOUSE, M.A., LL.B., 82 West Nile Street, Glasgow, C.2. E I I

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Past-Presidents-Dr. JoHN I. TAYLOR, M.B., Ch.B., 7 Kennedy Close, Millhouse Green, Penistone, Yorks. GEORGE VALLANCE, 5 Park Terrace, Lugar, Cumnock. Dr. J. S. MONTGOMERIE, M.B., Ch.B., D.T.M.&H., F.S.A.(Scot.), "The Mount," High Barnes, Sunder­ land, Co. Durham. S. W. LoVE, 1 Queensborough Gardens, Glasgow, W.2. W. J. KING-GILLIES, 149 Warrander Park Road, Edinburgh, 9. ANDERSON WILSON, 35 Long Lane, Carlton-in-Lindrick, Worksop, Notts. H. GEORGE McKERROW, J.P., 52 Buccleuch Street, Dumfries. ANDREW STENHOUSE, M.A., LL.B., 82 West Nile Street, Glasgow, C.2. FRED. J. BELFORD, M.A., F.E.I.S., 3 Park Grove, Edinburgh, 9. A. NEIL CAMPBELL, F.C.C.S., 141 Craiglea Drive, Edinburgh, 10. ALEX. MACMILLAN, M.A., Ed.B., 13 Kilwinning Road, Irvine. District Representatives. I. Ayrshire--D. B. WILSON, 6 Ward Place, Kilmarnock. THos. ANDERSON, 36 Linfem Avenue East, Kil­ marnock. DAVID DUNLOP, Bank of Scotland, Glencaim Street, Kilmarnock. II. Edinburgh-D. McCALLUM HAY, St. John Cottage, Bowden, Roxburghshire. III. Glasgow-R. DICKSON JOHNSTON, 75 Clouston Street, Glasgow, N.W. JAMES B. McW1LLIAM, 11 Waterside Gardens, Carmunnock, Glasgow. IV. Dunbarton and Argyll Shires­ V. Fifeshire- VI. Lanarkshire-JOHN McCoNNACHIE, 8 Bentfoot Road, Overtown, Wishaw. THOMAS BOSLEM, 11 Hillside Place, Newarthill, Motherwell. VII. Mid and East Lothians and Borders-A. Y. CRAWFORD, 164 Newhaven Road, Edinburgh. VIII. West Lothian- IX. Renfrewshire-JAMES A. KYLE, 6 Finnart Street, Greenock. X. Stirling, C/ackmannan and West Perth Shires-Mrs. W. G. STEWART, 17 Park Terrace, Tullibody, Clack­ mannanshire. Mrs. MARION Fox, 7 Henderson Place, Alva. Xl. East Perthshire, Angus and Kinross-RON. LlvINGSTON, 58 High Street, Montrose. XII. Northern Scottish Counties-CHARLES C. EASTON, F.S.A.(Scot.), SS Rosehill Drive, Aberdeen. THE BURNS FEDERATION 67

XIII. Southern Scottish Counties-HUGH CUNNINGHAM, 7 Assembly Street, Dumfries. Mrs. M. CouLSON, 10 Queensberry Court, Dumfries. XIV. London and South-Eastern England-A. F. ROBERTSON, 30 Dorset Court, 211-213 Kingsway, Hove, Sussex, BN3-4FD. XV. North Eastern England-A. A. BLACK, "Amberley," Lyndhurst Grove, Low Fell, Gateshead 9. XVI. North Western England-Miss N. J. SYMONS, "Edina," 15 Crosslane, Bebington, Cheshire. XVII. Yorkshire-M. MCLAUGHLAN, Glebe House, Knottingley, Yorkshire. XVIII. North and East Midlands-G. W. BURNEIT, 40 Brecks Lane, Rotherham. J. E. lNGus, 13 Halloughton Road, Southwell, Notts. XIX. West Midlands of England- XX. South Western England-GEORGE LAING, 104 Three Elms Road, Hereford. XXI. Wales-EDGAR F. YOUNG, 2 Tivoli Lawn, Cheltenham. XXII. Ireland-J. GRANT CoBB, 78 Kempson Avenue, Wyldegreen, Sutton Coldfield, Warwick. xxm. Africa-JAS. A. MCLEISH, "Craigielea," South Bums, Chester-le­ Street, Co. Durham. XXIV. Australia-Ex-Baillie JOHN GRAY, 135 Whitletts Road, Ayr. XXV. New Zealand-Mrs. M. RENNIE, 72 Trossachs Road, Cathkin, Rutherglen. XXVI. Canada-Provost E. ROBERTSON, Rosemount Street, Dumfries. XXVII. India-WILLIAM F. HowE, Heathervale, Eastbank, Brechin. xxvm. U.S.A.-AulxANDER M. BUCHAN, 535 Dielman Road, St. Louis 24, Missouri, U.S.A. XXIX. Europe-ROBERT DONALDSON, 10 Bothwell Street, Glasgow, C.2.

Suu-CoMMITTEES. Finance: H. G. McKerrow (Convener), Mrs. M. Rennie, Messrs. Neil Campbell, T. Anderson, W. J. King Gillies, S. W. Love, R. Dickson Johnstone, J. S. Montgomerie and J. B. McWilliam. Memorials: W. J. King Gillies (Convener), Mrs. M. Rennie, Miss N. J. Symons, Messrs. J. Gray, H. Cunningham, G. W. Burnett, D. McCallum Hay, G. Vallance, C. Easton, E. Young and A. Y. Crawford. Literature: Mr. Alex MacMillan (Convener), Mrs. W. G. Stewart, Miss N. J. Symons, Mrs. M. Fox, Messrs. F. J. Belford, T. Anderson, D. McCallum Hay, J. S. Montgomerie, Anderson Wilson, G. W. Burnett, J. E. Inglis, C. Easton and T. Boslem. Schools: Mr. Fred J. Belford (Convener), Mrs. M. Fox, Mrs. M. Coulson, Messrs. A. Finlayson, J. Kyle, A. MacMillan, G. W. Burnett, Anderson Wilson, D. McCallum Hay and J. Gray.

AUDITORS. Henry Brown & Co., 2 Market Lane, Kilmarnock. FEDERATION . 68 THE BURNS AssoCJATE MEMBERS. (As at lst November, 1968) Rc;iyston, Herts. F. E. Attwood, 16 Orchard Road, Melbour~, Mr. and Mrs. Street, MarnckVIlle, Sydney, Gordon M. Mackley, 92b Renwick Australia. Dumfries. Mrs. M. Shearer, 211 Lochside Road, Lochside, Lane Farm, Slaithwaite, Huddersfield. Leslie Hirst, Victoria Road, Darlington, Co. Miss M. I. Dickson, Argyle House, 16 Durham. 9 Balmoral Avenue, Dumfries. Mrs. J. Henderson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 2. Miss Marie Lax, 101 Grosvenor Road, Jesmond, Norfolk Crescent, Bishopbriggs, Glasgow. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Miskell, 43 . . Silverknowe Gardens, Edinburgh, 4. W. R. Platt, 86 67 Bonet Lane, Bnnsworth, Mr. and Mrs. G. Irvine, "Ulvescroft," Rotherham, Yorks. 93 Lochlea Road, Cumbernauld, Glasgow. F. Cameron, Uddingston. William Mcintosh, 134 Kylepark Drive, Crescent, Darlington, Co. Durham. G. Walker, 7 Geneva Gloucester. M. O'Flaherty, 9 Cherry Orchards, Tetbury, Dr. D. Lisburn, N. Ireland. James E. Shaw, 16 Beechdene Gardens, Mrs. Little, 8 Wallace Street, Dumfries. Miss McGeorge; 39 Wallace Street, Dumfries. Miss Callander, 9 Union Street, Dumfries. 16 Caul View, Dumfries. · Mrs. Rogerson, Dept., Kalighat P.O., South Dr. Donald M. McKay, Belisera Medical Sylhet, E. Pakistan. 3 Campbell Place, Dreghorn. Robert Wallace, Nr. Worksop. Frank G. Parr, 19 Brands Mere Drive, Woodsetts, 26 Church Crescent, Dumfries. Mr. Wm. Ferguson, Heanor, Derbyshire. R. S. Binnie, Glenbervie, 27 Lockton Avenue, John Skillin, Lochengelly, Gartmore, Stirling. 75 Wilson Road, Allanton, Shotts, Lanarkshire. John C. Weir, Lanarkshire. Duncan Smith, 18 Newton Drive, Newmains, Park View Boys' Home, Falrner Road, Darlington. Miss C. Rodway, Framwellgate Moor, Co. R. Peel, 25 Raby Road, Newtonhall Estate, Durham. Perthshire. Master Frank Zwolenski, Denpark, Abernethy, Young, 2 Tivoli Lawn, 8 Tivoli Road, Cheltenham. Edgar Bishopton, Renfrewshire. W. McCallum, 2 Redwood Crescent, . . I I U.I. Math. Dept., Urbana, Illinois. Prof. Colin R. Blyth, View Estate, W11lmgton, S. Alexander, 8 Ash Drive, Wear Valley Co. Durham. "The Spittal," Stonehouse, Lanarkshire. Walter B. Elder, N.W. James Snodgrass, 1 Doune Quadrant Glasgow, Southbank, Grange Loan, Edinburgh, 9. Lt.-Col. J. Fraser, S.W.5. I. McNa.b, 31 Howards Lane; Putney, London, John Cairney, V. Holbergsalm 16, Bergen, Norway. Mrs.. N. Kristiansen, Suginami-Ku, Tokyo, Japan. Tosh10 Namba, 29-19, 1-Chome Shimizu 62a Rosetta Ro~d Peebl~s James Mitchell, and Peebles Constabulary Chief Constable. Merrilees, O.B.E., Lothi~n Park Road, Edinburgh 6. Force, 41 Edge Lane, Wingerworth, Bruce H. Garrett, "Highfield " 120 Long .1 Chesterfield, Derbyshire. ' Esq., 17 Meadowside, Beith. A. K. McL~ish, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. G. A. McN1coll, 66 Bonnymuir Drive, w. ASSOCIATE MEMBERS 69

Professor Kenneth W. Gordon, 3381 Cook Street, Victoria B.C., Canada. James Moffat, 14 Beechwood Crescent, Lesmahagow. George Clark, 82 Bellfield Road, Coalburn. William Fisher, 2910 West 3rd Avenue, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Edward Lowe, 57 Brownley Court, Hollyhedge Road, Benchill, Man- chester, 22. James Simpson, 3 Bonnyton Place, Dunfermline. John Begg, Esq., 16 Dobroyd Parade, Haberfield 2045, Sydney, Australia. John Allan, 60 Hazeldean Crescent, Wishaw, Lanarkshire. Mrs. M. Watson, "Glen Elgin", 67 Henhurst Hill, Burton-on-Trent. Mrs. Senga Millican, Park Hall Country Club, Spinkhill, Sheffield. Robert George, Erskine Bank, Overtown, by Wishaw. Hector A. Brown, 717-745 Wolseley Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Robert Alexander Williamson, 97 Mellons Bay Road, Howick, Auckland, New Zealand. F. Magyar, Budapest House, 232 Oxford Road, Caine, Wilts. Mrs. Isabel Anderson, 263 Millhouses Lane, Sheffield 11. Mrs. M. D. Morley, 29 Renshaw Road, Elderslie, Renfrewshire. W. P. Bell, 5a Burman Street, Swansea, Glamorgan. David Clarke, 85 Drumlanrig Street, Thornhill, Dumfriesshire. Mrs. Margaret McKellar, 50 Douglas Street, Viewpark, Uddingston, Lanarkshire. Mrs. M. McDougall, 6 Fairfield Avenue, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. Murdo McDougall, 6 Fairfield Avenue, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. Robert Burns, 35 Bush Court, Priors Road, Cheltenham, Glos. Mrs. D. Biggar, 18 Brook Street, Dumfries. Mrs. McWilliams, 6 Briarbank, Dumfries. J. D. Lamb, Cranleigh, Ponthir Road, Caerleon, Mon. William Muirhead, 9 Seaforth Road, Bainsford, Falkirk. B. M. Stowe, 5554 Waterman, St. Louis, Mo. 63112, U.S.A. Mrs. Chloe Sue Woods, 1751 N. Woodlawn Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. 63124, U.S.A. Thos. Newall, 92 Robson Road, Keiraville, Via Wollongong, N.S.W., Australia. ' Archibald N. C. Paton, 63 St. John's Avenue, Mangerton, Via Wollongong, N.S.W., Australia.

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LIST OF PAST PRESIDENTS

1885-1899 : Provost Peter Sturrock, Kilmarnock. 1899-1906 : Provost David Mackay, Kilmarnock. 1906-1907 : David Murray, M.A., B.Sc., Kilmarnock. 1907-1909 : William Wallace, M.A., LL.D., Glasgow. 1909-1910 : Captain David Sneddon, V.D., Kilmarnock. 1910-1923 : Duncan McNaught, LL.D., Kilmaurs. 1923-1927 : Sir Robert Bruce, D.L., LL.D., Glasgow. 1927-1930 : Sir Joseph Dobbie, S.S.C., Edinburgh. 1930-1933 : Sir Alexander Gibb, G.B.E., C.B., London. 1933-1937 : Ninian Macwhannell, F.R.I.B.A., Glasgow. 1937-1943 : M. H. McKerrow, F.S.A.Scot., Dumfries. 1943-1946 : John S. Clarke, J.P., Glasgow. 1946-1948 : Sir Patrick Dollan, D.L., LL.D., J.P., Glasgow. 1948-1950 : Thomas B. Goudie, Hamilton. 1950-1951 : John McVie, O.B.E., M.S.M., Edinburgh. 1951-1952 : James R. Crawford, F.S.A.Scot., Norwich. 1952-1953 : J. Kevan McDowall, F.S.A.Scot., Glasgow. 1953-1954 : John W. Oliver, M.A., D.Litt., Edinburgh. 1954-1955 : A. Wilson Boyle, C.A., Ayr. 1955-1956 : John E. Barbour, Bristol. 1956-1957 : Alex Macmillan, M.A., Ed.B., Irvine. 1957-1958 : James B. Hardie, F.I.A.C., Glasgow. 1958-1959 : A. Neil Campbell, F.C.C.S., Edinburgh. 1959-1960 : Fred J. Belford, M.A., F.E.I.S., Edinburgh. 1960-1961 : Andrew Stenhouse, M.A., LL.B., Glasgow. 1961-1962 : H. George McKerrow, J.P., Dumfries. 1962-1963 : Anderson Wilson, Worksop, Notts. 1963-1964 : W. J. King Gillies, Edinburgh. 1964-1965 : Samuel W. Love, Glasgow. 1965-1966 : Dr. James S. Montgomerie, M.B., Ch.B., D.T.M.&H., F.S.A.Scot., Sunderland. 1966-1967 : George Vallance, Cumnock. 1967-1968 : Dr. J. I. Taylor, Sheffield.

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' I I ~ _J List ofplaces at which the Annual Conference of the Council has been held.

1885-93 Kilmarnock 1930 Greenock 1894 Glasgow 1931 Hawick 1895 Dundee 1932 Stirling 1896 Kilmarnock 1933 London 1897 Greenock 1934 Glasgow 1898 Mauchline 1935 Ayr and Kilmarnock 1899 Dumfries 1936 Elgin 1900 Kilmarnock 1937 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1901 Glasgow 1938 Dumfries 1902 Greenock 1940-46 Glasgow 1903 Edinburgh 1947 Dunoon 1904 Stirling 1948 Stirling 1905 Hamilton 1949 Mauchline 1906 Kilmarnock 1950 Bristol 1907 Sunderland 1951 Montrose 1908 St. Andrews 1952 Norwich 1909 Dunfermline 1953 Paisley 1910 Lanark 1954 Sheffield 1911 Glasgow 1955 Edinburgh 1912 Carlisle 1956 Cheltenham 1913 Galashiels 1957 Aberdeen 1915-19 Glasgow 1958 Harrogate 1920 London 1959 Ayr 1921 Dunfermline 1960 Glasgow 1922 Birmingham 1961 Dumfries 1923 Ayr 1962 Durham 1924 Dumfries 1963 Stirling 1925 Edinburgh 1964 London 1926 Perth 1965 Hamilton 1927 Derby 1966 Troon 1928 Aberdeen 1967 Sheffield 1929 Troon 1968 Falkirk The Council did not meet in 1914 and in 1939

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CONSTITUTION AND RULES

Name. 1. The Association shall be called "The Burns Federation,' with headquarters at Kilmarnock.

Objects. 2. The objects of the Federation shall be- (a) To encourage Societies and Movements who honour Robert Burns. (b) To strengthen the bond of fellowship among members of Burns Clubs and kindred Societies all over the world. (c) To keep alive the old Scottish Tongue. (d) To encourage and arrange School Children's Compe­ titions in order to stimulate the teaching and study of Scottish history, literature, art and music. (e) To stimulate the development of Scottish literature, art and music. (/) To mark with suitable inscriptions, repair, or renew Memorials of Robert Burns.

Membership. 3. (a) The Federation shall consist of- (1) Federated Clubs and kindred Societies. (2) Associate members. Burns Clubs and kindred Societies may be admitted to the Federa­ Ii tion by the Executive Committee on application in writing to the Hon. Secretary, enclosing a copy of their Constitution and Rules and List of Office-bearers. Such applications shall be considered by the Executive Committee at its next meeting. (b) Burns Clubs and Societies shall be grouped into Districts as shown in the subjoined Schedule but those on the borders of Districts may elect to which District 'they wish to belong. (c) Ladies or gentlemen, whether or not they are members of a federated Club or Society, may become Associate Members of the Federation on application in writing to the Hon. Secretary. They shall not be represented on the Executive Committee, but shall have the right to attend at Conferences of the Council, without voting powers. CONSTITUTION AND RULES 73

(d) Ladies or gentlemen who have rendered conspicuous service to the Burns movement may be elected by the Council to the position of Honorary President or Honorary Vice-President, on the recom­ 1:i mendation of the Executive Committee.

Council. 4. The Council shall consist of the Hon. Presidents, Hon. Vice-Presidents, Executive Committee, Associate Members, and three members elected by each Club and kindred Society.

Conference of the Council. 5. (a) The Annual Conference of the Council shall be held, at such place as may be arranged, on the second Saturday of September, when the Annual Reports shall be submitted and Office-bearers elected for the ensuing year.-Only in exceptional circumstances may this date be varied. (b) Clubs and Societies outwith the United Kingdom may be represented by proxy at the Conference. (c) Nominations for Offices shall be made by the Executive Committee or by Clubs and Societies. The Executive Committee shall have power to make interim appointments.

(d) Nominations of Office~bearers, Intimation of Election of District Representatives and Notices of Motion shall be lodged in writing with the Hon. Secretary not later than the first Saturday in June. (e) The Agenda of the Conference and the Annual Reports shall be issued to the Clubs and Societies by the Hon. Secretary not less than one month before the Conference.

6. (a) The Executive Committee shall consist of- (1) The President, Vice-Presidents, Past Presidents, Hon. Secre­ tary, Hon. Treasurer, Hon. Editor of the Burns Chronicle, Hon. Secretary of School Children's Competitions, and Hon. Assistant Secretary. (2) Representative members elected by Districts as shown in the subjoined Schedule. (3) The offices of Hon, Secretary and Hon. Treasurer may be combined. (b) All office-bearers shall retire annually, but shall be eligible for re-election. -

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(c) District Representative members shall be elected annually by Districts on the basis of one member for the first five Clubs, and one member for every additional ten Clubs in each District; ,' but for Overseas Districts, one Club in each shall qualify for i admission as a District. If a District fails to elect a representative member, the Executive Committee may fill the vacancy.

Meetings of the Executive Committee. 7. (a) The Executive Committee shall conduct the business of the Federation. It shall meet on the third Saturday of October, December, March and June. Only in exceptional circumstances ! 'I may these dates be varied. The place of each meeting shall be fixed at the previous meeting. (b) The Hon. Secretary shall give at least one week's notice of meetings, along with the Agenda. (c) Notices of motion and other business to appear on the Agenda should reach the Hon. Secretary at least a fortnight before the meeting. (d) Special meetings may be held on a written request to the Hon. Secretary signed by not fewer than ten members of the Com­ mittee and stating the business to be considered. (e) Ten shall form a quorum at meetings.

Standing Sub-Committees. 8. (a) Standing Sub-Committees may be appointed by the Executive Committee. They shall be appointed annually and shall I ! ! consist of such members as may be considered necessary. They shall have power to co-opt additional members. (b) The President, Vice-Presidents, Hon. Secretary and Hon. Treasurer shall be ex officiis members of all Standing Sub-Com­ 'i mittees. (c) Five shall form a quorum at meetings. I (d) The Sub-Committee on Finance shall meet prior to all Executive Quarterly Meetings. All other Sub-Committees shall meet as may be arranged.

Subscriptions. 9. (a) Each Oub, or Society, on admission to the Federation, shall pay a registration fee of Three Pounds. (b) The Annual Subscription shall be Three Pounds. (c) Oubs in arrear with their subscriptions shall not be entitled to be represented at the Annual Conference of the Council. CONSTITUTION AND RULES 75

(d) Clubs failing to pay their subscriptions for two consecutive years shall cease to be members of the Federation, but may be re-affiliated, at the discretion of the Executive Committee. (e) The annual subscription for the Associate Members shall be One Pound, which shall include the cost of a copy of the Burns Chronicle. Finance. 10. (a) The Bank Account shall be kept in the name of the Federation and shall be operated by the Hon. Treasurer for the time being, and one member of the Sub-Committee on Finance. Deposit Receipts shall be taken out in the name of the Federation, to be drawn on the endorsement of the President, Vice-Presidents, Hon. Secretary, and Hon. Treasurer, or any two of them. All other securities, investments and properties shall be held in the names of the President, Vice-Presidents, Hon. Secretary and Hon. Treasurer, and their successors in office, as Trustees for the Federation. (b) No accounts shall be paid without the authority of the Sub-Committee on Finance, which shall submit a report to the Quarterly Meetings of the Executive Committee.

Honorary Secretary. 11. The Hon. Secretary shall keep the Minute Book of the Federation, in which shall be recorded the proceedings of all Council, Executive and Sub-Committee Meetings. He shall conduct the correspondence of the Federation, convene all meetings and issue Diplomas of Membership. He shall submit to the Executive Committee the Annual Report on the year's transactions for submission to the Conference of the Council.

Honorary Treasurer. 12. The Hon. Treasurer shall have charge of all monies paid to the Federation, and shall pay all accounts authorised by the Sub-Committee on Finance. He shall prepare a statement of his accounts for the year to 30th April, which shall be audited by duly appointed Auditors, who shall not be members of the Executive. Committee. Publications. 13. (a) The Scottish Literature Committee shall advise the Executive Committee on policy in connection with any publications issued by the Federation. (b) The Burns Chronicle shall be the official publication of the 76 THE BURNS FEDERATION

Federation and shall be published annually, not later than lst January, at such price as the Executive Committee may decide. It shall contain a Directory of the Oubs and Societies on the roll of the Federation, reports of the transactions of the Federation and of affiliated Clubs and Societies during the previous year, and such literary matter and illustrations as may be decided by the Hon. Editor. (c) The Hon. Editor shall be responsible for the publication of the Burns Chronicle, and shall submit annually a report on the latest issue. · (d) Estimates for the printing of all publications shall be approved by the Sub-Committee on Finance.

School Children's Competitions .14. The Hon. Secretary of School Competitions shall give assistance to affiliated Oubs and Societies in the organisation of their competitions, and shall endeavour to co-ordinate the efforts of the various Clubs. He shall submit annually a report on the Competitions organised by the Clubs and by the Federation.

Benefits. 15. (a) Each Club and Society on affiliation, shall be supplied gratis with the Charter of Membership of the Federation. (b) On application to the Hon. Secretary, members of affiliated Oubs shall be entitled to receive a Pocket Diploma on payment

I i of Two Shillings and Six Pence. (c) On application to the Hon. Treasurer, Associate Members and members of affiliated Oubs and Societies shall be entitled to receive a Bums Federation Badge, on payment of Three Shillings and Six Pence. (d) ·Affiliated Clubs and Societies shall be entitled to be supplied gratis with one copy of the Burns Chronicle and one copy of a news­ paper containing reports of meetings, demonstrations, etc., organised, conducted or attended by the Federation. (e) Members of affiliated Clubs and Societies and Associate I Members shall be entitled to be supplied with copies of all works . ' published by the Federation, at such discount as may be fixed by the Executive Committee. 16. No alteration shall be made to the "Constitution and Rules" except at the Conference of the Council, and then only by a two­ thirds majority of those entitled to vote. LIST OF DISTRICTS (See Article No. 6c of "Constitution")

I. Ayrshire. II. Edinburgh. III. Glasgow. IV. Dunbarton, Argyll, and Bute Shires. V. Fife. VI. Lanarkshire. VII. Lothians (Mid and East) and Borders. VIII. Lothian (West). IX. Renfrewshire. X. Stirling, Clackrnannan, and West Perth Shires. XI. East Perthshire, Angus and Kinross. XII. Northern Scottish Counties. XIII. Southern Scottish Counties. XIV. London and South-Eastern England. Essex, Hertford, Middlesex, Berks., Buckingham, Oxford, Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex, Kent. XV. North-Eastern England. Northumberland, Durham. XVI. North-Western England. Cumberland, Westmorland, Lancashire, Cheshire. XVII. Yorkshire. XVlll. North and East Midlands of England. XIX. West Midlands of England. XX. South-Western England. Hereford, Gloucester, Wilts., Somerset, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, Monmouth. XXI. Wales. XXII. Ireland. XXIII. Africa. XXIV. Australia. XXV. New Zealand. XXVI. Canada. XXVII. India. XXVIII. United States of America. XXIX. Europe. 78 LIST OF DISTRICTS

I. Ayrshire-32 Clubs: 3 Members O Kilmarnock 568 Darvel 35 Dairy 592 Benwhat 45 Cumnock 593 Barnmill Jolly Beggars 173 Irvine 632 Symington 179 Dailly Jolly Beggars 664 West Kilbride 192 Ayrshire B.C. Assoc. 671 St. Andrew's Cronies 252 Alloway (Irvine) 274 Troon 681 Cronies, Kilmarnock 275 Ayr 728 Bachelors' Club, Tarbolton 288 Beith Caledonia 772 Prestwick 310 Mauchline 773 Cumnock Cronies 349 "Howff," Kilmarnock 811 Logangate, Cumnock 365 Catrine 815 B.M.K. (Netherton), 370 Dundonald Kilmarnock 377 Kilbirnie Rosebery 821 Ayr Masonic 500 New Cumnock 859 Irvine Eglinton Bums Club 564 Ochiltree Winsome Willie 879 Dreghom Bums Club 892 Ayrshire Metal Products Secretary: Thos. Anderson, 36 Linfem Avenue East, Kilmarnock.

II. Edinburgh-13 Clubs: l Member 22 Edinburgh 340 Balemo Bums Club 124 Ninety 341 Leith 212 Portobello 346 Oakbank Mossgiel 293 New Craig Hall 378 Edinburgh B.C. Assoc. 307 Edinburgh Ayrshire 398 Colinton Association 516 The Airts Bums Club

I r.1· ' I 314 Edinburgh Scottish 825 Clarinda Ladies Secretary: J. Stanley Cavaye, 40 Durham Terrace, Portobello, Edinburgh, 12. 'I : ,

m. Glasgow-16 Oubs: 2 Members 7 Thistle 153 Scottish 9 Royalty 169 Glasgow Burns Club 33 Haggis Association 36 Rosebery 263 Masonic 49 Bridgeton 282 Burns Bowling Association 68 Sandyford 581 Cumbemauld 72 Partick 585 Queen's Park Clarinda 74 National Bums Memorial 612 Torrance Masonic Cottage Homes 778 Glasgow Highland Secretary: Andrew Stenhouse, M.A., LL.B., 82 West Nile Street, Glasgow, C.2. LIST OF DISTRICTS 79

IV. Dunbarton, Argyll and Bute Shires-6 Clubs: 1 Member 2 Alexandria 580 Cumbrae 10 Dumbarton 695 Kilmaronock (Dunbarton- 766 Glencoe and District shire) 831 Lochgoilhead Secretary: Donald Ferguson, Cardean, Gartocharn, by Alexandria

V. Fife-13 Clubs: 1 Member 62 Cupar 667 Thornton and District Tam 85 Dunfermline o' Shanter 283 Sinclairtown 688 Poosie Nansie Ladies, 326 Bingry Jolly Beggars Ladies Kirkcaldy 350 Markinch 768 Auchterderran Jolly 452 Auchterderran Bonnie Jean Beggars 656 Dundonald "Jean Armour" 803 Bowhill People's Club Ladies 832 Lochore "Lea Rig" 884 Fife Burns Association Secretary:

VI. Lanarkshire-22 Clubs: 2 Members 20 Airdrie 520 Uddingston Lochlie Ladies 121 Hamilton Junior Burns Club 547 Coalburn Jolly Beggars 133 Newarthill 549 Bothwell Bonnie Lesley 152 Hamilton Ladies 237 Uddingston Masonic 577 Dalserf and Clydesdale 348 Newton Bonnie Jean 578 Lanarkshire B.C.A. 356 Bumbank Masonic 637 Larkhall Applebank 387 Cambuslang Mary 761 Kirkton Bonnie Jean, Campbell Carluke 388 Kyle (Shotts) Ladies 809 Allanton Jolly Beggars 392 Whiffiet 885 Motherwell and Wishaw 494 Motherwell United Services 886 Dalserf and District 889 A.E.I. Motherwell Secretary: Abe Train, 71 Woodside Cres., Newmains, Lanarkshire

VII. Mid and East Lothian and Borders-10 Clubs: 1 Member 5 Ercildoune 239 Hawick 96 Jedburgh 740 Thorntree Mystic 187 Galashiels Burns Club 784 Kelso 198 Gorebridge 813 Tranent "25" 199 Newbattle and District 839 Coldstream Secretary: 80 LIST OF DISTRICTS

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IX. Renfrewshire-10 Clubs: 1 Member 21 Greenock 209 Greenock St. John's 48 Paisley 430 Gourock 59 Gourock Jolly Beggars 472 Renfrewshire,B.C.A. 176 Renfrew Burns Club 576 Fort Matilda 190 Port-Glasgow. 748 Ouplaymuir Secretary: Robert Miller, F.S.A.(Scot.), 11 Murdieston Street, Greenock.

X. Stirling, Clackmannan and West Perthshire-33 Clubs: 3 Members 4 Callander 725 Ben Cleuch, Tillicoultry 37 Dollar 741 Plean 50 Stirling 769 Robert Bruce 116 Greenloaning (Clackmannan) 126 Falkirk 781 Ochil View 426 Sauchie 795 Longcroft, Bonnybridge and 469 Denny Cross District 503 Dunblane 824 Stirling, Clackmannan and 510 I.C.I., Grangemouth West Perthshire 543 Abbey Craig 827 Zetland Ward Community, 582 Higginsneuk Grangemouth 620 Muirhead 833 Alloa "Crown" 630 Coalsnaughton 849 Jean Armour, Sauchie 646 Clear Winding Devon, Alva 852 Fishcross Jolly Beggars 648 Carron Bridge, Kilsyth 865 Foresters Arms 'I 657 Fallin Burns Club 876. Tullibody Working Men's 665 Gartmorn Ladies Bums Club 679 Tullibody and Cambus 891 Fallin Miners Welfare 690 Pim Hall 895 Westerton Arms Burns Club Secretary: Mrs. W. G. Stewart, 17 Park Terrace, Tullibody, Alloa.

XI. East Perthshire, Angus and Kinross-8 Clubs: 1 Member 14 Dundee 242 Montrose 42 Strathearn 360 Lochee, Dundee 76 Brechin 627 Kinross 82 Arbroath 659 Dundee Burns Society Secretary: R. V. Fairweather, 5 St. Mary's Road, Montrose.

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XIII. Southern Scottish Counties-16 Clubs: 2 Members 112 Dumfries Howff 530 Southern Scottish Counties 217 Eskdale B.C.A. 226 Dumfries 536 Whithom 309 Annan 562 Castle Douglas 323 Kirkcudbright 626 Moffat and District 393 Annan Ladies 660 The Langholrn Ladies 401 Brig-En' (Waverley) 693 Masonic, Kirkcudbright 437 Dumfries Ladies 730 Wigtown 818 Dalbeattie and District Secretary: Mrs. M. Coulson, 10 Queensberry Court, Dumfries.

XIV. London and South-Eastern England-9 Clubs: 1 Member 1 Burns Club of London 663 Bournemouth and District 492 Harrow Cal. Soc. Cal. Soc. 570 Scottish Clans Assoc. of 719 Chelmsford and District London Scottish Society 617 Reading and District Cal. 743 Romford Scottish Assoc. Assoc. 788 Harlow and Dist. Cal. Soc. 791 SwindonandDist. Cal. Soc. Secretary: A. F. Robertson, 30 Dorset Court, 211-213 Kingsway, Hove, Sussex B.N.3.4.F.D.

XV. North-Eastern England-11 Clubs: 1 Member 89 Sunderland 745 Northumberland and 158 Darlington Durham Cal. Soc. 379 Hartlepools Bums Club 759 Sunderland and District 534 Bedlington and District Cal. Soc. 696 Whitley Bay 775 Hartlepools Cal. ~oc: 699 Choppington 796 Gateshead and J?istnct St. 744 Durham and District Andrew's Society Cal. Soc. Secretary: John D. McBain, 33 Humbledon Park, Sunderland. F 82 LIST OF DISTRICTS

XVI. North-Western England-14 Clubs: 1 Member 71 Carlisle 674 Manchester and Salford 95 Bolton Cal. Assoc. 236 Whitehaven 753 Westmorland St. Andrew 363 Barrow St. Andrew's Soc. Society 366 Liverpool 754 Thornton Cleveleys and 417 Burnley and District Dist. Scottish Society 436 Walney Jolly Beggars Ladies 780 Isle of Man Cal. Soc. 572 Chester Cal. Assoc. 834 St. Andrews Soc. 618 Altrincham and Sale Cal. Soc. (Altrincham, Sale & Dist) Secretary: Miss H. J. Brownlie, 452 Queen's Drive, Liverpool, 4.

XVII. Yorkshire-to Dubs: 1 Member 548 Leeds Cal. Soc. 808 Pontefract and Dist. Cal. 551 Scarborough Cal. Soc. Soc. 555 Harrogate St. Andrew's Soc. 812 The St. Andrew's Society of 718 St. Andrew Society of York Bradford 722 Bridlington Cal. Society 836 Hornsea and District 763 Wakefield Cal. Soc. 880 Otley and District Secretary: Stanley Mcintosh, "Moy House," 79 Cross Lane, Scarborough.

XVIII. North and East Midlands of England-23 Clubs: 2 Members 11 Chesterfield Cal. Soc. 746 Grimsby and District Cal. 17 Nottingham Soc. 55 Derby 822 Mansfield Dist. Cal. Soc. 329 Newark and District 854 North-EastMidlandsAssoc. 405 Sheffield Cal. Soc. of Scottish Societies 439 Barnsley Scottish Soc. 861 Cal. Soc. of Lincoln 454 Rotherham 862 Market Rasen and District 461 Leicester Cal. Soc. Scottish Association 556 Doncaster Cal. Soc. 866 Heanor and Dist. Cal. Soc. 563 Norfolk Cal. Soc. 872 East Midlands Scottish Soc. 606 Corby 878 Worksop Burns and Cal. 706 North Lindsey Scots Society Club 720 Retford Cal. Soc. 887 Gainsborough District 742 Scots Society of St. Andrew, 894 Beverley & Dist. Cal. Soc. Norwich Secretary:

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XIX. WEST Midlands of England-11 Clubs: 1 Member 167 Birmingham 707 Malvern Scots Club 296 Walsall 751 Worcester Scots Society 553 Wolverhampton 777 Nuneaton Scottish Society 559 Coventry Cal. Soc. 845 Tam o' Shanter, Coventry 661 Leamington and Warwick 881 Rugeley and District Cal. Cal. Soc. Soc. 683 Stratford upon Avon and District Cal. Soc. Secretary:

XX. South-Western England-7 Clubs: 1 Member 120 Bristol 721 Plymouth Burns Club 446 Herefordshire 758 Bath and District Cal. Soc. 462 Cheltenham Scottish Soc. 774 Gloucester Scottish Soc. 535 Plymouth and District Cal. Soc. Secretary: Mrs. Dora Dodd, 7 The Dell, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol.

XXI. Wales-1 Club: 1 Member 444 Swansea and West Wales

XXII. Ireland-2 Clubs: 1 Member 15 Belfast 183 Londonderry Secretary:

XXIII. Africa-I Oub: 1 Member 873 Ndola Tam o' Shanter

XXIV. Australia-11 Clubs: 1 Member 511 Perth 726 Melbourne 523 Highland Society of N.S.W. 863 Ballarat and Dist. Cal. Soc. 566 Scottish Soc. and Burns Club 869 Port Adelaide Men's Club of Australia 874 Melbourne Masonic 71 I Victorian Scottish Union 882 Canberra Highland Soc. 716 Royal Caledonian Society of 890 Wollongong Burns Society Melbourne

XXV. New Zealand-4 Clubs: 1 Member 69 Dunedin 851 Auckland Burns Assoc. 497 St. Andrew (Wellington) 860 Southland Burns Club 84 LIST OF DISTRICTS XXVI. Canada-14 Clubs: 1 Member 197 Winnipeg 710 The Burns Literary Society 303 Victoria (B.C.) St. Andrew's of Toronto Soc. 841 Robert Burns Association 344 Ladysmith (B.C.) of Montreal 433 Bums Club of Victoria (B.C.) 842 YeBonnyDoon, Hamilton, 476 Border Cities (Ont.) Ontario 501 Galt 877 Montreal Cal. Soc. 561 London (Ontario) 888 Vancouver Bums Club 515 Windsor (Ont.) Jean 893 North Bay B.C., Ontario Armour

XXVII. India-I Club: 1 Member 355 Calcutta

XXVIII. U.S.A.-15 Clubs: 2 Members 220 St. Louis 453 Philadelphia Ladies' 238 Atlanta Auxiliary 271 Trenton 518 Ye Auld Cronies, Ohio 284 Philadelphia 551 Atlanta Ladies 320 Troy 594 Cuyahoga County B.C. 354 Royal Order of Scottish 597 The Bums Society of the Clans City of New York 413 San Francisco St. Andrew's 701 Detroit Soc. 826 North Carolina 870 Massachussetts Secretary: Howard D. Whinnery, 560 Fourth Avenue, North Troy, New York, U.S.A .

XXIX. Europe-1 Club: 1 Member . I , I 727 The St. Andrew Society of Denmark

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LESSER TOWN HALL, FALKIRK. 14th September, 1968.

The Annual Conference of the Burns Federation was held here today at 9.30 a.m. The President, Dr. J. I. Taylor, occupied the chair and was accompanied by Mr. Robert Donaldson, Glasgow, and Mr. D. J. Mclldowie, J.P., Dunblane, and the officials. (Mr. Donaldson had been nominated as Interim President at the June meeting of the Executive Committee as a result of the resignation of Mr. Edgar Young, Cheltenham, owing to illness.) The President first referred to the deaths of Mr. James McDougall, Bonny­ bridge, President-Elect last year, Mr. Charles Carmichael, Derby, and Mr. William Phillips, Troon, and as a mark of respect delegates stood in silence for one minute. The President then greeted delegates officially. Those from overseas, 18 from Australia, four from New Zealand, two from Holland and one from the United States of America, received a standing ovation. Telegrams of good wishes were received from Miss Yvonne Stevenson, British Columbia; Cathie Lewin, Australia; the Canberra Highland Society and the Burns Club; and from Mrs. Bone, on behalf of the Southlands Burns Club, New Zealand.

CLUBS REPRESENTED The number of delegates precedes the name of the club:-3 Kilmarnock Burns Club No. O; 3 The Burns Club of London No. 1; 3 Ercildoune Burns Club No. 5; 1 Chesterfield and District Caledonian Society No. 11; 3 Greenock Burns Club No. 21; 1 Edinburgh Burns Club No. 22; 1 Glasgow Haggis Club No. 33; 1 Dairy (Ayrshire) Burns Club No. 35; 3 Rosebery Burns Club No. 36; 1 Dollar Burns Club No. 37; 3 Aberdeen Burns Club No. 42; 3 Bridge­ ton Burns Club No. 49; 2 Stirling Burns Club No. 50; 1 Sandyford (Glasgow) Burns Club No.·68; 2 Dunedin Burns Club No. 69; 1 Arbroath Burns Club No. 82; 3 Sunderland Burns Club No. 89; 3 Bolton Burns Club No. 95; 3 Dumfries Burns Howff Club No. 112; 3 Greenloaning Burns Club No. 116; 2 The Ninety Burns Club No. 124; 2 Falkirk Burns Club No. 126; 2 Newarthill Burns Club No. 149; 1 Scottish Burns Club No. 153; 3 Darlington Burns Association No. 158; 2 Glasgow and District Burns Association No. 169; 2 Irvine Bums Club No. 173; 2 Ayrshire Association of Burns Clubs No.192; 2EskdaleBurns Club No. 217; 3 Dumfries Burns Club No. 226; 2 TroonBums Club No. 274; 2 Ayr Burns Club No. 275; 1 Walsall Burns Club No. 296; 3 Edinburgh Ayrshire Association No. 307; 1 Scottish Burns Club, Edinburgh, No. 314; 2 The Howff Burns Club No. 349; 3 Catrine Burns Club No. 365; 1 Kilbimie Rosebery Burns Club No. 377; 3 Edinburgh District Bums Clubs Association No. 378; 1 The Hartlepools Burns Club No. 379; 1 Cambuslang Mary Campbell Bums Club No. 387; 2 Annan Ladies' Burns Club No. 393; 1 Colinton Burns Club No. 398; 2 Brig-en (Waverley) Burns Club, Dumfries, No. 401; 1 Caledonian Society of Sheffield No. 405; 3 Dumfries Ladies' Burns r f

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Club No. 437; 2 Rotherham and District Scottish Association No. 454; 2 Denny Cross Bums Club No. 469; 3 Harrow and District Caledonian Society No. 492; 3 Dunblane Burns Club No. 503; 1 I.C.I. Grangemouth Burns Club No. 510; 1 Perth (West Australia) Burns Club No. 511; 3 Uddingston Lochlie Ladies' Burns Club No. 520; 3 Southern Scottish Counties Burns Association No. 530; 1 Plymouth and District Caledonian Society No. 535; 1 Scarborough Caledonian Society No. 551; 1 Coventry and District Caledonian Society No. 559; 3 Scottish Society and Burns Club of Australia No. 566; 2 Lanarkshire Association of Bums Clubs No. 578; 2 The Muirhead Bums Club No. 620; 3 Coalsnaughton Burns Club No. 630; 3 Symington Burns Club No. 632; 3 The Clear Winding Devon Alva Burns Club No. 646; 3 Fallin Gothenberg Burns Club No. 657; 2 Dundee Bums Society No. 659; 2 Langholm Ladies' Bums Club No. 660; 2 Gartmorn Ladies' Burns Club No. 665; 3 Tullibody and Cambus Bums Club No. 679; 3 The Cronies Burns Club, Kilmarnock, No. 681; 2 North Lindsey Scots Society No. 706; 1 The Victorian Scottish Union No. 711; 1 Chelmsford and District Scottish Society No. 719; 1 Retford and District Caledonian Society No. 720; 3 The Plymouth Burns Club No. 721; 3 Durham and District Caledonian Society No. 744; 1 Sunderland and District Caledonian Society No. 759; 1 Ochil View Burns Club No. 781; 3 Longscroft, Bonnybridge and District Burns Club No. 795; 2 Gateshead and District St. Andrew's Society No. 796; 2 Pontefract and District Caledonian Society No. 808; 2 Allanton Jolly Beggars Burns Oub No. 809; 2 Logangate Burns Club No. 811; 2 Mansfield District Caledonian Society No. 822; 2 Stirling, Clackmannan and West Perthshire Association of Federated Clubs No. 824; 3 Zetland Ward Community Association No. 827; 2 Coldstream Burns Club No. 839; 3 North-East Midlands Association of Scottish Societies No. 854; 1 Ballarat and District Caledonian Society No. 863; 2 Heanor and District Caledonian Society No. 866; 1 Port Adelaide Men's Burns Club No. 869; 1 East Midland Scottish Societies No. 872; 2 Melbourne Masonic Club No. 874; 1 Tullibody Working Men's Burns Club No. 876; 1 Canberra Highland Society and Burns Club No. 882; 3 The Wollongong Burns Society No. 890. 195 Representatives, 28 Associate Members, 223 in attendance at meeting.

SECRETARY'S REPORT I I I The Secretary and Treasurer, Mr. T. W. Dalgleish, O.B.E., presented the annual report. The Annual Report which I now bring to you is my ninth and whilst to I : many members this year may have appeared quieter than in the past, your Secretary has had an arduous time preparing for the Pilgrimage which will commence on the 9th of September. The first part will be held in the Howe of the Mearns, the home of the Burnes family. Thereafter we shall proceed to Falkirk for the Annual Conference and finish up with headquarters in Ayr visiting the birthplace of our Bard and also Dumfries where he was laid to rest in July, 1796. During the year quite a number of overseas visitors have taken the oppor­ tunity of contacting me with a view to visiting the homes and haunts of Robert Burns and I have also arranged quite a number of tours for Bums Clubs and school children to visit Alloway and Ayr. In the year that has gone we have lost a number of staunch Burnsians and firstly I would. like to mention the name of James MacDougal! who died shortly after the Conference in Sheffield. Mr. MacDougall would have been installed as President at the Conference in Falkirk. During the period I have attended the Conference the two names which come foremost to my mind are firstly Renwick Vickers who made his swan-song at Harrogate in September, 1958, and James MacDouga!l who gave that brilliant speech at Sheffield in 1967. MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE 87

The passing of Captain Charles Carmichael breaks a link with one of the old regular attenders of the Executive Committee Meetings and it was fitting that he was able to make a trip to Canada, which was the District he represented for a considerable number of years. A canny couthy man who will be long remembered by those who met him. To Mrs. MacDougall and family and Captain Carmichael's family we tender our sincere sympathy. The Pilgrimage to Scotland is now well in hand and all Clubs have now received the itinerary setting out the programme. It is hoped that 16 to 18 will be with us from Australia, three from New Zealand, one from America, one from Canada and two from Holland, together with quite a number of the Burnes and Burns descendants in the British Isles. The hospitality which is being laid on by all the places we visit is a tribute to the Bums Federation and those who will be attending. Since the itinerary went out I have received a letter from the National Burns Memorial and Cottage Homes inviting the members on the Pilgrimage to morning coffee in the new Common Room at the Homes on the morning they are in Mauchline, and I am hoping to arrange a farewell dinner in Ayr on the Wednesday evening. The work at Glenbervie Churchyard and the Cairn at Clochnahill is now well under way and I am sure those with the Pilgrimage will agree it is a further step forward in Burnsiana. A word of thanks must be given to William Coull Anderson from St. Peters­ burg, Florida, who has put in a tremendous amount of work to make this Pilgrimage possible. Mr. Anderson, who is now over 80, is not only a beautiful penman but physically seems indefatigable because the amount of correspond­ ence which has passed between us has been tremendous. In Mr. Charles Easton and Mr. Lawrence Burness in Aberdeen and John Gray in Ayr I have henchmen who have also borne the brunt to make this a memorable occasion.

Membership The membership figures may require to be adjusted later but the position at the moment is as follows: Number of Clubs on the roll of the Federation as at October, 1967 332 Lapsed 3 329 Affiliated During Year 892 Ayrshire Metal Products Burns Oub 893 North Bay Bums Oub 3 894 Beverley & District Caledonian Society 332

Quarterly Meetings During the year the October and December Meetings were held in Glasgow in the premises of the Royal Engineers Memorial Club, 27 India Street. The March and June Meetings were held in Kilmarnock in the Dick Institute. At the March meeting the District Representatives attending were the guests of the Ayrshire Association of Bums Clubs to lunch. At the March Meeting President Taylor and the Secretary intimated that the Librarian in the Dick Institute had kindly provided the facilities which would be available for any Quarterly Meetings which were held in Kilmarnock. These premises would make ideal headquarters for the Burns Federation, as set out in Item 1 of the Constitution and Rules. lf

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Clubs in Arrears Club Name Years in Arrears No. 1 2 3 116 Greenloaning, Dunblane x 120 Bristol x 183 Londonderry x 242 Montrose x 283 Sinclairtown x 303 Victoria, St. Andrews x 320 Troy x 326 Bingry x 340 Balemo .. x 350 Markinch x 353 St. Catherine's, O~tario: : x 354 Royal Clans, Boston x 355 Calcutta .. x 452 Auchterde~;an x 498 Flint, Michigan : : x 518 Ohio Auld Cronies x 520 Uddingston x 549 Bothwell .. x 617 Reading Caledonian x 620 Muirhead x 656 Dundonald x 667 Thornton .. x 670 Pirnhall x 693 Kirkcudbright x 710 Toronto .. x 741 Plean x 769 Robert Br~~' a~~kma~an x 778 Glasgow Highland x 815 B.M.K. Netherton x 816 Peeblesshire x 827 Zetland Ward x 833 Alloa Crown x 835 Lochaber .. x 836 Homsea x 846 United Se~~ices J~hnsto~~ x 851 Auckland x 864 Tasmania x 874 Melbourne x 875 Easthouses x 879 Dreghom x 882 Canberra .. x 883 Pakistan .. x 31 5 6

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Scottish National Dictionary The appeal for donations for the Scottish National Dictionary has now reached the sum of £2,467 18s. 4d. and a summary of the Clubs, Societies and individuals who have contributed up to 30th April, 1968, is as follows: Balance brought forward from last Report £1.840 10 6 Monies sent to the Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, Burns Feder- ation:

Conference Collection 47 10 0 F. J. Belford .. 5 5 0 Conference Committee 7 13 4 Miss N. J. Symons 5 5 0 95 Bolton Burns Club 5 5 0 Ayr Burns Oub 40 0 0 226 Dumfries 5 0 0 252 Alloway Burns Club 3 8 9 632 Symington Burns Club (Final Subscription) 8 0 0 691. Inverness Burns Club 6 0 0 698 Turriff .. 5 5 0 Plymouth 10 0 0 580 Cumbrae Burns Club 2 2 0 Burns Federation 250 0 0 £2.241 4 7

Donations sent direct to Scottish National Dictionary: Auckland Burns Club 9 0 0 Ninety Bums Club, Edinburgh 5 0 0 Edinburgh Ayrshire Association 13 0 0 Edinburgh Ayrshire Association 1 0 0 Sunderland Burns Club 2 2 0 Northumberland and Durham Caledonian Society 3 3 0 Hamilton Burns Oub 10 0 0 Burns Society of the City of New York 42 17 6 Paisley Burns Club 10 0 0 Peterhead Burns Club 36 17 3 Jolly Beggars Burns Club, Kinross .. 5 5 0 Fraserburgh Burns Club 6 6 0 Durham and District Caledonian Society 5 5 0 Abbey Craig Burns Oub 2 0 0 Dumbarton Burns Club 25 0 0 Greenock Burns Club 28 10 0 Caledonian Society of Sheffield 10 0 0 London Burns Club .. 5 5 0 Belfast Burns Association 3 3 0 Aberdeen Burns Club 3 0 0 £2,467 18 4

It should be noted that the Burns Federation has now made a second contri­ bution, of £250, to the Scottish National Dictionary. This was made possible by our windfall of £28,320 1ls. Od. Burnsians will be pleased to learn that the compilation of the Scottish National Dictionary is now up to the letter 'R' which was the last volume received. 90 MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Memorials Committee During the year Memorials have been inspected and the main items are the Tombstones in Glenbervie Churchyard and the Cairn at Clochnahill. The Burns Federation contributed to a further two seats to be put in the Garden opposite the Burns House in Dumfries. Negotiations are pending regarding the restoration of the Burns House in Castle Street, Mauchline, and I have taken up the question of the burial place of Betty Thomson, daughter of Anna Park and Robert Burns, who was buried in Kirk Lane Burial Ground, Glasgow. This latter matter is receiving courteous consideration by the Corporation of Glasgow. The Corporation of Edinburgh are carrying out repairs to the roof and gutters of the Memorial at Calton Hill, Edinburgh. Jean Armour Burns Houses The Glasgow and District Burns Association continue to maintain the ten houses and common room at Mossgiel, Mauchline, in excellent order where Accommodation is provided for those in most need. No more fitting tribute to the memory of Robert Burns and that of his wife Jean Armour is possible. The Association intend to complete the scheme by building a further ten houses and an appeal is made for funds for this to be done. The Association have taken a specification of the work involved in connection with the proposed reconstruction of the Burns House and Dr. McKenzie's House in Castle Street, Mauchline. It is estimated that the cost will be in the region of between £5,000 and £6,000 and we would make a very special appeal to all Clubs to give generously towards this project during the coming year. Donations will be gratefully received and acknowledged by the Honorary Treasurer A. Neil Campbell, F.C.C.S., 141 Craiglea Drive, Edinburgh 10. Burns Chronicle There has been a falling-off in the number of Chronicles taken up by Clubs and at the moment I have still 200 available if any Club should wish to take these up. The Chronicle has been referred to as the bext issue for years but the cost of production was up by £155. The Executive Committee decided at the March meeting that a contribution of £300 should be made from the Literature Fund. Schools Competitions Messrs. Fred J. Belford and W. Phillips, the Conveners of the Schools Competitions, still maintain the large number of children who participate in these Competitions. The reprint of the Scots Reader Books 2 and 3 has been completed and there is a small Sub-Committee at the moment combining ~ ! Books 1, 2 and 3 into a single volume, which it is hoped will be available for the Competitions in January, 1970. Tam O' Shanter Museum The Museum in Ayr is still being enhanced by gifts and Mr. John Gray was in receipt of a shawl worn by Jean Armour on her wedding day. This means that Mr. Gray has the combination of having both the shawl belonging to Mrs. William Burness and also Jean Burns. Mr. Gray is open at all times to receive relics for display in the Museum. , II Burns Check Requests for material and goods with the Burns Check seem to have been ebbing during the past year. I do have requests from time to time from people as to where the Burns Check can be purchased and I normally refer such en­ quiries to the producers. It will be noted that receipts from commission have dwindled on this occasion to £7 14s. 6d.

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Conclusion The work of the Secretary and Treasurer and his Typist is in no way diminish­ ing as the queries from all over the world flow in continuously. I have still a few Commemorative Stamps available for anyone wishing to have an envelope franked on 25th January, 1966. The meetings of the Sub-Committees and the Executive Committee have again been well attended. I wish to record the assistance given by the President, Dr. John Taylor, Mr. Andrew Stenhouse, Assistant Secretary, and all Conveners. The Secretaries of the Clubs continue to keep me posted with changes although during the year some of the distant Clubs have had their correspondence returned, having gone away, address not known. During the period when the Chronicles were sent out to Clubs and individuals quite a number of these did not reach their destination. The one snag today is that it takes four to five weeks for surface mail packages to reach Canada and 8 to 9 weeks to reach Australia and New Zealand. With regard to letter post I have adopted sending the overseas correspondence ,by second-class airmail which has considerably speeded up the delivery of same. . Once again I was indebted for the assistance given by the Sheffield and District Burns Clubs during the Conference held in September, 1967; to Mr. Hector MacNab, Convener of the Conference Committee, Robert Fyfe, Treasurer, Mr. W. A. Allan and Mrs. Mirna Irvine who acted as Joint Conference Secre­ taries and to Mrs. R. Fyfe, Convener of the Ladies' Committee. To all these good folk and members of the Conference Committee I send my grateful thanks for the efficiency with which they carried out all their duties. This year I look forward to the Conference which is to be held in Falkirk, with headquarters at the Leapark Hotel, Grangemouth. Hotel accommodation is being arranged in Falkirk, Grangemouth, Bo'ness and the surrounding district, but buses will be available to take delegates and friends between the hotels and the various places to be visited. In this year of the Pilgrimage we shall have a greater number of overseas visitors and I sincerely trust the home­ landers will mix freely with them and co-operate in making their trip to the Old Country a memorable one. This year we have Mr. D. J. Mclldowie as President of the Conference Committee and Mrs. W. G. Stewart as Conference Secretary. The Conference Committee have their programme well in hand and I am sure all attending will have the usual happy meeting. The Provost of Falkirk is to welcome the delegates on the Friday evening, the Provost of Grange­ mouth on the Saturday evening and the Convener of the Stirling County Council on the Sunday afternoon. Adoption of the report was moved by Mr. Andrew Crawford, Edinburgh, and seconded by Miss N. J. Symons, Liverpool.

BRIDGE REPORTS New Bridge The bridge is structurally sound and in good condition. The main channel of the river is through the southmost arch. Auld Brig The structure is in good condition despite some slight spalling on the south side of pier No. 2. The position is not serious and no remedial work is called for meantime. The main channel of the river has altered somewhat and is split beneath the southmost arch and the next adjoining arch. Auld Brig 0' Doon . Further repairs were carried out during last year and will be continued during the autumn months. There is still a great deal of work to be done on the old structure, particularly the underside of the arch. CHARLES EDDIE, Burgh Surveyor. 92 MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE

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Mr. Dalgleish then submitted the financial report. The balance at lst May, 1967, was £1,287, whereas the balance at 30th April, 1968, was £1,183, making a deficit for the year of £104, compared with a credit balance of£82 in 1967. However, it should be borne in mind that the £300 which was on Defence Bonds has been transferred to the Reserve Account and as a contra £100 was transferred from the Literature and Central Funds for administration. It should be noted that the Annual Subscriptions, Arrears and Associate Members' Subscriptions have decreased during the year by £112 and that the general appeals are down by £14. The Reserve account now stands at £816 16s. Od. It should also be noted that interest is up by £14. On the payments side postages and telephones are up by £6 and Conference Expenses are up by £28. It should be noted that the Chronicle deficit has been wiped out through the transfer of £300 from the Scottish Literature Fund. It will be noted that the cost of printing and despatching the Chronicles is up by £155. Annual Subscriptions At the close of the financial year there were 32 Clubs one year in arrears, 5 Clubs two years in arrears and 6 Clubs three years in arrears. The number of Clubs in Membership with the Bums Federation is 332 which is the same as last year. During the year two Clubs have been affiliated and whilst Associate Membership is still going up the members from Pakistan have not paid their Annual Subscriptions. Burns Chronicle The transfer on this occasion was made by the Literature Fund which left a credit of £2 at the end of the Financial Year. The numbers of Chronicles ordered from the printers were 2,000 copies paper-bound and 250 copies cloth­ bound. It is unfortunate that the numbers of copies sold to Clubs this year have been very much reduced and the Burns Federation are left with approxi­ mately 200 copies on hand. It should be noted that contributors' allowances are up by £18 and that on the Income side advertising is up by £32. Literature Fund The balance at the beginning of the year was £818 as against £897 in 1967 which was a decrease of £80. The anonymous donation amounting to £21,463 was a wonderful windfall. Other items of Income were much the same as the previous year except that the interest on Deposit Account and 5 %Treasury Stock amounted to £1,266 which was allocated as follows: Subsidy to Chronicle Account £300, Administration £50, Reprinting Scots Readers £308, Donation to Scottish National Dictionary £250, and Joseph Laing Waugh Fund £50, which amounted to £958. The payments otherwise were similar to 1967 except that the A. D. Griffen Prize was not awarded. Central Fund The balance at the beginning of the year was £1,675 whereas it was £1,514 in May, 1966. The Central Fund was allocated £10,801 from the anonymous donations and the interest on the 5 % Treasury Stock brought in £730 which was allocated as follows: 5 % Treasury Stock £100, Glenbervie Memorials £100, Renovation of Burns House, Mauchline, £400, Donation to Dumfries House (Seats) £30, Administration Charge £50, making a total of £680. On the pay­ ments side Maintenance of Memorials was down by £29. MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE 93

Joseph Laing Waugh Memorial Fund It should be noted there was no Income Tax refund during the year and this has been taken up with the Auditors. It will be noted, however, that the Burns Federation have sent a cheque for £57 9s. 7d. to the Southern Scottish Counties Burns Association for the purchase of School Prizes. Scottish National Dictionary It will be noted that the donations made by Burns Clubs have gone up by £2 and that the Burns Federation have made a donation of £250 from the Scottish Literature Fund. I would again appeal to all Clubs to assist in the completion of the Scottish National Dictionary. General The Finance and Executive Committees decided in their wisdom to invest the anonymous donation of £28,320 lls. Od. in the Scottish Literature and Central Funds in a proportion of approximately two-thirds to one-third fespectively. This windfall has come at a very opportune time when the three books of Scots Readers are being compiled into one volume and also when the Scottish Literature Committee are compiling a book Burns in Edinburgh from the series which appeared in the Burns Chronicle over a period of years. This book is to be a memorial to the late John McVie, O.B.E., who did so much for Scottish Literature and Burnsiana in general. The intromissions during the year have been an outstanding event and as Treasurer it has been a great joy to me to see the Scottish Literature and Central Funds now well endowed to meet any contingencies which may arise in the future. It will thus be ensured that Scottish Literature will always be to the forefront and that the Central Fund can assist in the maintenance of Memorials and places relative to our Bard for all time coming. The Treasurer's report was also unanimously adopted, the mover being Mr. George McKerrow, J.P., Convener of the Finance Committee, seconded by Mr. Alex. Johnstone, Sydney. ~

) FINANCIAL STATEMENT FOR YEAR ENDED 30th APRIL, 1968 ORDINARY FUND RECEIPTS PAYMENTS 1966/67 1967/68 1966/67 1967/68 To Balance as at lst May, 1967: £258 By Postages, Telephones, Printing, Stationery, etc. £264 £161 Current Account •. £204 2 Bank Charges . . . . 4 752 Deposit Account .. 783 22 Expenses of Meetings . • . . 25 300 5 % Defence Bonds 300 600 Secretary and Treasurer's Allowance 600 220 Conference Expenses (Sheffield) .. 248 £1,213 £1,287 Hotel Expenses for Pakistani Young Folks' .. Annual Subscriptions: Association 36 847 Current 805 17 Audit Fee 21 85 Arrears 72 12 Income Tax .• •• . . 16 13 Advance . . . . 10 4 ,, Wreaths-Legleu Wood and Ayr 6 ,85 Associate Members 58 5 Insuran~President's Chain 5 11 Affiliation Fees .. 12 119 Miscellaneous . . . . 32 14 .. Sale of Pocket Diplomas .. 15 Purchase of J. McVie's Burns Country 1 96 .. Sale of Federation Brooches 49 69 General Appeals Fund-per contra 53 668 .. Conference Receipts .. 248 133 Scottish National Dictionary .. 135 .. General Appeals Funds: 7 .. Past President's Badge .. 8 133 Scottish National Dictionary 135 Repair to President's Chain 3 69 Jean Armour Bums Houses 53 121 Federation Badges . . . . ., Miscellaneous Receipts: 500 Transferred to Reserve Fund 300 5 Donations .. 9 2 Scottish Council of Social Service .. 2 11 Bums Stamps 53 Transferred to Burns Chronicle Account .. 7 Printers Blocks Balance as at 30th April, 1968: 23 Postages, etc...... 16 204 Current Account .. Sales of J. McVie's Burns Country .. 1 783 Deposit Account .. 1,183 22 Received from Advertisers (Burns Chronicle 300 5 % Defence Bonds ...... 1967) ...... 8 Balance on hand for Pakistani Young Folks' Transferred from Burns Chronicle Account 2 Association ...... Administration for Literature and Central 8 Burns Chronicle (Due by Advertisers) Funds ...... 100 30 Transferred from Literature Fund .. ,, Interest: 15 5 % Defence Bonds (to date of encash- ment) ...... 18 26 Deposit Account ...... 37 39 Balance on hand for Pakistani Young Folks' Association ...... Overdrawn on Current Account at 30th April, 1968 7 £3,439 £2,943 I £3,439 £2,943 'BURNS CHRONICLE' ACCOUNT PAYMENTS RECEIPTS 1967/68 1966/67 1967/68 1966/67 £463 £701 By Printing, etc...... £851 £523 To Sales to Affiliated Clubs ...... 27 and Trade ...... 79 19 ,, Publishers' Commission on Adverts . . . . 63 ,, Sales to Individuals ...... • 56 314 ,, Advertising ...... 336 59 ,, Packing and Post 200 ,, Editor's Allowance ...... 200 38 ,, Back Numbers ...... 8 Telephones, etc. . . 18 7 ,, Donations ...... - 6 ,, Editor's Outlays-Postages, ...... 1 13 ,, Contributors' Allowances ...... • 32 5 ,, Sold for Irvine Burns Club . . . . 1 from Literature Fund ...... 300 5 ,, Back Numbers-Irvine Burns Club - ,, Transferred Fund ...... 2 53 ,, Transferred from Ordinary Fund ...... - - ,, Transferred to Ordinary -~ - -- -~ £1,187 £1,003 £1,187 £1,003 -= ...... ~ SCOTIISH LITERATURE FUND PAYMENTS RECEIPTS 1967/68 1966/67 1967/68 1966/67 By Honoraria: To Balance as at lst May: £20 Savings Account ...... £179 £20 Mrs. McVie ...... £258 Competitions . . . . 100 639 £734 5 %Treasury Stock ...... 639 100 Secretaries of Schools -- £818 31 ,, Expenses of Competitions ...... • 12 Anonymous Donation-Share to this fund .. 15,680 3 ,, Junior Chronicle Prizes ...... 9 2nd Anonymous Donation...... 2,783 ,, Printing: 182 Certificates ...... 104 14 ,, Commission on Burns Check ...... 4 16 26 ,, Sales of Declaration of Arbroath ...... 13 - Circulars ...... 12 - Papers ...... 90 10 ,, Half Affiliation Fees ...... 308 on Sale of: - Scots Readers ...... ,, Royalties ...... • 2 148 Scots Reader ...... 146 - ,, Bank Charges Song Book ...... 29 - ,, Illustrations ...... 4 24 Burns Federation . . . . 300 Interest: ,, Transferred to Chronicle Account 193 ,, Administration of Account . . . . . • 50 Deposit Receipt ...... 250 Account ...... 16 ,, Donation to Scottish National Dictionary 8 Deposit ...... - 37 Treasury Stock ...... 1,057 10 ,, A. D. Griffen Prize Transferred to Central Fund . . 944 Transferred to Joseph Laing Waugh Fund . . 50 ,, Balance as at 30th April, 1968: 179 Deposit Account . . . . , . . . 365 639 £22,300 5 % Treasury Stock (at cost) .. 18,127 --18,492 £20,751 £1,164 £20,751 I £1,164 CENTRAL FUND 1966/67 RECEIPTS 1967/68 J 1966/67 PAYMENTS 1967-68 To Balance as at lst May, 1967: By Donations to Glenbervie Memorials £100 £199 Savings Account ...... £260 1,315 ,, Contributions towards maintenance of: £1,663 5 % Treasury Stock (at cost) .. 1,415 £13 Cairn, Ayr.. .. 2 --£1,675 3 ,, Mary Campbell Monument 89 Anonymous Donation-Share to this Fund 9,857 15 ,, Legleu Wood .. ,, Transferred from Literature Fund . . . . 944 Donation towards renovation of Bums's 14 ,, Commission on Bums Check • . . . 4 ,, Interest : House, Mauchline ...... 400 Donation towards seats at Dumfries House 6 Deposit Account 30 83 6 ,, Administration Charge . . . . 50 Treasury Stock 730 ,, Balance as at 30th April, 1968: 260 Deposit Account ...... £230 1,415 £15,200 5 % Treasury Stock (at cost) .. 12,404 --12,634 £1,706 £13,216 I £1,706 £13,216 JOSEPH LAING WAUGH MEMORIAL FUND 1966/67 RECEIPTS To Balance as at lst May, 1967: 1967/68 I 1966/67 PAYMENTS 1967/68 £6 £12 By School Children's Competition Prizes £57 Deposit Account . . . . £6 207 £300 4 % Consolidated Stock 6 ,, Balance as at 30th April, 1968: 207 Deposit Account . . . . 6 5 ,, Income Tax Refund .. £213 207 £300 4 % Consolidated Stock 207 Transferred from Literature Fund Interest: 50 7 4 % Consolidated Stock .. 7 £225 £270 £225 £270 RESERVE FUND 1966/67 RECEIPTS To Balance as at lst May, 1967: 1967/68 I 1966/67 PAYMENTS 1967/68 Deposit Account ; . . . By Balance as at 30th April, 1968: .• £500 £500 Deposit Account .. ,, Interest on Deposit Account 17 • . £817 £500 ,, Transferred from Ordinary Fund 300 £500 £817 £500 ~ ===- £817 H. GEORGE McKERROW, Convener of Finance Committee. THOS. W. DALGLEISH, Honorary Treasurer. KILMARNOCK, 29th May, 1968.-We have examined the Books and Accounts of The Bums Federation for the year ended 30th April, 1968, and have obtained all the information and explanations required. We certify that the foregoing Financial Statement is in accordance with the Books, and'we have verified that the Funds and Securities at 30th April, 1968, as shown in the Statement, are correct. L HENRY BROWN & CO.• Chartered Accounranl"s. MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE 97

'THE BURNS CHRONICLE'

Mr. James Veitch, Editor of the Burns Chronicle, submitted the following report.

The junior section of the Burns Chronicle was introduced in 1965 and, since then, has continued to appear each year. In the 1968 Burns Chronicle, it will be noted that the results of the 1967 painting competitions showed an encouraging increase in entries. This year, more paintings than ever have been received for the competitions, whilst the essay competition on 'Ma Schule Holidays' for the A. D. Griffen Award has attracted a large number of young essayists from many parts of Scotland. For the most part, this is due to headmasters and individual school teachers bringing these competitions to the notice of their pupils. In short, the Junior Burns Chronicle itself is not reaching the juvenile public for whom it is intended. Ifit is to continue it is to be hoped that members of Burns Clubs will try to interest children in the fact that there is such a supplement in the Burns Chronicle. Meanwhile, the Editor wishes to thank all headmasters, teachers and pupils who have done so much to make the 1968 competitions a notable success. JAMES VEITCH, Editor.

Clubs which purchased 20 or more copies: Copies 597 City of New York .. 200 226 Dumfries 85 405 Sheffield 52 476 Border Cities, Ontario 50 276 Ayr .. 48 48 Paisley 37 173 Irvine 36 220 St. Louis 31 0 Kilmarnock 30 35 Dairy 30 469 Denny Cross 25 307 Edinburgh Ayrshire 24 748 Ouplaymuir 24 95 Bolton 21 10 Dumbarton .. 20 112 Burns House, Dumfries 20 238 Atlanta 20 349 Howff Kilmarnock 20 370 Dundonald 20 701 Detroit 20

Mr. Veitch intimated that the A. D. Griffen Award of £10 had been won by ~enry Hepburn, Form IV, Mackie A<:itde~y, Stoneha~en! for the ~e~t Essay m Scots on the subject 'Ma Schule Holidays . In the pamtmg competit1ons, the first prize winner in th~ senior section was Alan B. Herriot (16), Greenhall High School, Gorebridge, whilst the firs~ prize in th~ junior sectio? went to _James Sterrick (11), 4 Lamb Street, Harrulton, a pupil at St. Mary s R.C. Primary, Hamilton. In moving the adoption of the report, Mr. John Melville, Rosebery, Glasgow, said he thought children would gradually get to know the Junior Burns Chronicle. Mr. Henry Robb, Stirling, seconded. G r r

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SCHOOLS COMPETITTON REPORT The report by Mr. Fred J. Belford and Mr. W. Phillips, Joint Conveners of the Schools Competitions, was already in print when Mr. Phillips died suddenly at his home in Troon on 12th July, 1968. Mr. Belford submitted the report. This year again the Report on the Schools Competitions is most satisfactory. In fact, the Returns are the highest for any year since 1945 when the figures from the schools were first published in the Burns Chronicle. In that year the number of pupils competing was 60,654. This year the total has reached 151,626, :I a substantial increase over the period. As the schools take more and more interest in Scottish Literature and Music the Burns Clubs who formerly held competitions in public have shown a tendency to fall away somewhat in this respect in spite of a slight rise this year. This is regrettable in view of the fact that the parents and others are deprived of a ! most excellent opportunity of seeing and hearing the children perform in verse and song. These public performances are well worth while and the quality of the efforts of the young folk is quite revealing. It is, however, worthy of report that some of the Districts are now holding public verse and song competitions in which a considerable number of schools are involved. Valuable book tokens and trophies are presented and these public performances are very favourably reported by the Press. The Ayrshire District of Bums Clubs held a well-attended adult competition which it is hoped will be repeated next year. The printers of the Schedules and Examination Papers are to be congratulated on the prompt manner in which these documents were despatched to the Direc­ tors of Education throughout Scotland last January. This year it is gratifying to note that not one complaint has been received regarding the despatch of Examination Papers and Certificates to schools. This is due mainly to three factors-the improved layout of the schedule, clarifying the procedure for the headmasters and the printer; the very much appreciated response to the appeal for timeous return of the schedules; the uniformity of the size of the Certificates. We are now passing through a transition period regarding the use of the Scots Readers which are the sources of the prescribed extracts, apart from those of Bums, in the Competition. It is the intention of the Federation to compress the present three Books into one by withdrawing many items but at the same time adding several more modern poems and prose extracts. The new Books will not be available for some time yet, but intimation of the impending change has been included in the schedule for the 1969 Competition to ensure the maxi­ mum period of notice to the schools. I ' Again-and repetition of this acknowledgement does not lessen its sincerity­ we thank all those who contribute to the undoubted success of the Competition, especially the headmasters and their staffs who support us by using our material and the Directors of Education and their staffs who act as the indispensable link between us and the schools. The co-operation of all these people helps to ensure that the study of the Scottish Language, Literature and Music is by no means being neglected.

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Literature Music 1966 1967 1968 1966 1967 1968 Schools .. .. 636 642 615 296 295 318 Competitors .. .. 114,008 110,424 114,228 34,180 34,011 37,398 Certificates .. .. 4,237 4,280 5,008 1,684 1,520 1,932

Burns Clubs 1966 1967 1968 Oubs ...... 31 26 21 Schools • • ...... 98 57 94 Competitors ...... 10,124 4,243 8,906 Book Prizes and Tokens .. .. 601 215 454 Shields, Cups, etc...... 27 7 13 Certificates ...... 754 181 370 Grand total of Competitors 1966 -158,354 1967-148,678 1968-159,532 FRED J. BELFORD, Convener. Mr. Belford said he was deeply grieved by the loss of his assistant, Mr. Bill Phillips of Troon, and he offered his condolences to Mrs. Phillips. Mr. Belford then went on to point out the importance of schools or clubs taking part in competitions to give him full details, especially of the numbers taking part. Before finishing his report Mr. Belford brought some of the 1968 statistics given in the Annual Report up to date. The changes were:-In 1968, instead of the 4,988 certificates reported, 5,008 certificates were gained. In the music section, 1,932 certificates were gained-not 1,912 as given in the Annual Report; and in the Bums Clubs section the new figures should read­ Clubs, 21; Schools, 94; Competitors, 7,755; Book Prizes and Tokens, 430; Shields, Cups, etc., 13; Certificates, 360. And the grand total of competitors for 1968 should be 159,381. The Report was unanimously adopted.

SCOTTISH LITERATURE REPORT Mr. Alex. MacMillan, Convener of the Scottish Literature Committee, sub­ mitted the following report: This year we have occupied ourselves with the Burns Chronicle, John McVie's Memorial Book, and the re-casting of the Scots Readers into one volume. The Chronicle, no longer in fear of closing down through lack of capital, celebrated by offering the best reading for years. It is unfortunate that so few Burnsians read it, or at least pass it on to their children. (The Editor would say that it is unfortunate that so few Burnsians BUY it.) There appears to be only one answer; we must advertise it more widely, so that interest in a valuable Year-book could be extended. 100 MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE interested John McVie showed us over the years how keenly he was The late fitting that the Editor in the 'Bums in Edinburgh' scenes and characters. It is Hay :Should spend so much time and care or the Chronicle and Mr. McCallum name. which, when complete, should be worthy of John McVie's on a project, the full text of John The book will contain pictures of Old Edinburgh, as well as It should be ready for publication by the end of this year. McVie's work. Scots Readers-it The new volume which will take the place of the three name-will contain poems and other Scots matter which have may require a new in the Bums Com­ not appeared before. Poems which have not been popular ·, petitions have been excluded. ,, the North-East and the West have received due The Scots-speaking areas of still the volume should have its attractions for those adults who attention, and ready for publication have a liking for the Scottish tongue. The book should be The interesting question of whether such a book should have by next summer. has been in close illustrations or not has yet to be discussed. Your Convener the Conveners of the Schools Competitions on this work. consultation with and help .•. so We are indebted to Charles Easton and others for their advice that we all ' .•. for puir auld Scotland's sake Some usefu' plan or book could make.' ALEX. MacMILLAN, Convener.

of the Scots Reader, Mr. MacMillan said they had sifted out On the subject 25 modern poems in poems never used in competitions and they had introduced the Scots tongue. then went on to talk about McLellan, the Scottish dramatist. Mr. MacMillan outstanding. Yet not 'His latest work, Jamie the Saxt,' said Mr. MacMillan, 'is of the British Isles has taken the risk of publishing one publisher in the whole asked greeted Mr. MacMillan's announcement that 'I have it.' Applause the final item in our McLellan's permission to take one scene from the play as Scots Reader'. of the report was moved by Mr. John Gray, Ayrshire Association Adoption Midlands. of Burns Clubs, and seconded by Mrs. M. Irvine, North-East

MEMORIALS COMMITTEE REPORT unable King Gillies, Convener of the Memorials Committee, was Mr. W. J. Mr. George Vallance, to be present to submit his report and his place was taken by of the Memorials Committee. Lugar, a Past-President and member of the the past session a number of items occupied the attention During After appeals over Committee but there were two of particular importance. the state of the Mausoleum on the Calton Hill by our Edin­ some years about and Mr. Andrew burgh Association and an approach this year by the Federation President, Edinburgh Corporation has spent some Crawford, the Edinburgh guttering on the £500 on repairs and renovations to the stonework and new expected that the same work will be done on the east side west side and it is for the Edinburgh of the building during this session. This building is now used Association meetings. and District Burns Clubs' in Glenbervie The other matter has been the renovation of the gravestones for which there was donated £100. A Churchyard and a cairn at Qochnahill and was granted for two seats at the Burns House, Dumfries, donation of £30 Bums Association one of £400 was authorised to the Glasgow and District of Bums House in Castle Street, Mauchline. towards the restoration it is most con­ The Committee continue to keep its eyes and ears open for importance of the preservation of all memorials and especially scious of the is where members of having plaques raised where buildings are removed. This MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE 101 and clubs are expected to take local action and report to this Committee. The Committee is now in a strong financial position and therefore much more able to assist locally raised expenditure. ' W. J. KING-GILLIES, Convener. In submitting the report, Mr. Vallance said an appeal had been launched to help the restoration of the Bums House in Castle Street, Mauchline. Work on the project had already started. 'This is a fitting and important memorial,' said Mr. Vallance, 'and we feel that if we can raise £10,000 as a target figure, we will be able to endow it and keep it in order.' Mr. Robert McLaren, Edinburgh and District, moved the adoption of the report and this was seconded by Provost Ernest Robertson, Dumfries, repre­ senting Southern Scottish Counties.

HONORARY PRESIDENTS Mr. Thomas W. Dalgleish, O.B.E., Kilmarnock, Hon. Secretary and Treasurer of the Bums Federation, and Mr. J. Norval Murray, M.A., LL.B., Irvine, were each made an Honorary President of the Bums Federation. As Mr. Murray was unable to be present, his honorary presidents badge was received by Mr. Sam Gaw, a past president of Irvine Burns Club.

SCENE OVER NOMINATION OF INTERIM PRESIDENT When the retiring President proposed the adoption of Mr. Robert Donaldson, Glasgow, as President, Mr. George Mann, Longcroft, Bonnybridge and District, rose to protest. He said that the Executive Committee had set about choosing a successor themselves, although two years ago it had been generally understood that such matters would go to an open vote. Mr. Mann then said that recently nations had been over-run by dictators and that this was another example of dictatorship. There were cries of 'Nonsense!' throughout the hall and uproar followed. Mr. S. W. Love, Glasgow, an Honorary President and Past President of the Bums Federation, was at last enabled to point out that it had been out of order to allow Mr. Mann to speak before Mr. Donaldson's nomination had been seconded. Dr. J. S. Montgomerie, Sunderland, another Past President, then seconded the nomination. Mr. Mann claimed, however, that the presidential nomination was out of order because it had not been made until a week after the deadline date for receiving nominations. Mr. T. W. Dalgleish, Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, explained there was nothing in the Constitution to say what should happen after such an unusual occurrence as that of losing the services of both vice-presidents. It was true nominations should have been in his hands two weeks before the June meeting, but Mr. Young had not resigned until a week after this and the Executive Committee had taken it upon themselves to nominate Mr. Donaldson. Reading from the Constitution and Rules in the Burns Chronicle, Mrs. M. Irvine, North-East Midlands, pointed out that it stated quite clearly that the Executive Committee had powers to make interim appointments. A majority vote had been given, earlier, in fact, in support of Mr. Donaldson. NEW PRESIDENT INSTALLED Dr. Taylor formally announced Mr. Robert Donaldson as the new President. Having been invested with the chain of office, Mr. Donaldson said that it had been rather embarrassing and that he had felt like asking permission to leave the hall. 'However,' he continued, 'by the acclamation you have given me, I r' ·.·-r

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am convinced, in spite of what has been said, that I will have your wholehearted support.' Mr. Donaldson then went on to say that he would do his best to do his duties as President and to further the Federation's interests to the best of his ability. · The new President pinned a past president's badge on Dr. Taylor's lapel and congratulated him on his year of office.

ELECTION OF VICE-PRESIDENTS There were three nominations' on the agenda for the offices of Senior and Junior Vice-Presidents. The name of one of them, Mr. M. McLauchlan, Pontefract, was withdrawn. As the result of a private ballot vote, Mr. Daniel J. Mclldowie, President of Stirling, Clackmannan and West Perthshire District, M.A., Edinburgh. Mr. Mclldowie was therefore 'I defeated Mrs. Jane Burgoyne, elected Senior Vice-President and Mrs. Burgoyne Junior Vice-President. It was agreed not to release the ballot figures.

OTHER OFFICE-BEARERS Re-elected unanimously:-Hon. Secretary and Treasurer Mr. T. W. Dalgleish, Kilmarnock; Hon. Assistant Secretary, Mr. Andrew Stenhouse, Glasgow; Hon. Editor of the Burns Chronicle, Mr. James Veitch, Tweedsmuir; Schools Competition Convener, Mr. Fred. J. Belford, Edinburgh; and Messrs. Henry Brown & Co., Kilmarnock, Auditors.

VENUE OF NEXT CONFERENCE Miss N. J. Symons, Liverpool, extended a warm welcome from her Club and invited the Federation to make Southport the venue for the 1969 conference, an invitation that was readily accepted.

OTHER BUSINESS Mr. Alex. Johnstone, an Honorary President, as a delegate from Sydney, Australia, asked the Executive Committee to consider sponsoring trips of senior executive Scottish members to overseas countries. 'There is no shortage of funds now,' he said, 'and I have been asked by overseas colleagues to bring the matter to Conference. It would be a tremendous fillip to all our many branches abroad to have visits from Scottish-domiciled senior executive com­ mittee members.' It was agreed to give serious consideration to Mr. Johnstone's point. The Conference then ended with a joint vote of thanks to the chairmen, Dr. Taylor and Mr. Donaldson.

SOCIAL FUNCTIONS On Friday evening a civic reception was given by the Provost, Magistrates and Councillors of the Burgh of Falkirk. This was held in the Town Hall and took the form of a dinner dance. Provost William McCrae presided and ex­ tended a warm welcome to the Bums Federation, this being acknowledged by Dr. Taylor. Following the business meeting on Saturday, the conference luncheon was held in Falkirk Town Hall, this function being presided over by Mr. Robert

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Donaldson, the newly-elected President. The toast of 'The Burns Federation' was proposed by Mr. Alexander D. M. Findlay and was responded to by the President. 'The Burgh of Falkirk' was given by Mr. D. J. Mclldowie, Dunblane, senior Vice-President of the Federation and Chairman of the Stirling, Clack­ mannan and West Perthshire Association Conference Committee, and was replied to by Bailie James Welsh. On this occasion a number of visitors from overseas were given an opportunity to say a few words to the company, those taking advantage of this being Mrs. Jean London, Mr. John W. Begg and Mr. Alexander Johnstone, Australia; Mr. W. C. Anderson, Florida; and Mr. William J. Oliver, New Zealand. In the course of this function a collection was uplifted for the fund being raised for the restoration of the Bums House and Dr. McKenzie s House in Castle Street, Mauchline, and the sum realised was £45. Earlier in the day a telegram had been sent to Her Majesty the Queen at Balmoral and a reply sent by her private secretary was in the following terms:­ 'Please convey to the members of the Burns Federation, assembled at their annual conference, the sincere thanks of the Queen for their kind and loyal message of greetings, which Her Majesty greatly appreciates.' At the B.P. premises, Grangemouth, delegates and friends were accorded a civic reception by the Provost, Magistrates and Town Councillors. After dinner the toast of 'The Bums Federation' was submitted by Bailie Daniel Chisholm and replied to by Mr. Donaldson. Mr. Mclldowie proposed a toast to Grange­ mouth Town Council, and this was acknowledged by Provost George Hearns, who presided. Thereafter a delightfully varied Scottish concert was given by a talented group of young folk styled 'The Clachan Caileigh' from Clackmannanshire. Compered by Mr. J. Miller, who contributed an excellent rendering of 'Holy Willie's Prayer', the programme included orchestral and choral numbers, the latter conducted by Mr. Duncan Monteith, vocal solos, accordion selections and dancing displays. On Sunday morning delegates and friends attended divine service in the Old Parish Church, Falkirk, and in the afternoon enjoyed a coach tour to the Trossachs. They returned to the Albert Hall, Stirling, as the guests of the County Convener and Councillors of the County of Stirling and were entertained to high tea. Mr. A. K. Davidson, County Convener, extended a cordial welcome to the company. Thanks was expressed by Mr. Donaldson, and the Federation Secretary and Treasurer, Mr. T. W. Dalgleish, extended thanks to the Conference Committee, Mr. D. J. Mclldowie, chairman; Mr. John Nicol, treasurer; and Mrs. W. G. Stewart, secretary; with Mrs. Mclldowie as convener of the Ladies' Committee. Bouquets of flowers were handed over by Mrs. London to Mrs. Donaldson, Mrs. Mclldowie, Mrs. McDougall and Mrs. Stewart and the last-mentioned received a further gift in recognition of her work as Conference Secretary. Bottles of wine brought from Australia were presented to Mr. Davidson, Mr. Donaldson, Mr. Mclldowie and Mrs. Stewart. For his services to the Federation Mr. Dalgleish was thanked by Mr. Donaldson, who also expressed appreciation of the services of the immediate past president, Dr. Taylor, during his year of office. During the afternoon tickets were sold for a prize draw in aid of the fund in connection with the houses at Mauchline and this brought in the sum of approximately £26. BURNS CLUB NOTES

0: KILMARNOCK BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 23rd January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. Alastair M. Dunnett. Other events: The St. Andrew's Night Dinner. A. REID HAMILTON, Secretary. 2: ALEXANDRIA BURNS CLUB 'I Anniversary Dinner Report: On 27th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Robert H. M. Kennedy. Other events: St. Andrew's Night function. JOHN BARTON, Secretary. 5: ERCILDOUNE BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: The 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. Alexander from Galashiels. Other events: In March friends from Coldstream and Hawick paid an evening visit. Annual bus run on 23rd June, 1968, was to Ayr. ALEX. V. SMAIL, Secretary. 7: THISTLE BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by David B. Dunsmuir. Collections for benevolences, £45. Other events: Prizes were awarded to pupils of Adelphi Terrace School for Burns Competition. WILUAM JAMIESON, Secretary. 9: ROYALTY BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 18th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. William Morrison. Other events: St. Andrew's Night Dinner. Bus outing to Prestwick and Clyde cruise. Prizes were awarded to pupils of Williamwood Junior High School. Collections for benevolences amounted to £225. CHARLES R. BLUES, Secretary. I l BURNS CLUB NOTES 105

10: DUMBARTON BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 26th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. Hans Volpich, President of the Club. Annual appeal for charities: £6614s. Od. disbursed as follows:­ Jean Armour Burns Houses, £42 14s. Od., National Bums Memorial and Cottage Homes, £12, and Erskine Hospital Bums Supper Fund, £12. Other events: St. Andrew's Night Dinner. Prizes to the value of £23 18s. 6d. were presented for singing and verse speaking (Bums's works) to winners of competitions organised in five local schools. JOHN MCKEAN, Secretary. 14: DUNDEE BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 27th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by John Tosh. Other events: The Festival of St. Andrew was celebrated on 25th November, 1968. Social evenings and discussions were held throughout the year. JOHN MAIN, Secretary. 15 : BELFAST BURNS ASSOCIATION Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by the Rev. J. Murray Moore of Ballygrainey, Co. Down. Other events: Annual dinner dance, annual outing, annual whist drive and annual general meeting last Thursday in March. (Miss) MAY WHITE, Secretary. 20: AIRDRIE BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 26th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. J. McWilliam. Other events: St. Andrew's Night function. THOMAS J. DUNLOP, Secretary. 21 : GREENOCK BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, Mr. Maurice Lindsay was made an Honorary President of the Club and proposed the 'Immortal Memory'. Other events: St. Andrew's Night celebration. 106 BURNS CLUB NOTES

The following donations have been made:- Jean Armour Bums Homes . . . . £40 0 0 Scottish National Dictionary • . £28 10 0 Renfrewshire Association of Burns Clubs Essay Competition £5 5 0 Renfrewshire Association of Burns Clubs Annual Subscription £1 0 0 Mr. William Kirk, who had been Honorary Secretary for the past nine years, resigned from office in April, 1968. R. SMITH MACFARLAN,

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22: EDINBURGH BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by William McL. Dewar, Esq., O.B.E., M.A., F.R.S.E., Headmaster of George Heriot's School, Edinburgh. (Mrs.) A.MELIA Mum, Secretary.

33: GLASGOW HAGGIS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 20th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Charlie Douglas, one of our own Ex-Presidents. The appeal on behalf of the Jean Armour Burns Houses raised the excellent total of £125. Other events: Our monthly meetings, at which talks were given on varied subjects, were well attended. J. LAWRENCE GRANT, Secretary.

35: DALRY BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 26th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. William C. M. Dunn, Chairman of the Club. Other events: The Annual Schools Competition was held as usual this year when prizes donated by the Club were distributed to the winners. A new trophy was presented by Mr. Alex. Reid, past Chairman of the Club, and was awarded for the best performance by a senior pupil. JAMES G. RENNIE, Hon. Secretary. BURNS CLUB NOTES 107

37: DOLLAR BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 26th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Alex. C. Cook, Coals­ naughton. Past President Secretary, Alex. B. Mciver, presented the retiring Secretary, Peter Mitchell, with a bound facsimile of the Minutes of the Dollar Bums Club in recognition of his thirty years' service to the Club as Secretary. Mr. Mciver also mentioned that Mr. Mitchell's father was Secretary prior to him, and in all had given forty years to the Dollar Club. Other events: Presidents over the past four years have been as follows: 1965, Dr. R. Rankin; 1966, Alex. B. Mciver; 1967, Wm. Hunter; 1968, W.R. Forde. ALEX. B. MclVER, Secretary.

40: ABERDEEN BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by H. B. Sturgeon, Esq., City Assessor, Aberdeen. Other events: Summer outing to the Four Glens in Angus and Kincardine in June. The Club members paid an evening visit in August to the Burnes Mausoleum in Glenbervie Churchyard, thence to the Cairn overlooking the farm at Clochnahill in Kincardine, later to be unveiled during the pilgrimage. J. C. ANDERSON, Secretary.

42: STRATHEARN BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 27th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. George Tait, Perth. Other events: A jumble sale was held in October. GEORGINA B. LOWE, Secretary.

44: HEREFORDSHIRE BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 20th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by The Dean of Hereford, The Very Rev. R. P. Price. NORMAN MACLEAN, Secretary. 108 BURNS CLUB NOTES

48: PAISLEY BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by the President, Mr. Alexander Cochran. Other events: Annual summer outing took place on 13th June, 1968, to Haddington. We visited Bolton Churchyard where the !! mother, brother and sister of the Poet are buried. t' DANIEL URE, Secretary.

49: BRIDGETON BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Dr. Marcus Pyke. Other events: Children's Competition in Dalmamock School. We had record entries of 432 pupils. Collection uplifted at our functions to meet and defray the School Competition expenses amounted to £498. We donated £25 towards the Jean Armour Houses at Mauchline. ROBERT DONALDSON, Secretary. 50: STIRLING BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by the Rt. Hon. Lord Birsay. HENRY ROBB, Secretary. 55: DERBY SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION AND BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Hunter Diack, M.A., of the University of Nottingham Institute of Education. Other events: During the year the Club celebrated the 75th anniversary of its affiliation to the Burns Federation and arranged a grand dance to mark the occasion. JOHN D. CLARKE, Secretary. 59: GOUROCK JOLLY BEGGARS BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 26th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. John S. Thomson, Greenock. A collection taken on behalf of Jean Armour Btirns Houses amounted to £12. Other events: Twelve book prizes gifted to Gourock Primary School, for Bums Competition, when over 60 pupils took part. BURNS CLUB NOTES 109

A Burns Plaque placed in Burns Room, New Gamble Halls, was a joint effort of the two local clubs. ROBERT SMITH, Secretary. 69: DUNEDIN BURNS CLUB (INC.) Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. W. J. Oliver, an Honorary President of the Burns Federation. Prior to the Dinner, the members of the Club attended at the Burns Statue in the Octagon where a wreath was laid by the Mayor, Mr. R. J. Calvert. Thanks to the generosity of our late Patron, Mr. Alex. McMillan, who donated the whole of the cost, the appearance of the Burns Statue has been greatly enhanced by the construction of a beautiful rostrum which is known as 'The McMillan Terrace'. Other events: The annual Bums' Anniversary Concert was held on 29th January, 1968. Concerts with a Scottish and Burns flavour have been held every month. During the winter months subsidiary meetings are also held when talks are given and slides or films shown. Fraternal visits are made between the Southland Bums Club, Invercargill, and our Club, each visiting the other once during the year. J. D. McDONALD, Secretary.

74: THE NATIONAL BURNS MEMORIAL AND COTTAGE HOMES, MAUCHLINE During the past year improvements have continued to be made at The Homes. Just before Christmas a new Common Room and Pavilion was opened at the Cottages by the Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire, and this has proved a great success with the Cottagers. The Society is also co-operating with the Glasgow and District Burns Association and with the Bums Federation in the restoration of the Burns House in Castle Street. The Society wish to thank Clubs and other supporters through­ out the world for their continued support. Donations to continue the work of The Homes will be gratefully received. JOHN FINDLAY, Secretary. 82: ARBROATH BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 26th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by the Club's retiring President, Mr. Thomas H. Mann. JAMES EWART, Secretary. r~-- . r . r .

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85: DUNFERMLINE UNITED BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 24th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Miss Mary Aytoun, M.B.E. This is the first time a lady has been the Orator at the Annual Dinner of the Club. THOMAS SPOWART, Secretary. 89: SUNDERLAND BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by the Rev. Donald M. Caskie, M.A., of St. Cuthbert's (Monkton and Prestwick). On the morning of the 25th the President, Mr. W. K. Donnan, gave the annual oration and laid a wreath at the Burns Statue in the Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery. A group of school children was present with their teacher, Mrs. Anne Donnan, and sang a number of Burns's songs. After the ceremony three of the children were presented by Dr. J. S. Montgomerie, F.S.A.(Scot.), with certificates gained in the Music section of the Burns Federation's Schools Competition­ possibly the first occasion on which such certificates have come south of the Border. Other events: When the British Association of Hard of Hearing held its Annual Conference in Sunderland this year, attended by delegates from Norway, Sweden and Denmark and West Germany, as well as from Britain, and asked if a Scottish evening could be provided for its guests, it fell to Sunderland Bums Club to make the necessary arrangements. Compered by Dr. J. S. Montgomerie, produced by Treasurer J. B.Mus., in charge of the 'i Shearer and with Mr. J. Kirk, M.A., musical arrangements, the evening of Scottish songs, piping and dancing was pronounced by all delegates the high-light of their Conference. w. K. DONNAN, Secretary. 112: BURNS HOWFF CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Dr. G. S. Stirling, M.D., F.F.A.R.C.S., D.A., Crighton Royal, Dumfries, a past President of the Club. Other events: On 25th January, 1968, our speaker and a large number of the members of the Club attended a short service in St. BURNS CLUB NOTES 111

Michael's Church, and later Dr. Stirling laid a wreath on the Poet's grave in the Mausoleum on behalf of the Club. This ceremony was attended by the Provost, Magistrates and Councillors of the Royal Burgh and members of other clubs in the town. DAVID MILLER, Secretary. 149: ELGIN BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. John McLintock, M.A., LL.B., retired Director of Education of Ross and Cromarty, and President of the Strathpeffer Bums Club. WM. D. G. CHALMERS, Secretary. 152: THE HAMILTON BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by F. Hamilton Leckie, M.C., T.D., Ph.D., L.R.C.P., F.R.C.O.G., President of the Club. Other events: Prizes were awarded during the summer of 1968 to the six senior schools in Hamilton in connection with the Scottish Literature Competition. 1,000 children participated in the competition which is arranged by the Staff at each school. L. PATTISON, Secretary. 192: AYRSHIRE ASSOCIATION OF BURNS CLUBS The Annual Church Service of the Association was held in Mauchline Parish Church on 2lst January, 1968. The service was conducted by the Rev. A. Taylor, Troon, and lessons were read by Dr. J. Taylor, President of the Bums Federation, and Mr. R. McCall, President of the Ayrshire Association. An adult competition was held on 13th March, 1968, in Carrick Street Halls, Ayr, for Singing and Verse Speaking. This new venture by the Association was most successful with an adequate number of entries. Prizes were awarded to the winners of each section. The Ayrshire Association joined with Ayr Bums Club at the wreath-laying ceremony at Bums Statue, Ayr, and the Annual Service at Leglen Wood on 2lst July, 1968. We deeply regret to record the sudden death in July, 1968 of our senior Vice-President, Mr. W. Phillips, M.A., F.E.I.S. THOS. ANDERSON, Secretary. 112 BURNS CLUB NOTES

198: GOREBRIDGE BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 27th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by John Gray, Esq. A Burns Supper given in school by pupils of Gorebridge School. The 'Immortal Memory' and other items were all given by children. Members of Gorebridge Club attended. Other events: On 29th May, 1968, 94 children, four teachers and representatives of Gorebridge Bums Club enjoyed an outing to the Bums Country. The cost was met by Education Committee and the Oub. JAMES DAVIDSON, Secretary. 209: GREENOCK ST. JOHN'S BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 18th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. Hugh M. Aitken of Largs, Ayrshire. Other events: Various functions and musical evenings during the session. On lst August, 1968, we took part in the Annual Bowling event for the trophy, the Wylie Cup. Our Annual General Meeting was held on llth April, 1968. J, FERGUSON, Secretary. 212: PORTOBELLO BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 26th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Alex. Aitken, M.A., Principal History Teacher, Leith Academy. Other events: Evening bus run held on 17th April, 1968. Our Club gave 16 book prizes to three local schools. To a fourth school, which has ceased having 'Prizegiving', we gave two Burns books to the school library. A fifth school, unfortunately, did not hold a competition this year and gave as the reason, shortage of full-time music staff. J. STANLEY CAVAYE, Secretary. 217: ESKDALE BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 26th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. David Hill from Hawick. (Mrs.) IRENE ARMsTRoNG, Secretary. BURNS CLUB NOTES 113

226: DUMFRIES BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by the Rev. R. Leonard Small, O.B.E., D.D., ex-Moderator of the General Assembly. · Other events: Service in St. Michael's Church and laying of wreaths at Mausoleum was held on the afternoon of 25th January, 1968. J. TAIT, Secretary.

236: WHITEHAVEN BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by the President. Other events: St. Andrew's Night celebration and various lectures and film show throughout the session. G. YOUNG, Secretary.

237: UDDINGSTON MASONIC BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: The 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. James P. Simpson, past President, Rosebery Burns Oub. The function was a joint one with Lodge St. Bryde, No. 579, U ddingston. A. DOWNIE, Secretary.

252: ALLOWAY BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. T. W. Dalgleish, O.B.E., F.S.F., Hon. Secretary and Treasurer of the Bums Federation. Other events: A film show by Mr. Chas. Eddie, on 25th October, 1967. Concert by Alloway School Children of Bums's songs and poems on 7th February, 1968. St. Andrew's Night function. JAMES WILSON, Secretary.

274: TROON BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, the H r :

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275: AYR BURNS CLUB 1%8, the Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, Andrew 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Superintendent Charters. held in Other events: On 3rd October, 1967, a concert was was donated Ayr Town Hall as a result of which the sum of £40 to the Scottish National Dictionary Fund. Wood on The Commemorative Service was held at Leglen Burgoyne, 2lst July, 1968, the oration being given by Mrs. Jane M.A. Bus outing to the Livingstone Memorial, Blantyre. to The Ayr Schools' Bums Competition awards were presented programme of pupils by members of Council Prize winners gave a Scots songs and recitations at the March social meeting. St. Andrew's Night celebration and monthly meetings. WILLIAM GRAHAM, Secretary.

282: THE BURNS BOWUNG ASSOCIATION On 6th August, 1968, the 64th Annual Game for the McLennan entered. The Cup was played on Glasgow greens. 58 fours were Burns winners of the McLennan Cup for 1968 were the Bridgeton Queen's Park Oub with a majority of 35 shots. Runners-up were Four: Clarinda Burns Circle with a majority of 32 shots. Winning Henderson; Skip, J. Forrest; Third, T. Young; Second, A. B. Lead, J. Bruce. to the This Competition is open to all Burns Clubs affiliated Armour Burns Federation, and proceeds go towards the Jean Bums Houses at Mauchline. Please give us your support. HUGH J. WATSON, Secretary.

284: PHILADELPJilA NORTH-EASTERN BURNS CLUB 1968, the Anniversary Dinner Report: On 27th January, William 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by past President BURNS CLUB NOTES 115

Spencer and was composed by Mr. John McGuire of Motherwell, Scotland. Other events: On 28th April, 1968, the Annual Scottish Service was held at Old Pine Presbyterian Church. At the same place on 19th June, 1968, our members attended a service on the 200th Anniversary of the Church. ALEX. MACDONALD, Secretary. 296: WALSALL BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by the Club President, Mr. B. B. Matthews. Other events: Usual traditional functions. The St. Andrew's Church Service was held at Walsall Presby­ terian Church and the Service was conducted by the Rev. Geoffrey McGregor. We regret to have to report the death of Dr. John Stirling, past President of the Club and a much-loved and respected man, in June, 1967. W.A.REm, Acting Secretary. 307: EDINBURGH AYRSIIlRE ASSOCIATION Anniversary Dinner Report: On 19th January, 1968, our guest speaker was Mr. Alex. Aitken, History Master at Leith Academy. Other events: Annual dance, hostess whist drive, children's party, ladies' whist drive and Ayrshire miscellany. Summer outing bus tour of the Borders. G. HENDERSON LAING, Secretary. 310: MAUCHLINE BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. A. T. Sime, Principal English Master, Marr College, Troon. £13 10s. Od., collected during the evening, was kept in reserve for future work on Bums House, Castle Street, Mauchline. Other events: In June, the Club was invited to appoint three members to the Committ~ for the restoration and running of Bums House, Castle Street, Mauchline. D. I. LYELL, M.A., Secretary. 116 BURNS CLUB NOTES

314: SCOTITSH BURNS CLUB (EDINBURGH) 1968, the Anniversary Dinner Report: On 26th January, Burgoyne, M.A., 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mrs. Jane Hon. Vice-President, Burns Federation. Junior Other events: On llth May, 1968, Brunstane School our Oub, had Choir, along with several teachers and members of Ayr. a special outing to the Burns Cottage and Museum, where Office­ On 8th June, 1968, annual outing was to Irvine their museum. Bearers of the Irvine Bums Club showed us round Monthly meetings during winter session. a party In conjunction with the Scottish Heritage Association of May. On of 25 members spent a holiday in Buxton at the end afternoon and a visit to Derby, they were entertained during the Club. evening by the Derby Scottish Association and Bums (Mrs.) JEssrn A. BRUCE, Secretary. 323: KIRKCUDBRIGHT BURNS CLUB 1968, the Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, Vincent, 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Rev. C. Raymond Wigtown. ADAM GRAY, JR., Secretary.

349: THE HOWFF BURNS CLUB, KILMARNOCK 1968, the Anniversary Dinner Report: On 26th January, G. Masterton, 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by the Rev. J. W. M.A., Dunscore, by Dumfries. December, Other events: At our Annual Ladies' Night on 18th Ayr Burgh 1967, Mr. Andrew Charters, Deputy Chief Constable, Police, was the guest speaker. T. A. OGILVY, Secretary. 350: MARKINCH BURNS CLUB 1968, the Anniversary Dinner Report: On 26th January, M.A 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. D. G. Bisset, ofBurns's Other events: This year the Club presented 12 books in Mark­ poems and recitations to three of the local primary schools of Balgonie and inch Area. Five to Markinch, three to Coaltown four to Milton of Balgonie. the primary I may say this competition for Bums's recitations in schools carry with it a very keen interest. j BURNS CLUB NOTES 117

A further event took place at the Supper-William A. Mac­ Taggart, M.B.E., who has been accompanist at the Burns Supper for the last 40 years was made an Honorary Member of the Club. It was pointed out that there are four members in the Club at present with a total membership of 200 years. JOHN REID, Hon. Secretary. 356; BURNBANK AND DISTRICT MASONIC BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: Mr. Wm. Brownlie proposed the 'Immortal Memory'. Other events: On 25th April, 1968, our Oub provided Old Folk's Treat for 146 aged 70 years and over from Burnbank and District. On 30th June, 1968, members and friends enjoyed a bus tour of the Burns Country. R. JOHNSTON, Secretary. 365; CATRINE BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 26th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Crony J. Hunter Faulds. Other events: St. Andrew's Ni~t and regular monthly meetings. JAS. Y. ROXBURGH, Secretary. 370: DUNDONALD BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 26th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by past President Wm. Johnston, M.A. All the toasts and replies were made by members on this occasion. Other events: Monthly meetings and various functions. A local Old Folk's Burns Supper was sponsored by the Club. School Competition-151 pupils entered from Dundonald School, 24 book tokens were awarded to the winners. R. KIRK, Secretary. 378; EDINBURGH AND DISTRICT BURNS CLUBS ASSOCIATION Annual Wreath-laying at Regent Road Burns Monument. Annual prize draw and social evening. The second Annual Competition for Primary Schools proved even more successful than the previous year. On 21st July, 1968, a party of 30 members attended the Com­ memorative Service at Leglen Wood. Following the Service the party visited the Jean Armour Homes at Mauchline.

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The Regent Road Burns Monument was again open daily during the Edinburgh Festival and on Sunday afternoons through­ out the summer. R. A. B. McLAREN, Secretary. 379: HARTLEPOOL BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: The 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. James Shearer, B.Sc., past President of Sunderland Burns Club. WM. s. ALLEN, Secretary. 398: COLINTON BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 26th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. Jack House. GEORGE SHEDDEN, Secretary. 405: CALEDONIAN SOCIBTY OF SHEFFIBLD Anniversary Dinner Report: On 27th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by the Very Rev. Ivan D. Neil, C.B., O.B.E., M.A. WM. A. ALLAN, Secretary. 426: SAUCIIlE BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 26th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. Harry Hall. Other events: Annual Meeting and Tattie and Herring Supper. Prizes for Burns's recitations were awarded to the three local schools. The Club was represented by two rinks in the Area Bowling Competition. Annual dance was held on llth November, 1967. DAVID ROBERTSON, Secretary. 436: THE WALNEY JOLLY BEGGARS LADIBS' BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mrs. W. Browne. Other events: The usual donations were given to Scottish War Blinded, Cancer Research, Scottish Homes, and also food parcels to the elderly. A trip to Wedgwood Potteries and a trip to see the bulb fields in Holland. j !: .,1!

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Film shows and talks during the session. N. BETIY, Secretary. 437: DUMFRIES LADIES' BURNS CLUB NO. 1 Anniversary Dinner Report: On 27th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mrs. Campbell of Moffat. A presentation was made to the past President in recognition of her service as President. Other events: - Visits were made to an Eventide· Home, an Occupational Centre, Littlewood's of Carlisle, and Burns's House. An evening drive round the Solway Shore via the 'Brow Well' and an all-day outing to Edinburgh, Forth Bridge and Dunfermline. We entertained 40 members from the Annan Ladies' Burns Club in April. Various other functions. Our usual prize was sent to the Dumfries Musical Festival for Scots Elocution in the Children's Section. We also gave our Christmas donation to the residents in the Rowantree Home and to elderly members of our Club. MARY SHEARER, Secretary. 439: BARNSLEY AND DISTRICT SCOTTISH SOCIETY Anniversary Dinner Report: On 26th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by George Irvine, Esq., B.Sc. Other events: Ceilidh, Hallowe'en party and St. Andrew's Dinner. CHARLES L. SUTHERLAND, Secretary. 443: VICTORIA, ROBERT BURNS CLUB Talks, film shows and a ladies' night during the session. MARGARET RYLES, Secretary. 454: ROTHERHAM AND DISTRICT SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION Anniversary Dinner Report: On 26th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by John Kirk, Esq., President, Caledonian Society of Doncaster. Other events: New Year Ball on lst January, 1968. W. INGRAM, Hon. Secretary. 458: STONEHAVEN (FATHERLAND) BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 24th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. Davidson, Torphins. f r --

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Other events: The Club suffered a great loss by the death, in January, of Mr. A. J. Scrimgeour. . When he gave up the reins of office in 1965, Mr. Scrimgeour had been President of the Oub for 20 years. MARJORY LEIPER, Secretary. 462: CHELTENHAM SCOTI'ISH SOCIBTY Anniversary Dinner Report: On 27th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by James Graham, Esq., past President. Other events: Various· traditional functions and dances. E. C. FISHER, Secretary.

469: DENNY CROSS BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: The 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. J. C. Bell of the Commercial Bank, Stirling. Mr. Bell has since retired to Kirkcudbright. Other events: Mr. Tom Bryson, a: founder member, Secretary and President for 30-odd years, has retired from office. It is pro­ posed to honour his outstanding service in the new season. With deep regret we report the death of Mr. Wm. Bryson who served our Club as Treasurer for 30 years. Usual Oub activities and Schools Competitions. . THOMAS M. STOCKS, Secretary. 470: ST. GILES' BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 24th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by the Rev. John Andrew of Culter, Aberdeen. Other events: St. Andrew's Night function. A Tatties and Herrin' Supper. G. E. WALLACE, Secretary. 472: RENFREWSIDRE ASSOCIATION OF BURNS CLUBS In the Annual Bums Essay Competition for schools, 1,683

I 1 I entries were received from fifteen schools. The Wylie Bowling Trophy Competition resulted in a win for Fort Matilda Burns Oub (Fed. No. 576) with a score of 35 shots up. This club also won the prize for the highest-up rink with a score of 27 shots up. ROBERT MILLER, Secretary. !'I ,'

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476: BORDER CITIES BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 27th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Bro. the Rev. A. Donald Munro of the Border Cities Bums Club. Other events: St. Andrew's Ni!iht, golf tournament, picnic and children's Christmas party. P.P. JOHN G. SAUNDERS, Secretary-Treasurer. 492: HARROW AND DISTRICT CALEDONIAN SOCIETY Anniversary Dinner Report: On 26th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by the Rev. I. R. N. Miller, M.A., Chaplain, Strathallan School, Perthshire. Other events: Various functions including monthly dances. £175 was donated to Scottish and local charities. R. M. DUNDAS, Secretary. 494: MOTHERWELL UNITED SERVICES BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 24th January, 1968, our Guest Speaker was Mr. Wilson Humphries, M.A., from Dalziel High School, and a former player with Motherwell F.C. ANGUS C. ALLAN, Secretary. 503: DUNBLANE BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 17th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Ex-Provost Miller of Dollar. Other events: Mr. A. P. Lamont was unanimously appointed an Hon. President of the Qub. J.M. STURROCK, Secretary. 516: THE AIRTS BURNS CLUB, PRESTONPANS Anniversary Dinner Report: On 3rd February, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. Bruce· McGuff, a past President of Edinburgh and District Burns Cubs' Association. Other events: Various dance functions. WALTER M. Mum, Secretary. 530: THE SOUTHERN SCOTTISH COUNTIES BURNS ASSOCIATION The Annual Service was held in St. Michael's Church in January, 1968. This service was conducted by the Rev. John Symington, M.A. Thereafter the wreath-laying ceremony in the Mausoleum was attended by the Magistrates and Councillors of 122 BURNS CLUB NOTES

our Royal Burgh and representatives of member clubs. Provost E. Robertson placed a wreath on the tomb on behalf of the Dumfries Burns Club. Mr. Grant, our Town Oerk, reported a large increase in the number of visitors this year to Burns House. Many were from overseas on holiday to this country. Mr. A. W. Finlayson, M.A., Convener of our School Competition, reported that more schools in the County were taking part in the Scottish Literature Competition. At the annual schools prize-giving 54 Burns books, donated from the Association, were distributed to the winners. M. CoULSON, Secretary. 553: WOLVERHAMPTON AND DISTRICT CALEDONIAN SOCIETY Anniversary Dinner Report: The 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. S. 0. Clark, F.R.C.S. A. s. NEILSON, Secretary. 555: HARROGATE ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. W. N. Maccallum from Dunure, Ayrshire. Other events: St. Andrew's Day Dinner-Dance and other func­ tions. Golf and bowls matches both within the Society and against Leeds Caledonian. JOHN C. MCFARLANE, Secretary. 559: COVENTRY AND DISTRICT CALEDONIAN SOCffiTY Anniversary Dinner Report: On 27th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Dr. T. Baird. A. M. MCDOWALL, Secretary. 568: DARVEL BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 27th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. A. Y. Gilliland. Tape recording taken at our Annual Dinner is on loan to various clubs and guilds during the year. Other events: Social nights during winter months. w. H. IRVINE, Secretary. 572: CHESTER CALEDONIAN ASSOCIATION Anniversary Dinner Report: The 'Immortal Memory' was BURNS CLUB NOTES 123 proposed by Mr. T. S. Lea, a past President of the Association. Other events: Supper with General Knowledge Quiz in which an East of Scotland team defeated the West. T. S. LEA, Secretary. 575: JEAN ARMOUR BURNS CLUB, WINDSOR, ONTARIO, CANADA Anniversary Dinner Report: Our guest speaker was Mr. John Saunders, past President of the Border Cities Burns Oub. The Toast to Canada, the Country of our adoption, was given by our Vice-President, Mrs. Marie Auld. Other events: Various social evenings and functions were held during the winter months. We also supported various charities and hospital funds. P.P. (Mrs.) BELLA TOUGH, Secretary. 594: BURNS CLUB OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY Anniversary Dinner Report: At our Anniversary Dinner, the speaker was Judge Earl Hoover, of Common Pleas Court. RONA L. CAMPBELL, Secretary. 597: THE BURNS SOCIETY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Kenneth C. MacKay, Ph.D., President of Union College, Cranford, N.J. Other events: Ward Melville, a former President of the St. Andrew Society and a member of The Burns Society of the City of New York, entertained members at his estate at Stony Brook, Long Island, N.Y., on 23rd May, 1968. Mr. and Mrs. Melville have restored the village to its original colonial setting. Miss Mary F. Stough has earned a degree, Ph.D., at the Univer­ sity of South Carolina, U.S.A., for her work on a book named 'Robert Bums in Imaginative Literature'. ROBERT W. MORRISON, Secretary. 612: TORRANCE MASONIC SOCIAL AND BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 27th January, 1968, the principal speaker was Councillor Alex. Gartshore of Kirkintilloch. A collection for the Jean Armour Building Fund realised the sum of £13 10s. Od. Other events: St. Andrew's Night functions. Bus outing in June took place to Oban. P.P. FRED C. JORDAN, Secretary. rr --r

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626: MOFFAT AND DISTRICT BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. Robert Lawrence, Dalmellington, Ayrshire. CHARLES J. YOUNG, Secretary. 627: KINROSS JOLLY BEGGARS BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 26th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. Jas. Carmichael, M.A., Dunfermline. JoHN KIDD, J.P., Secretary. 630: COALSNAUGHTON BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 27th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. James Millar, Kilmarnock. Collection was uplifted on behalf of the Jean Armour Burns Houses. Other events: Various functions during the winter session. Children's picnic took place to Bumtisland on 15th June, 1968. A party of members attended the wreath laying at Burns's Statue, Ayr, and Commemorative Service at Leglen Wood on 21st July, 1968. Book prizes gifted to Coalsnaughton School. The year was marred by the death of Donald McDonald, a past President and founder member of the Club. ALEX. C. CooK, Secretary. 632: SYMINGTON BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 19th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by John Weir, Esq., D.S.O., M.A., F.E.I.S. Other events: Outing to Dumfries. St. Andrew's Night with a record attendance of 107. Representation at the Bums Church Service in January, 1968, held in Mauchline Church, and also a Commemorative Service at Leglen Wood in July, 1968. Usual functions during the year. Prizes were awarded to the winners of the School Bums Com­ petition who entertained the members at the March meeting. Donations were made to various charities. We record with regret the passing of our oldest member, Mr. Donald Fraser, in his 96th year. (Mrs.) JEAN ANDERSON, Secretary. l BURNS CLUB NOTES 125

646: CLEAR WINDING DEVON ALVA BURNS CLUB, Anniversary Dinner Report: The 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. Walker of Fishcross (Jolly Beggars). Other events: St. Andrew's Night function. D. GILLIS, Secretary. 659: DUNDEE BURNS SOCIETY Anniversary Dinner Report: On 22nd January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Hon. Sheriff Substitute, H. J. Carlton, M.A., LL.B. Other events: Annual outing, 25th May, 1968, was via Perth, Aberfeldy and Pitlochry. (Mrs.) L. M. SMALL, Secretary. 660: THE LANGHOLM LADIES' BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: The 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. H. G. McKerrow, Dumfries. Other events: Various functions and talks during the session. (Miss) w. E. DALGLIESH, Secretary. 661: LEAMINGTON AND WARWICK CALEDONIAN SOCIETY Anniversary Dinner Report: On 27th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. A. Boyle, Bedworth. Other events: Traditional Scottish functions were held through- out the year. J. B. NICHOL, Secretary. 663: BOURNEMOUTH AND DISTRICT CALEDONIAN SOCIETY Anniversary Dinner Report: The 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mrs. P. Campbell, our President. Other events: We have purchased a hall and rooms where we hope to establish a Scottish Centre where anyone interested in anything Scottish will find a warm welcome. The transaction was finalised by the ceremony of signing the contracts, before a large attendance at our Hogmanay Dance. We are now busy renovating and decorating the premises. Our Scottish Country Dance Team has fulfilled a large number of engagements during the season. ARTHUR N. LAPLEY, Hon. Secretary. ------~~-- -- - r r • ·r

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665: GARTMORN LADIES' BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: The 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. David Greig. Two members from all the other clubs in the county were present. Other events: Our annual outing was to Berwick on Tweed. (Mrs.) JANE DOLAN, Secretary. 681: CRONIES' BURNS CLUB, KILMARNOCK Anniversary Dinner Report: On 3rd February, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by the Rev. Archie Taylor, M.A., Troon. Other events: St. Andrew's Night function. ARCHD. OUVER, Secretary. 683: STRATFORD-UPON-AVON AND DISTRICT CALEDONIAN SOCIETY Anniversary Dinner Report: ·On 27th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. A. Inglis of Leamington Spa. Other events: Various traditional functions. w. KERR, Hon. Treasurer. 691 : INVERNESS BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 26th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Dr. T. J. Honeyman of Glasgow. Other events: A social evening on 17th November, 1967. LESLEY S. POLLETI, Secretary. 695: KILMARONOCK BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 24th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Dr. Wm. S. Mack of Glasgow. Other events: Various functions. MAY CALDWELL, Secretary. 696: WlllTLEY BAY AND DISTRICT SOCIBTY OF ST. ANDREW Anniversary Dinner Report: On 19th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Rev. James Currie, B.D., Pollok Church, Glasgow. Other events: St. Andrew's Dinner and Dance, and other monthly dances. (Miss) JESSm H. CoLVILLE, Secretary. J BURNS CLUB NOTES 127

701 : TIIE DETROIT BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 3rd February, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by John Tough, past President of the Border Cities Burns Club of Ontario, Canada. Other events: It is with regret that we report the death of one of our past Presidents and life member, Peter Maxwell, an out­ standing 'Bums Man' and poet in his own right. He will be sadly missed. SAM. R. DICKEY, Secretary. 706: NORTH UNDSEY SCOTS SOCIETY Anniversary Dinner Report: On 26th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. W. T. H. Inglis, O.A., M.A., B.A., F.E.1.S., of Ayr. Other events: St. Andrew's Dinner and Dance was held on lst December, 1967. CONSTANCE BROWNBRIDGE, Secretary. 720: RETFORD AND DISTRICT CALEDONIAN SOCIBTY Anniversary Dinner Report: On 17th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mrs. H. N. Shipmen, S.R.N. Other events: Usual functions throughout the year. Joint evening with the Welsh Society. · D. I. WALKER, Secretary. 721: PLYMOUTH BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 27th January, 1968, the Lord Mayor gave the toast 'Scots the World O'er'. Cheques were presented to him for local charities. Other events: Hallowe'en, St. Andrew's Night and other functions. Outings during the season. Donations to Scottish and Bums Cottages, also Scottish Dic­ tionary were given during the season. CHARLOTTE Ross BAXTER, Secretary. 722: BRIDLINGTON AND DISTRICT CALEDONIAN SOCIBTY Anniversary Dinner Report: On 26th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by J. Gibb, Esq., a past President of our Society. Other events: Usual functions were held throughout the session. (Mrs.) E. PENROSE, Secretary. 128 BURNS CLUB NOTES

723: STRATHPEFFER BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On - 26th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. J. M. Fleck, M.A., Principal Teacher of History at Dingwall Academy. WM. s. F AIRHOLM, M.B.E., B.E.M., Secretary. 725: BEN CLEUCH BURNS CLUB (TILUCOULTRY) Anniversary Dinner Report: The 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. A. D. Findlay. Other events: Annual General Meeting held in Crown Hotel. I. REID, Secretary. 726: MELBOURNE BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 2nd February, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. J. Dyall. Other events: Various functions during the year. A pilgrimage to Campbell's Creek Cemetery, about 80 miles north of Melbourne; here we visited the grave of one of Robert Burns's descendants. Show of slides of the Burns Country was given at a picture evening arranged by the President, Mr. Brown. Mrs. Brown and her husband desire to thank the President, Secretary and other Officers and members of the Federation for their outstanding hospitality during their visit. At the Falkirk Conference Mrs. Mary Lawson will represent the Club. STELLA M. BROWN, Secretary. 727: ST. ANDREW SOCIBTY OF DENMARK Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by the Scottish actors, Ian Gilmour and Meta Forrest. Other events: On October, 1967, a performance of 'Scotland on the Screen', including three Scottish films, was arranged, and on 30th November the annual St. Andrew's Night Ball was held. In January, 1968, the film, 'Laxdale Hall,' was shown and in March a lecture was given on the subject, 'What is an Englishman?'. Country dancing takes place every week. PER BERGENHOLZ, Secretary. j BURNS CLUB NOTES 129

730: WIGTOWN BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 26th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. Robert S. Allan, O.B.E., B.E.M., ex-Chief Constable of Renfrew and Bute. Other events: A St. Andrew's Dinner. Eleven prizes were donated to the local primary school to supple­ ment the Federation certificates, and a donation was made to local old folks' entertainment. . A summer outing to Rothesay was held on 11 th August, 1968. R. G. HAMILTON, Secretary. 744: DURHAM AND DISTRICT CALEDONIAN SOCIBTY

Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. Inglis, Director of Education, Ayrshire. Other events: St. Andrew's Night Dinner-Dance; and Scottish Country Dance. . E. T. DUNCAN, Secretary. 745: NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM CALEDONIAN SOCIBTY Anniversary Dinner Report: On 20th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by the Rev. Stanley D. Mair, Netherlee Church, Glasgow. Other events: St. Andrew's Dinner and Ball and various types of social evenings. Film show of vintage film 'Geordie' and annual outing to Holy Island. Donations to various Scottish Charities. J. G. GALL, Secretary. 746: GRIMSBY AND DISTRICT CALEDONIAN SOCIBTY Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Dr. J. D. Horsburgh, M.B., Ch.B.(Edin.). Other events: St. Andrew's Dinner-Dance, various other func­ tions and monthly social gatherings. R.D.HoRN, Secretary. 751: WORCESTER SCOTS SOCIBTY Anniversary Dinner Report: Our function was held on 25th

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January, 1968. Other events: This year we were hosts for the West Midlands Highland Ball, which was held on 29th March, 1968. (Mrs.) DAVINA W. TANNER, Secretary. 753: WESTMORLAND ST. ANDREW SOCIETY Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. J. Edgar, Cumnock. Other events: St. Andrew's Dinner and various other functions. G. M. MILLER, Secretary. 766: GLENCOE AND DISTRICT BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 19th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by the Rev. J. H. Kerr, Onich. This was the 16th Annual Dinner of this aub-one of the few in the West Highlands. I. W. MCCOLL, Secretary. 768: AUCHTERDERRAN JOLLY BEGGARS BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 20th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. Hugh Banks. Other events: Club members also held Hallowe'en function. JAS. PENMAN, Secretary. 773: CUMNOCK CRONIES BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 26th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. K. H. McCall. Other events: Annual Hallowe'en party• .The annual bus outing took place on 2nd June, 1968, to the Scott Country via Galashiels and back by Moffat. JAMES CLARK, Secretary. 775: HARTLEPOOL CALEDONIAN SOCIETY Anniversary Dinner Report: On 26th January, 1968 the 'Immortal Memorv' was proposed by Allan R. Ritchie, Esq,. past President of our Society. Other events: St. Andrew's Night Dance and other functions. Rest classes and discussion group meetings are held during the session. We also have an annual golf competition for the 'Ritchie' Cup. HUGH GORDON, Secretary.

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803: BOWIIlLL PEOPLE'S BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 27th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. George Sharp, Finance Convener of Fife County Council. Other events: Various functions and concerts. We held Bums Competitions in January for the following schools: Auchterderran, Cardenden and Denend Primary Schools. Over 50 children took part. Book prizes and Burns Federation certificates were awarded. Our Club took an active part in the Fife Bums Association Bums Dinner. President Mr. Gillies gave 'Immortal Memory' at St. Fothad's Church Bums Supper. JAMES EWAN, Secretary. 809: ALLANTON JOLLY BEGGARS BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 20th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. James Higgins, a member of our Oub, who stepped into the breach because our principal speaker was unable to attend owing to illness. (Mrs.) ELIZABETH TRAIN, Secretary. 811: LOGANGATE BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 19th January, 1968, in the Logangate Arms, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. George Wilson of Tarbolton. For the Jean Armour Burns Houses the sum of £15 was collected. Other events: St. Andrew's Dinner. On 2nd June, 1968, the Club had its annual outing to Perth, then to Edinburgh via Dundee. Monthly meetings were held during the session. WALTER HALL, Senior, Secretary. 821 : AYR MASONIC BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 26th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Brother Wm. McCallum of Lodge Ayr St. Paul's, No. 204. Other events: On 28th January, 1968, a number of Cronies and friends assembled at the Statue in Ayr, when our President, Bro. John Young, on behalf of the Club, placed a wreath on the Statue, and in a short address paid tribute to the Memory of Bums. Ladies' Night on llth April, 1968, consisted of a visit to the 132 BURNS CLUB NOTES theatre followed by dinner and social. The annual outing on 2nd June, 1968, was to Jedburgh, via Biggar, and returning by St. Mary's Loch and Moffat. CHAs. P. STROYAN, Secretary. 822: MANSFIELD DISTRICT CALEDONIAN SOCIETY Anniversary Dinner Report: On 2nd February, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. Mathew McLauchlan from the Pontefract and District Caledonian, Pontefract. Other events: Various traditional functions. At the Hallowe'en party, a party of 20 children from the Child­ ren's Home, Mansfield, were the chief guests for the evening. J. S. ROBERTSON, Secretary. 825; 'CLARINDA' EDINBURGH LADIES' BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, our principal speaker was the Rev. Campbell W. Maclean, M.A. In the company were guests from America, Canada and New Zealand, who were attending a Burns Supper for the first time. Other events: On the Sunday nearest the 25th January of each year, the Club places flowers in St. Giles' Cathedral in memory of Burns. Other events during the year have been a dinner at Christmas, beetle drives, skittles, a bus outing and a mystery tour. HELEN R. WILSON, < Secretary. 826: ROBERT BURNS SOCIETY OF CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA, U.S.A. Anniversary Dinner Report: On 26th January, 1968, Mr. Robert Miller of Kearny, New Jersey, was the main speaker. Other events: St. Andrew's Night Dinner, 30th November, 1967. The Angus Macaulay Memorial Trophy was awarded for the best out-of-state Highland Dancer at the Thirteenth Annual Grandfather Mountain Highland Games, Linville, North Carolina, 12th July, 1968. (Mrs.) W. S. STEVEN, Secretary. 839: COLDSTREAM BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 26th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by James McAulay, Esq., O.B.E., Chief Constable of Paisley Burgh Police. Other events: Ladies' Night function. Outing to Dumfries on 16th June, 1968. _ WM. JACKSON, Secretary. BURNS CLUB NOTES 133

841: THE ROBERT BURNS ASSOCIATION OF MONTREAL Anniversary Dinner Report: On 20th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was given by the Rev. Canon Gordon R. Addie, C.D., B.A., L.Th. Other events: During the summer the Ladies' Auxiliary held two bus drives to the United States, as well as a trip to the Highland Games at Ormstown, Quebec. Several birthday and anniversary parties were held and were well attended. The Club holds a social evening every Saturday night. JAMES .MURRAY, Secretary. 842: YE BONNIE DOON Anniversary Dinner Report: The 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. Duncan Beattie. Other events: We entertained the residents at Macassa Lodge, an old people's residence. ' On 20th July, 1968, we spent the day at the home of our President, Mr. Wm. Lambie. (Mrs.) J, CASSIDY, Secretary. 845: TAM O' SHANTER CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 24th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. G. Mudie, Assistant Secretary of the Oub. Other events: Various functions. Work started on the new Oub Premises and we are hoping to be in them for the Anniversary Dinner on the 25th January, 1969. JAMES MCCAW, Secretary. · 851 : AUCKLAND BURNS ASSOCIATION Anniversary Dinner Report: The 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by the past President, Mr. A. S. Weir. Other events: A reading of a one-act play centred around 'Holy Willie's Prayer' was given at our August function. KATE WEIR, Secretary. 852: FISHCROSS JOLLY BEGGARS Anniversary Dinner Report: The 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. David McDowall from East Kilbride. Mr. McDowall is at present a lecturer at Paisley Technical College.

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Other events: Outing to Broughty Ferry and to Newburgh, Fifeshire. St. Andrew's Night Dinner-Dance, the speaker being the Rev. P.P. Brodie, LL.B., B.D., of St. Mungo's Church, Alloa. PHILLIP MULLEN, Secretary. SOCIETIES 854: NORTH-EAST MIDLANDS ASSOCIATION OF SCOTTISH The annual concert was held at Worksop on 21st April, 1968. The Binnie Rose Bowl and Anderson Wilson Trophy, together with certificates, were presented by the President, Wm. A. Allan, to the winners of the Verse Speaking Competitions. at Week-end School of Scottish Country Dancing took place Skegness, with students from all parts of our area. at The Annual Scottish Country Dance Festival was held Wakefield on 22nd June, 1968, Wakefield Caledonian Society being our hosts on this occasion. J. ALLEN IRVINE, Secretary. 860: SOUTHLAND BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, when we the combined with St. Andrew's Scottish Society (Southland), 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. W. D. Officer. Other events: Various functions, outings and concerts. (Mrs.) J. L. BoNE, Secretary.

873: TAM O' SHANTER SOCIETY Anniversary Dinner Report: Bums Nicht was held in January, 1968, when the Guests of Honour were Mr. T. C. Watt, former Chief of the Federated Caledonian Societies of Southern Africa, D. and his wife. The 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by A. Frew, Esq., with the aid of tape recordings of some of the Bard's well-known works. Other events: Mr. J. W. Robb and Mr. J. S. Dailing, both the past Presidents, have been made Honorary Life Members of Society. J. D. DALLING, Secretary. 878: WORKSOP BURNS AND CALEDONIAN CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 27th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Committee member John Muir, one of our youngest-ever speakers. BURNS CLUB NOTES 135

Other events: Scottish social evenings and various functions, including St. Andrew's Day Dance at Edwinstowe. President's Social on 8th June, 1968. President Pat McHale was adorned with Oub's new Ribbon and Medallion by Mr. Anderson Wilson in the presence of Dr. John I. Taylor, President Burns Federation, and Presidents of neighbouring Caledonian Societies. T. H. ENGLISH, Secretary. 886: DALSERF AND DISTRICT BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: The 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. Jas. Hamilton. CLAUDE LAMBIE, Secretary. 888: VANCOUVER BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: At our first Anniversary Dinner, attended by 150 guests, many of whom were new Canadians from a variety of origins, which is typical of our cosmopolitan city, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. George A. McNicoll, President of the Club. Other events: Mr. John R. W. Smith of Long Beach, California, was elected to Honorary Life Membership. Mr. Smith founded the New York Burns Memorial Association and has been prominent in Bums activities in the U.S.A. for many, many years. DORIS LAWRIE, Secretary. 890: THE WOLLONGONG BURNS SOCIETY Anniversary Dinner Report: On 25th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by Mr. Charles Murray of the Scottish Society and Burns Club of Australia. THOMAS NEW ALL, Secretary. 892: AYRSlllRE METAL PRODUCTS Anniversary Dinner Report: On 26th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by the Rev. A. M. Nicholson, Ayr. Other events: Film show by Thomas W. Dalgleish. Outing arranged by James Miller. ROBERT CAMPBELL, Secretary. 893: NORTH BAY BURNS CLUB Anniversary Dinner Report: On 27th January, 1968, the 'Immortal Memory' was proposed by our Vice-President, Mr. 136 BURNS CLUB NOTES William Carson, a founder member of our Oub and late of Catrine, Scotland. Other events: Open socials on St. Patrick's Day, St. Andrew's Nicht and Hogmanay. Float entry in the Dominion Day Parade. Annual picnic in July to Lake Nipissing, North Bay. With the exception of July and August, monthly socials are held for members only. TOM BENNETT, Secretary. 894: BEVERLEY AND DISTRICT CALEDONIAN SOCIETY Our Society, inaugurated on 2nd November, 1967, will hold a Hogmanay function on 31st December, 1968, and a Burns Dinner is being arranged for 24th January, 1969. JOHN J. CoLB, Secretary. LIST OF THE 326 BURNS CLUBS AND SCOTTISH SOCIETIES ON THE ROLL OF THE BURNS FEDERATION, 1968. (Corrected to 3lst October, 1968)

President Secretary No, Name Inst. Fed. Members 1808 1885 97 James Wark A. Reid Hamilton, 84 John Finnie Street, 0 Kilmarnock Burns Club - Kilmarnock 1868 1885 150 Jas.Mason Alex. A. Pow, 12 Grove Park, Kingsbury, The Burns Club of London - London, N.W.9 1885 100 Robert Armstrong John Barton, Cedar Cottage, 126 Middleton 2 Alexandria Burns Club - - 1884 Street, Alexandria, Dunbartonshire Archd. Whitehead, Woodvale, Lanrannoch, 1877 1885 43 A. R. Thompson 4 Callander Burns Club - - Callander Robt. Patterson Alex. V. Smail, 11 Murrayfield, Gordon 5 Ercildoune Bums Club - - 1885 1963 50 William Jamieson, 278 Stonelaw Road, 1882 1885 50 James Mortimer 7 Thistle Bums Oub - - Rutherglen 1882 1886 200 JamesK.Mclntosh Charles R. Blues, 63 Great George Street, 9 Royalty Burns Club - - Glasgow, W.2 1859 1886 115 N. F. Donald John McKean, Clydesdale Bank, Ltd., 51 10 Dumbarton Burns Club - High Street, Dumbarton 11 Chesterfield and District Cale- 1886 159 Bruce H. Garret Mrs. C. Yeomens, The Manor House, donian Association - 1886 Stanton Woodhouse, Rowsley, Mattock, Derbyshire 1860 1886 60 Peter G. Cavanagh J. Main, c/o Dundee Burns Club, 37 Union 14 Dundee Burns Club - - Street, Dundee Miss M. White, 4 Barnetts Road, Belfast, 5 -...... , 15 Belfast Burns Association - 1886 1886 180 J.B. Bell -1 ---1 l -1

I,, I I I Secretary -~No. Name Inst. Fed. Members President 17 Nottingham Scottish Assoc. - 1871 1886 420 Dr. A. J. Clark, R. W. Williamson, "Whitecroft", Main M.C., M.B., Ch.B. Street, Gunthorpe, Notts. 20 Airdrie Burns Club - - 1885 1886 150 David Lees, C.B.E. Thomas J. Dunlop, 22 Manor Drive, Airdrie 21 Greetiock Burns Club - 1801 1886 138 Norman Clark R. Smith McFarlan, "Rostherne", Loch- - winnoch Road, Kilmacolm 22 Edinburgh Burns Club - 1848 1886 40 H.J. Hayhoe Mrs. A. St.C. Muir, 11 Royston Terrace, - Edinburgh, 3 33 Glasgow Haggis Club - 1872 1886 100 D. Murray Kerr J. -Lawrence Grant, C.A., 4 Laggan Road, - Glasgow, S.3 35 Dairy (Ayrshire) Burns Club - 1825 1887 70 James Fitzsimmons James G. Rennie, 11 Lynn Avenue, Dairy 36 Rosebery Burns Club 1885 1887 120 Charles King John Melville, 24 Woodlands Road, Glas- - - gow, C.3 37 Dollar Burns Club 1887 1887 60 Chartres Baillie Alex. B. Mciver, Gowanlea, 30 Dewar - - Street, Dollar, Clackmannanshire 40 Aberdeen Burns Club - - 1872 1889 63 Andrew Noble James C. Anderson, 78 Broomhill Road, Aberdeen (AB 20188). 42 Stratheam Burns Club - - 1889 1890 36 Donald Blyth Mrs. P. M. Lowe, 10 Millar Street, Crieff, Perthshire 45 Cumnock Burns Club - - 1887 1891 120 John Turner K. H. McCall, 51 Richmond Terrace, Curnnock 48 Paisley Bums Club - - 1805 1891 33 S. S. Stevenson Daniel Ure, Matherbank, Kilmacolm, Ren- frewshire 49 Bridgeton Burns Club - 1870 1891 1451 Andrew Laidlaw Robert Donaldson, 10 Bothwell Street, - Glasgow, C.2 so Stirling Burns Cub - 1886 1892 120 David Malcolm Henry Robb, Esq., LL.B., 3 Pitt Terrace, - Stirling Secretary No. Name Inst. Fed. Members President Association 55 Derby Scottish Clarke, 210 BroadwS¥, Derby and Burns Club -- 1890 1893 525 Derek McLeod, M.A. J. D. Jolly Beggars Burns 59 Gourock Robert Smith, 105 Kirn Drive, Gourock Club - - - - 1893 1893 90 Ian D. Shearer M. F. Small, 4 Hill Street, Cupar, Fife Cupar Bums Club 1893 1893 140 Provost And. 62 - - Scott 68 Sandyford (Glasgow) Burns Building 1893 1894 600 D. T. Russell Reid W. J. W. Graham, Provincial Club - --- Society, 85 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, C.2 8 McGeorge Avenue, Club, inc. 1861 1894 398 Arthur S. Miller J. D. McDonald, 69 Dunedin Burns - Dunedin, New Zealand S. Sinclair, 3 Holme Close, Scotby, Carlisle 71 Carlisle Bums Club - - 1889 1895 37 R. 0. Cowan Niven, Russell A. Sharp, 270 Dumbarton Road, Partick Bums Club 1885 1895 90 T. Murray 72 - - T.D., D.L. Partick, Glasgow, W.1 Memorial and 74 National Burns John Findlay, 202 Bath Street, Glasgow, Cottage Homes, Mauchline 1888 1895 - Sir Claud Hagart Alexander of C.2 Ballochmyle, Bart. "Glenavon," 19 Eastbank, Club 1894 1896 62 Alex. L. Eggo David Young, 76 Brechin Burns. - - Brechin National Commercial Bank Club 1888 1896 130 Thomas H. Mann James Ewart, 82 Arbroath Bums - - of Scotland, Ltd., Arbroath, Angus Burns 85 Dunfermline United Spowart, M.A., 116 Dewar Street, Club 1812 1896 80 Rt. Hon. Lord Bruce, T. - - - - D.L., J.P., M.A. Dunfermline 5 Buxton Gardens, Sunder- 89 Sunderland Burns Club 1897 1897 75 R. L. Wright W. K. Donnan, - land tH -\() '

~No. Name Inst. Fed. Members President Secretary 95 Bolton Burns Club 1881 1897 250 Mrs. T. J. Dunlop Mrs. W. G. Diggle, 18 Gorses Mount, - - Darcy Lever, Bolton, Lanes. 96 Jed burgh 1897 1897 62 Ex-Provost Charles J. R. B. Hwne, Maitland House, 20 Queen - - - - Campbell Street, Jedburgh 112 Dwnfries Burns Howff Club - 1889 1899 60 William Reid David Miller, 64 Rosefield Road, Dumfries 116 Greenloaning Burns Club 1889 1900 40 Daniel J. Mclldowie J. W. Allardyce, Loanfoot, Auchterarder, - Perthshire 120 Bristol Caledonian Society 1820 1900 360 Dr. R. M. Courtney Alistair C. Brown, B.Sc., 28 Pinewood - Close, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol 121 Hamilton Junior Burns Club - 1901 1965 40 Sam Pollock W. Bowes, 13 Clarkwell Road, Hill House, Hamilton 124 The Ninety Burns Club 1890 1902 45 G. W. Walker J. C. McVittie, W.S., 4 North Charlotte St., - Edinburgh, 2 126 Falkirk Bums Club 1866 1902 200 Campbell McAulay, Alex. Bennie, c/o Festus Moffat & Co., - - J.P. 138 High Street, Falkirk 133 Newarthill Bums Club - 1903 1904 30 Alexander Maxwell Thomas Boslem, 11 Hillside Place, Newart- - hill, Motherwell 149 Elgin Bums Club - -- 1905 1905 90 William Wittet, William D. G. Chalmers, Royal Bank C.B.E., J.P. Buildings, Elgin, Moray 152 The Hamilton Burns Club - 1877 1906 204 F. Hamilton Leckie, Lisle Pattison, T.D., F.C.I.S., Glassford M.C., T.D., Ph.D., Road, Strathaven, Lanarkshire L.R.C.P., F.R.C.O.G. 153 Scottish Burns Club -- 1904 1906 269 Robert Russell K. E. Fisher, 160 Hope St., Glasgow, C.2 158 :i:>ariington Burns Association 1906 1906 76 George Walker T. W. Chater, 26 Lan,gdale Road, Darling- ton, Co. Durham No. Name Inst. Fed. Members President Secretary 167 Birmingham and Midland - 1888 1908 778 R. G. Robertson T. F. C. Walker, 68 Femdown Road, Scottish Society Solihull, Warwickshire 169 Glasgow and District Burns Andrew Stenhouse, M.A., LL.B., 82 West Association --- 1907 1908 16 Clubs David R. Smith Nile Street, Glasgow, C.2 Andrew Hood, 31 Bank Street, Irvine 173 Irvine Burns Club - 1826 1908 580 Thomas Caldwell - 1964 1967 30 Archibald McKinstry William Alexander, 36 Oxford Road, 176 Renfrew Burns Club Renfrew John Dorward, 17 Linfem Road, Dailly 179 Dailly Jolly Beggars Club - 1909 1909 9 Dr. R. Mcinroy 183 Londonderry Burns Club and John Butler, 10 Balmoral Avenue, London­ Caledonian Society - 1907 1909 100 Rev. N. F. Orr, B.A., B.D. derry, N.1 William E. McCrindle, 137 Wood Street, 187 Galashiels Burns Club - - 1908 1909 100 Dean of Guild J. J. Geddes Galashiels 20 Colin McKenzie Ernest Weir, 2 Burnside Ave., Port Glasgow, 190 Port Glasgow Burns Club - 1910 1910 Renfrewshire 192 Ayrshire Association ofBurns 3 Clubs Robert McCall T. Anderson, 36 Linfem Avenue East, 1908 1910 3 Clubs - - • • Kilmarnock 40 Walter Olson Mrs. E. Estabrook, 2 Birch Bay, St. 197 Winnipeg Bums Club - - 1907 1911 Boneface, Winnipeg 10, Ontario, Canada 250 Archibald Lochrie James Davidson, 8 Barleyknowe Road, 198 Gorebridge Bums Club - 1906 1911 Gorebridge, Midlothian 199 Newbattle and District Burns A. Wilson, 103 Sixth Street, Newtongrange Club ---- 1910 1911 60 J. Telford 209 Greenock St. John's Burns Jas. Ferguson, 18 Wellington St., Greenock !ii:.... Club ---- 1909 1909 50 Ian Smillie · .... t; No. Name Inst. Fed. Members President Secretary 212 Portobello Burns Club - - 1892 1913 60 Hugh C. Brown J. Stanley Cavaye, 40 Durham Terrace, Portobello, Edinburgh, 15 217 Eskdale Burns Club - 1886 1913 150 Mrs. Jean Dickson Mrs. Irene Armstrong, 13 Church Street, Annan 220 Burns Club of St. Louis - 1904 1913 30 Lamar W. McLeod Marvin D. McQueen, D'Arcy Advertising Co., 1226 Olive Street, Missouri, 63103, U.S.A. 226 Dumfries Burns Club - - 1820 1913 85 Provost E. Robertson John Tait, National Commercial Bank of Scotland, 151 High Street, Dumfries 236 Whitehaven Burns Club - 1914 1914 60 Dr. A. S. Smith G. Young, 9 Whalley Drive, Miagey, Whitehaven 237 Uddingston Masonic Burns Club ---- 1914 1914 30 Joseph Polson Arthur Downie, 89 Woodlands Crescent, Bothwell, Glasgow 238 Burns Club of Atlanta - - 1896 1914 78 William C. Lovejoy Jr. W. Richard Metcalfe, 112 Church Street, Decatur, Georgia, 30030, U.S.A. 239 Hawick Burns Club - 1878 1914 914 Edward Berridge Thomas Hunter, Albert Bridge, Hawick 242 Montrose Burns Club - - 1908 1915 108 Dr. W. G. Carson James F. Smeaton, 5 Whinfield Way, Mon- trose, Angus · 252 Alloway Burns Club - 1908 1918 140 William Hepburn James Wilson, 6 Doonholm Road, Alloway, Ayr 263 Glasgow Masonic Burns Club 1919 1919 180 Laurence Vallely Andrew T. Gordon, 20 Melrose Avenue, Rutherglen, Glasgow 274 Troon Burns Club - 1920 1920 135 Rev. Harold G. Reid T. Montgomery Brown, 36 West Portland Street, Troon 275 Ayr Burns Club - - 1886 1920 170 James Glass William Graham, M.A., 7 Fir Bank, Castlehill Estate, Ayr Secretary No. Name Inst. Fed. Members President 1898 1920 17 Clubs Hugh J. Watson J. A. Scott, c/o 200 Shieldhall Road, 282 The Burns Bowling Assoc. - Glasgow, S.W.1 1920 1920 24 J. D. Bease James Craib, 126 Valley Gardens, Kirk- 283 Sinclairtown Burns Club - caldy, Fife 284 Philadelphia North-eastern 1921 41 John McGlinchey Alex. Macdonald, 4203 E. Barnett Street Bums Club - - - 1896 Philadelphia, P.A., 19135, U.S.A. George Wilson Robert Dale, 5 Myrtle Bank, Beith 288 Beith Caledonia Bums Club - 1911 1921 40 293 Newcraighall District Poosie W. Duncan, 13 Rosefield Avenue, Porto- 1921 1921 24 John Mallinson Nansie Burns Club - - hello, Midlothian W. F. McKie, 21 Belvidere Road, Walsall, 1900 1922 160 G. Henderson 296 Walsall Burns Club - - Staffs. 303 Victoria St. Andrew's and Mrs. K. Inglis, 1208 Oliver St., Victoria, 1872 1922 225 Joseph C. Sutherland Caledonian Society - B.C., Canada 307 Edinburgh Ayrshire Associ- G. Laing, 50 Marrionville Dr., Edinburgh, 7 ation - 1914 1922 209 Wm. McGhie - - - K. G. Sutherland, Solicitor, Royal Bank 1910 1923 50 W. F. Speirs 309 Annan Burns Club - - Buildings, Annan D. I. Lyell, M.A., 77 Beechwood Road, 1923 1923 98 Hugh Rowe 310 Mauchline Burns Club - - Mauchline 314 Scottish Burns Club, Mrs. A. Bruce, 9 Victor Park Terr., Corstor- Edinburgh 1920 1923 59 Alex. Bruce, - - - A.M.lnst.T. phine, Edinburgh, 12 1924 66 Neil Laird Robert A. Barron, 124 Oakwood Avenue, 320 Troy Burns Club - - - 1903 Troy, New York, 12180, U.S.A. 1918 1924 95 James Anderson Adam Gray, Jnr., Ingleston, Borgue, Kirk- 323 Kirkcudbright Burns Cub - cudbrightshire -"""w -~--- -,

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t No. Name - Inst. Fed. Members President Secretary 326 Bingry Jolly Beggars Ladies' Burns Club - - - 1924 1924 42 Mrs. W. Letham 329 Newark and District Cal. Soc. 1923 1924 97 John Baird K. Bradshaw, Manthorpe Crescent, Sher- wood Vale, Notts. 336 Peterhead Bums Club - - 1826 1925 180 Dr. Daniel Gordon J.M. M. Smith, 13 Broad Street, Peterhead 340 Balemo Bums Club - - 1881 1965 34 J. Taylor George Orr, 10 Deanpark Grove, Balemo, Midlothian 341 Leith Bums Qub - 1826 - - 1925 65 William Brunton H. Robb, 6 Casselbank Street, Leith, Edinburgh, 6 344 Ladysmith (B.C.) Bums Club 1905 1925 18 Thos. B. Davidson Stuart R. Irvine, Box 327, Chemainus, B.C., Canada 346 Oakbank Mossgiel Bums Club 1923 1925 20 Mrs. Jean Millard Mrs. E. Walker, 33 Calderhall Avenue, East Calder, Midlothian 348 Newton Jean Armour Burns Club - 1924 1925 - - - 34 Mrs. Mary Inglis Mrs. Helen Kean, 98 Woodland Crescent, 349 Cambuslang, Glasgow The Howff Bums Oub - 1925 1925 38 - Alexander Shannon T.A. Ogilvy, 15 McLell~ndDr., Kilmarnock 350 Markinch Bums Club - 1899 1925 100 - Robert Muirhead John Reid, 16 Selkirk Street, Markinch, Fife 354 Royal Clan, Order of Scottish Clans - 1878 1926 15,767 - - - Robert Lochhead William Slater, 38 Chauncy Street, Boston, 11, Massachusetts, 355 U.S.A. Calcutta Bums Club - 1926 1926 88 - Rev. John W. Cook W. D. Bryden, Royal Exchange, 6 Netaji Subhas Road, Calcutta, 1, India ~ No. Name Inst. Fed. Members President Secretary ii": 356 Bumbank and Dist. Masonic Adam Russell Robert Johnston, 3 Backmuir Crescent, Bums Club --- 1826 1926 48 Hamilton · 360 Lochee Bums Club -- 1926 1926 68 A. M. Cowans Arthur J. McWalter, 36 Campbell Street, Dundee, Angus 363 Barrow St. Andrew's Society 1878 1926 133 Dr. W. J. Liddle, W. Eccles, 30 Dane Avenue, Barrow-in- M.B., F.R.C.S., E.D. Furness George Park James Y. Roxburgh, 28 John St., Catrine, 365 Catrine Burns Club -- 1925 1926 40 Mauchline, Ayrshire Miss C. M. Hutcheon Miss Margaret Brownlie, 452 Queen's 366 Liverpool Bums Club -- 1924 1926 93 Drive, Liverpool, 4 Dr. R. Fallows, M.B. George Dawes, "Glebelands", Main Street, 370 Dundonald Bums Club - 1963 1964 100 Dundonald, Ayrshire 377 Kilbirnie Rosebery Bums Club 1906 1927 78 William McConnachie George Dickie, 9 Borestone Ave., Kilbimie 378 Edinburgh Dist. Bums Clubs Association --- 1925 1927 13 Clubs AndrewY. Crawford R. A. B. McLaren, 11 South Lauder Road, Edinburgh, 9 Wm. S. Allen, 34 Trentbrooke Ave., West 379 The Hartlepools Bums Club - 1926 1927 85 Mrs. E. Metcalfe Hartlepool 387 Cambuslang Mary Campbell 1965 9 Mrs. M. Rennie Mrs. M. Easton, 65 Trossachs Road, Bums Club - Cathkin, Rutherglen 388 Kyle Ladies' Burns Club - 1925 1927 40 Mrs. Alex. Neilson Mrs. Jeanie Anderson, 200 Springhill Rd., Shotts, Lanarkshire · 392 Whiffiet Bums Club -- 1920 1928 40 David Kirk J.M. Camwath, "Beechwood", Park Street, . Coatbridge, Lanarkshire

~ 393 Annan Ladies' Bums Club - 1928 1928 150 Mrs. J. Knight Mrs. G. James, 15 Moat Road, Annan VI I

Secretary Name Inst. Fed. Members President ~No. George G. Shedden, 21 Redford Terrace, 398 Colinton Burns Club 1907 1928 S3 Mrs. K. Y. A. Bone, - - M.A. Colinton, Edinburgh, 13 401 Brig-en' (Waverley) Burns R. Agnew, 5 Greystone Ave., Dumfries Oub, Dumfries - - 1876 1928 30 Dr. W. D. Balfour John C. Wiseman James B. Kay, J.P., A.C.I.S., National 403 Fraserburgh Burns Club - 1928 1928 150 Commercial Bank of Scotland, 62 Broad Street, Fraserburgh William A. Allan, 26 Greystones Avenue, 405 Caledonian Soc. of Sheffield 1822 1929 500 Dr.R.G.M. Ledingham Sheffield, 11 413 St. Andrew Society of San Francisco 1863 1929 125 Charles U. Doig Amos W. Wright, 391 Sutter Street, San - -- Francisco, California, 94108, U.S.A. 417 Burnley and Dist. Caledonian Society - 1924 1929 111 Alex Forbes S. F. Scanlin, 9 Queens Park Road, Burnley, - - - Lanes. 426 Sauchie Bums Club 1929 1929 90 David Gow, J.P. David S. Robertson, 31 Craigbank, Sauchie, - - By Alloa, Clackmannanshire 430 Gourock Bums Club 1887 1929 98 Provost Robert D. Ferguson, M.A., "Rockside," 9 Albert - - Finnie Road, Gourock 436 Walney Jolly Beggars Ladies' Club- --- 1929 1930 130 Mrs. Joyce Murray Mrs. N. Betty, 93 Greengate Street, Barrow- in-Furness, Lanes. 437 Dumfries Ladies' Burns Club 1930 1930 86 Mrs. Schlag Mrs. Mary Shearer, 211 Lochside Road, Lochside, Dumfries 439 Barnsley and District Scottish Society - 1930 1930 71 J. A. Harrison C. L. Sutherland, "Woodleigh", Alver- -- - thorpe, Wakefield No. Name Inst. Fed. Members President Secretary 443 Victoria (B.C.) Burns Club - 1922 1931 66 Mrs. A. McKay Mrs. M. Ryles, 2393 Eastdowne Road, Victoria, B.C., Canada 444 SwanseaandWestWalesCale- donian Society -- 1921 1931 312 A. K. Miller J. Lightbody, 42 Fairy Grove, Killan, Swansea 446 Herefordshire Burns Club - 1910 1931 40 Dr. W. Moir Brown Norman MacLean, "Duart", Burghill, Hereford 452 Auchterderran Bonnie Jean Burns Club --- 1929 1931 20 Mrs. James Herd Mrs. H. Cook, 25 Balgreggie Road, Cardenden, Fife 453 North-Eastern Burns Club of Philadelphia Ladies' Aux. 1927 1931 60 Georgina Gormley Mary C. Christie, 4254 Ormond Street, Philadelphia, Pa., 19124, U.S.A. 454 Rotherham and Dist. Scottish Association --- 1924 1931 120 Mrs. G. W. Burnett W. Ingram, 10 Mortain Road, Moorgate, Rotherham 458 Stonehaven (Fatherland) Burns Club --- 1926 1932 122 W.R. Murray Mrs. Marjory Leiper, 5 John Street, Stone­ haven, Kincardineshire 461 Leicester Caledonian Society 1877 1932 300 George Large Mrs. J. H. Tootill, 53 Alfreton Road, Wigston Fields, Leicester LES IFB 462 Cheltenham Scottish Society- 1930 1932 179 Norman Robertson Major E. C. Fisher, Hamilton House, The Park, Cheltenham, Glos. 469 Denny Cross Burns Club - 1932 1932 25 Thomas Fergus Thomas Stocks, 64 Beech Crescent, Duni- pace, Stirlingshire ~ 470 St. Giles' Burns Club • • 1923 1932 80 John A. MacArthur G. E. Wallace, Dunord, Grant Street, Elgin ~ -, -_----1

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170 James Donnelly John G. Saunders, Past President, 796 476 Border Cities Burns Club - 1932 1933 Monmouth Rd., Windsor, Ont., Canada 492 Harrow and Dist. Caledonian Society 1928 1934 561 A. G. Esslemont R. M. Gowans, 40 St. Michael's Crescent, - -- - Pinner, Middlesex 494 Motherwell United Services Bums Club 1934 1934 85 F. Paterson Angus Cameron Allan, 322 Watson Street, --- Motherwell 497 St. Andrew Bums Club (Well- ington, N .Z.) - • - 1934 1934 130 A. E. Milne Miss B. Clark, P.O. Box 1049, Wellington, New Zealand 500 New Cumnock Burns Club - 1923 1934 200 Angus Armstrong W. C. G. Pearson, M.A., Schoolhouse, 33 Lanehead Terrace, New Curnnock 501 Galt Burns Club - - 1907 1935 74 Thos. Milne William Pettigrew, 34 Haddington, Galt, - Ontario, Canada 503 Dunblane Burns Club - 1923 1935 66 D. A. McNeil J.C. Sturrock, National Commercial Bank - of Scotland Ltd., Dunblane 510 l.C.I. Grangemouth Burns Club . 1935 1935 150 G. J. Richards I. M. Halkett, c/o l.C.I. Grangemouth - - - Recreation Club, Earl's Road, Grange- mouth, Stirlingshire 511 Perth (West Australia) Burns Club 1935 1935 65 A. Burns Mrs. J. Russell, 56 Carcoola Street, Nolla- - - - - mara, Perth, West Australia j No. Name Inst. Fed. Members President Secretary 516 Airts Burns Club, Prestonpans 1936 1959 40 James H. Bush Walter M. Muir, 89 Gardiner Road, Prestonpans, East Lothian 518 Ye Auld Cronies Masonic Burns Club (Cleveland, A. Whitelock W. G. McColl, 3800 Woodridge Road, Ohio) ---- 1935 1936 8 Cleveland Heights, Ohio, 44121, U.S.A. 520 Uddingston Lochlie Ladies' Burns Club --- 1935 1936 25 Mrs. C. D. Mrs. Janet Frew, 1 The Cottage, Bothwell Mcintosh Haugh, Bothwell 523 Highland Society of New J. Millar A. R. McKenzie, Post Office Box C 172, South Wales --- 1877 1936 143 Clarence Street Post Office, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia 530 Southern Scottish Counties Bums Association - ' - 1937 1937 18 Clubs Provost Ernest Mrs. M. Coulson, 10 Queensberry Court, Robertson Dumfries 534 Bedlington and District Bums Club ---- 1934 1937 114 Dr. John Brown R. B. Hamilton, 21 Rothesay Terrace, Bedlington, Northumberland 535 Plymouth and District Cale- 130 A. C. Bryson R. Stanley Scott, 45 Reddington Road, donian Society -- 1927 1937 Higher Compton, Plymouth 536 Whithorn and District Burns Club ---- 1937 1937 68 Rev. Angus W. R. G. S. Alexander, W.S., 58 George Street; Morrison, B.D. Whithorn, Newton Stewart 543 Abbey Craig Bums Club - 1935 1938 95 A. J. Gourlay A. J. Gourlay, "Fedra", Kier St., Bridge of Allan 547 Coalburn Miners Welfare Jolly Beggars --- 1966 1966 60 John Ross Alexander Logan, 17 Manse View, Coal­ burn, Lanark t ~~~1

-~No. Name Inst. Fed. Members President Secretary 548 Leeds Caledonian Society - 1894 1938 410 William Deans J. Parnham, North Lane Gardens, Round- hay, Leeds, 8 549 Bothwell Bonnie Lesley Ladies' Burns Club - 1938 1938 20 Mrs. Mary Cain Mrs. Frew, The Cottage, Bothwellhaugh, Bothwell, Lanarkshire 551 Scarborough Caledonian Soc. 1934 1938 125 Thomas Ferguson James A. Ruxton, 17 Chantry Road, East M.R.C.V.S. Ayton, Nr. Scarborough 553 Wolverhampton and District Caledonian Society - 1937 1937 130 L. S. Craigie, M.A. Dr. A. S. Neilson, "Dunelm", Oak Drive, off Ebstree Road, Seisdon, Staffs. 555 Harrogate St. Andrew's Soc. 1921 1938 239 Alex. Hamilton John C. McFarlane, 214 Woodfield Road, Harrogate 556 Caledonian Soc. of Doncaster 1883 1938 200 F. A. S. Johnstone Mrs. H. M. Yuile, 8 Ashton Avenue, Scawthorpe, Doncaster, Yorkshire 557 Ladies' Bums Club of Atlanta, Georgia - - - 1937 1938 17 Mrs. Logan D. Miss Anna Kothe, 1049 Greencove Avenue, Thomson N .E. Atlanta, Georgia, 30306, U .S.A. 559 Coventry and Dist. Cal. Soc. - 1911 1938 367 Dr. J. L. A. McVicker, A. M. McDowall, 15 Greensleeves Close, M.B.,Ch.B. Whitmore Park, Coventry 561 London (Ontario) Bums Club 1938 1939 50 James M. McArthur Eldon W. Mitchell, 171 Dundas Street, London, Ontario, Canada 562 Castle Douglas Burns Club - 1930 1939 75 Harry A. P. Waugh John C. Stoddart, 9 Ernespie Road, Castle Douglas 563 Norfolk Caledonian Society - 1934 1939 365 J. Henderson R. J. Forbes, 9 Broadhurst Road, Norwich, Norfolk, Nor 75 D 564 Winsome Willie Burns Club - 1939 1939 40 John Reid, M.A. John Fleming (pro tern), 20 Douglas Brown Avenue, Ochiltree, Ayrshire l ~ No. Name Inst. Fed. Members President Secretary 566 Scottish Society and Burns Club of Australia - - 1939 1939 120 Mrs. H. V. S. (Jean) Miss Grace C. Campbell, "Colingra," 238 London King Street, Mascot, 2020, N.S.W., Australia 568 D~el Burns Club 1938 1939 80 J. Gilliland William H. Irvine, 5 Paterson Terrace, - - Darvel, Ayrshire 570 The Scottish Clans Associ- ation of London, Ltd. 1898 1939 400 W. P. Raffan Mr. W. P. Raffan, M.Sc., F. Inst.P., 2 - Erridge Road, Merton Park, London, S.W.19 572 Chester Caledonian Assoc. 1884 1939 90 D. H. Bums T. S. Lea, Kirkton House, Hunter St., - Chester 515 Windsor (Ont.) Jean Armour Bums Club - - 1938 1939 37 Mrs. Myra Mrs. Bella Tough, 2437 Arthur Road, Sand - Mac Kendrick E, Windsor, Ontario, Canada 576 Fort Matilda Bums Club - 1934 1940 100 Leslie Bacon A. B. Hawkins, 9 Denholm Street, Greenock 577 Dalserf and Clydesdale Burns Club 1939 1940 30 William Tannahill William Crawford, 69 Tinto Crescent, - - - - Wishaw 578 Lanarkshire Assoc. of Bums Clubs 1924 1942 23 Clubs Thos. Boslem John McConnachie, 8 Bentfoot Road, -- - - Overtown, Wishaw 580 Cumbrae Burns Club 1896 1942 168 William Hall Jas. C. Allan, Craigengour, Millport, Isle of - - Cumbrae 581 Cumbemauld and Dist. Burns Club - -- - 1943 1943 40 John Boyle Thos. Stewart, 1 Carrick Road, Cumber- I nauld Mr. J. Stewart, 103 Braemar Drive, Falkirk -~ 582 Higginsneuk Bums Club - 1942 1943 30 R.Reid ---\

-~No. Name Inst. Fed. Members .President Secretary ( 585 Queen's Park Bowling Club Clarinda Burns Circle - 1930 1943 180 Walter Scott G. K. Connie, 607 Kilmarnock Road, Glasgow, S.3 592 Benwhat Burns Club - 1941 1944 80 James Hill Mr. Hodgson, 11 Dalton Avenue, Dai- - mellington, Ayr 593 Barrmill Jolly Beggars Burns Club - - 1944 1967 74 James Bryce Robert R. Fairlie, ·Gordonhill, Beith, Ayr- - - shire 594 Cuyahoga Burns Club 1934 1944 34 Robert F. Campbell Mrs. R. F. Campbell, 3797 Parkdale Road, - Cleveland Heights, Ohio, 44121, U.S.A. 597 The Burns Society of the City of New York -- 1871 1944 196 John M. Colby Robert W. Morrison, 1869 Cider Mill Road, Union, N.J. 07083, U.S.A. 606 Corby Stewarts & Lloyds' Burns Club --- 1944 1945 32 W. Montgomery, J.P. R. G. Baldwin, 56A Ribblesdale Ave., Corby, Northamptonshire 612 Torrance Masonic Social and Burns Club - - - 1928 1945 70 John McDonald Fred C .. Jordan, Past President, Loch- fauld Farm, Lambhill, Glasgow, N.W. 617 Reading and Dist. Caledonian Association - - - 1906 1946 200 R. C. Stuart Sturrock 618 Altrincham and Sale Cale- donian Society - 1945 1945 200 D.H. Watson J. G. B. Macgregor, 5 Fulford Road, Sale, - Cheshire 260 The Muirhead Burns Club - 1942 1945 120 J. N. Lawson A. R. Crawford, 4 York Drive, Falkirk I 626 Moffat and District Burns lI Club -- -- 1946 1946 59 Wm. McGregor Charles J. Young, 4 Eastgate, Moffat Secretary Members President No. Name Inst. Fed. Kinross Jolly Beggars Burns 627 100 John Arbuckle John Kidd, Little Aldie, Fossoway, Kinross Club - 1889 1946 - - - Alex. C. Cook, 4 School Terrace, Coals- 1946 90 William Looker 630 Coalsnaughton Bums Oub - 1945 naughton, Tillicoultry Mrs. Jean Anderson, 36 Linfern Avenue 1946 159 Thomas Anderson 632 Symington Burns Club - - 1946 East, Kilmarnock 637 Larkhall Applebank ·Burns John Perrie, 28 Westerton Ave., Strutherhill, . 1941 1946 28 D. Banks Club - . - Larkhall, Lanarkshire 646 The Clear Winding Devon Mrs. Doreen Gillis, 24 Parkgate, Alva, 50 J. K. Fox Alva Burns Club - - 1946 1947 Clackmannanshire Carron Bridge Cronies Bums Robert Cook, 29 Donaldson Ave., Kilsyth, 648 1947 35 Tom Baxter Qub, Kilsyth - - 1941 Stirlingshire 656 Dundonald Jean Armour Mrs. James Murdoch, 35 Denfield Gardens, 1947 28 Mrs. Barbara Burns Ladies' Burns Club - 1947 Cardenden, Fife D. Hutchison, 60 Stirling Road, Fallin, 1947 38 J. Young 657 Fallin Gothenberg Burns Club 1947 Stirling Mrs. L. M. Small, 60 Abernethy Road, 1947 130 Douglas Small 659 Dundee Bums Society • - 1896 Barnhill, Dundee Mrs. J. Telford, 25 Charles St. (new), 1947 1947 48 Miss Jenny Telford 660 Langholm Ladies' Burns Club Langholm 661 Leamington and Warwick 1947 70 Mrs. J. Haggarty J. B. Nichol, 31 Price Road, Cubbington, Caledonian Society . 1947 Leamington Spa, Warwickshire Vl -I.I.> --, I

I -~No. Name Inst. Fed. Members President Secretary 663 Bournemouth and Dist. Cale- donian Society . . 1907 1947 200 P. Campbell A. F. Shapley, 5 Berwick Road, Talbot Woods, Bournemouth 664 West Kilbride Burns Club . 1947 1947 220 Robert Jack, M.A. George Meikle, 1 Summerlea Road, Seamill, West Kilbride 665 Gartmom Ladies' Bums Club 1947 1948 36 Mrs. C. Fudge Mrs. Jane Dolan, 88 Gartmorn Road, Sauchie, by Alloa 667 Thornton and District Tam o' Shanter Burns Club . 1902 1948 70 J. Galloway J. W. Brodie, 73 Milton Rd., Kirkcaldy, Fife 671 St. Andrew's Cronies Burns aub . . . . 1947 1949 135 William Millar James Muir, 71 Fleming Crescent, Irvine 674 Manchester and Salford Cale- donian Association . 1890 1948 250 L. M. Angus- Mrs. F. S. Wenborn, 8 Firs Avenue, Firs- Butterworth, wood, Manchester, 16 M.A., F.S.A.Scot. 679 Tullibody and Cambus Burns aub . . . - 1947 1948 60 Mrs. M. Hepburn Mrs. W. G. Stewart, 17 Park Terrace, Tullibody, Clackmannanshire 681 The Cronies Burns Club, Kil- . marnock. - . 1948 1948 24 A. Oliver A. Oliver, 87 Main Road, Fenwick, Kil- marnock 683 Stratford-upon-Avon and Dist. Caledonian Society - 1947 1948 80 Miss G. Scott Mrs. A. Sinton, 5 Highfield Road, Stratford- upon-Avon 686 Banchory Burns and Social Club . . . . 1947 1948 100 R. Stephen Douglas Brand, Braehead Cottage, Turfgate, Finzean, Banchory, AB3 SEE Secretary No. Name Inst. Fed. Members President 688 Kirkcaldy Poosie Nansie 1939 1949 31 Mrs. A. Smith Mrs. Edith Mitchell, 66 Lady Nairn Avenue, Ladies' Burns Club - - Kirkcaldy 1949 1949 30 John McClumpha John Davidson, 94 Randolph Crescent, 690 Pirnhall Burns Club - - Bannockburn 1949 1949 69 D. F. MacDougall Mrs. LeslieS. Pollitt, Woodboume, 18 Glen- 691 Inverness Burns Club - - urquhart Road, Inverness

693 Masonic Bums Club, Kirk- Ross, 4A Atkinson Place, cudbright 1949 1949 77 Thos. A. Sproat Andrew S. - - - Kirkcudbright 695 Kilmaronock Bums Club 1949 1949 36 George A. Franklin Miss May Caldwell, Mid Gartochan Farm, (Dunbartonshire) - - By Alexandria, Dunbartonshire 696 Whitley Bay and Dist. Society 1930 1949 250 Mr. J.B. Robertson Miss Jessie H. Colville, 60 Park Parade, of St. Andrew - - Whitley Bay Turriff Bums Club 1920 1949 50 J. F. Brown L. G. A. Ruxton, Dundrennan, St. Andrew's 698 - - Drive, Turriff

699 Choppington Burns Club 1948 1949 40 J. Devine J.E. Godden, 91 East Green, Choppington, - Northumberland

701 The Detroit Burns Club 1912 1949 75 William T. Johnstone Sam R. Dickey, 4700 Curtis Ave., Dearborn, - Michigan, U.S.A. 48126 706 North Lindsey Scots Society - 1927 1949 170 Mrs. D. S. Ferguson Mrs. G. A. Brownbridge, 12 Malvern Road, Scunthorpe, Lines. 707 Malvern Scots Club 1945 1949 171 A. S. Young Mrs. S. Harrison, 10 Mason Close, Malvern, - - Worcs. VI -VI I

I -VI No. Name Inst. Fed. Members President Secretary °' 710 Bums Literary Society of Toronto 1896 1950 '10 Brig. Colin A. Lt.-Cmdr. Allan C. MacNeish, 440 Eglinton - - - Campbell, D.S.O., Avenue E., Suite 203, Toronto 12, Canada O.B.E. 711 The Victorian Scottish Union 1905 1950 A. J. Erskine F. R. Stewart, 46 Donald Street, Footscray, Victoria, Australia 716 Royal Caledonian Society of 1856 1950 E. McPhee H. R. McKenzie, 14 Queen's Road, Mel- . Melbourne - · - bourne, Australia 718 The St. Andrew Society of York - - • - 1894 1950 280 A. Forster, M.Sc. R. R. Ferguson, 34 Ashley Park Road, Stockton Lane, York 719 Chelmsford and Dist. Scottish Society - - - - 1934 1950 120 T. Gemmill D. A. Hodge, The Sheiling, White Hart Lane, Springfield, Chelmsford 720 Retford and Dist. Caledonian Society - - - 1949 1950 86 Mrs. H. N. Shipman Mrs. D. I. Walker, 37 Harewood Avenue, - Retford, Notts. 721 The Plymouth Burns Club - 1948 1950 175 James Davie Mrs. W. Ross Baxter, 35 The Knoll, Wood- ford, Plympton, S. Devon 722 Bridlington and District Cale- donian Society - - 1949 1950 60 George Clark Mrs. E. Penrose, 201 Sewerby Road, Brid- lington, Yorks. 723 Strathpeffer Burns Club - 1920 1950 87 John McLintock, William S. Fairholm, M.B.E., B.E.M., M.A.,LL.B. Ardival Terr, Strathpeffer, Ross-shire 725 Ben Cleuch Burns Club- 1936 1950 63 A. M. Stalker J. H. Reid, 13 Chapelle Crescent, Tilli- - coultry, Clackmannanshire 726 Melbourne Burns Club - 1950 1951 58 Arnold Woods Mrs. Stella M. Brown, 10 Elgar Road, - Burwood, Victoria, 3125, Australia President Secretary No. Name Inst. Fed. Members 727 The St. Andrew Society of Loudon P. Hamilton Mr. Per Bergenholz, 2B Vesterbrogade, Denmark - - - 1949 1951 304 1620 Copenhagen, V., Denmark Bachelors' Club Committee, 728 1951 13 Robert Jack, M.A. Charles H. Garven, 16 West Port, Tarbolton, Tarbolton - - - 1951 Ayrshire R. G. Hamilton, "Dunbeath", Wigtown, Wigtown Burns Club 1905 1951 50 Gordon Samuel 730 - - Henry Scotland W. Muir, 101 High Street, Prestonpans, 1949 1952 68 James Hewitt 740 Thorntree Mystic Burns Club East Lothian 1952 44 W. Thomson James Marshall, 4 Oak Crescent, Plean, 741 Plean Burns Club - - - 1952 Stirlingshire 742 The Scots Soc. of St. Andrew, A. M. Swan, 41 Catton Grove Rd., Nor- 1830 1952 54 Dr. H. G. Smith Norwich - - - wich Mrs. C. Lewis, 86 Mill Lane, Chadwell 1931 1952 171 Mrs. A. Semple 743 The Romford Scottish Assoc. Heath, Essex 744 Durham and Dist. Caledonian 1950 1952 250 J. S. Tait Mrs. E.T. Duncan, Leprechaun, Belmont, Society - - - - Durham 745 Northumberland and Durham 1952 500 Dr. Ian Airlie J. G. Gall, 145 Osborne Road, Jesmond, Caledonian Society - 1924 Newcastle-on-Tyne, NE2-3JU 746 Grimsby and Dist. Caledonian 1906 1952 112 T. Milne Reg. Hom, 40 Connaugh Avenue, Grimsby, Society - - - - Lines. 1940 1953 32 Thomas Bates, Jun. William Dunlop, "Woodside," Neilston 748 Ouplaymuir Bums Club - Road, Uplawmoor, Glasgow u. -~ -~ No. Name Inst. Fed. Members President Secretary ( 751 Worcester Scots Society - 1949 1953 100 N. A. Pringle Mrs. Davina W. Tanner, 15 Silverdale Avenue, Worcester 753 Westmorland St. Andrew Soc. 1938 1953 150 V. W. N. Forrest G. M. Miller, 96 Oxenholme Road, Kendal, Westmorland 754 Thornton Cleveleys and Dist. Scottish Society -- 1951 1953 70 D. Scott Ireland A. A. Geddes, 50 Westmorland Avenue, Cleveleys, Blackpool 758 Bath and District Caledonian Society ---- 1900 1953 100 Joseph Gourlay Mrs. M. Brady, 16la Winsley, Bradford-on- Avon 759 Sunderland and District Cale- donian Society -- 1950 1953 112 William B. Paul Mrs. D. W. Jackson, 10 Valebrooke, Tunstall Rd., Sunderland, Co. Durham 761 Kirkton Bonnie Jean Burns Club, Carluke -- 1953 1953 40 James Barr, M.A. John Stewart, 46 Muir Street, Law, by Carluke, Lanarkshire 763 Wakefield Caledonian Society 1953 1953 140 Margaret Baughen Mrs. E. Young, 54 Silcoate Lane, Wakefield 766 Glencoe and Dist. Burns Club 1953 1953 37 J. Glenday I. W. McColl, Rob Roy Road, Kinloch- leven, Argyll 768 Auchterderran Jolly Beggars Burns Club --- 1912 1954 54 Thomas Herd James Penman, 12 Balderran Drive, Car- dcnden, Fife 769 Robert Bruce Burns Club - 1953 1954 50 John Russell Andrew M. Barclay, 17 Bruce Street, Oack- mannan, by Alloa 772 Prestwick Burns Club ~ - 1954 1954 60 Alex. Purdon S. M. Smith, 2 Duart Avenue, Prestwick, Ayrshire 773 Cumnock Cronies Burns Club 1910 1954 35 Robert William James Clark, 40 McCall Avenue, Cumnock McTurk Secretary No. Name Inst. Fed. Members President 774 Gloucester and Dist. Scottish 1949 1954 75 W.R. Davidson Mrs. M. Henderson, 83 Lilliesfield Avenue, Society - - - - Bamwood, Gloucester 775 The Hartlepools Caledonian 1899 1954 172 David A. Renton Hugh Gordon, The Riggs, Cresswell Road, Society - - - - Hartlepool 777 Nuneaton and Dist. Scottish 1949 1954 137 G. Herbert Dr. M.A. Macaulay, 48 Manor Park Road, Society - - - - Nuneaton, Warwickshire 1954 A. M. Campbell R. B. Blair Wilkie, M.A., 4 Clouston Street, 778 Glasgow Highland Burns Club Glasgow, N.W. Miss Jean Bisset, "Santa Rosa," Little Isle of Man Caledonian Soc. - 1920 1955 250 H. D. McLeod, 780 F.Z.S., M.H.K., Switzerland, Douglas, Isle of Man M.C. 1953 1955 30 Henry Hall Henry Wilson, 8 Bain Street, Devonside, 781 Ochil View Burns Club- - By Tillicoultry R. Donaldson, C.A., 19 The Square, Kelso 784 Kelso Burns Club - - 1951 1955 70 Charles Young D. M. Austin, 74 Stile Croft, Harlow, Essex 788 Harlow and Dist. Cal. Soc. - 1955 145 John Millar 1946 1955 60 William Henderson Mrs. D. Doyle, 5 Lanac Road, Stratton St. 791 Swindon and Dist. Cal. Soc. Margaret, Swindon 795 Longcroft, Bonnybridge and 1955 1956 36 D.H. Mann David Mann, 31 Mansfield Avenue, Bonny- District Bums Club - - bridge · 796 Gateshead and District St. Andrew's Society - 1955 1956 50 Miss Christine Mrs. Crozier, 1 Cyprus Gardens, Lowfell, - Hawke Gateshead, 9 VI -\0 --:

I -~No. Name Inst. Fed. Members President Secretary 803 Bow hill People's Burns Club - 1940 1957 75 Jas. Gillies James Ewan, 39 Kirkbum Drive, Carden- den, Fife 808 Pontefract & Dist. Cal. Soc. - 1956 1957 170 A. A. Kidd Miss V. McLeod, Cairn-Catto, Carleton Green, Pontefract 809 Allanton Jolly Beggars Burns Club ---- 1957 1957 21 Abe Train Mrs. Elizabeth Train, 71 Woodside Cres., Newmains, Lanarkshire 811 Logangate Burns Club - - 1957 1957 70 James McKechnie Walter Hall, sen., 34 Boswell Crescent, Logan, Cumnock, Ayrshire 812 St. Andrew's Soc. of Bradford 1886 1957 162 A.J. Adams, Alex. Mcintosh, 20 Emm Lane, Bradford, 9, B.Sc., M.R.C.V.S. Yorkshire 813 Tranent "25" Burns Club - 1892 1958 46 Robert Watt George Murdoch, 63 New Row, Tranent, East Lothian 815 B.M.K. (Netherton) Burns Club - -- - 1958 1958 27 Andrew Wilson David Orr, 39 Hemphill View. Knocken- tiber, Crosshouse, Kilmarnock 818 Dalbeattie & Dist. Burns Qub 1958 1958 40 James Campbell Ewan C. Mair, Briardale, Haugh Road, Dalbeattie, Kirkcudbrightshire 821 Ayr Masonic Burns Club - 1919 1958 21 John Young Chas. P. Stroyan, 50BentfieldDr., Prestwick 822 Mansfield Dist. Cal. Society - 1952 1959 60 William Edgar T. S. Robertson, 5 Oxton Clase, Mansfield, Notts. 824 Stirling, Clackmannan and West Perthshire Assoc. of Fed. Clubs - - 1946 1959 36 Clubs D. Mclldowie Mrs. W. G. Stewart, 17 Park Terrace, Tulli- - body Secretary No. Name Inst. Fed. MemberJ PreJident r 825 The "Clarinda" Ladies Bums -- 1959 1959 75 Mrs. B. Hutton Miss Helen R. Wilson, 56 Leamington Club, Edinburgh Terrace, Edinburgh, 10 826 Bums Society of Charlotte, 2417 Bay Street, Carolina -- 1955 1959 115 Wm. E. McGregor Mrs. W. S. Steven, North Charlotte, North Carolina 28205, U.S.A. Ward Community 827 Zetland Chisholm, 27 Tweed St., Grange- Association --- 1955 1959 200 Police Judge Daniel William Mathew mouth Ross, Hillside, Carrick, Lochgoilhead 831 Lochgoilhead Burns Club - 1960 1960 32 Robert Armstrong Ian Balbedie Ave., Lochore, Rig Bums Club 1959 1960 30 William Renton David Drylie, 74 832 Lochore Lea Fife and 833 Alloa "Crown" Bums Ashley Terrace, Alloa Social Club --- 1948 1960 60 J. McConnell D. O'May, 115

834 St. Andrew's Soc. (Altrinc- House, St. ham, Sale and District) - 1959 1960 150 Mrs. S. E. Hazeldine T. C. Lochead, Devisdale Margaret's Rd., Bowdon, Altrincham Alma Road, Fort 835 Lochaber Bums Club - - 1959 1960 50 Archd. MacFarlane George Clark, 42b William, Inverness-shire Burns 836 Hornsea and District Edenfield Club ---- 1960 1960 80 Mrs. L. Jacobsen Mrs. J. W. Banks, "Ballendean," Avenue, Homsea, E. Yorks.

839 Coldstream - - 1888 1961 102 H. D. Langmack, William Jackson, Homestead, Hirsel, Cold- J.P. stream, Berwickshire °'- ~---, i '

I -~ No. Name Inst. Fed. Members President Secretary 841 Robert Burns Association of Montreal, Canada -- 1955 1961 125 Edmund E. Wheeler James Murray, 5202 Walkley Avenue, Apt. 1, Montreal, 28, Quebec 842 "Ye Bonnie Doon" Burns Club, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada ---- 1932 1961 57 William Lambie Mrs. J. cassiday, 459 Franklin Road, Hamilton, Ontario 845 Tam o' Shanter, Coventry - 1959 1961 300 A. Shannon James McCaw, 204 Sedgemoor Rd., Stone­ house Estate, Coventry, Warwickshire 849 Jean Armour, Sauchie -- 1956 1961 60 James Westwood Russell Henderson, Mansefield Arms, Sauchie, Alloa, Clackmannanshire 851 Auckland Burns Association- 1959 1962 45 A. S. Weir Mrs. Kate Weir, 73 Moana Avenue, Auck­ land, 6, New Zealand 852 Fishcross Jolly Beggars - 1962 1962 100 George McCaig Phillip Mullen, 22 Pitcairn Road, Fishcross, Alloa, Clackmannanshire 854 North-East Midlands Assoc. of Scottish Societies - 1956 1962 24 Socs. William A. Allan Mrs. J. A. Irvine, "Ulvescroft", 67 Bonet Lane, Brinsworth, Rotherham 859 Eglinton Burns Club, Irvine - 1960 1963 130 R. Whyte J. J. Caldwell, Eglinton Arms Hotel, Irvine 860 Southland Burns Club, New Zealand- --- 1962 1963 93 William Adam Mrs. Jane L. Bone, 220 Pomona Street, lnvercargill, New Zealand 861 caI. Soc. of Lincoln - 1948 1963 72 Peter McOwat, B.Sc. William G. Hughson, 33 Boston Rd., A.M.I.Mech.E. Sleaford, Lines. 862 Market Rasen and District Scottish Association - 1960 1963 140 E. A. Gass C. B. Grant, Glebe Farm, Swinhope, Binbrook, Lincoln l No. Name Inst. Fed. Members President Secretary I"' 863 Ballarat and Dist. Caledonian - 1907 1963 106 P. Stevenson Donald Robinson, 1328 Sturt St., Ballarat, Society - - - - Victoria, Australia Foresters Arms Burns Club - 1960 1963 35 L. Pope P. Ward, 63 Gillies Hill, Cambusbarron, 865 Stirling 866 Heanor and Dist. Caledonian Society - 1955 1963 110 James W. Paterson Mrs. N. Green, 23 St. Johns Road, Smalley, - - - Derby Port Adelaide Men's Burns 869 Frederick E. Benger, 37 Tapley's Hill Road, Club 1963 1963 22 John S. Hynd - - - - Hendon, South Australia 870 Scottish Bums Association of 1961 1964 120 Mrs. J. Wilkie Robert R. Matson, 14 Woods Avenue, W. Massachusetts - - Somerville, Massachusetts, 02144, U.S.A. W. A. Campbell, 106 Colchester Road, 872 East Midland Scottish Socs. - 1949 1964 8 Socs. Dr. Wm. Marshall, O.B.E. Leceister, LE5-2DG 873 Tam o' Shanter Club, Ndola, Zambia - 1961 1964 48 A. G. Beveridge Douglas G. B. Dalling, P.O. Box 886, - - - Ndola, Republic of Zambia

874 Melbourne Masonic Club 1963 1964 76 F. Lang J. Brand, 37 Somerville Road, Yarraville, - Melbourne, Australia 876 Tullibody Working Men's Bums Club -- - 1964 1965 40 D. Steel G. Penman, 42 Stirling Rd., Tullibody 877 Montreal Caledonian Society 1855 1965 157 Rev. A. G. Hasson, G. N. Diack, 11835 Lavigne Street, Mon- M.A., B.D., S.T.M. treal, 9, P.Q. Canada 878 Worksop Bums & Cal. Club - 1965 1965 80 Patrick McHale T. H. English, 166 Raymoth Lane, ... Worksop, Notts . $ ---i I

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I ~No. Name Inst. Fed. Members President Secretary 879 Dreghom Burns Cub - 1965 1965 45 W.R. F. McMurtrie J. Young, "Rhoda," 41 Dundonald Road, - Dreghom, Ayrshire

880 Otley and Dist. Cal. Society - 1960 1965 108 George Ballingall Mrs. Marion Firth, 22 Thackley View, Thackley, Bradford

881 Rugeley & Dist. Bums Club - 1966 1966 200 R. Cochrane D. Lorimer, 30 Carlisle Road, Cannock, Staffs.

882 Canberra Highland Society & Bums Club 1924 1966 437 Ron V. Kelly Mrs. Betty Schmidt, P.O. Box 69, Kingston, - - - Canberra A.C.T., 2604, Australia

884 Fife Burns Assoc. - 1964 1966 6 Clubs James Gillies Hugh Banks, 22 Balgreggie Park, Carden- - - den, Fife

885 Motherwell & Wishaw Miners Welfare Bums Club - 1966 1967 80 David Murray Jas. Matthews, 48 Sannox Dr., Motherwell 886 Dalserf & District Bums Club 1966 1967 28 Robert Smith Claude Lambie, 16 Rorison Place, Ashgill, Larkhall 887 Gainsborough & District Cale- donian Society 1952 1967 34 Mrs. E. E. Reid Mrs. L. W. Reid, Lea Rig, 152 Lea Road, -- Gainsborough 888 Vancouver Bums Club - 1967 1967 20 George A. McNicol Mrs. Doris Lawrie, 3284 W. 14th Avenue, - Vancouver, 8, B.C. 889 A.E.I. Motherwell "Bonnie Jean" Burns Club - 1967 1967 so T. Wright R. B. Cleland, 16 McCh.rrg Court, Mother- - well President Secretary -~No. Name Inst. Fed. Members The Wollongong Burns Soc. - 1966 1967 50 Wm. C. Scott Thos. Newall, B.Sc., 92 Robson Road, 890 Keiraville, Via Wollongong, N.S.W., Australia 891 Fallin Miners Welfare Burns 1965 1967 50 John Hunter Duncan MacFarlane, 17 King Street, Fallin, Club - - - - by Stirling R. Campbell, "Castle View'', 5 Seagate, Ayrshire Metal Products Burns 1966 1968 170 James Miller, 892 Irvine Club - F.C.W.A., - - - A.A.C.C.A. Walter McFarlane Tom Bennet, 127 Fourth Avenue W., 893 North Bay Burns Club, Ont. 1968 1968 81 Sen. North Bay, Ontario, Canada John J. Cole, 119 Sigston Road, Beverley, Beverley & Dist. Cal. Soc. 1967 1968 91 Rev. James Bruce- 894 - Hannah Yorkshire 1968 1968 38 John Johnstone Allen D. Campbell, 5 Keir Street, Bridge of 895 Westerton Arms Burns Club - Allan, Stirlingshire ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CLUBS

No. No. 543 Abbey Craig 76 Brechin 40 Aberdeen 49 Bridgeton 889 A.E.I. (Motherwell) "Bonnie 722 Bridlington Jean" 401 Brig-en' (Waverley) 20 Airdrie 120 Bristol 516 Airts Burns Club 356 Burnbank 2 Alexandria 417 Burnley 809 Allanton Jolly Beggars 282 Bums Bowling Association 833 Alloa "Crown" Burns Club 112 Burns Howff 252 Alloway 597 Bums Society of the City of 618 Altrincham Caledonian Soc. New York 309 Annan 355 Calcutta 393 ---Ladies 4 Callander 82 Arbroath 387 Cambuslang Mary Campbell 238 Atlanta 882 Canberra Highland Society 557 ---Ladies 71 Carlisle 452 Auchterderran Bonnie Jean 761 Carluke 768 ---Jolly Beggars 648 Carron Bridge Cronies 851 Auckland Burns Association 562 Castle Douglas 566 Australia, Scot. Soc. of 365 Catrine 275 Ayr 719 Chelmsford 821 Ayr Masonic 462 Cheltenham 192 Ayrshire Assoc. 572 Chester Caled. Assoc. 892 Ayrshire Metal Products 11 Chesterfield 728 Bachelors' Club (Tarbolton) 699 Choppington 340 Balemo 646 Clear Winding Devon Alva 863 Ballarat & Dist. Caledonian 547 Coalburn Jolly Beggars Society, Victoria 630 Coalsnaughton 686 Banchory 839 Coldstream 439 Barnsley 398 Colinton 593 Barrmill Jolly Beggars 606 Corby 363 Barrow 559 Coventry 758 Bath and District 845 Coventry Tam o' Shanter 534 Bedlington and District 581 Cumbemauld 288 Beith 580 Cumbrae 15 Belfast 45 Cumnock 725 Ben Cleuch 773 ---Cronies 592 Benwhat 62 Cupar 894 Beverley & District Caledonian 594 Cuyahoga County Society 818 Dalbeattie and District 326 Bingry Ladies 179 Dailly Jolly Beggars 167 Birmingham 35 Dairy 815 B.M.K. (Netherton) 577 Dalserf and Clydesdale 95 Bolton 886 Dalserf and District 476 Border Cities (Ont.) 158 Darlington 549 Bothwell Bonnie Lesley Ladies 568 Darvel 663 Bournemouth 469 Denny Cross 803 Bowhill People's Club 55 Derby

'\\ ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CLUBS 167 No. No. 701 Detroit 492 Harrow 37 Dollar 349 Howff, Kilmarnock 556 Doncaster 379 Hartlepools Burns Club 879 Dreghorn 775 --Cal. Soc. 10 Dumbarton 239 Hawick 226 Dumfries 866 Heanor and District Cal. 437 --Ladies No. 1 Society 503 Dunblane 446 Herefordshire 14 Dundee 582 Higginsneuk 659 --Burns Society 836 Hornsea and District 656 Dundonald Jean Armour Ladies 510 I.C.I. Grangemouth 370 Dundonald Burns Club 691 Inverness 69 Dunedin N.Z. 173 Irvine 85 Dunfermline 859 Irvine Eglinton Burns Oub 744 Durham Caled. Soc. 780 Isle of Man 872 East Midlands Scottish Soc. 348 Jean Armour (Newton) 22 Edinburgh 849 Jean Armour, Sauchie 307 --·- Ayrshire Assoc. 96 Jedburgh 825 --Clarinda Ladies Burns 784 Kelso Club 377 Kilbirnie 378 --District Assoc. 0 Kilmarnock 149 Elgin 681 ---Cronies 217 Eskdale 695 Kilmaronock (Dunbartonshire) 5 Ercildoune Burns Club 627 Kinross Jolly Beggars 126 Falkirk 323 Kirkcudbright 657 Fallin Gothenberg 693 ---Masonic 891 Fallin Miners Welfare 388 Kyle Ladies 884 Fife Burns Association 344 Ladysmith (B.C.) 852 Fishcross Jolly Beggars 578 Lanarkshire B.C.A. 865 Foresters Arms BurnsClub 660 Langholm Ladies (Cambusbarron) 637 Larkhall Applebank 576 Fort Matilda 661 Leamington and Warwick 403 Fraser burgh 548 Leeds Caledonian Society 887 Gainsborough and District 461 Leicester 187 Galashiels 341 Leith 501 Galt 861 Lincoln Caledonian Society 665 Gartmorn Ladies 366 Liverpool 796 Gateshead and District 360 Lochee 169 Glasgow Assoc. 835 Lochaber Burns Club 263 --Masonic 831 Lochgoilhead Burns Club 778 Glasgow Highland 832 Lochore Lea Rig Burns Club 766 Glencoe 811 Logangate, Cumnock 774 Gloucester Scottish Society 1 London 198 Gorebridge 570 --- Clans Assoc. 430 Gourock 561 London (Ontario) 59 Gourock Jolly Beggars 183 Londonderry 116 Greenloaning 795 Longcroft and District 21 Greenock 707 Malvern Scots Oub 209 --St. John's 674 Manchester and Salford 746 Grimsby 822 Mansfield Cal. Socy. 33 Haggis 862 Market Rasen and District 152 Hamilton Scottish Association 121 Hamilton Junior 350 Markinch 842 Hamilton, Ontario 870 Massachusetts 788 Harlow and District 310 Mauchline SSS Harrogate 726 Melbourne

I I l . ___) 168 ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CLUBS

No. No. 874 Melbourne Masonic 720 Retford 716 --.- Royal Caled. Society 769 Robert Bruce (Clackmannan) 626 Moffat and District 743 Romford Scott. Assoc. 877 Montreal Cal. Soc. 36 Rosebery (Glas.) 841 Montreal Robert Burns 454 Rotherham Association 354 Royal Clan 9 Royalty 242 Montrose Rugeley and District 494 Motherwell United Services 881 834 St. Andrew's Society 885 Motherwell and Wishaw (Altrincham, Sale & District) 620 Muirhead 812 St. Andrew's Soc. of Bradford 74 National Memorial St. Andrew Soc. of Denmark Ndola Tam o' Shanter 727 873 671 St. Andrew's Cronies, Irvine 500 NewCumnock St. Giles, Elgin N.S.W. Highland Soc. 470 523 220 St. Louis 329 Newark 413 San Francisco 133 Newarthill 68 Sandyford 199 Newbattle 426 Sauchie 293 Newcraighall Scarborough Ninety 551 124 314 Scottish (Edin.) 563 Norfolk 153 Scottish (Glas.) 893 North Bay, Ontario Sheffield 826 North Carolina 405 North Lindsey Scots Society 283 Sinclairtown 706 530 Southern Scot. Counties 745 Northumberland and Durham Southland B.C., New Zealand Caled. Soc. 860 50 Stirling 854 North-East Midlands Assoc. 824 Stirling, Clackmannan and of Scottish Societies West Perth Assoc. 742 Norwich Scots Society 458 Stonehaven 17 Nottingham 683 Stratford upon Avon 777 Nuneaton 42 Strathearn 346 Oakbank 723 Strathpeffer 781 Ochil View 89 Sunderland 880 Otley and District 159 Sunderland and Dist. Cal. 748 Ouplaymuir Society 48 Paisley 444 Swansea 72 Partick 632 Symington 511 Perth (West Australia) 791 Swindon Caledonian Society 336 Peterhead 7 Thistle (Glasgow) 284 Philadelphia North-eastern 754 Thornton Cleveleys 453 --Ladies 667 Thornton (Fife) 690 Pim Hall 740 Thomtree 741 Plean 710 Toronto 721 Plymouth 612 Torrance Masonic 535 Plymouth Caledonian Soc. 813 Tranent "25" 808 Pontefract 274 Troon 688 Poosie Nansie Ladies 320 Troy Kirkcaldy 679 Tullibody and Cambus 869 Port Adelaide Men's Club 876 Tullibody Working Men's Club 190 Port-Glasgow 698 Turriff 212 Portobello 520 Uddingston Lochlie Ladies 772 Prestwick 237 Uddingston Masonic 585 Queen's Park Clarinda 888 Vancouver 617 Reading Caledonian Assoc. 303 Victoria St. Andrew's Soc. 176 Renfrew Bums Club 443 --Bums Club 472 Renfrewshire Assoc. 711 Victorian Scottish Union ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CLUBS 169

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