Chapter XVI: Appendix

The letters of Thoreau, early or late, which did not reach me in time to be used in the original edition of this book, and have since appeared in print here and there, are included either in order of their date in the preceding pages (in the case of the additional Ricketson letters) or in this Appendix. I owe the right to use the following correspondence to Mr. E. H. Russell of Worcester and to Dr. S. A. Jones of Ann Arbor, Michigan, who first obtained from the family of Calvin H. Greene of Rochester, Michigan, the Greene letters, five in number, all short, but characteristic. Dr. Jones printed these in a small edition at Jamaica, N. Y., and along with them some letters of Miss Sophia Thoreau to Mr. Greene, and portions of Greene's Diary during his two visits to Concord in September, 1863, and August, 1874. In these papers he left initials, or letters commonly used for unknown quantities, to stand for certain names occurring there. "X." and "X. Y. Z." in this Diary, and in Miss Thoreau's letters, signify Ellery Channing, to whom in March, 1863, Mr. Greene had sent the manzanita cane, headed with buffalo-horn and tipped with silver, which he had made with his own hands and intended for Thoreau, and which Mr. Channing gave to me, as the mutual friend of the two Concord poets. In the Diary I am "Mr. S." This Diary and the letters of Miss Thoreau supply some useful facts for a Thoreau biography, which this collection of Familiar Letters was meant to be,--a biography largely in the words of its subject. Notice is taken of such facts in footnotes.

The earlier letters to Isaac Hecker, afterwards known as Father Hecker of New York, grew out of an acquaintance formed with him while he was living at Mrs. Thoreau's, and taking lessons of the late George Bradford, brother of Mrs. Ripley. They were subsequent to Hecker's brief stay at Brook Farm and Fruitlands, and when he was studying to be a Catholic priest. He cherished the vain hope of converting Thoreau to his own newly acquired faith, amid the influences of Catholic Europe. The brief correspondence is printed in the _Atlantic Monthly_ for September, 1902.

Isaac Hecker, born in December, 1819, two and a half years after Thoreau, was the son of a German baker in New York city, and of little education until he came to Massachusetts at the age of twenty-three, as the disciple and friend of Dr. Brownson, then a Protestant preacher and social democrat. In January, 1843, he entered the Brook Farm community, not as a member, but as a worker and student, making the bread for the family and taking lessons of George Ripley, George Bradford, Charles Dana, and John S. Dwight,--all friends of the Concord circle of authors. But he was restless, and yearned for a more ascetic life, and before he had been at Brook Farm a month he was writing to Bronson Alcott about entering the as yet unopened Fruitlands convent, between which and Brook Farm Concord was a half-way station, both physically and spiritually. Hecker tried all three; was at Brook Farm, off and on, for six months, at Fruitlands two weeks (from July 11 to July 25, 1843), and at Concord two months (from April 22 to June 20, 1844). Then, August 1, he was baptized in the Catholic faith at New York. The day before this final step, towards which he had been tending for a year, he wrote to Thoreau, proposing a journey through Europe on foot and without money. During his brief Concord life he had been a lodger at the house of John Thoreau (the Parkman house, where now the Public Library stands), and had seen Henry Thoreau daily. Hecker thus describes his room, his rent, and his landlady, who was Thoreau's mother:

"All that is needed for my comfort is here,--a room of good size, very good people, furnished and to be kept in order for 75 cents a week, including lights,--wood is extra pay; a good straw bed, a large table, carpet, wash-stand, bookcase, stove, chairs, looking-glass,--all, all that is needful. The lady of the house, Mrs. Thoreau, is a _woman_. The only fear I have about her is that she is too much like dear mother,--she will take too much care of me. If you were to see her, Mother, you would be perfectly satisfied that I have fallen into good hands, and met a second mother, if that is possible. I have just finished my dinner,--unleavened bread from home, maple-sugar, and apples which I purchased this morning. Previous to taking dinner I said my first lesson to Mr. Bradford in Greek and Latin."

Hecker "boarded himself," but no doubt often partook of Mrs. Thoreau's hospitality, and took long walks with Thoreau. Writing to him three months after the first meeting at Concord, Hecker said: "I have formed a certain project which your influence has no slight share in forming. It is, to work our passage to Europe, and to walk, work, and beg, if need be, as far, when there, as we are inclined to do."

TO ISAAC HECKER (AT NEW YORK).

CONCORD, August 14, 1844.

FRIEND HECKER,--I am glad to hear your voice from that populous city, and the more so for the tenor of its discourse. I have but just returned from a pedestrian excursion somewhat similar to that you propose, _parvis componere magna_, to the Catskill Mountains, over the principal mountains of this State, subsisting mainly on bread and berries, and slumbering on the mountain-tops. As usually happens, I now feel a slight sense of dissipation. Still, I am strongly tempted by your proposal, and experience a decided schism between my outward and inward tendencies. Your method of traveling, especially,--to live along the road, citizens of the world, without haste or petty plans,--I have often proposed this to my dreams, and still do. But the fact is, I cannot so decidedly postpone exploring the _Farther Indies_, which are to be reached, you know, by other routes and other methods of travel. I mean that I constantly return from every external enterprise with disgust, to fresh faith in a kind of Brahminical, Artesian, Inner Temple life. All my experience, as yours probably, proves only this reality. Channing wonders how I can resist your invitation, I, a single man--unfettered--and so do I. Why, there are Roncesvalles, the Cape de Finisterre, and the Three Kings of Cologne; Rome, Athens, and the rest, to be visited in serene, untemporal hours, and all history to revive in one's memory, as he went by the way, with splendors too bright for this world,--I know how it is. But is not here, too, Roncesvalles with greater lustre? Unfortunately, it may prove dull and desultory weather enough here, but better trivial days with faith than the fairest ones lighted by sunshine alone. Perchance, my _Wanderjahr_ has not arrived, but you cannot wait for that. I hope you will find a companion who will enter as heartily into your schemes as I should have done.

I remember you, as it were, with the whole Catholic Church at your skirts. And the other day, for a moment, I think I understood your relation to that body; but the thought was gone again in a twinkling, as when a dry leaf falls from its stem over our heads, but is instantly lost in the rustling mass at our feet.

I am really sorry that the Genius will not let me go with you, but I trust that it will conduct to other adventures, and so, if nothing prevents, we will compare notes at last.

* * * * *

When this invitation reached Concord, Thoreau was absent on a tour with Channing to the Berkshire Mountains and the Catskills,--Channing coming up the Hudson from New York (where he then lived, aiding Horace Greeley in the _Tribune_ office), and meeting his friend at the foot of the Hoosac Mountain. On its summit Thoreau had spent the night, sleeping under a board near the observatory tower built by the Williams College students, as related by him in the _Week_. They then crossed the Hudson and journeyed on to the Catskills, returning together to Concord.[107] Meantime Hecker had got impatient, and wrote again, to which Thoreau replied, August 17, thus briefly:--

TO ISAAC HECKER (AT NEW YORK).

I improve the occasion of my mother's sending to acknowledge the receipt of your stirring letter. You have probably received mine by this time. I thank you for not anticipating any vulgar objections on my part. _Far_ travel, very _far_ travel, or travail, comes near to the worth of staying at home. Who knows whence his education is to come! Perhaps I may drag my anchor at length, or rather, when the _winds_ which blow _over_ the deep fill my sails, may stand away for distant parts,--for now I seem to have a firm _ground_ anchorage, though the harbor is low-shored enough, and the traffic with the natives inconsiderable. I may be away to Singapore by the next tide.

I like well the ring of your last maxim, "It is only the fear of death makes us reason of impossibilities." And but for fear, death itself is an impossibility.

Believe me, I can hardly let it end so. If you do not go soon, let me hear from you again.

Yrs. in great haste,
HENRY D. THOREAU.

Hecker did not in fact go to Europe till a year later, and when he walked over a part of central Europe, it was in company with one or two young Catholic priests,--men very unlike Thoreau.

The short correspondence with Calvin Greene (longer than that with Hecker) occurred at intervals, a dozen years and more after the Fruitlands period, when the Walden experience had been lived through and recorded, and the friendship with the Ricketson family was in its earlier stages. Mr. Greene, when he called on me at his first visit to the Thoreau family in 1863, mentioned that he had just read Thoreau's poem, "The Departure," which at Sophia's request I had lately printed in the Boston _Commonwealth_, a weekly that I had been editing since Moncure Conway had left Concord for London, in the winter of 1862-63. Greene was a plain, sincere man, never in New England before, who amused Channing by saying he had "taken a boat-ride on the Atlantic." He came once more in 1874, and spent an evening with me in the house where Thoreau lived and died,--Mrs. Thoreau then being dead, and Sophia at Bangor, where she died in 1876.

TO CALVIN H. GREENE (AT ROCHESTER, MICH.).

CONCORD, January 18, 1856.

DEAR SIR,--I am glad to hear that my "Walden" has interested you,--that perchance it holds some truth still as far off as Michigan. I thank you for your note.

The "Week" had so poor a publisher that it is quite uncertain whether you will find it in any shop. I am not sure but authors must turn booksellers themselves. The price is $1.25. If you care enough for it to send me that sum by mail (stamps will do for change), I will forward you a copy by the same conveyance.

As for the "more" that is to come, I cannot speak definitely at present, but I trust that the mine--be it silver or lead--is not yet exhausted. At any rate, I shall be encouraged by the fact that you are interested in its yield.

Yours respectfully,
HENRY D. THOREAU.

CONCORD, February 10, 1856.

DEAR SIR,--I forwarded to you by mail on the 31st of January a copy of my "Week," post paid, which I trust that you have received. I thank you heartily for the expression of your interest in "Walden" and hope that you will not be disappointed by the "Week." You ask how the former has been received. It has found an audience of excellent character, and quite numerous, some 2000 copies having been dispersed.[108] I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.

You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing personally, the stuttering, blundering clod-hopper that I am. Even poetry, you know, is in one sense an infinite brag and exaggeration. Not that I do not stand on all that I have written,--but what am I to the truth I feebly utter?

I like the name of your county.[109] May it grow men as sturdy as its trees! Methinks I hear your flute echo amid the oaks. Is not yours, too, a good place to study theology? I hope that you will ere long recover your turtle-dove, and that it may bring you glad tidings out of that heaven in which it disappeared.

Yours sincerely,
HENRY D. THOREAU.

CONCORD, May 31, 1856.

DEAR SIR,--I forwarded by mail a copy of my "Week," post paid to James Newberry, Merchant, Rochester, Oakland Co., Mich., according to your order, about ten days ago, or on the receipt of your note.

I will obtain and forward a copy of "Walden" and also of the "Week" to California, to your order, post paid, for $2.60. The postage will be between 60 and 70 cents.

I thank you heartily for your kind intentions respecting me. The West has many attractions for me, particularly the lake country and the Indians, yet I do [not] foresee what my engagements may be in the fall. I have once or twice come near going West a-lecturing, and perhaps some winter may bring me into your neighborhood, in which case I should probably see you. Yet lecturing has commonly proved so foreign and irksome to me, that I think I could only use it to acquire the means with which to make an independent tour another time.

As for my pen, I can say that it is not altogether idle, though I have finished nothing new in the book form. I am drawing a rather long bow, though it may be a feeble one, but I pray that the archer may receive new strength before the arrow is shot.

With many thanks, yours truly,
HENRY D. THOREAU.

CONCORD, Saturday, June 21, 1856.

DEAR SIR,--On the 12th I forwarded the two books to California, observing your directions in every particular, and I trust that Uncle Sam will discharge his duty faithfully. While in Worcester this week I obtained the accompanying daguerreotype,[110] which my friends think is pretty good, though better-looking than I.

Books and postage $2.64
Daguerreotype .50
Postage .16
----
3.30

5.00 You will accordingly
3.30
----
find 1.70 enclosed with my shadow.

Yrs.,
HENRY D. THOREAU.

CONCORD, July 8, 1857.

DEAR SIR,--You are right in supposing that I have not been Westward. I am very little of a traveler. I am gratified to hear of the interest you take in my books; it is additional encouragement to write more of them. Though my pen is not idle, I have not published anything for a couple of years at least. I like a private life, and cannot bear to have the public in my mind.

You will excuse me for not responding more heartily to your notes, since I realize what an interval there always is between the actual and imagined author and feel that it would not be just for _me_ to appropriate the sympathy and good will of my unseen readers.

Nevertheless, I should like to meet you, and if I ever come into your neighborhood shall endeavor to do so. Can't you tell the world of your life also? Then I shall know you, at least as well as you me.

Yours truly,
HENRY D. THOREAU.

CONCORD, November 24, 1859.

DEAR SIR,--The lectures which you refer to were reported in the newspapers, _after a fashion_,--the last one in some half-dozen of them,--and if I possessed one, or all, I would send them to you, bad as they are. The best, or at least longest one of the Boston lectures was in the Boston _Atlas and Bee_ of November 2d,--maybe half the whole. There were others in the _Traveller_, the _Journal_, etc., of the same date.

I am glad to know that you are interested to see my things, and I wish I had them in printed form to send to you. I exerted myself considerably to get the last discourse printed and sold for the benefit of Brown's family, but the publishers are afraid of pamphlets, and it is now too late.[111]

I return the stamps which I have not used.

I shall be glad to see you if I ever come your way.

Yours truly,
HENRY D. THOREAU.

FOOTNOTES:

[107] Channing more than once described to me Thoreau's disheveled appearance as he came down the mountain the next morning, after rather a comfortless night. He was carrying for valise a green leather satchel that had been Charles Emerson's, having but recently been the guest of both William and Waldo Emerson. In depicting the scene from the Berkshire mountain, he recurred (in the _Week_) to the homesteads of the Huguenots on Staten Island, where he had rambled the year before this Berkshire experience, while living at William Emerson's and giving lessons to his sons.

[108] This was ten times as many in eighteen months as the _Week_ sold in five years.

[109] Mr. Greene lived in Oakland County.

[110] This fixes the date of the Worcester portrait,--June, 1856, two years after the Rowse crayon.

[111] This "last discourse" was the long one on John Brown, now included in Thoreau's _Miscellanies_, and formerly in the volume beginning with "A Yankee in Canada."

GENERAL INDEX

The following are the titles of the volumes covered by this index and the numbers by which they are designated:--

1. A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS.
2. WALDEN.
3. THE MAINE WOODS.
4. CAPE COD, AND MISCELLANIES.
5. EXCURSIONS, AND POEMS.
6. FAMILIAR LETTERS.

GENERAL INDEX

[The titles of chapters and general divisions are set in SMALL CAPITALS.]

"A finer race and finer fed," verse, =1=, 407.

Abbot (Me.), =3=, 97.

Abby and Almira (Mrs. Miner and Mrs. Small), =6=, 152.

Abercrombie, =6=, 26.

Abolitionist Journal, an, =4=, 306-310; convention, =6=, 260.

Aboljacarmegus Falls, =3=, 58, 82; meaning of the name, 157.

Aboljacarmegus Lake, =3=, 51.

Aboljacknagesic Stream, =3=, 51, 58, 59, 62.

Absence, from Concord, =6=, 50, 67-121, 233; in love and friendship, 74, 187.

"Abuse of the Bible," Mrs. Mott's, =6=, 97.

Academy at Concord, =6=, 72.

Acclimation, =6=, 73, 78.

Achilles, The Youth of, translation, =5=, 385.

Acorns, =6=, 354, 355.

Acre, an, as long measure, =5=, 60.

ACROSS THE CAPE, =4=, 129-149.

Action and Being, =6=, 159, 163, 178, 179, 210, 221.

Acton (Mass.), =2=, 136; =5=, 136; =6=, 355, 364, 366, 367.

Adams, John, =6=, 5, note.

Adams' Latin Grammar, =6=, 25.

Adirondacks, =6=, 360, 364, note.

Admetus, =6=, 39, 44, 45, 223, 355.

Admiration, =6=, 153, 214, 337.

Adolescentula, E. White, =6=, 29, 32.

Adoration of Nature, =6=, 36, 37, 64.

Advertisements, the best part of newspapers, =1=, 194.

Advice, =6=, 25, 26, 66, 67, 121, 134, 143, 144, 178, 186.

Æolian harp, =6=, 199.

Aerial effects, =6=, 88.

Aerial rivers, =6=, 58.

_Aes alienum_, another's brass, a very ancient slough, =2=, 7.

Æschylus, The Prometheus Bound of, translation, =5=, 337-375.

Æschylus, translated, =6=, 60, 102.

Æsculapius, that old herb-doctor, =2=, 154.

Æsculapius, translation, =5=, 380.

AFTER THE DEATH OF JOHN BROWN, =4=, 451-454.

Agassiz, Louis, =1=, 26, 31; and T., =6=, 125-132; mentioned, 138, 147, 328.

Age and youth, =2=, 9.

Age of achievement, =6=, 120-182.

Agiocochook, =1=, 335; =6=, 107.

Agriculture, the new, =4=, 291; the task of Americans, =5=, 229-231; newspaper, =6=, 107.

"Ah, 't is in vain the peaceful din," verse, =1=, 15.

Aims in life, =6=, xi, 47, 59, note, 67, 88, 89, 118, 159, 164, 173, 187, 242, 260, 278.

Aitteon, Joe, =3=, 94, 99, 100, 210, 233, 313.

Ajax, The Treatment of, translation, =5=, 387.

Alcott, A. Bronson (b. 1799, d. 1888), =6=, 50, 52, 60, 61, 62-65, 83, note, 104, 124, 134, 136, 144, 146, 151, 153, 154, 158, 190, 238, 252, note, 281, 289, 306, 328, 333, 341, 346, 359, 379, 381, 397; acquaintance with Thoreau, 50, 52, 64, 136, 137, 151; at home in Fruitlands, 64, 83, 84; in Boston, 236, 237; in Walpole, 281; in Concord, at Orchard House, 333, 376; builds Emerson's summer-house, 134-137; in Concord jail, 52; chosen school superintendent, 377; diary of, 297; holds conversations in Concord, 52, 64, 346; in Eagleswood, N. J., 291; in New York, 282, 283, 297; dines with Thoreau, 52; visits with Thoreau in New Bedford, 306, 307; in Plymouth, 328, note; in Brooklyn, 298; describes Walt Whitman, 298; at Thoreau's funeral, 65, note; letter from, 397; letter to, 282.

Alcott, Mrs. A. B., =6=, 283.

Alcott, Louisa May, =6=, 321, note, 377, note.

Alewives, =1=, 32.

Alexander the Great, =6=, x.

"All things are current found," verse, =1=, 415.

ALLEGASH AND EAST BRANCH, THE, =3=, 174-327.

Allegash Lakes, the, =3=, 78, 175, 250, 257.

Allegash River, the, =3=, 40, 80, 161, 178, 233, 250, 254-257, 260, 270.

Allen, Phineas, =6=, 10, note.

Alms-House Farm, =2=, 283.

Alms-House (of Concord), =6=, 34, 77, 146.

Alphonse, Jean, quoted, =4=, 238; and Falls of Montmorenci, =5=, 38, 39; quoted, 91.

Ambejijis Falls, =3=, 50; portage round, 52, 84.

Ambejijis Lake, =3=, 45-47, 49, 50, 84, 291.

Ambejijis Stream, =3=, 50.

America, the only true, =2=, 228; the newness of, =3=, 90; not truly free, =4=, 476, 477; provincialism of, 477; superiorities of, =5=, 220-224.

American, money in Quebec, =5=, 24; the, and government, 82, 83, =6=, 8-10.

American privateer, General Lincoln, =6=, 5.

Amherst (N. H.), =6=, 302.

_Amoenitates Botanicae_, =6=, 207.

"Amok" against T., society running, =2=, 190.

Amonoosuck, the, =1=, 334.

Amoskeag Falls, =1=, 259, 260, 337.

Amoskeag (N. H.), =1=, 261, 262, 271, 273, 307.

Amphiaraus, The death of, translation, =5=, 387.

Amusements, games and, despair concealed under, =2=, 8, 9.

"An early unconverted saint," verse, =1=, 42.

Anacreon, =1=, 238-240; translations from, 240-244; quoted, =5=, 108, 109, 110.

Anawan, an Indian, =6=, 15.

Anchors, dragging for, =4=, 162.

Ancients, wisdom of the, =6=, 114, 299, 300.

Andover (Mass.), =1=, 124.

Andropogons, or beard-grasses, =5=, 225-258.

Ange Gardien Parish, =5=, 42; church of, 46.

Angler's Souvenir, the, =5=, 119.

Animal food, objections to, =2=, 237.

Animal labor, man better without the help of, =2=, 62, 63.

Animal life and heat nearly synonymous, =2=, 14.

Animals, man's duty to the lower, =4=, 283-286.

Annihilation Company, =6=, 194.

Anti-Sabbath Convention, =6=, 157, 158.

Anti-Slavery meetings, =6=, 255, 358, 359.

Anti-Slavery Standard, The, =6=, 46, 245.

Antiquities, =1=, 264, 265-267.

Ants, battle of the, =2=, 253-257.

Apmoojenegamook Lake, =3=, 244, 260; meaning of, 250; a storm on, 263, 264; hard paddling on, 267.

Apollo, translation, =5=, 383.

Appearances, =6=, 177, 227, 228.

Apple, history of the tree, =5=, 290-298; the wild, 299, 300; the crab, 301, 302; growth of the wild, 302-308; cropped by cattle, 303-307; the fruit and flavor of the, 308-314; beauty of the, 314, 315; naming of the, 315-317; last gleaning of the, 317-319; the frozen-thawed, 319, 320; dying out of the wild, 321, 322.

Apple-howling, =5=, 298.

Apples, the world eating, green =2=, 86; Baldwin, =6=, 213; Dead Sea, 356; frozen-thawed, 177, 178; of Hesperides, 213; planted by T., 355.

"Apple-tree, Elisha's," =1=, 380.

Apple trees, Cape Cod, =4=, 32-34.

Apprentices, the abundance of, =1=, 129.

Archer, Gabriel, quoted, =4=, 244.

Architecture, need of relation between man, truth and, =2=, 51, 52; American, =4=, 28, 29; the new, 293.

"Architecture, Seven Lamps of" (Ruskin), 319.

Aristotle, quoted, =1=, 133, 386.

Arm-chairs for fishermen, =1=, 91.

Arnica mollis, =6=, 334, 335.

Arnold, Benedict, =6=, 323.

Arnold, Mr., =6=, 341.

Aroostook (Me.), road, =3=, 3, 13, 14; river, 4; wagon, an, 14; valley, 23; sleds of the, 261.

Armies, =6=, 260, 323, 356.

Arpent, the, =5=, 60.

Arrowheads, =1=, 18; =6=, 19, note, 96.

Art, Nature and, =1=, 339; works of, 9; =6=, 94, 319.

Ashburnham (Mass.), =5=, 3; with a better house than any in Canada, 100.

Ash trees, =5=, 6.

Asiatic, Russia, Mme. Pfeiffer in, =2=, 25.

Asnebumskit, =6=, 195, 279, 280.

Assabet (or North) River, the, =1=, 4; =5=, 136; =6=, viii, 269.

Assawampsitt, =6=, 265.

Asters, =3=, 97.

Astronomy, =1=, 411-413; at Cambridge, =6=, 133, 137, 138; at Concord, 133.

Atlantic Monthly, =6=, 235, 395, 396.

Atlantides, The, verse, =1=, 278.

Atlas, =2=, 93.

Atlas, the General, =3=, 95; =6=, 243, 362.

Atropos, as name for engine, =2=, 131.

Aubrey, John, quoted, =1=, 112.

Auction, of a deacon's effects, =2=, 75; or increasing, 75.

Audubon, John James, reading, =5=, 103; 109, note; 112, note.

Aulus Persius Flaccus, =6=, 6, 158.

Aurora of Guido, The, verse, =5=, 399.

Australia, gold-hunters in, =4=, 465, 466.

Autumn, the coming of, =1=, 356; flowers of, 377-379; 403; landscape near Provincetown, =4=, 193-195; foliage, brightness of, =5=, 249-252; a poem on, =6=, 115; delights of, 37, 38, 282.

AUTUMNAL TINTS, =5=, 249-289.

Autumnal tints, =6=, 340, 350.

Autumnus, =6=, 38.

Average ability, man's success in proportion to his, =1=, 133; the law of, in nature and ethics, =2=, 321.

"Away! away! away! away!" verse, =1=, 186.

_Axy_, a Bible name, =4=, 95.

Baboosuck Brook, =1=, 232.

Babylon, ancient, =6=, 224.

Babylon (N. Y.), =6=, 102.

Bacchus, Whitman compared to, =6=, 298.

Background, all lives want a, =1=, 45.

Bailey, Prof. J. W., =3=, 4.

BAKER FARM, =2=, 223-231.

Baker Farm, =2=, 307.

Baker's barn, =2=, 286.

Baker's River, =1=, 87, 268.

Ball's Hill, =1=, 19, 37, 43.

Bands of music in distance, =2=, 177, 178.

Bangor (Me.), =3=, 3, 4, 9, 12; =6=, 119, 132, 325; passage to, =3=, 16; 23, 36, 38, 74, 86, 91, 94-98; the deer that went a-shopping in, 154; 160, 161, 166, 167, 174, 175; House, the, 177; 250, 251, 256, 257, 290, 307.

Bank swallow, the, =4=,164.

Banks, =6=, 162, failures of, 317, 318; stock in, 162, 213, 317, 318.

Barberries, =6=, 156, 175, 358.

Barber's Historical Collections, quoted, =4=, 222.

Barnstable (Mass.), =4=, 22.

Bartlett, Dr. Josiah (H. U. 1816), =6=, 137, 138, 152, 254.

Bartlett, Robert (H. U. 1836), =6=, 58.

Bartram, William, quoted, =2=, 75; =5=, 199.

Bascom, Rev. Jonathan, =4=, 55.

Baskets, strolling Indian selling, =2=, 20, 21.

Bass-tree, the, =1=, 166.

Bathing, sea, =4=, 16, 17; feet in brooks, =5=, 140.

Batteaux, =3=, 6, 35.

Battle-ground, first, of the Revolution, =1=, 14.

Battles, =6=, 356; in the clouds, 330.

Bayberry, the, =4=, 102, 103.

BEACH, THE, =4=, 57-78.

BEACH AGAIN, THE, =4=, 102-128.

Beaches, Cape Cod the best of Atlantic, =4=, 269-271.

Beach-grass, =4=, 200, 201, 204-209.

Beach-plums, =1=, 381.

BEAN-FIELD, THE, =2=, 171-184.

Beard-grasses, Andropogons or, =5=, 255-258.

Bears, abundance of, =3=, 235.

Beaumont, Francis, quoted, =1=, 69.

Beauport (Que.), and _le Chemin de_, =5=, 30; getting lodgings in, 35-38; church in, 69; Seigniory of, 96.

Beaupré, Seigniory of the Côte de, =5=, 41.

Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, =6=, 66.

Beauty, =6=, 198, 199; Emerson's Ode to, 115-117; Ruskin on, 319.

Beaver River, =1=, 92.

Bed, a cedar-twig, =3=, 60; of arbor-vitæ twigs, 265; the primitive, by all rivers, 317.

Bedford (Mass.), =1=, 4, 37; petition of planters of, 50; 53, 62; =2=, 136.

Bedford (N. H.), =1=, 247, 248, 251, 252.

Beecher, Henry Ward, =6=, 291.

Bees, the keeping of, =4=, 284, 285.

Beggar-ticks, =6=, 289.

Behavior, repentance for good, =2=, 11.

Behemoth, =6=, 231.

"Behold, how Spring appearing," verse, =5=, 109.

Belknap, Jeremy, quoted, =1=, 91, 127, 189, 201.

Bellamy, the pirate, wrecked off Wellfleet, =4=, 160, 161.

Bellew, F., an artist, =6=, 287.

Bellows, Rev. H. W. (H. U. 1832), =6=, 105.

Bellows, valley called the, =1=, 189.

Bellows Falls (Vt.), =1=, 91; =5=, 5.

Bells, the sound of Sabbath, =1=, 78; of Lincoln, Acton, Bedford, Concord, the, =2=, 136.

Bemis, George, Concord printer, =6=, 18.

Benjamin, Park, =6=, 107, note.

Benton, Myron B., =6=, 398. _See_ Letters.

"Best room," the pine wood behind house, =2=, 157.

Betty's Neck, Middleborough, =6=, 265.

Bewick, Thomas, =6=, 248.

Beverley, Robert, History of Virginia, quoted, =4=, 15, 102, 103.

Bhagvat-Geeta, the, quoted, =1=, 140; pure thought of the, 142; beauty of the, 148; 153.

Biberg, J. (naturalist), quoted, =6=, 207.

Bible, =6=, 63, 98, 114.

Bibles of several nations, the, =1=, 72; of mankind, 72; =2=, 118, 119.

Bigelow, Dr. J., =6=, 19.

Billerica (Mass.), =1=, =4=, 32, 36, 38, 43; age of the town of, 49; 51, 53, 62, 119, 391.

Billingsgate, part of Wellfleet called, =4=, 82.

Billingsgate Island, =4=, 89.

Biography, autobiography the best, =1=, 163.

Birch, yellow, =5=, 6.

Birds, =6=, 21, 23, 30, 42, 75; living with the, =2=, 95; in the wilderness, =3=, 118; about Moosehead Lake, 186; about Mud Pond Carry, 237; near Chamberlain Lake, 240, 241; on Heron Lake, 255; on East Branch, 309; on Cape Cod, =4=, 113, 114, 131, 164; and mountains, =5=, 149. See under names of species.

Birney, James G., =6=, 283, 288.

Biscuit Brook, =1=, 380.

Bittern (Ardea minor, stake-driver), =1=, 249; booming of the, =5=, 111.

Black Knight, The, verse, =5=, 415, note.

Black, Mrs., =6=, 82.

Black Sam, =2=, 29, 31.

Blackfish, driven ashore in storm, =4=, 142-147.

Black flies, protection against, =3=, 236, 246.

Blake, Harrison Gray Otis (H. U. 1835), =6=, 158, 159, 190, 233, 279; letter from, 158, 159; letters to, 160, 164, 173, 174, 177, 179, 185, 194, 197, 209, 217, 221, 225, 229, 241, 244, 253-261, 267, 276-281, 290-296, 302, 307, 308, 314-322, 343, 358, 360-368, 383; tours with, 195, 234, 333; visits from, 158, 253, 267.

Blakians, sugar candy, =6=, 279.

Blood, Perez, =6=, 133, 134, 137.

Blueberries, =3=, 66, 298; =6=, 23, 369; and milk, supper of, =5=, 144.

Bluebird, the, =5=, 110; =6=, 14, 21, 22, 341, 374-376.

Blue-eyed grass, =6=, 36.

Boat, T.'s, =1=, 12; hints for making a, 13.

Boat-building, =1=, 228.

Boatmen, the pleasant lives of, =1=, 220-226.

Bobolink, the, =5=, 113.

Bodæus, quoted, =5=, 317.

Body, a temple, man's, =2=, 245; and soul, 164, 165, 181, 213, 214.

Bogs with hard bottom, =2=, 363.

Bolton (Mass.), =5=, 137.

Bonaparte, anecdote of, =6=, 270.

Bonsecours Market (Montreal), =5=, 11.

Books, the reading and writing of, =1=, 93-112; how to read, =2=, 112; the inheritance of nations, 114; catalogue of, =6=, 59, 63, 263; T.'s gift of, 264; on natural history, reading, =5=, 103-105.

Boots, Canadian, =5=, 51;

Borde, Sieur de la, quoted, =4=, 156.

Boston (Mass.), countrified minds in towns about, =3=, 24; a big wharf, =4=, 268; newspapers of, 398-400; =5=, 3, 7, 9; Agassiz in, =6=, 125-132; Alcott in, 190, 236, 237; clubs ridiculed, 345; "Dial" mentioned, 38, 58-63, 75, 78, 84, 87, 94, 108, 113-117, 129; lectures and lecturers, 189, 190, 192, 358; Miscellany, 83, note, 87, 102; packet for Cape Cod, 255, 256; publishers, 83, 102, 139, 182, 233, 263, 332, 395.

Botany, T.'s skill in, =6=, 3, 234, 238.

Botta, Mrs. Anne Lynch, =6=, 297.

Botta, Paul Emile, quoted, =1=, 107, 130.

Boucher, quoted, =5=, 91.

Boucherville (Que.), =5=, 20.

Bouchette, Topographical Description of the Canadas, quoted, =5=, 41, 42, 63, 64, 89, 92, 94, 95.

Bound Rock, =1=, 5.

Bout de l'Isle, =5=, 20.

Bowlin Stream, =3=, 308.

Box, living in a, =2=, 32.

Boys, Provincetown, =4=, 218.

Bradbury and Soden, =6=, 83, 102.

Bradford (N. H.), =1=, 380.

Bradford, George P. (H. U. 1825), =6=, 63, 328, 404, 405.

Bradford, T. G. (H. U. 1822), =6=, 19, note.

Brahm, the bringing to earth of, =1=, 141.

Brahman, virtue of the, =1=, 146.

Brahmins, =6=, 224, 299, 300; their forms of conscious penance, =2=, 4, 5; Walden ice makes T. one with the, 329.

Brand's Popular Antiquities, quoted, =5=, 297, 298.

Brave man and the coward, the, =4=, 277-279.

Bravery of science, the, =5=, 106, 107.

Bread without yeast, =2=, 68-70; discourse on, =6=, 121, 164-166, 260, 268.

Breakers, =4=, 58, 209.

Bream, =1=, 24-26.

Breed's hut, =2=, 285.

Brereton, John, quoted, =4=, 245.

Brewster (Mass.), =4=, 22, 28, 29.

Briars, a field near Walden, =6=, 170, 171.

Bricks, mortar growing harder on, =2=, 266.

Bride and bridegroom, =6=, 199, 200, 207, 302.

Bridgewater (Mass.), =4=, 19.

Brighton--or Bright-town, =2=, 148.

Brister's Hill, =2=, 252, 283, 284, 289, 294.

Brister's Spring, =2=, 289, 291.

Britania's Pastorals, quoted, =1=, 121.

Broadway, New York, =6=, 70, 85, 287, 291.

Brook Farm, =6=, 318, 404.

Brook Island in Cohasset, =4=, 4.

Brooklawn, New Bedford, =6=, 263, 271, 305.

Brooklyn, N. Y., =6=, 70, 290, 296, 297.

"Brother, where dost thou dwell?" verse, =5=, 403; =6=, 74.

Brown, Deacon Reuben, =6=, 141.

Brown, John, the truth about, =4=, 409; the Kansas troubles, 410, 413-416; occupation, descent, and character, 410-414; newspaper opinions of, 416-425; absurdly called insane, 426-428; small following of, 432; example of death of, 434, 435; feeling of divine appointment, 436, 437; why guilty of death, 437; quoted, 439, 440; last days of, 441-450; effect of the words of, 444; editors' opinions of, 445; not dead, 449, 450; T.'s speech in Concord after the death of, 451-454; =6=, 290; 337, 359, 364; comes to Concord, 358, 359; his capture and execution, 358-360; is eulogized by T., 359; his companions, 365-367.

Brown, John, Jr., son of preceding, visits North Elba and Boston, =6=, 364.

Brown, Mrs. See Jackson.

Brown, Theo., of Worcester, =6=, 238, 254, 280, 286, 292, 294, 307, 315, 331.

Browne, Sir Thomas, quoted, =1=, 69; =4=, 157, 158.

Brownson, O. A., =6=, 5, 404.

BRUTE NEIGHBORS, =2=, 247-262.

Buckland, Francis T., Curiosities of Natural History, =4=, 84.

Buddha and Christ, =1=, 68.

Buddhist, =6=, 108.

Buffaloes, =6=, 14, 17, 109.

Buffum, Arnold, =6=, 288.

Bug from an egg in table of apple wood, the, =2=, 366.

Building one's own house, significance of, =2=, 50, 51.

Bull, E. W. (Concord grape), =6=, 377, note.

Bulwer, Lord Lytton, =6=, 28, 30.

Buried money, =1=, 208.

Burlington (Vt.), =5=, 7, 99.

Burnham, a Boston bookseller, =6=, 263.

Burns, T.'s grandmother, =6=, 7.

Burns, Anthony, =4=, 405.

Burnt Land, the, =3=, 29, 77.

"Burntibus," =3=, 319.

Burton, Sir Richard Francis, =5=, 228.

Business habits indispensable, strict, =2=, 21, 22; remarks on, =6=, 8, 9, 107, 169-171, 317, 318, 355, 356.

Busk, Indian feast of first fruits, =2=, 75.

"But since we sailed," verse, =1=, 16.

"Butternuts," in New York, =6=, 18.

Butternut tree, =5=, 6.

Buttrick's Plain, =1=, 51.

Cabmen of New York, =6=, 69, 70.

Cabot, the discoveries of, =4=, 232, 233.

Cabot, J. Elliot (H. U. 1840), =6=, 125, 130, 188; letters to, 126-129, 155; letters from, 130, 131, 188.

Cabs, Montreal, =5=, 18; Quebec, 69, 70.

Cactus, =6=, 29, 32.

Caddis-worms, =5=, 170.

Caen, Emery de, quoted, =5=, 52.

Caleche, the (see Cabs), =5=, 69, 70.

Calf, the young hunting, =6=, 135.

Calidas, the Sacontala, quoted, =1=, 183; =2=, 351.

California, the rush to, =4=, 463-465; =6=, 210, 216.

Calling, choice of a, =6=, 66, 67, 108, 109, 121, 156, 163, 168, 171, 174, 175, 181, 195, 211, 219.

Calyx, =6=, 199; the thalamus, or bridal chamber, 208.

Cambria, steamer, aground, =4=, 93.

Cambridge, college room rent compared with T.'s, =2=, 55; crowded hives of, 150; =6=, 5, 7, 8, 10, note, 45, 66-68, 109, 129, 133, 138, 226, 237, 252, 253, 287, 311; observatory, 133, 137.

Camp, loggers', =3=, 20; reading matter in a, 37, 38; on side of Ktaadn, a, 68; the routine for making, 210-212; darkness about a, 303, 304.

Camping out, =6=, 365, 368, 369, 371.

Camp-meetings, Eastham, =4=, 46-48; _versus_ Ocean, 67.

Canaan (N. H.), =1=, 263.

Canada, apparently older than the United States, =5=, 80, 81; population of, 81, 82; the French in, a nation of peasants, 82; mentioned, =6=, 215, 251, 323, 324.

_Canadense_, _Iter_, and the word, =5=, 101.

Canadian, woodchopper, a, =2=, 159-166; boat-song, =3=, 42; a blind, 234; French, =5=, 9; horses, 34; women, 34; atmosphere, 34; love of neighborhood, 42, 43; houses, 44, 59; clothes, 45; salutations, 47; vegetables and trees, 47, 48; boots, 51; tenures, 63, 64.

Canal, an old, =1=, 62.

Canal-boat, appearance of a, =1=, 150; passing a, in fog, 200; later and early thoughts about a, 221-226; with sails, 273, 274.

Candor, in friendship, =6=, 57, 80, 137.

Cane, a straight and a twisted, =5=, 184, 185.

Canoe, water-logged in Walden Pond, =2=, 212; a birch, =3=, 106; used in third excursion to Maine woods, 181; shipping water in a, 189; crossing lakes in a, 206; carrying a, 207, 208; running rapids in a, 275-277, 279, 280; =6=, 109, 254, 324, 325.

"Canst thou love with thy mind," verse, =6=, 202.

Canton, Mass., T.'s school at, =6=, 5.

Cap aux Oyes, =5=, 93.

Cape Cod, T.'s various visits to, =4=, 3; derivation of name of, 4; formation of, 4, 20; barrenness of, 36-38; the real, 65; houses, 80; landscape, a, 132-137; men, the Norse quality of, 140; western shore of, 142; changes in the coast-line of, 151-155; clothes-yard, a, 220; and its harbors, various names for, 226-229; Gosnold's discovery of, 242-247; people, 257, 258; =6=, 246, 255, 256, 312, 313; T.'s excursions to, 254, 255, 309, 312, 357.

"Cape Cod Railroad," the, =4=, 19.

Cape Diamond, =5=, 22, 40; signal-gun on, 85; the view from, 88.

Cape Rosier, =5=, 92.

Cape Rouge, =5=, 21, 95.

Cape Tourmente, =5=, 41, 89, 96.

Carbuncle Mountain, =3=, 291.

Cardinals, =1=, 18.

Cards left by visitors, =2=, 143, 144.

Cares, =6=, 262, 360.

Carew, Thomas, quoted, =2=, 89.

Caribou Lake, =3=, 216.

Carlisle (Mass.), =1=, 4, 37, 50, 53; =6=, 16, 18, 134.

Carlisle Bridge, =1=, 20, 37.

Carlton House, New York, =6=, 55.

CARLYLE, THOMAS, AND HIS WORKS, =4=, 316-355.

Carlyle, Thomas, circumstances of his life, =4=, 316-320; his books, 320-322; not a German nor a mystic, 322-325; English style of, 324-333; quoted, upon Richter, 331, 338; humor of, 333-337, as critic and looker-on, 339-343; not blithe enough for a poet, 343, 344; sympathy with the Reformer class, 344-346; compared with Emerson, 345; a philosopher of action, 346-349; objections to, 349; a typical specimen from, on Heroes, 350-352; his exaggeration, 352-354; quoted, on the writing of history, 354; pointing to the summits of humanity, 355; mentioned, =6=, 49, 62, 81, 94, 101, 154, 169, 250; reviewed by Emerson, 94, 101; by Thoreau, 169.

Carnac, =1=, 267.

Carry, Indian's method with canoe at a, =3=, 207, 208; a wet, 235-244; berries at each, 305, 306; race at a, 314, 315.

Cartier, Jacques, =5=, 7; and the St. Lawrence, 89-91; quoted, 97; 98, 99.

Caryatides, gossips leaning against barn like, =2=, 186.

Cascade, Silver, =6=, 39.

Cases in court, Wyman's, =6=, 104; Sanborn's, =6=, 364; other cases, 226.

Castleton, Staten Island, =6=, 68, 71-73, 76, 78, 84, 104.

Castor and Pollux, translation, =5=, 388.

Cat, the Collins's, =2=, 48; in the woods, domestic and "winged," 257, 258.

Catacombs, =6=, 161, 178.

_Catastomus tuberculatus_, =6=, 131.

Catherine, a Concord family, =6=, 4.

Catholic Church, =6=, 243, 406.

Cat-naps, =6=, 106.

Cato, Major, quoted, =2=, 70, 93, 183, 268.

Cattle-show, the Concord, =1=, 358-361; men at, =5=, 184.

Caucomgomoc Lake, meaning of the name, =3=, 156; 222, 223.

Caucomgomoc Mountain, =3=, 233.

Caucomgomoc Stream, =3=, 142, 147, 219, 229, 247, 297; =6=, 325.

Caves, birds do not sing in, =2=, 31.

Cedar-post, life of, =6=, 293.

Cedar tea, arbor-vitæ, or, =3=, 60.

Celebrating, men, a committee of arrangements, always, =2=, 363.

Celestial Cows, =6=, 223.

Celestial Empire, conditions of successful trade with, =2=, 22; =6=, 89.

"Celestial Railroad," =6=, 120.

Cellar, a burrow to which house is but a porch, =2=, 49.

Cellini, Benvenuto, quoted, =2=, 224, 225.

Cemetery of fallen leaves, =5=, 269, 270.

Chairs for society, three, =2=, 155.

Chaleur, Bay of, =3=, 178; =5=, 90; =6=, 324.

Chalmers, Dr. Thomas, in criticism of Coleridge, =5=, 324.

Chamberlain Farm, the, =3=, 245, 264, 265.

Chamberlain, Lake, =3=, 101, 145, 161, 233, 237, 239, 240; Apmoojenegamook or, 244; dams about, 251; 262, 267; =6=, 325.

Chambers of Silence, =6=, 231.

Chambly (Que.), =5=, 11.

Champlain, Samuel, quoted, =4=, 85; records and maps of, 227-233; quoted, =5=, 8; whales in map of, 91.

Change of air, =2=, 352.

Channing, Ellen Fuller, wife of Ellery, =6=, 43, note.

Channing, W. E., quoted, =1=, 42; =2=, 225; =6=, 43, note, 58, note, 65, 79, 92-94, 104, 113, 117, 120-122, 146, 151, 153, 190, 192, 235-238, 251, 253, 254, 257, 259, 266, 270, 272, 273-275, 308, 326, note, 328, 334, 336, 341, 344, 345, 406, 407; quoted, ix, x, 3, 65, note, 121.

Channing, Rev. William Henry (H. U. 1829), cousin of Ellery, =6=, 81, 96, 104, 118, 183, 184.

Channing, William Francis (son of Dr. W. E. Channing, and cousin of the two named above), mentioned, =6=, 190.

Chapin, Rev. E. H. (H. U. 1845), =6=, 61.

Chapman, George, quoted, =2=, 37.

Chapman, John, London publisher, =6=, 271.

Charity, cold, =4=, 78.

Charles I, the only martyr in Church of England liturgy, =4=, 446.

Charleston, S. C., =6=, 283.

Charlevoix, quoted, =5=, 52, 91.

Chastity, the flowering of man, =2=, 242, 243; and sensuality, =6=, 192, 204-209, 295.

Château, Richer, church of, =5=, 46; 49; lodgings at, 59.

Chateaubriand, quoted, =1=, 137.

Chatham (Mass.), =4=, 26.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, quoted, =1=, 293, 352, 353; in praise of, 391-400; quoted, =2=, 234; quoted, =5=, 159, 160, =6=, 103; mentioned, 76.

Chaudière River, the, =5=, 21; Falls of the, 69, 70.

Cheap men, =5=, 29, 30.

Checkerberry-Tea Camp, =3=, 301.

Chelmsford (Mass.), =1=, 53, 63, 81, 85, 88, 92, 113, 268, 384, 391.

Cherries, =6=, 23, 71.

Cherry-stones, transported by birds, =5=, 188.

CHESUNCOOK, =3=, 93-173.

Chesuncook Deadwater, =3=, 217.

Chesuncook Lake, =3=, 5, 11, 36, 73, 80, 86, 94, 104, 105, 117, 119, 136, 137; meaning of the word, 156; 176; going to church on, 214; 234, 250, 254; mentioned, =6=, 325, 395.

Chicago, visited by T., =6=, 384; by B. B. Wiley, 298.

Chickadee, coming of the, =2=, 304; =5=, 108; =6=, 253.

Chief end of man, =2=, 9.

Chien, La Rivière au, =5=, 56.

Child, Mrs. Lydia Maria, =6=, 100.

China, =6=, 89, 246.

Chippeway Indians, =6=, 109.

Chivin, Dace, Roach or Cousin Trout, =1=, 27; =3=, 59; 312; =6=, 127, 131, 132.

Cholmondeley, Rev. Charles, =6=, 236.

Cholmondeley, Thomas, =6=, 234-237, 240, 241, 247-249, 252, 258, 271, 297, 308, 342-344, 349, 352, 380-383; books sent by, 270, 271; letter from, 272, 297, 380; letter to, 249-251.

Christ, =6=, 179, 194.

Christian, the modern, =4=, 420; being a, 445; the prayer of a, =6=, 89.

"Christian Examiner," =6=, 99.

Christianity, practical and radical, =1=, 141; adopted as an improved method of _agri_-culture, =2=, 41.

Church of England, prayer for a martyr, =4=, 446.

Churches, Catholic and Protestant, =5=, 12-14; =6=, 79, 97, 195, 224, 226, 243; roadside, 46.

Cigar-smoke, the gods not to be appeased with, =4=, 42.

Circulating library, =2=, 116, 117.

Cities, as wharves, =4=, 268; American, =6=, 69, 79, 187, 287, 297, 345.

City and country opinions, =4=, 396, 397.

City and Swamp, =6=, 187.

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, =4=, 356-387.

Civilization, not all a success, =2=, 34; and landscape, =3=, 171-173.

_Claire Fontaine_, _La_, =5=, 26.

Clams, Cape Cod, =4=, 35, 36; large, 72; or quahogs, catching birds 86; stones shaped like, 109.

Clark, Farmer, =6=, 141.

Clark's Island, =6=, 301, note, 328, note.

Clark, the Swedenborgian, =6=, 146.

Classics, study of the, =1=, 238; =2=, 111-113; must be read in the original, 115.

Clay Pounds, the, =4=, 132; why so called, 158; the Somerset wrecked on, 162.

Clothes, =6=, 227, 228, 245, 255, 256, 262, 363; bad-weather, =5=, 28; Canadian, 45.

Clothing, a necessary of life, =2=, 13, 14; not always procured for true utility, 23; new and old, 25, 26.

Cloud, entering a, =3=, 70; factory, a, 70.

Clouds. _See_ Rain.

Clover, tree. _See_ Melilot.

Club at Parker House, =6=, 345; Town and Country, 345, 346.

Coat-of-arms, a Concord, =1=, 7.

Cock-crowning, the charms of, =2=, 140-142.

Codman place, the, =2=, 286.

Coffee-grounds, =6=, 180.

Cohass Brook, =1=, 238.

Cohasset, the Indian, =1=, 251.

Cohasset (Mass.), the wreck at, =4=, 5-13; Rocks, sea-bathing at, 16, 17.

Cold Friday, dating from, =2=, 280.

Cold Stream Pond, =3=, 9.

Cold weather, =6=, 14, 27-32, 250.

Collins, James, Irishman whose shanty T. bought, =2=, 47.

Colors, names and joy of, =5=, 273-275. _See_ Autumnal Tints, Clouds, etc.

Colton's Map of Maine, =3=, 104, 308.

Comet, nucleus of, =6=, 173.

Commerce, =1=, 224; in praise of, =2=, 131-136, =6=, 102.

Common sense, uncommon and, =1=, 414; the sense of men asleep, =2=, 357, 358.

Compost, better part of man soon plowed into soil for, =2=, 6.

Conantum, =1=, 374; =6=, 140.

Concord (Mass.), settlement of, =1=, 3; historian of, quoted, 3; 5; coat-of-arms for, 7; territory of, in 1831, 8; described by Johnson, 8; meadows, 9; a port of entry, 12; 14; poet, a, 14; 36, 43, 49, 51, 61, 64, 82, 124; History of, quoted, 125; 169; Cliffs, 170; 227, 345; Cattle-show in, 358-361; return to, 420; Walden Pond in =2=, 3; traveled a good deal in 4; the farmers of, 35; house surpassing the luxury of, 54; little fresh meal and corn sold in, 70; Battle Ground, 95; effect of a fire bell on people living near, 103, 104; culture, 117, 118, wiser men than produced by soil of, 119; hired man of, 120; liberal education in, 121; "its soothing sound is--," 127; sign of a trader in, 133; bells of, 136; two-colored waters of, 195; Walden bequeathed to, 214, 215; fight of ants, 255; D. Ingraham, Esq., of, 283; "to the rescue," 286; 291, 308; =3=, 1, 24, 76, 117; meaning of Indian name for, 157, 187; 214, 268; the Assabet in; 278; the _trainers_ of, =4=, 392; =5=, 3, 6, 8; History of, quoted, 115; 133, 149, 152; its academy, =6=, 10, 24, 49; aspect of, 14, 38, 67, 92, 104; cliffs of, 28, 30, 104; Lyceum, 6, 52, 53, 61, 145, 154, 156, 275; people and houses, 4-7, 14, 17, 18, 21, 34, 35, 42, 43, 48-50, 52-54, 64, 65, 92, 93; schools, 5, 6, 10, 22, 23, 48, 49, 321, 322; T's fondness for, 285.

Concord (N.H.), =1=, 88, 89; =2=, 68, 308; entertained in, and origin of, 322.

CONCORD RIVER, =1=, 3-11.

Concord River, =1=, 3; course of, 3; gentleness of, 7; 10, 11, 19, 20, 62, 90, 113; a canal-boat on, and Fair Haven, 222-224; Conantum on the, 374; reaching the, 391; =2=, 215, 219; =3=, 229, 278, 299; =5=, 115, 139; =6=, 3, 92, 262.

Condover, England, =6=, 235, 383.

Conduct, regulation of, =6=, ix, 9, 10, 33, 34, 57, 76, 88, 89, 118, 161, 162, 166, 167, 177, 186, 187, 205.

Confucius, quoted, =1=, 288, 299; =2=, 12, 149; =6=, 299.

Connecticut River, the, =1=, 87, 88, 89, 212, 263; =5=, 5, 145, 147; =6=, 282.

"Conscience is instinct bred in the house," verse, =1=, 75.

Conscience, the, =1=, 75, 138; the chief of conservatives, 140.

Conservatism, the wisest, =1=, 140.

Contoocook, =1=, 87.

Conversation, the shallowness of most, =4=, 471; =6=, 64, 65, 346.

Conway, Moncure Daniel (H. U. 1854), =6=, 398.

Cooking, =1=, 237.

Coombs, Neighbor, =6=, 141, 154.

Coöperation, difficulties of, =2=, 79, 80.

Coos Falls, =1=, 248, 353.

Coreopsis, =1=, 18.

Corn, great crops of, =4=, 37-39.

Cost, the amount of life exchanged for a thing, =2=, 34; of house, items of, 54; of food for eight months, 65, 66; total, of living, 66; bean-field, 179, 180.

Cotes, Lady Louisa, =6=, 383.

Cotton, Charles, quoted, =1=, 249.

Country and city opinions, =4=, 396, 397.

_Coureurs de bois_ and _de risques_, =5=, 43.

Cousin Trout. _See_ Chivin.

Cowper, William, quoted, =2=, 92; =6=, 254, 275.

Cows fed on fishes' heads, =4=, 214, 215.

Cranberries, mountain, =3=, 27; tree, 147.

Cranberry Island, =1=, 6.

Cranks, the turning of, =4=, 297.

Crantz, account of Greenland, quoted, =4=, 60, 149.

Crickets, the creaking of, =5=, 108.

Crimea, =6=, 266; war in the, 237, 244, 251.

Criticism, =1=, 401.

Cromwell's Falls, =1=, 88; story of Cromwell and, 206, 207.

Crooked River, the Souhegan or, =1=, 231.

Crookneck squash seeds, Quebec, =5=, 87.

Crosses in the wilderness, =3=, 50; roadside, =5=, 45, 46.

Crow, the, =5=, 108; not imported from Europe, 113.

Crusoe, Robinson, among the Arabs, =1=, 60.

Crystalline botany, =5=, 126, 127.

Cuckoo characters, =6=, 161.

Culm, bloom in the, =5=, 253.

Cultivation, wildness, and, =1=, 55.

Cummings, slave of Squire, =2=, 284.

Cupid Wounded, verse, =1=, 244.

Curing moose meat and hide, =3=, 149, 150, 208.

Curtis, George William, =6=, 142, 256, note, 343.

Custom, the grave of, =1=, 136; immemorial, 140.

Cutler, E. J. (H. U. 1853), =6=, 287.

_Cytherea choros ducit_, =6=, 27.

Dace. _See_ Chivin.

Damodara, quoted, =2=, 97.

Dana, Charles, =6=, 404.

Danesaz, =6=, 122.

Daniel, Samuel, quoted, =1=, 106, 132, 407; =6=, 219.

Darby, William, quoted, =5=, 93, 94.

Darien, Isthmus of, robbing graveyards, on the, =4=, 467.

Darwin, Charles R., quoted, =2=, 14; =4=, 122; =6=, 382.

Davenant, Sir William Gondibert, quoted, =2=, 286.

Davis, Josiah, of Concord, his house, =6=, 5.

Day, deliberately, like nature, spending one, =2=, 108; and right, =6=, 242, 292, 293, 310.

Day-dreams, =6=, 38-40, 92, 93, 121, 122, 180, 181.