"Abram Morrison," 86.
"Adrian," 152.
Agamenticus, 86, 89.
Aldrich, T. B., 75.
Allinson, Francis Greenleaf, 39.
Allinson, W. J., 39.
American Manufacturer, 69, 71, 102, 136.
Amesbury, 3, 42, 55-89.
Amesbury public library, 95.
Ancient desk, 20.
Andover, 5.
Anecdotes as told by Whittier:
Aunt Mercy's vision, 22, 23;
Country Bridge ghost, 15;
conscience stirred by thunderstorm, 27;
Elizabeth's practical joke, 28;
the "tipsy wife," 31, 32;
cold drives to Amesbury, 33;
"Old Butler," 36;
the Morse boys, 36;
Garrison's first visit, 37;
a Quaker swaps cows, 37;
"the power of figures," 40-42;
instance of guidance of spirit, 82, 83;
legend of Po Hill, 85, 86;
Chase characterizes Lincoln's stories, 98;
Hiram Collins and Emerson, 98, 99.
Anecdotes related of Whittier:
Last visit to birthplace, 24-38;
the fire on the hearth, 26;
attempt at levitation, 28;
visits site of "In School Days," 32;
cherry-tree incident, 34;
story of Evelina Bray, 68-72;
receives lightning stroke, 73;
taking notes at Quaker meeting, 82;
sees mirage at Salisbury Beach, 91;
Miss Phelps describes first meeting, 102;
thirteen at table, 93, 94;
clock strikes mysteriously, 95;
the May Quarterly Meeting, 96;
saving money for funeral expenses, 96;
the pet parrot, 97, 98;
husking at West Ossipee, 111-114;
an evening at Bearcamp, 114-118;
Alice Freeman Palmer's story, 118, 119;
contract of perpetual bachelorhood, 119;
his English Quaker guest, 122;
escapes dedication of Bartlett statue, 122.
Anti-Masonic poem, 141.
Appledore, 92.
Artichoke River, 57, 58.
"A Sea Dream," 69.
"A Song of Praises," 153, 154.
Ayer, Capt. Edmund, 29, 30.
Ayer, Lydia, 26, 30.
Ayer, Lydia Amanda (Mrs. Evans), 30.
Ayer, Mrs., 117.
Bagley, Valentine, 84.
Bailey, Mary, 116.
Bailey's Hill, 83.
Bancroft, George, 64.
Barnard, Mary, 96.
Bartlett, Josiah, 84, 122-125.
Bearcamp House, 110-117.
Beecher, Catherine, 70.
Beecher, Henry Ward, 76.
Birchy Meadow, 44.
Birthplace of Whittier, 8, 9-40.
Blaine, James G., 64, 77, 78.
Boar's Head, 86, 89.
Bonny Beag, 86.
Boon Island, 86.
Boston "Statesman," 102.
Boutelle, Thomas E., 99.
Boyd, Rev. P. S., 4.
Boynton, E. Moody, 122-124.
Bradbury, Judge, and wife, 56.
Bradford, 3.
Bradstreet, Anne, 5.
Bray, Evelina, 68, 71.
Brown's Hill, 84.
Burnham, Thomas E., 38.
Burroughs, George, 101.
Butler, Benjamin F., 36.
Butler, Philip, 76.
Butters, Charles, 38.
Byron, Lord, 134-136.
Caldwell, Adelaide, 112, 113, 117.
Caldwell, Louis, 113.
Caldwell, Mary (Whittier), 25, 74.
Cape Ann, 86.
Captain's Well, The, 83, 84.
Carleton, James H., 38.
Cartland, Gertrude (Whittier), 20, 104, 113.
Cartland house, Newburyport, 20, 101.
Cartland, Joseph, 82, 85, 92, 104, 113.
Catalogue of father's library, 24, 25.
Cate, George W., 101.
Centre Harbor, N. H., 99, 110, 113.
Chain Bridge, 59, 60.
Chamber in which Whittier died, 94.
"Changeling, The," 92.
Chase, Aaron, 30, 32.
Chase, Mrs. Moses, 32.
Chase, Salmon P., 98.
Child, Lydia Maria, 75.
Chocorua, 110-115.
Churchill, J. W., 123.
Claflin, William, 102, 118.
Clarkson, Thomas, 25.
Clay, Henry, 77, 141.
"Cobbler Keezar's Vision," 86.
Coffin, Joshua, 26, 30, 31, 103, 104.
Coggswell, William, 64.
Collier, Rev. William R., 102.
Collins, Hiram, 124.
"Common Question, The," 97.
Corliss Hill, 30-32.
"Countess, The," 47, 51.
Country Bridge, 14, 15, 46.
Country Brook, 14-17, 104.
Crane Neck, 86.
Currier, Horace, 117.
Curson's Mill, 57, 58.
Cushing, Caleb, 5.
Dana, Charles A., 149.
Danvers, 86.
Daughters of the Revolution, 84.
Davis, Robert T., 122.
Deer Island, 5, 58-60.
Dickens, Charles, 108.
"Division, The," 109.
Douglass, Frederick, 64.
Downey, Evelina (Bray), 71.
Downey, W. S., 70.
Duncan, Sarah M. F., 38.
Dustin, Hannah, 40.
East Haverhill, 3.
East Haverhill church, 51.
Ela, Amelia, 19.
"Eleanor," 46.
Ellwood's "Drab-Skirted Muse," 25.
Emerson, Nehemiah, 66.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 65, 99.
Emmons, "Ginger-Pop," 124.
Essex Club, 64.
"Eternal Goodness, The," 63, 107.
"Eternity," 137, 138.
"Exiles, The," 84.
Fernside Brook, 9, 11, 12, 16, 17.
Ferry, the, 75.
Fields, Annie, 102.
Fields, James T., 46, 102.
Fletcher, Rev. J. C., 58, 89, 92.
Ford, Miss, 112, 116.
"Fountain, The," 87.
Fox, George, 25, 47.
"Fragment, A," 136.
Frankle, Annie W., 38.
Fremont, J. C., 149.
Friend Street, 58.
Friends' meeting-house, 33, 80, 81.
Frietchie, Barbara, 65.
Frinksborough, 138.
"Gail Hamilton's Wedding," 120-122.
Garden at birthplace, 18.
Garden room, Amesbury, 32, 62-71.
Garrison, William Lloyd, 37, 76, 103, 104.
Garrison's birthplace, 103.
Golden Hill, 8.
Goodspeed, C. E., 51 note. (TR: now Footnote 3)
"Goody" Martin, 56, 57, 84.
Gordon, "Chinese," 65.
Gove, Sarah Abby, 92, 93.
"Grave of Morgan, The," 142, 143.
Green, Ruth, 29.
Greene, Nathaniel, 102.
Greenleaf, Sarah, 20, 22, 29, 103.
GrimkÉ, Angelina, 119.
Group at Sturtevant's, 113.
Groveland, 3.
"Hamilton, Gail," 108, 120-122.
Hampton Beach, 86, 88.
Hampton Falls, 92, 93.
Hampton marshes, 92.
Hampton River, 88.
Haskell, George, 40.
"Haunted Bridge of Country Brook," 15.
Haverhill, 3, 7.
Haverhill Academy, 6, 129.
"Haverhill Gazette," 24, 48, 136, 143, 152.
Hawkswood, 58.
Hay, John, 75.
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 78.
Hines, Peter, 117.
Hoar, George F., 64.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 108.
"Homecoming of the Bride, The," 76.
Pennsylvania Hall, 119.
Pickard, Elizabeth (Whittier), 20, 22, 39, 71, 74, 75, 85, 90, 94, 109, 116.
Pickard, Greenleaf Whittier, 74, 94.
Pickard, S. T., 116, 117.
Pillsbury, Mary, 35.
Pleasant Valley, 55, 58.
Plum Island, 86.
Plummer, Celeste, 112, 116.
Poems hitherto uncollected:
Ode sung at dedication of Academy, 7;
Catalogue of his father's library, 22;
Lines in album, 30;
"A Retrospect," 35;
"The Plaint of the Merrimac," 59, 60;
"The Division," 109;
"How they climbed Chocorua," 111-114;
"To the Unknown and Absent Author of 'How they climbed Chocorua,'" 114, 115;
"Last Will of Man in Bear-Trap," 116-118;
Weld epithalamium, 119, 120;
"Gail Hamilton's Wedding," 120-122;
"My Double," 123-125;
"I would not lose that Romance Wild," 130;
"New England," 131-133;
"That Vow of Thine," 133, 134;
"The Spectre," 135, 136;
"A Fragment," 136, 137;
"Eternity," 137, 138;
"Dead Ichneumon," 139-141;
"Grave of Morgan," 142, 143;
"The Thunder Spirit," 143;
"Worship of Nature," 144, 145;
"Northern Lights," 146, 147;
"The Willow," 148, 149;
"Uses of Sorrow," 149;
"We're Free," 150, 151;
"Fremont's Ride," 151, 152;
"The Times," 152, 153;
"Song of Praises," 153, 154.
Po Hill, 33, 57, 84, 87.
Pond Hills, 44.
Porter, Dudley, 38.
Porter, J. S., 25, 71.
Portland, 20, 22, 118.
Powow River, 56, 57, 60, 79, 83, 84, 86-87, 88.
"Preacher, The," 84.
"Pressed Gentian, The," 64.
Purchase of birthplace, 38.
Ramoth Hill, 46, 67.
"Relic, The," 64.
"Revisited," 58.
Reunion of schoolmates, 70.
River Path, picture of, 5.
"River Path, The," 49, 55, 56.
River valley, near grave of Countess, 49.
Rocks Bridge, 48.
Rocks Village, 32, 44, 46, 51, 55.
Rocky Hill, 84.
Rocky Hill meeting-house, 87, 89.
Rogers, John, 125.
Rowley, 86.
Salisbury, 3, 14.
Salisbury Beach, 86, 88, 89.
Salisbury Point, 77.
Saltonstall mansion, 45.
Sanders, Susan B., 38.
"Sea Dream, A," 69.
Scene on Country Brook, 43.
Sewel's "Painful History," 25.
Silver Hill, 8, 10.
Smith, Joseph Lindon, 26.
Smith, Mary Emerson, 66, 67.
Smith, S. F., 71, 72.
Smith, Mrs. S. F., 71, 72.
"Snow-Bound," 12, 20, 24, 39, 48, 63, 74.
Snow-Bound barn, 12.
Snow-Bound kitchen, 12, 17-52.
Somersworth, N. H., 22.
"Song of Praises, A," 153, 154.
Sparhawk, Dr. Thomas, 76.
"Spectre, The," 135, 136.
Spofford, Harriet Prescott, 5, 59.
Stanton, Edwin M., 84.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 75.
Sturge, Joseph, 61, 63-65.
Sturtevant, Miss, 112.
Sturtevant, Mrs., 117.
Sturtevant's, 110, 113.
Sumner, Charles, 108.
Sycamores, the, 8, 45.
Tallant, Hugh, 45.
Tappan, Lewis, 62.
Taylor, Bayard, 65.
Taylor, Henry, 98, 99.
Taylor, Marie, 66.
"Telling the Bees," 17.
"Tent on the Beach, The," 74, 87, 90, 91.
"That Vow of Thine," 133, 134.
Thaxter, Celia, 92.
Thayer, Abijah W., 24.
Thayer, Sarah S., 24.
Thomas, Mary Emerson (Smith), 66, 67.
Thoreau, Henry D., 5.
Thornton, Sir Edward, 58.
"Times, The," 152, 153.
"To My Old Schoolmaster," 30, 104.
Tracy, Mrs., 49.
Trowbridge, J. T., 28, 40.
Turner, Judge, 77.
Union Cemetery, 29, 57, 84, 85.
"Unity," 154.
"Up and Down the Merrimac," 4.
"Uses of Sorrow, The," 149.
Wachusett, 33, 86.
Wade, Mrs., 113.
Wakeman, Rev. Mr., 94.
Ward, Elizabeth Phelps, 102.
Washington, George, 45, 60.
Weld, Dr. Elias, 48-50, 66.
Weld, Theodore D., 51, 119.
Wendell, Ann, 141.
"We 're Free," 150, 151.
West, Mary S., 46.
West Ossipee, N. H., 110, 111.
Whiteface, 86.
Whitefield church, 103.
Whitefield, George, 103, 104.
Whittier, Abigail, 22-24, 26, 74, 78.
Whittier, Elizabeth H., 28, 34, 61, 62, 74, 75, 78, 85, 90-92, 150.
Whittier Hill, 14, 84.
Whittier home, Amesbury, 61-79, 86.
Whittier, John, 12, 20, 24, 85.
Whittier, John Greenleaf,
reviews Boyd's "Up and Down the Merrimac," 4;
interest in psychical research, 23;
catalogues his father's library, 24, 25; his
early pessimism, 42-44, 129;
letter to Dr. Weld, 50, 51;
carrier's address quoted, 51 note; (TR: now Footnote 3)
removal to Amesbury, 60, 61;
tribute of Essex Club, 64;
friendship for schoolmates, 66-72;
reason why never married, 68;
portrait at age of twenty-two, 69;
prostrated by lightning, 73;
person referred to in "Memories" and "My Playmate," 67;
receives bullet wound, 76;
at town meeting, 77;
home life sketched by Higginson, 78;
plans Friends' meeting-house, 80;
preferred silent meetings, 81, 82;
interest in psychical research, 83;
his cemetery lot, 85;
care for Amesbury public library, 96;
portrait at age of forty-nine, 97;
his Boston homes, 102;
letter to Newbury celebration, 103, 104;
radical change in his spirit, 129;
peculiarity of his laugh, 108.
Whittier, Joseph, 20, 29, 47.
Whittier, Joseph, 2d, 29.
Whittier, Mary, 26, 29.
Whittier, Matthew Franklin, 26, 37, 65, 74, 85, 100.
Whittier mill, 18.
Whittier, Moses, 12, 20, 75, 85.
Whittier, Obadiah, 75.
Whittier, Thomas, 14, 15,