[3] In 1786, Burns wrote in his poem "Address to Edinburgh" that "Dear as th' raptur'd thrill of joy; / Fair B––– strikes th' adoring eye".
When the poem was reprinted, Burns added in a footnote: "Fair B. is heavenly Miss Burnet, daughter to Lord Monboddo, at whose house I have had the honour to be more than once.
There has not been anything nearly like her in all the combinations of beauty, grace, and goodness the great Creator has formed since Milton's Eve on the first day of her existence.
[6][7] Elizabeth is buried, along with her father, whom she pre-deceased by almost a decade, in Greyfriars Kirkyard near Edinburgh Castle where they both have unmarked graves in the burial enclosure of Patrick Grant of Elchies.
[8][9] A portrait engraving of a young woman who is believed to be Elizabeth, dated 1814, is preserved at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum at Alloway in Ayr.