The Life and Letters of Hugh Miller
2 Volume Set

Table of Contents

Volume 1: Book I. The Boy:
1. Birth, parentage, and first impressions
2. Dame school
3. The Doocot Cave
4. First glimpse of the Sutherland Highlands
Book II. The Apprentice:
1. Boyish magazines
2. Early friendships
3. Conon-side
4. Returns to Conon-side
Book III. The Journeyman:
1. Favourable opinions from old David Wright and Uncle James
2. Gairloch
3. Comes of age
4. Niddrie
5. The stone-cutter's disease
6. Poems addressed to Ross
7. Poverty, honourable and dishonourable
8. Miller at twenty-six
9. Seeks work in Inverness unsuccessfully
10. Resumes work as a stone-cutter at Cromarty
11. Miller and his new friends
12. Miller's political views
13. Miss Fraser
14. New outlook in life
15. Letters to Miss Dunbar of Boath
16. Two letters on religion
17. Miscellaneous letters. Volume 2: Book IV. The Bank Accountant:
1. Offer of a situation
2. His first prose book
3. Death of Miss Dunbar
4. Letters to Miss Fraser, Finlay, and Dr. Waldie
5. Marriage
6. Science in the ascendant
7. The Cromarty Fast-day
Book V. Editor:
1. Non-intrusion
2. Letter to Lord Brougham
3. At the editorial desk
4. The disruption
5. Difference with Dr. Candlish
Book VI. Man of Science:
1. The Old Red Sandstone
2. Science and Religion
3. The last Edinburgh period
4. Closing scenes.