Chapter XVIII: Appendix: A. the Lowell Ancestry (3)

Lowell, Frances Dunlap. _See_ Dunlap, Frances;
characterized by J. R. L., i. 404;
by W. J. Stillman, 402, 406;
by W. D. Howells, 403;
by Mrs. S. B. Herrick, 404;
on composition of _Commemoration Ode_, ii. 66, note;
goes with J. R. L. to Europe, 150;
stays in Paris when he goes to London, 168;
studies Italian with J. R. L., 171;
returns with J. R. L. to America, 182;
how she received the proposal of a foreign mission, 218;
sails with J. R. L. for Liverpool, 220;
reaches Madrid, 227;
goes with J. R. L. to Greece, 237;
returns with him to Madrid, 238;
proposes to stay at Tours while J. R. L. goes home, 249;
is taken ill, 250;
begins slowly to recover, 251;
is pleased with J. R. L.’s transfer to England, 256;
has a relapse, 257;
is removed to England, 258;
her invalidism affects J. R. L.’s hospitality, 266;
her thanksgiving dinner, 267;
remains at home while J. R. L. visits the continent, 270;
death of, 319.

Lowell, Francis Cabot, founder of Lowell, Massachusetts, i. 6.

Lowell, Mrs. Harriet Brackett Spence, of Orkney descent, i. 11;
her northern temperament, 12;
her first acquaintance with her husband, 13;
her children, 13, 14;
her disorder, 91;
her death, 305.

Lowell, James Jackson, goes to the Adirondacks with J. R. L., i. 405;
wounded, ii. 30;
his gallant action, 31.

Lowell, James Russell, birth and death of, i. 1;
his appreciation of his birthplace, 1;
his ancestry, 6;
his father, 6-10;
his mother, 11, 12;
his brothers and sisters, 13-15;
his recollections of childhood, 15-18;
hears of John Adams’s death, 19;
visits Portsmouth and Washington, 19;
drives with his father on his parochial journeys, 20;
so gets acquainted with pristine New England, 20;
his first schooling, 21;
his companions, 21, 22;
attends William Wells’s school, 22-24;
tells stories and reads Scott, 24;
enters Harvard, 26;
his immaturity in college, 30;
his browsings among books, 30-33;
his intimacy with W. H. Shackford, 33;
his letters to Shackford, 34-38;
change in handwriting, 37;
his friendship with G. B. Loring, 38, 39;
letters to Loring, 39-42;
becomes editor of _Harvardiana_, 44;
is suspended from college, 47;
goes to Concord in consequence, 48;
meets Emerson there, 49;
makes a friend in E. R. Hoar, 50;
letters to Loring, 51-56;
defends himself against the charge of indolence, 52;
works at _Class Poem_, 51, 53, 54, 56;
writes an exculpatory letter to Emerson, 58;
wishes to go abroad, 62;
weighs the professions of ministry and law, 62;
his attitude toward the ministry, 63;
his need of a livelihood, 65;
takes up and abandons law, 65;
thinks of going into a store, 66;
takes his brother Robert’s place, 67;
studies the art of poetry, 67;
delivers a lecture, 67;
is in miserable dubiety, 68;
resumes the study of law, 69;
enters Mr. Loring’s office, 70;
his disappointment in love an explanation of his vacillation, 71;
finds expression in verse, 73-75;
meets Maria White, 76;
translation of experience in verse, 82-85;
is introduced by her to the Band, 89;
takes up writing as a means of support, 91;
writes for _Southern Literary Messenger_, 92;
publishes _A Year’s Life_, 93;
proposes a life of Keats, 95;
writes to Duyckinck, 95;
contributes to the _Boston Miscellany_, 98;
reckons his resources, 99;
projects the _Pioneer_, 99;
associates himself with R. Carter in the issue of the magazine, 100;
the spirit that prompted him, 102;
his principles as displayed in the Introduction to the _Pioneer_, 103-105;
whom he drew to his side, 105;
his attitude toward Anti-slavery, 105;
goes to New York for his eyes, 107;
his course of life there, 109;
meets N. P. Willis, 111;
undergoing operations, 113;
forms a friendship with C. F. Briggs, 114;
returns to Cambridge, 114;
after failure of the _Pioneer_, returns to poetry, 114;
painted by Page, 115;
his relations to Page and Briggs, 116, 117;
publishes a volume of _Poems_, 118;
puts his radicalism into poetry, 121;
is autobiographic also, 125;
introduces wit and humor, 128;
works over some old material and new into
_Conversations on Some of the Old Poets_, 132;
his reference in it to contemporaries, 135;
his enquiry in it into the nature of poetry, 137;
his attitude in it toward formal religion, 140;
his vision of the inner verity of religion, 145;
his poetic disclosure of faith, 146;
his conception of the function of the poet, 149;
publication of _Conversations_, 150;
marriage to Maria White, 150;
goes to Philadelphia, 152;
undertakes work on the _Pennsylvania Freeman_, 152;
writes of his daily life to Carter, 152-155;
proposes to contribute to the _Broadway Journal_, 157;
sends a “letter to Matthew Trueman,” 158;
which is declined, 159;
sends poems and criticisms, 160;
writes for _Graham’s Magazine_, 161;
writes a sketch of Poe, 162;
comments on Poe, 163-167;
breathes the air of anti-slavery, 168;
sends stanzas to _Boston Courier_, 168;
his articles in _Pennsylvania Freeman_, 169, 173;
visits the Davis family, 173;
returns to Cambridge, 173;
writes his verses _On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves near Washington_, 174;
his attitude toward disunion, 175;
becomes distinctly a man of letters, 176;
he and Mrs. Lowell fall heirs to property, 177;
his indifference to wealth, 177 and note;
proposes a sojourn abroad, 178;
birth of his first born, 178;
his reflections before her birth, 179;
contributions to _Liberty Bell_, 180;
writes to Briggs about Blanche, 181;
studies French, 182;
discusses the suppression of Longfellow’s “Poems on Slavery,” 183, 184;
his views on the education of Blanche, 185;
contributes to the _London Daily News_, 186;
his judgment of Garrison, 187-190;
writes _Lines on the Death of Charles Turner Torrey_, 191;
becomes a contributor to the _National Anti-Slavery Standard_, 193;
writes to S. H. Gay on his proposed close
connection with that journal, 194-200;
writes his first _Biglow Paper_, 201;
contributes a paper to _Standard_ on Daniel Webster, 201;
becomes “corresponding
editor” of the _Standard_, 202;
his salary for this, 202;
his _Ode to France_ his first regular contribution, 204;
his article on _The French Revolution of 1848_, 204;
continues the discussion, 205;
his verses _To Lamartine_, 206;
writes an article _Shall we ever be Republicans_, 207;
his conceit of _The Sacred Parasol_, 209;
the reënforcement he brought to the Anti-slavery camp, 211;
is doubtful about his service, 212;
writes on _The Nominations for the Presidency_, 213;
writes _An Imaginary Conversation_, 215;
his comment on Jefferson, 218, note;
his interest in public men, 219;
especially in Webster, 220;
his articles on this statesman, 220-227;
the poems he contributed to the _Standard_, 227, 228;
his relations to the anti-slavery leaders, 228-232;
accepts a modification of his connection with the _Standard_, 233;
close of his engagement, 234;
the part he had played, 235, 236;
the worth his connection had been to him, 236;
his charity toward friends and opponents, 237;
begins on _A Fable for Critics_, 238;
sends specimens to Briggs, 239;
promises the book as a New Year’s gift, 240;
advises as to publication, 241;
is amused over Briggs’s disposition of anticipated profits, 243;
insists upon the freedom of the gift, 244;
reports progress, 245;
explains origin of passage on bores, 246;
finishes the book, 247;
gives direction about title-page, 249:
his after judgment of the poem, 252;
shows his independence in it, 254;
and his nature generally, 255;
his _Biglow Papers_, 255;
wishes he had used a _nom de plume_, 256;
gives his views on the political condition which gave rise to the book, 257;
his two poems suggested by Garrison and the _Liberator_, 258-260;
questions the bad spelling of Hosea, 261;
collects the papers into a volume, 262;
proposes an external fitness, 263;
writes of the success of the book, 264;
discloses his personality in it, 265;
writes _The Vision of Sir Launfal_, 266;
his conception of his poetry, 267;
is the poet of June, 269;
his whist club, 271;
goes to Stockbridge, 272;
loses his child Blanche, 273;
attempts tragedy, 274;
writes to Carter at Pepperell, 274;
writes to Briggs of the preparation of a volume of poems, 276;
his seclusion, 280;
confesses impecuniosity, 281;
his effort to help Hawthorne, 283;
meditates a magazine, 287;
writes to Theodore Parker on contributions to
the _Massachusetts Quarterly_, 288;
contributes papers to the _North American_, 290;
writes to Briggs respecting American society, 296;
on current English writers, 297;
is described in his home by Miss Bremer, 298;
issues his _Poems_ in two volumes, 299;
proposes _The Nooning_, 300;
his views on his poetic vocation, 302;
defends his sister on the Hungarian question, 304;
loses his child Rose, 304;
and his mother, 305;
birth of his child Walter, 305;
jests on the boy’s birthday, 306;
plans for a year in Europe, 307;
sails with his family, 309;
describes voyage, 309;
halts at Malta, 314;
describes his life at Florence, 315;
hears of his father’s illness, 316;
leaves for Rome, 317;
describes arrival in Rome, 318;
joins English and American friends, 320;
compares Roman with Lombard churches, 321;
visits the Campagna, 322;
describes his Christmas in Rome, 323;
criticises Roman architecture, 327;
comments on the people he sees, 328;
describes his habit of studying pictures, 330;
takes part in private theatricals, 331;
writes their grandfather of his children, 334;
loses his only son, 338;
describes Easter Sunday, 339;
his final impressions of Rome, 342;
makes an excursion to Subiaco, 343;
travels to Naples, 343;
is in England, 345;
takes passage for America, 345;
makes the acquaintance on shipboard of Thackeray and Clough, 346;
his opinion of Clough’s “Bothie,” 347;
projects a novel, 347;
abandons the attempt, 348;
begins _Our Own_ for _Putnam’s Monthly_, 351;
contributes _A Moosehead Journal_, 353;
and _Cambridge Thirty Years Ago_, 354;
interests himself in Underwood’s magazine, 355;
loses his wife, 357;
has dreams of her and Walter, 358;
prints her poems, 359; his solitude, 361;
takes comfort in his daughter, 363;
engages in literary jobs, 364;
spends a summer in Beverly, 365;
makes the acquaintance of Stillman, 367;
writes _Ode to Happiness_, 368;
lectures on poetry before the Lowell Institute, 370;
is appointed successor to Longfellow in the
Smith professorship at Harvard, 376;
goes West on a lecturing tour, 378;
has a farewell dinner given him, 378;
sails for Havre, 380;
goes to Paris and Chartres, 380;
to London, 381;
settles in Dresden for autumn and winter, 381;
takes lessons in German and Spanish, 382;
goes to Italy in the spring, 383;
returns to Dresden and to America, 381;
establishes himself at Dr. Howe’s, 384;
takes up his college work, 385;
discourses on philology and æsthetics, 386;
on the modern languages compared with the
ancient as disciplinary studies, 387;
the character of his teaching, 388;
his interest in literature as compelling force, 389;
his indebtedness to Dante, 390;
his relation to students, 391;
his use of object-aids, 392;
his manner in teaching, 393;
his indifference to academic routine, 395;
the generosity of his teaching-gifts, 396;
his hospitality to his students, 398;
what he got from his teaching, 399;
effect of academic life on productiveness, 400;
second marriage, 401;
comments on his wife and her family, 401, 402;
goes to the Adirondacks, 404;
his appreciation of wild life, 405;
his attitude toward poetry, 406;
asked to edit a magazine, 408;
goes to dine with M. D. Phillips, 411;
becomes editor of the _Atlantic_, 412;
makes it a condition that Dr. Holmes shall contribute, 413;
writes to Emerson on his contributions, 414;
and to Whittier, 417;
writes regarding terms of payment, 421;
to R. G. White on anonymity, 422;
compares the situation with that of a later date, 423;
upon the independence of the magazine, 424;
his qualifications for his post, 425;
his editorial function compared with that of his successors, 427;
his attitude toward contributors, 428;
his weariness of his routine, 429;
his regard for criticism, 430;
his own work as reviewer, 432;
his thoroughness, 433;
his injection of fun, 434;
his proposal to dictate five love-stories at once, 437;
writes a Lambish letter to Captain Parker, 438;
his impatience over details, 441;
his respect for proof-reading, 444;
his loss of spontaneity, 445;
his diversion, 446;
goes to club dinners, 447;
his critical faculty, 449;
concerned over the transfer of the _Atlantic_, 450;
gives his judgment of Ticknor & Fields, 451;
yields editorship of _Atlantic_ to Mr. Fields, 453;
returns to Elmwood to live, 453;
views on his own poetry, 454.

Writes a political paper for the _Atlantic_ jointly with Mr. Godwin, ii. 4;
does not reprint it, 5;
the qualities of the paper, 13;
writes a paper on _American Tract Society_, 13;
and two on Choate and Cushing, 14;
his main contention in these papers, 16;
identifies himself with Republican party, 17;
prefers Seward to Lincoln, 18;
his first characterization of Lincoln, 19;
his uncertainty as to results, 20;
writes on _The Question of the Hour_, 20;
and on secession, 23;
disappointed in Lincoln’s public utterances, 25;
writes on the English attitude, 27;
his private views on Lincoln, 29;
is anxious for his nephews, 30;
cannot write _Biglows_, 32;
writes _The Washers of the Shroud_, 33;
his refreshment in nature, 34;
writes the first of the second series of _Biglow Papers_, 34;
the ease with which he assumes the Yankee dialect, 35;
his greater firmness in his second series, 36;
the earnestness of his tone, 37;
his playing at old age, 38;
writes _Mason and Slidell_, 40;
and _Sunthin’ in the Pastoral Line_, 41;
writes his ode to the memory of Shaw, 42;
his
passion for freedom, 41;
undertakes with Mr. Norton the editorship of
the _North American Review_, 45;
is whimsically indignant over the announcement, 47;
writes to Mr. Motley for an article, 48;
stirred to action by Mr. Norton, 49;
writes on _The President’s Policy_, 50;
confesses his earlier doubt about Lincoln, 50;
his greater confidence in him, 51;
criticises McClellan, 52;
reexamines the causes of the war, 53;
compares the candidates for the presidency, 55;
exults in the promise of success, 57;
finds expression in verso and prose, 58;
forecasts reconstruction, 59;
rejoices over the end of the war, 60;
attacks the problem of reconstruction, 61;
writes of Lincoln’s death, 62;
called on to write his _Commemoration Ode_, 63;
is wasted by the work, 64;
comments on the structure of the ode, 66;
delivers it, 69;
his conception in it of Lincoln, 71;
his recognition finally of Lincoln’s greatness, 72;
finds in him the new American, 73;
his familiar letters, 74;
comments on “Miles Standish,” 75;
studies Spanish, 76;
makes his editing and teaching help each other, 77;
edits a volume of Old Dramatists, 78, note;
his loyalty to New England and America, 79;
his characterization of his ancestors, 81;
dines with Trollope, 82;
meets with the Dante Club, 84;
his relations to the whole field of intellectual life, 85;
his discourses on literature, 87;
his originality, 88;
his personality in criticism, 89;
reflex judgment on Carlyle, 89;
criticises poetry in Swinburne, 92;
his treatment of President Johnson, 93;
his poetry carries farther than his prose, 94;
entertains Cranch, 95;
writes on the weather, 96;
reflects on his personality, 99;
makes new arrangements with the college, 100;
edits Dryden, 101;
considers a biography of Hawthorne, 102;
writes to a friend on some points of speech, 103;
writes _Fitz Adam’s Story_, 104;
sends a fairy tale and poem to _Our Young Folks_, 105;
writes _The Seward-Johnson Reaction_, 107;
writes on Percival, 109;
his views on impeachment, 109, note;
finds a likeness to his own experience in Lessing, 110;
his use of lecturers in his essay-work, 111;
his personality in his writing, 112;
reviews Longfellow’s translation of Dante, 113;
his views on translations, 114;
his appearance at Elmwood, 115;
writes _A June Idyll_, 116;
collects a volume of his poetry, 118;
struggles over its title, 119;
gives expression to himself in two essays, 121;
is burdened with the _North American_, 122;
receives congratulations on _Under the Willows_, 125;
is interested in young writers, 127;
writes a letter of encouragement, 129;
writes on literary honesty, 131;
interests himself in the letters and journals of a Virginian, 135;
his sympathy with Southerners, 136;
sends his daughter abroad with Mr. and Mrs. Fields, 137;
is near being sent as minister to Spain, 138;
writes _The Cathedral_, 139;
defends his use of a word, 140;
his happiness in writing his poem, 142;
his hatred of debt, 143;
refuses to do hack work, 144;
lectures at Cornell, 145;
makes the acquaintance of T. Hughes, 145;
thanks R. G. White for a dedication, 146;
sells part of his estate, 147;
finds relief in this, 148;
thanks Mr. Fields for “Yesterdays with Authors,” 149;
sails for Europe with Mrs. Lowell, 150;
lands in Queenstown, 151;
visits Killarney, 152;
and Chester, 153;
is in lodgings in London, 154;
makes a tour in the north, 156;
and in the west, 157;
joins the Nortons in Paris, 158;
picks up books, 160;
works at Old French, 162:
has John Holmes for a companion, 163;
proposes to visit London to bid the Nortons good-by, 165;
is decorated with D. C. L. at Oxford, 169;
_en route_ to Italy, 170;
is charmed with Venice, 171;
considers a return to his professorship, 172;
writes _Agassiz_, 174;
defends his poem, 176;
goes to Rome where he is with Story, 179;
at Naples, 180;
returns to Paris, 181;
and to London, 183;
is decorated at Cambridge, 184;
returns to America, 184;
spends the summer at home, 186;
works at Old French, 187;
writes an article on Spencer, 188;
writes Concord and Old Elm odes, 189;
shows his patriotism in Fourth of July ode, 190;
writes bitter verses for the _Nation_, 191;
calls out thereby cheap wrath, 192;
defends himself in a letter to Joel Benton, 193;
publishes second series of _Among my Books_, 196;
refers to Mr. Wilkinson’s criticism, 197;
writes on Swift, 198;
his interest in national politics, 200;
presides at a political meeting, 201;
is a delegate to Republican convention, 202;
is talked of for a foreign mission, 203;
gives expression to his political views, 204;
is asked to run for Congress, and put on the
Republican ticket as elector, 205;
makes a speech at a caucus, 206;
gives vent to his faith and doubts in Fourth of July ode, 212;
publishes _Three Memorial Poems_, 213;
goes to Baltimore with F. J. Child to lecture at the Johns Hopkins, 213;
is entertained, 214;
writes a sonnet to Miss Alice Gilman, 215;
is urged as elector to vote for Tilden, 216;
is asked to accept the mission to Austria, 217;
declines and is given that to Spain, 218;
meets Mr. Hayes, 219;
sails with Mrs. Lowell for Liverpool, 220;
his real preparation for his office, 221;
his official consciousness, 223;
his dislike of business, 226;
arrives with Mrs. Lowell at Madrid, 227;
is presented at Court, 227;
finds pleasant quarters, 228;
his early diplomatic duties, 229;
writes of the marriage of the king, 230;
witnesses a bull-fight, 234;
buys books, 236;
takes a two months’ leave of absence, 237;
visits Constantinople, 238;
writes of the Queen’s illness and death, 239;
devotes himself to the study of Spanish, 241;
writes of Internal affairs, 242;
his opinion as to the future of Spain, 245;
receives General Grant, 247;
a judgement on the Spanish, 248;
proposes a flying visit to America, 249;
is stayed by his wife’s illness, 250;
which proves nearly fatal, 251;
sends a despatch on the change on ministry, 253;
writes on the Cuban situation, 254;
is offered the English mission, 255;
is disturbed over his wife’s condition, 256;
goes to London, returns to Madrid and removes his wife to England, 258;
his training for the English mission, 259;
a representative of American men of letters, 260;
his friendly reception, 261;
his championship of America, 262;
in demand as an after-dinner speaker, 264;
his embarrassment from his narrow means, 265;
his social relations, 266;
plays Romeo, 267;
his official duties in connection
with the assassination of President Garfield, 268;
makes a brief trip after the death of the President, 270;
visits Weimar, 271;
joins the Fields at Venice, 272;
makes a brief stay at Paris, 273;
his judgment on Irish affairs, 274;
describes the situation to Mr. Evarts, 277;
writes on the coercion bill, 280;
criticises the bill, 281;
his attitude toward Irish-Americans, 282;
lays down course of action, 284;
corresponds with Mr. Blaine on the measures to be taken, 285;
is called upon for the facts, 288;
is denounced and defended at home, 289;
his action recognized at home and abroad, 290;
compared with Lord Granville, 291;
writes to friends of his difficulties with the Irish, 292;
characterized by Mr. Watts-Dunton, 293;
reverts to poetry, 294;
sends poems to _The Century_, 295;
regrets the death of R. H. Dana, 296;
has his portrait painted, 297;
his perplexities in presenting his country women at court, 298;
makes a speech on the unveiling of bust of Fielding, 298;
is candidate for rectorship of St. Andrews, 299;
withdraws his name, 300;
addresses the students at St. Andrews, 301;
his monomania on Jews 302;
unveils bust of Longfellow, 305;
receives degree at Edinburgh, 306;
speaks on the newspaper, 307;
analyses Wordsworth’s power, 309;
his attitude toward the church, 311;
his address on Democracy, 313;
tenure of his diplomatic position, 316;
his hesitation about leaving England, 317;
is sounded about accepting a professorship at Oxford, 318;
death of his wife, 319;
his words respecting her, 319, 320;
speaks on Coleridge, 321;
returns to America, 321;
makes his home for the time being at Deerfoot Farm, 322;
takes up letter-writing as an occupation, 323;
his dependence on women, 324;
goes to Washington, 324;
begins to feel his age, 325;
gives an address at Chelsea, 326;
is president of American Archæological Institute, 326;
attends a hearing on international copyright, 326;
addresses the committee, 327-332;
writes an epigram on the subject, 333;
makes an epigram on Gladstone, 334;
his life in London, 335;
is harassed by his approaching Harvard address, 337;
annoyed by an interview, 337;
delivers his oration at Harvard, 338;
edits letters of Landor, 342;
makes rhymes for Mrs. Gilder, 343, note;
writes an introduction to “The World’s Progress,” 344;
his need of economy, 349;
his reputation, capital, 350;
goes to Chicago to give an address on Washington’s Birthday, 351;
gives six lectures on the Old Dramatists before the Lowell Institute, 352;
sails for England in spring of 1888, 355;
his life at Whitby, 356;
is at work on his new volume of poems, 357;
doubts about his work, 358;
writes to Mrs. Bell about Feltham, 359;
presides at an Authors’ Reading and discourses on American literature, 361;
writes poems which reflect his deeper nature, 368;
makes a slight beginning on his _Hawthorne_, 372;
issues his _Political Essays_, 372;
utters valedictories, 373;
gives his address on _The Independent in Politics_, 374;
his faith in his early ideals, 376;
makes a speech before the Civil Service Reform Association, 377;
goes to England in the spring of 1888, 379;
attends commemoration at Bologna and receives a degree, 379;
is again at Whitby, 380;
his antidote to sleeplessness, 383;
visits St. Ives and returns to London, 384;
writes to Misses Lawrence, 384;
returns to America and spends the winter in Boston, 386;
visits Washington, 387;
celebrates his seventieth birthday, 387;
gives up writing a paper on John Bright, 388;
writes on Walton, 389;
makes an after-dinner speech on “Our Literature,” 390;
makes a final visit to England, 391;
writes _The Brook_, 393;
returns to Elmwood, 393;
works at a uniform edition of his writings, 394;
his judgment on his early poems, 395;
suffers the first severe illness of his life, 396;
writes _The Infant Prodigy_, 397;
receives a visit from Mr. Stephen, 398;
writes of Milton, 398;
and of Parkman, 399;
his _Thou Spell, avaunt!_, 399;
writes a birthday letter to Whittier, 400;
has books dedicated to him, 401;
writes of his condition to Misses Lawrence, 402;
his occupation in his last days, 406;
death of, 408.

Lowell, James Russell, portraits of, by Page, i. 115;
the same, engraved by Hall, 354;
by Sandys and Mrs. Merritt, ii. 297.

Lowell, John, founder of Lowell Institute, i. 6.

Lowell, Hon. John, grandfather of J. R. L., i. 6.

Lowell, Mabel, referred to as “Mab,” i. 234, 242;
born, 274;
compared with Blanche, 276;
her experience on shipboard, 311;
her friskiness in Rome, 328;
her theological views, 334;
her proficiency in Italian, 335;
the consolation she gave her father after her mother’s death, 368;
under charge of Miss Dunlap, 401;
goes to Europe with Mr. and Mrs. Fields, ii. 137;
her remark on her father, 138, note;
marries Edward Burnett, 150.
_See_ Burnett, Mabel Lowell.

Lowell, Maria White, _see_ White, Maria;
goes with J. R. L. to Philadelphia, i. 151;
improves in health, 154;
writes to Mrs. Hawthorne, 155;
translates from the German, 156;
tells fairy tales and sings ballads, 175;
comes into a share of her father’s estate, 177;
gives birth to her first child, 178;
contributes to _Liberty Bell_, 180;
the color of her eyes, 185;
advises introducing Margaret Fuller into _A Fable for Critics_, 245;
thinks highly of _Sir Launfal_, 266;
her frail appearance, 273;
gives birth to her second child, 274;
described by Miss Bremer, 298;
loses her third child, 304;
gives birth to her fourth, 305;
goes to Europe with J. R. L., 309;
describes their life in Rome, 320;
loses her only son, 338;
returns with J. R. L. to America, 345;
her failing health, 356;
her death, 357;
her poetical work, 358;
poems of, printed by J. R. L., 359;
her likeness, 361;
her influence on J. R. L., 369.

Lowell, Mary Traill Spence, afterward Mrs.
S. R. Putnam, sister of J. R. L., i. 13;
her intellectual force, 14;
her anxiety over the _Pioneer_, 106;
writes on the Hungarian question, 304;
is in Dresden with J. R. L., 381;
J. R. L. at the home of, ii. 322, 386.

Lowell, Percival, first of the Lowell family in America, i. 6.

Lowell, Rebecca, sister of J. R. L., i. 13;
has charge of the household, 270;
eccentricity of, 361;
death of, ii. 150.

Lowell, Robert Trail Spence, brother of J. R. L., i. 12;
his career and productions, 13, 14, note;
goes boating with J. R. L., 40.

Lowell, Rose, birth and death of, i. 304.

Lowell, Walter, birth of, i. 305;
his birthday commented on, 306;
described, 337;
death of, 338.

Lowell, William, i. 13.

Lowell Institute, origin of, i. 6;
J. R. L.’s lectures before, in 1887, 133;
in 1855, 370;
methods of, 372, note;
public censorship of, 425;
J. R. L. lectures before, on Old Dramatists, ii. 332.

Lundy, Benjamin, i. 152.

Lyons, Lord, J. R. L. to, on suzerainty, ii. 294.

Lyttelton, Lady, J. R. L. to, on Irish affairs, ii. 293;
a friend in time of need, 320.

McCarthy, Justin, on Irish characteristics, ii. 292.

McClellan, George Brinton, Report of, reviewed by J. R. L., ii. 51;
character of, analyzed by J. R. L., 52;
contrasted with Lincoln, 55.

_McClellan or Lincoln_, ii. 55.

“McFingal,” ii. 362.

McKim, James Miller, editor of _Pennsylvania Freeman_, i. 152;
_Letter to_, quoted, 231;
the letter a forerunner of _A Fable for Critics_, 250.

Mallock, William Hurrell, ii. 299.

Manifest Destiny, ii. 15.

Manning, Lamb’s letter to, i. 438.

“Mark Twain,” ii. 367.

Marlowe, Christopher, ii. 354.

Marvell, Andrew, J. R. L. edits the poems of, i. 364.

_Mason and Slidell_, ii. 40.

Massachusetts Historical Society, Charles Lowell secretary of, i. 9;
J. R. L. a member of, 446, note;
its collections the basis of an article by J. R. L., ii. 79.

_Massachusetts Quarterly Review, The_, i. 287, 288.

Mathew, Father, a great benefactor of Ireland, ii. 275.

Matthews, Cornelius, “the centurion,” i. 242.

May, Samuel, contributor to the _Standard_, i. 193.

_Memoriæ Positum R. G. Shaw_, ii. 42.

Mercedes, Queen, marriage of, ii. 230;
illness of, and death, 239;
J. R. L. writes a sonnet to, 240.

Merelo, Manuel, ii. 246.

Merritt, Mrs. Anna Lea, paints J. R. L.’s portrait, ii. 297.

Mexico, J. R. L. on the war with, i. 257;
conquest of, J. R. L. proposes a tragedy on, 274;
General Grant’s visit to, ii. 255.

Michelangelo and Petrarch compared, ii. 111.

_Middleton, Thomas, The Plays of_, i. 148.

“Midsummer Night’s Dream,” J. R. L. plays parts in, i. 331.

Mifflin, Thomas, quartermaster-general, i. 2.

“Miles Standish,” J. R. L. on, ii. 75.

_Mill, The_, i. 228, 232.

Milnes, Richard Monckton, Mrs. Procter comes to the rescue of, ii. 335.

Milton, John, his “Lycidas,” ii. 175;
his “Areopagitica” introduced by J. R. L., 398.

“Minister’s Wooing,” by Mrs. Stowe, i. 412;
letter about, by J. R. L., 430;
reviewed by J. R. L., 449.

Minor, John Botts, journal of, ii. 135.

_Mirror, The_, i. 163.

_Misconception, A_, ii. 205.

_Mr. Hosea Biglow’s Speech in March Meeting_, ii. 94.

Mitchell, Dr. S. Weir, reports J. R. L.’s visions, i. 15;
takes care of J. R. L. at Bologna, ii. 379;
releases him from an engagement, 386;
dedicates a volume to J. R. L., 401.

Modern Language Association, J. R. L. before, i. 386.

_Moosehead Journal, A_, i. 353.

“Morning Glory, The,” i. 359.

“Mortal Antipathy, The,” i. 413, note.

Motley, John Lathrop, dines with Mr. Phillips, i. 411;
his importance to the _Atlantic_, 420;
J. R. L. asks him to write for the _North American_, ii. 48;
representative of American men of letters at Court of St. James, 260.

Müller, Max, his “Auld Lang Syne” quoted, ii. 263.

_My Garden Acquaintance_, ii. 112;
an expression of J. R. L.’s nature, 121.

_My Study Windows_, published, ii. 145.

Naples, J. R. L.’s delight in Museum at, ii. 180.

_National Anti-Slavery, Standard, The_,
official paper of the American Anti-Slavery Society, i. 192;
its several editors, 192;
its list of contributors, 193;
J. R. L.’s early relations to, 196-200;
a close connection begun with it by J. R. L., 202;
contributions to it by J. R. L., 203-234;
its value to J. R. L., 235;
compared with the _Atlantic_, ii. 3.

National literature; _see_ Literature.

Neal, John, contributor to the _Pioneer_, i. 105;
his advice to, J. R. L., 108.

_Nest, The_, sent by. J. R. L. to Underwood for his magazine, i. 355;
its significance, 357.

New England, J. R. L.’s early familiarity with, i. 20;
its early seclusion, 88;
more than a geographical division, ii. 80;
what it stood for with J. R. L., 80;
Puritanism in, 82.

_New England Two Centuries Ago_, referred to, i. 71;
contributed to _North American_, 79;
quoted, 81.

“New Portfolio, The,” i. 413 and note.

Newspapers, J. R. L. on, ii. 307.

“New Timon, The,” reviewed by J. R. L., i. 290.

Nichols, George, living in Judge Lee’s house, i. 3;
his work on the _Atlantic_, 444;
referred to by J. R. L. in an article, ii. 400.

_Nightingale in the Study, The_, i. 269; ii. 115.

_Nightwatches_, ii. 324.

_Nominations for the Presidency, The_, i. 213.

_Nooning, The_, proposed by J. R. L., i. 300;
its contents, 301;
described further, 302;
wanted for a serial, 351;
resumed, ii. 104.

Nordhoff, Charles, J. R. L. writes to, on the political situation, ii. 19.

Norris, W. E., a novelist liked by J. R. L., ii. 407.

_North American Review_, J. R. L.’s contributions
to, in his earlier period, i. 290-293;
discusses the Hungarian question, 303;
J. R. L. takes the editorship of, ii. 45;
its change of character, 46;
J. R. L. characterizes it under the old _régime_, 48;
J. R. L.’s political papers in, 49;
letter to publishers of, by Lincoln, 51, note.

Northampton, a limit of Dr. Lowell’s chaise tours, i. 20.

Norton, Charles Eliot, his _Letters of James Russell Lowell_ referred to,
i. 39, 60, 88, 200, 233, 237, 242, 296, 427, 435, 443, 444,
453; ii. 19, 33, 40, 44, 48, 65,
67, 116, 139, 140, 176, 193, 202, 204, 218, 219, 227, 262, 356.
Letter to, from J. R. L. on village music, i. 25;
letter to, from J. R. L. on Jefferson, 218, note;
on change in title-page of _A Fable for Critics_, 249, note;
entertains Clough and others, 346;
edits Donne’s poems, 365;
letter of J. R. L. to, on his life on the North Shore, 366;
letter of J. R. L. to, inviting him to hear him lecture, 370;
on Chartres, 380;
on his life in Dresden, 382;
meets J. R. L. at Orvieto, 384;
J. R. L. to, on his love of the country, 385;
his “New Life” of Dante, given by J. R. L. to his class, 393;
letters to, from J. R. L. concerning Miss Dunlap, 401, 402;
on editorial worries, 429;
on his desire for relief, 443, 444;
on the sale of the _Atlantic_, 451.

Associated with J. R. L. in editorship of the _North American_, ii. 45;
J. R. L. writes a rhymed letter to, on the announcement, 47;
and of his own delinquency, 49;
and in doubt of Lincoln, 55;
and in exultation, 60;
J. R. L. writes to, on college work, 76;
gives an account of the Dante Club meetings, 84;
J. R. L. writes to, of Cranch and the weather and his own personality, 95;
edits Donne with Mrs. Burnett, 102, note;
J. R. L. writes to, of his own likeness to Lessing, 110;
writes, with J. R. L., a review of Longfellow’s “Dante,” 113;
J. R. L. to, on _Voyage to Vinland_, 120;
letters to, from J. R. L. during third journey
in Europe, 154-164, 168, 170, 173-180;
in Paris, where J. R. L. joins him, 158;
leaves for London, 159;
sends the Emersons to J. R. L., 161;
returns to America, 168;
criticizes _Agassiz_, 177;
J. R. L. to, on leaving America for Spain, 220;
presides at dinner of tavern Club, 387.

Norton, Miss Grace, J. R. L. to, on Chester, ii. 153;
on Hayes, 219.

Norton, Miss Jane, letter of J. R. L. to, on Beverly woods, i. 365;
on lecturing in the West, 378;
on letter-writing, 445;
J. R. L. writes a palsied-hand letter to, ii. 38;
J. R. L. writes to, on _Commemoration Ode_, 63;
also on “Miles Standish,” 75;
and on his collegiate work, 76;
and on the museum at Naples, 180.

Nürnberg, ii. 170.

_Ode for the Fourth of July, 1876, An_, ii. 190.

_Ode read at Cambridge on the Hundredth
Anniversary of Washington’s Taking Command
of the American Army_, ii. 189.

_Ode read at the One Hundredth Anniversary of
the Fight at Concord Bridge_, ii. 189.

_Ode to France_, i. 204.

_Ode to Happiness_, i. 368, 434.

“Old Cambridge,” by T. W. Higginson, referred
to on J. R. L.’s suspension, i. 47;
on Underwood’s magazine, 354, note.

Old Dramatists, J. R. L.’s first studies in the, i. 98;
subject of, treated in lectures in 1887, 133;
treated of in _Conversations_, 134;
and in articles in _Atlantic_ and _North American_, ii. 77;
a volume of, edited by J. R. L., 78, note;
lectures on, by J. R. L. in 1887, 352.

Old Road in Cambridge, i. 2.

Oliver, Thomas, lieutenant-governor of the
Province, builds the Elmwood house, i. 4;
hastily leaves it, 5.

_On my twenty-fourth birthday_, i. 125.

_On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves near Washington_, i. 174; ii. 137, note.

_Origin of Didactic Poetry, The_, i. 418.

_Oriole’s Nest, The_; see _Nest, The_.

Orkney Islands, ancestral home of J. R. L.’s mother, i. 11.

O’Sullivan, John, editor of _Democratic Review_, i. 111;
J. R. L. writes to, about Hawthorne, 283.

Otis, Harrison Gray, action of, gives rise to
two of J. R. L.’s poems, i. 258-260.

_Our Literature_, J. R. L. on, ii. 390.

_Our Own_, published in _Putnam’s Monthly_, i. 351;
its failure, 352;
parts of, saved, 353.

“Our Whispering Gallery,” ii. 149.

_Our Young Folks_, J. R. L. writes for, ii. 105.

Owens, John, publishes _Conversations_, i. 132;
reports success of the book, 158;
wishes to suppress one of J. R. L.’s anti-slavery poems, 134.

Oxford, J. R. L. goes to, for his degree, ii. 169, 170;
professorship at, proposed for J. R. L., 318.

Page, William, J. R. L. meets, i. 78;
paints M. W.’s portrait, 79;
J. R. L.’s affection for, 116;
likened to Haydon, 117;
paints J. R. L.’s portrait, 117;
is shown a bit of _A Fable for Critics_, 240;
proposed as a beneficiary of the book, 241;
has faith in the book, 242;
paints Bryant’s portrait, 246, note;
with Briggs and Willis discusses J. R. L. and Poe, 282;
meets J. R. L. in Florence, 314;
dines with him there, 315;
meets him at Orvieto, 384.

Palfrey, John Gorham, his “History of New England”
reviewed by J. R. L., ii. 79.

Palmer, George Herbert, ii. 340.

_Parable, A_, i. 228.

Parker, Captain Montgomery, letter to, in China from J. R. L., i. 438.

Parker, Friend, with whom the Whites and Lowells
stayed in Philadelphia, i. 151, 152.

Parker, Theodore, editor of _Massachusetts Quarterly_, i. 287;
letter of J. R. L. to, 288;
characterized by J. R. L., 290, note.

Parkman, Francis, J. R. L. writes on, ii. 398.

Parnell, Charles Stewart, prosecution of, ii. 278;
his extraordinary characterization of Irish-Americans, 281.

Parsons, Thomas William, contributor to the _Pioneer_, i. 105;
J. R. L. to, on _A June Idyll_, ii. 117.

Peabody, Andrew Preston, editor of the _North American_, ii. 45.

Peirce, Benjamin, professor of mathematics at
Harvard in J. R. L.’s youth, i. 27.

Pellico, Silvio, i. 341.

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, exhibition of,
noticed by J. R. L., i. 160, 161.

_Pennsylvania Freeman_, J. R. L. engaged to write for, i. 152, 154;
his contributions to the paper, 169-173;
_Letter from Boston_ sent to, 181.

Pepperell, Massachusetts, i. 274.

Perceval, Hugh, a nom de plume of J. R. L., i. 92, 161.

Percival, James Gates, J. R. L. on, ii. 109.

Perry, Mrs. Lilla Cabot, J. R. L. to, on Spenser, ii. 188.

Peterboro, ii. 156.

Petrarch and Michelangelo compared, ii. 111.

Phillips, Moses Dresser, i. 409;
won over to the scheme of a magazine, 410;
gives a little dinner, 410;
interests Mrs. Stowe, 412;
dies, 449.

Phillips, Wendell, contributor to the _Standard_, i. 193;
his eloquence contrasted with that of the Charleston batteries, ii. 26.

Phillips & Sampson undertake the _Atlantic Monthly_, i. 408;
character of the house, 420;
J. R. L.’s duty toward, 426;
failure of, 450.

_Phœbe_, ii. 295.

_Pickens-and-Stealins’ Rebellion, The_, ii. 25.

_Pictures from Appledore_, ii. 302, 367.

_Pioneer, The_, projected by J. R. L. and R. Carter, i. 99;
prospectus of, 99, 100;
its purpose, 101;
introduction to, 103-105;
its contributors, 105;
its contents, 105;
carried on in absence of J. R. L., 106;
suspended, 107;
how it looked in New York, 109;
J. R. L.’s concern for, 110-113;
J. R. L.’s formal bow in, ii. 390.

Pipe, the, as a weather-sign, ii. 358.

“Pirate, The,” i. 11.

_Place of the Independent in Politics, The_; see _Independent in Politics_.

_Plays of Thomas Middleton, The_, extract from, on poets, i. 149.

_Pocket Celebration of the Fourth, The_, ii. 14, note.

Poe, Edgar Allan, contributor to _The Pioneer_, i. 105;
rate of payment to, by _Broadway Journal_, 158;
sketched by J. R. L. in _Graham’s Magazine_, 162;
his criticism of J. R. L., 163;
his allusions to Longfellow’s family, 164;
J. R. L.’s judgment of, 165-167;
the correspondence with J. R. L., 165, note;
his relation with J. R. L. discussed by Briggs, Willis, and Page, 382.

_Poems_, J. R. L. preparing the volume of, i. 239.

_Poems_, second series by J. R. L. issued, i. 277;
analyzed, 277-280.

Poetry, J. R. L.’s enquiry into, in _Conversations_, i. 137;
his lectures on, at Lowell Institute, 373-375.

“Poet’s Yorkshire Haunts, A,” quoted, ii. 356.

_Political Essays_, articles not included by J. R. L. in his, ii. 5; published, 372.

Pontine marshes, the, i. 344.

Pope, the, J. R. L. sees, i. 324;
hears him celebrate mass, 325;
likens him to an American statesman, 326.

Pope, Alexander, criticised by J. R. L., i. 290;
treated at length in lectures on poetry, 374.

Portsmouth, early visited by J. R. L., i. 19, 20.

Postmaster at Stockbridge, account of, by J. R. L., i. 272.

_Power of Sound, The_, quoted, i. 20.

Prescott, Harriet Elizabeth, J. R. L. meets at dinner, i. 449.

Prescott, William Hickling, his “Conquest of Mexico,” i. 274;
importance of, to the _Atlantic_, 420.

Presepio on Christmas eve in Rome, i. 324, 325.

_President on the Stump, The_, ii. 93.

“President’s Message, The,” by Parke Godwin, ii. 3.

Proctor, Mrs. Bryan Waller, ii. 335.

Professorship at Oxford proposed for J. R. L., ii. 318.

_Prometheus_, i. 115;
at work on, 119;
its character, 121;
compared with Keats’s “Hyperion,” 122;
Briggs and J. R. L. on, 123.

Proof-reading, J. R. L. on, i. 444.

Provincial Newspaper Society, J. R. L. before, ii. 306.

_Punch_ on J. R. L. as an alien, ii. 300.

Puritanism in New England, ii. 82.

Putnam, George, J. R. L. to, ii. 182, 296.

Putnam, George Palmer, to publish _A Fable for Critics_, i. 242;
does not notice the rhymed title-page, 249, note;
his character as a publisher, 349.

Putnam, Mrs. S. R., _see_ Lowell, Mary Traill Spence.

Putnam, William Lowell, killed at Ball’s Bluff, ii. 30.

_Putnam’s Monthly_, established, i. 348;
prospectus of, 349;
its decline, 350.

Puttenham’s “Art of English Poesie,” i. 67.

_Question of the Hour, The_, ii. 20.

Quincy, Edmund, writes the life of his father, Josiah Quincy, i. 27;
one of the editors of the _Standard_, 192;
a contributor to the same, 193;
corresponding editor of, 202;
the quality of his work, 211;
valued by J. R. L., 230, 231;
“correspondence” with J. R. L., 235;
writes for _Atlantic_, ii. 2.

Quincy, Josiah, president of Harvard, i. 27;
portrayed by J. R. L., 27, 28.

_Rebellion, The; its Causes and Consequences_, ii. 53.

_Rebellion Record, The_, reviewed by J. R. L., ii. 61.

_Reconstruction_, ii. 57.

Reed, Dwight, secretary of J. R. L. at Madrid, ii. 251;
his constant service, 252.

Religion, J. R. L. on, ii. 310.

Reviewing, evolution of, i. 430;
disliked by J. R. L., 433.

Rheims, ii. 170.

Rhett, Robert, ii. 24.

_Rhæcus_, i. 120.

Riaño, Don Juan and Doña Emilia de, faithful friends
of Mrs. Lowell in her sickness, ii. 252.

Riedesel, Baroness, a resident of Cambridge, quoted on Tory Row, i. 3.

“Rimini and other Poems, by Leigh Hunt,” i. 250.

Ripon, ii. 154, 156.

Riverside Press, The, i. 421;
J. R. L.’s walk to, 444.

Rogers, Samuel, J. R. L. indebted to, ii. 177.

Rölker, Bernard, sings a song, i. 379.

Rome, J. R. L.’s entrance into, i. 318;
life at, 320;
early impressions of, 321;
Christmas at, 323;
art in, 327;
people in, 328;
revision of judgment concerning, 330;
social life in, 331;
illumination of St. Peter’s at, 339;
final impressions of, 342.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, i. 375.

“Round Table, The,” i. 431.

Rousseau, article on, compared with lecture on, ii. 111;
suggests the subject of the Jews to J. R. L., 301.

Rowfant Club, the, prints J. R. L.’s lectures on poetry, i. 373.

Rowse, Samuel W., hears _Commemoration Ode_, ii. 64;
a guest of J. R. L., 82;
missed by J. R. L., 157, 161.

Royce, Josiah, ii. 67, note.

Ruskin, John, J. R. L. advises workingmen to read his books, ii. 86;
praises _The Cathedral_, 140;
on Turner’s “Old Téméraire,” 369.

_Sacred Parasol, The_, i. 209.

St. Andrews, J. R. L. proposed for the rectorship of, ii. 299;
students of, addressed by J. R. L., 301.

St. Angelo, bridge of, i. 319;
J. R. L. sees illumination from, 340.

Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, sends the
_Atlantic_ a paper on Béranger, ii. 77.

St. Ives, a resort for J. R. L., ii. 356.

St. Peter’s in Rome, J. R. L. comments on size of, i. 321;
the Pope celebrates mass at, 325;
illumination of, 339.

Sales, Francis, instructor in French and
Spanish at Harvard in J. R. L.’s youth, i. 27.

_Sample of Consistency, A_, ii. 14, note.

Sampson, Charles, i. 409.

San Luigi dei Francesi, midnight mass at the church of, i. 323, 325.

Santa Maria Maggiore, illumination at church of, i. 323, 324.

Saturday Club, The, i. 447.

Sawin, Birdofredom, character of, i. 265.

Scates, Charles Woodman, i. 45, 53.

Schooling, J. R. L.’s early, i. 21.

_Scotch the Snake, or kill it?_, ii. 61.

Scotland, relations of, with England, ii. 276.

Scott, Sir Walter, early read by J. R. L., i. 24;
Lockhart’s Life of, read by J. R. L., 46;
his diary read by J. R. L. in the last days, ii. 407.

Sedgwick, Catherine, the tales of, i. 88.

_Self-possession vs. Prepossession_, ii. 27.

Seminoles, J. R. L.’s early interest in, i. 37.

Service for the Dead, J. R. L. repeats the, i. 362.

Sewall, Jonathan, i. 3.

Seward, William Henry, preferred by J. R. L. for the presidency, ii. 18.

_Seward-Johnson Reaction, The_, ii. 107.

Shackford, William Henry, a college friend of J. R. L., i. 33;
goes to teach at Phillips Exeter Academy, 33;
his relation to J. R. L., 34;
letters of J. R. L. to, 34-38.

Shady Hill, home of the Norton family, i. 446.

Shakespeare, an early acquaintance of J. R. L., i. 15;
read by him in college, 37;
White’s edition of, reviewed by J. R. L., 432, 433;
lectured on and written about by J. R. L., ii. 77.

_Shakespeare Once More_, quoted, i. 388; ii. 87.

_Shakespeare’s Richard III._, ii. 351.

Shaw, Frank, i. 314.

Shaw, Robert Gould, J. R. L. commemorates in a poem, ii. 42;
honors in a letter to his mother, 43.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, J. R. L. introduced to the writings of, i. 32;
his genius likened to St. Elmo’s fire, 138;
the shell of, 375.

_Shepherd of King Admetus, The_, i. 147.

Sicily, J. R. L. visits and characterizes, i. 384.

Sidney’s “Defense of Poesie,” i. 67.

“Simple Cobbler of Agawam,” ii. 367.

_Sirens, The_, i. 85.

“Sir Galahad” suggests _Sir Launfal_, i. 268.

“Skipper Ireson’s Ride,” by Whittier, J. R. L. on, i. 417, 418.

“Slave Mother, The,” verses by M. W. L., i. 180.

Sleeplessness, J. R. L.’s cure for, ii. 383.

Slick, Sam, i. 261.

Smalley, George W., on J. R. L.’s Americanism, ii. 262.

Smith Professorship, Longfellow resigns, i. 375;
and it is given to J. R. L., 376;
afterwards emeritus, ii. 322.

Smith, Sydney, on Daniel Webster, i. 221;
his scornful question, ii. 363.

Socialism, ii. 315, 349.

“Solitude and Society” by Emerson, J. R. L. on, i. 416.

_Song sung at an Anti-Slavery Picnic_, J. Owen wishes to suppress, i. 184.

Sonnet, J. R. L. on the, as seen in Longfellow’s writing, ii. 306.

Sophocles, the Philoctetes of, ii. 404.

Southborough, ii. 322.

“Southern History of the War” reviewed by J. R. L., ii. 53.

_Southern Literary Messenger_, a vehicle for J. R. L.’s work, i. 92.

_Sower, The_, i. 228.

Spanish, J. R. L. studies, ii. 76;
a familiar tongue to him when he went to Madrid, 221;
how J. R. L. worked at it, 241, 242.

_Spectator_, London, on J. R. L. and Lord Granville, ii. 291.

Spence, Keith, maternal grandfather of J. R. L., i. 11.

Spence, Mary Traill, J. R. L.’s loyalist grandmother, i. 11, note.

Spens, Sir Patrick, a poetic forbear of J. R. L., i. 11.

Spenser, Edmund, earliest of J. R. L.’s poets, i. 14, and note;
imitated by J. R. L., 351;
essay on, by J. R. L., ii. 188.

Squirrels, J. R. L.’s care for, ii. 407.

Stanley, Henry Morton, ii. 296.

Stedman, Edmund Clarence, J. R. L. to, on modern antiques, ii. 93.

Stephen, Leslie, J. R. L. to, on Carlyle, ii. 89;
his description of J. R. L. quoted, 115;
J. R. L. comments on his “Are we Christians?” 165;
and his “Essays on Free Thinking and Plain Speaking,” 175, 176;
J. R. L. to, on politics, 202;
resorts to St. Ives, 356;
visits Elmwood, 398.

Stewart, Dugald, a teacher of Charles Lowell, i. 7.

Stillman, William James, starts _The Crayon_, i. 367;
inspirits J. R. L., 367;
J. R. L. sends a poem to his paper, 378;
J. R. L. to, on the drying up of the poetic fount, 400;
his estimate of Miss Dunlap, 402;
forms the Adirondack Club, 404;
characterizes J. R. L. in the woods, 405;
and in his married life, 406;
dinner given to, 448;
on J. R. L.’s care of his squirrels, ii. 407.

Stockbridge, Massachusetts, visited by J. R. L. and family, i. 272.

Stone, Thomas Treadwell, contributor to the _Standard_, i. 193.

Story, William Wetmore, an early friend and playmate of J. R. L., i. 22;
contributor to the _Pioneer_, 105;
J. R. L. meets him in Rome, 320;
hunts for a lion’s skin, 333;
goes with J. R. L to Subiaco, 343;
hears _Commemoration Ode_ read, ii. 64;
J. R. L. on his works, 86;
at Crosby Lodge on Eden, 154;
visited by J. R. L., 156;
entertains J. R. L. in Rome, 179;
J. R. L. on his statues, 179;
J. R. L. to, on Mrs. Lowell’s death, 320.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, relied on to float a magazine, i. 354;
her books published by Phillips & Sampson, 409;
interested in the _Atlantic_ by Mr. Phillips, 412;
her importance, 420;
her “Minister’s Wooing” criticised by J. R. L., 430;
and reviewed by him, 449.

Stubbs, Charles William, Canon, later Dean,
on J. R. L.’s cure for sleeplessness, ii. 382.

Sumner, Charles, characterises J. R. L.’s lecture on Milton, i. 373.

_Sunthin’ in the Pastoral Line_, i. 269; ii. 41.

Swift, Jonathan, J. R. L. writes on, ii. 198.

Swinburne’s Tragedies, reviewed by J. R. L., i. 374; ii. 92.

“Tales of a Grandfather,” one of J. R. L.’s first books, i. 25.

“Tancred” reviewed by J. R. L., i. 290.

Tarifa, Spanish town of, i. 313.

Tavern Club gives J. R. L. a dinner on his seventieth birthday, ii. 387.

Taylor, Jeremy, on the Countess of Carbery, i. 361.

Taylor, Zachary, nominated for the presidency, i. 220.

_Tempora Mutantur_, ii. 191.

Tennant, Miss Dorothy, ii. 296.

Tennyson, Alfred, J. R. L.’s early interest in the poems of, i. 94, 96;
Arthurian legends of, compared with _Sir Launfal_, 268;
influence of, on J. R. L., ii. 88;
J. R. L. lunches with, 261.

Terracina, J. R. L. at, i. 343.

Texas, debate on, i. 167;
verses on, by J. R. L., 168.

Thackeray, William Makepeace, J. R. L. comments on, i. 297;
J. R. L. makes the acquaintance of, 346.

Thaxter, Levi Lincoln, on J. R. L.’s letter to M. W., i. 89, note.

Thayer, James Bradley, J. R. L. to, on _The Nooning_, i. 302;
J. R. L. to, on the measure of his odes, ii. 44, note;
and on the _Commemoration Ode_, 65, 67.

Theatricals, private, in Rome, J. R. L. takes part in, i. 331;
writes prologues for, 332-334.

Thoreau, Henry David, reviewed by J. R. L. in
_Massachusetts Quarterly_, i. 292;
wanted by J. R. L. as contributor to the _Atlantic_, 415, 417.

Ticknor, William, D., character of, as publisher, i. 451.

Ticknor & Fields buy the _Atlantic_, i. 451.

Tilden, Samuel Jones, J. R. L. urged to vote for, ii. 216.

_Times, London_, quoted, ii. 318.

Titian, the “Sacred and Profane Love” of, i. 327, 328, note;
poem suggested by, ii. 371.

_Token, The_, i. 146.

Toombs, Robert, ii. 24.

Tory Row, Cambridge, i. 2;
the houses on it, 2-4.

_To the Muse_, i. 406.

Tours, Mrs. Lowell plans to stay at, ii. 249.

Traill, Robert, great-grandfather of J. R. L., i. 11.

Trattoria, a, in Florence, i. 315.

_Tribune, The New York_, on J. R. L. in 1843, i. 117;
in 1882, ii. 289.

“Tritemius,” by Whittier, J. R. L. on, i. 418.

Troil, Minna, of “The Pirate,” literary forbear of J. R. L., i. 11.

Trollope, Anthony, J. R. L. dines with, ii. 82.

Trowbridge, John Townsend, on Emerson’s “Brahma,” i. 415.

“Trueman, Matthew, Letter to,” i. 158, 159.

“Two Angels, The,” Longfellow’s poem, i. 362.

_Turner’s Old Téméraire_, ii. 368, 369.

_Two Scenes from the Life of Blondel_, ii. 43.

_Uncle Cobus’s Story_, ii. 106.

“Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” published by J. P. Jewett,
success of, suggests a magazine, i. 354;
declined by Phillips & Sampson when offered to them, 409.

_Under the Old Elm_, ii. 189.

_Under the Willows_, i. 268;
title chosen for volume, ii. 119;
brings congratulatory letters, 125.

Underwood, Francis Henry, projects a magazine, i. 354;
receives for it a poem from J. R. L., 354;
letter to, from J. R. L. on failure of magazine, 355;
proposes the _Atlantic_ 408;
secures the aid of J. R. L. and others, 409;
wins over Phillips & Sampson, 410;
dines with publisher, editor and chief contributors, 411;
goes to England for the magazine, 412;
is J. R. L.’s right-hand man, 414;
attends to correspondence, 428.

Union League Club in Chicago, ii. 352.

Valedictories, J. R. L.’s, ii. 373.

Van Buren, Martin, nominated for the presidency, i. 224.

“Vanity Fair,” J. R. L. on, i. 297.

Vassall, Henry, i. 2.

Vassall, Colonel John, his house in Cambridge
the headquarters of Washington and home of Longfellow, i. 3.

Vaughan, Henry, quoted, ii. 99.

Venice, J. R. L.’s delight in, ii. 171;
his return thither, 272.

Very, Jones, contributor to the _Pioneer_, i. 105.

“Virginian in New England, Thirty-five Years ago, A,” ii. 136.

_Vision of Sir Launfal, The_, i. 266;
the brook in, 267;
compared with Tennyson’s romances, 268;
June in, 268.

_Voyage to Vinland_, called also _Leif’s Voyage_, i. 301;
J. R. L. on, ii. 120.

Wales, Henry Ware, J. R. L.’s tribute to, ii. 403-406.

Walker, James, president of Harvard College, i. 376;
urges J. R. L. to attend Faculty meetings, 395.