[Titles of periodicals, and of books, articles, and poems by J. R. L. are printed in Italic type.]

Abolitionists, scored by J. R. L. in Class Poem, i. 56;
J. R. L. identifies himself with, 191, 197;
independence of, in 1848, 213;
separated from, ii. 16.
Adams, John, J. R. L. remembers hearing of the death of, i. 19.
Adee, Alvin A., on J. R. L.’s insight into Spanish character, ii. 244.
Adirondack Club, formed by W. J. Stillman, i. 404;
its membership, 405.
“Adirondacs, The,” by R. W. Emerson, i. 404; ii. 175.
“Africa,” by M. W. L., i. 369.
African coast, approach to, i. 313.
Agassiz, i. 400;
compared with other poems, ii. 175;
the portraits in, 176;
J. R. L. on, 177, 178;
the patriotic feeling in, 190.
Agassiz, Louis, a member of the Adirondack Club, i. 405;
death of, ii. 174.
Aladdin, taken from Our Own, i. 353.
Alcott, Amos Bronson, characterised in A Fable for Critics, i. 240.
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, a tenant of Elmwood, i. 1;
J. R. L. thanks him for his praise of Under the Willows, 125;
takes possession of Elmwood, 150;
J. R. L. to, on a doctorate, 169;
leaves Elmwood, 185;
J. R. L. to, on fleeing to the mountains, 186;
J. R. L. to, on contributions to the Atlantic, 297, 388.
Alfonso, king of Spain, J. R. L. presents him with the President’s congratulations, ii. 224;
J. R. L. is presented to, 227;
his marriage described, 230.
Al Fresco, i. 269; ii. 41.
Allen, Alexander Viets Griswold, ii. 69, note.
Ambrose, i. 228.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, J. R. L.’s membership in, i. 446, note.
American ArchÆological Institute, ii. 326.
“American Conflict, The,” by Horace Greeley, reviewed by J. R. L., ii. 53.
American Literature, J. R. L. on, ii. 361-368.
American Politics, the address J. R. L. did not give, ii. 351.
American Review, The, Poe’s “Raven” published in, i. 163.
Among My Books, first series, published, ii. 144;
second series, 196.
Anderson, Major Robert, ii. 25.
Another Rallying Cry by a Yankee, i. 168.
Antwerp, ii. 170.
“A pair of black eyes,” poem beginning, i. 54.
Appleton, Thomas, goes to hear J. R. L. lecture, i. 373.
Appleton’s Journal, edited by R. Carter, ii. 144.
Arcturus, a literary journal, i. 95.
“Areopagitica,” Milton’s, J. R. L. writes an introduction to, ii. 398.
“Are we Christians?” J. R. L. on, ii. 165.
Art, J. R. L.’s relations to, ii. 86.
“Atalanta in Calydon,” ii. 92.
AthenÆum, The, quoted, ii. 293.
Atlantic Club, The, i. 447.
Atlantic Monthly, origin of, i. 408-413;
its value to Whittier, 417;
its sale, 418;
its timeliness, 419;
its anonymous character, 422;
policy of, as
affirmed by J. R. L., 424;
interest of the public in, 425;
its freedom from competition, 427;
reviewing in, 430;
clubs that sprang from, 446;
designed to be a political magazine, ii. 1;
compared with Standard, 3;
J. R. L.’s political articles in, 17;
the second series of Biglow Papers asked for by editor of, 35;
an anonymous writer in, describes J. R. L.’s comments on the Jews, 301.
Auf Wiederschen, i. 368.
“Auld Lang Syne,” by Max MÜller, quoted, ii. 263.
Authors’ readings, ii. 333;
address by J. R. L. before, 361.
“Autobiography of a Journalist” referred to, i. 404.
“Autocrat, The, of the Breakfast Table,” i. 426.
Azeglio, Massimo d’, i. 395.
Bachi, Pietro, instructor in Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese at Harvard in J. R. L.’s youth, i. 27.
Ballads in J. R. L.’s early years, i. 12.
“Band, The,” i. 89.
Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, J. R. L. comments on, ii. 194.
Barlow, Joel, ii. 361.
Barrett, Elizabeth Barrett, afterward Mrs. Browning, contributes to the Pioneer, i. 111;
reviewed by Poe, 165.
Bartlett, John, friend of J. R. L., and member with him of whist club, i. 271;
verses to, by J. R. L., ii. 96;
calls the whist club together for the last time, 407.
Bartol, Rev. Cyrus Augustus, colleague of Charles Lowell, discourages the publication of his sermons, i. 8, note;
C. L’s attitude toward, as regards salary, 234, note.
Beaver Brook, J. R. L.’s early rambles to, i. 19.
Beaver Brook, i. 228, 232.
Bell, Mrs. Helen Choate, J. R. L. to, on Feltham, ii. 350.
Bell telephone, ii. 328.
Benton, Joel, defends J. R. L., ii. 192;
and draws out a letter in response, 193.
BÉranger, J. R. L. translates Sainte-Beuve’s article on, ii. 77.
Bernini, the angels of, i. 319.
Bethune, Rev. George Washington, i. 155.
Beverly, J. R. L. describes life at, i. 365, 366.
Bibliolatres, i. 228.
Biglow, Hosea, J. R. L. regrets making him a bad speller, i. 261;
thinks of educating him, 261.
Biglow Papers, first series, quoted, i. 21;
begun in Boston Courier, 201;
published also the Standard, 256;
origin of, in J. R. L.’s mind, 257;
their success referred to by J. R. L, 260;
progenitors of, 261;
bad spelling in, 261;
revised for publication, 261, 262;
the apparatus of, 263;
success of, 264;
expressive of New England, 265;
and of Lowell, 265;
eclipsing A Fable for Critics, 266;
relation of, to Sir Launfal, 268;
second series, 400;
not liked by Mrs. Lowell, 428;
introduced by Hughes in England, 454;
demand for more, ii. 32;
first of second series written, 34;
second series compared with first, 36;
quoted in newspapers after the Spanish war, 94;
Introduction to second series, 102.
Birmingham and Midland Institute, address before, ii. 313.
Black, Charles C., a friend of J. R. L. in Italy, i. 317;
helps him to London papers, 320;
gets up private theatricals, 331.
Blackwood’s Magazine, reputation of, in America, i. 419;
model of the Atlantic, 421.
Blaine, James Gillespie, J. R. L. rejoices over the defeat of, ii. 204;
corresponds with J. R. L when Secretary of State, 285;
is succeeded by Mr. Frelinghuysen, 290, note;
had chosen successor to J. R. L. in anticipation of election to the presidency, 317;
divides the Union League Club in Chicago, 352.
Blarney Castle, J. R. L. visits, ii. 152.
Bliss, Edward Penniman, ii. 202, note.
Blondel, a prototype of Lincoln, ii. 43.
Bologna, J. R. L receives degree at, ii. 379.
Books and Libraries quoted, i. 30; ii. 326.
Boott, Francis, i. 318.
Bores, passage on, in A Fable for Critics, i. 246.
Boston Courier, J. R. L. contributes to, i. 168, 174.
Boston Daily Advertiser, J. R. L.’s lecture reported in, i. 373;
on Commemoration Ode, ii. 64.
Boston Miscellany, The, a literary journal, i. 98;
J. R. L’s contributions to, 98, 99;
is merged in Arcturus, 99.
Boswell’s Johnson frequently read by J. R. L., ii. 407.
Bowen, Francis, controversy of, with Mrs. Putnam, i. 304.
Bowker, Richard Rogers, gives an account of the Lowells in London, ii. 267;
on J. R. L.’s perplexities in presenting ladies at court, 298.
Boyle, Miss Mary, entrusts Landor’s letters to J. R. L., ii. 342.
Brackett, Dr., of Portsmouth, i. 19.
Bradburn, George, projects a magazine, i. 7.
“Brahma,” by Emerson, the quidnuncs on, i. 415;
J. R. L. on, 415, 416.
Brattle, Thomas, i. 2.
Bremer, Fredrika, describes the Lowell household, i. 298.
Brewster, Sir David, a teacher of Charles Lowell, i. 7.
Briggs, Charles Frederick (Harry Franco), i. 110;
J. R. L. makes the acquaintance of, 114;
criticises A Legend of Brittany, 129;
letter to, from M. W., 129;
projects Broadway Chronicle, 130;
condemns customary marriage ceremonies, 131, note;
starts the Broadway Journal, 156;
seeks contributions from J. R. L. and M. W. L., 156;
offers to make a contract with J. R. L., 157;
upon compensation, 158;
objects to J. R. L.’s first article, 159;
abandons his paper, 160;
corresponds with J. R. L. regarding Poe, 163-166;
receives a visit from J. R. L. and M. W. L., 173;
J. R. L. to, on his anticipated child, 179;
J. R. L. to, after the birth of Blanche, 181;
is amused over J. R. L.’s French exercise, 182, and note;
J. R. L. to, on Anti-Slavery, 183;
and on the training of Blanche, 185;
is notified of A Fable for Critics, 238;
asks after it, 239;
has it offered to him as a New Year’s gift, 240;
accepts it, and proposes distribution of profits, 242;
writes J. R. L. to retain passage on Miss Fuller, 245;
does not like Bryant, 245;
hears of Sir Launfal, 266;
comments on The Changeling, 279;
writes to J. R. L. of Willis and Mrs. Clemm, 282;
begs J. R. L. not to undertake editorship, 287;
J. R. L. writes to him of The Nooning, 300;
is editor of Putnam’s Monthly, 348;
looks to J. R. L. for contributions, 350;
receives Our Own, 351;
J. R. L. to, on magazines popularity, 352;
on Cambridge Thirty Years Ago, 354;
prints M. W. L’s verses, 358;
J. R. L. to, on the death of M. W. L., 360;
on his own appointment at Harvard, 376.
Bright, Henry, sends grouse to Longfellow, i. 346.
Bright, John, J. R. L. essays to write a paper on, ii. 388.
Bristol, J. R. L. visits, ii. 157.
Bristow, Benjamin H., a candidate for the presidency, ii. 203.
British Poets, J. R. L. helps edit the, i. 364; ii. 101.
Broadway Chronicle, The, projected by C. F. Briggs, i. 130.
Broadway Journal, The, edited by C. F. Briggs, i. 154;
J. R. L. and M. W. L. contribute to, 156, 538-160;
is discontinued, 160.
Brook, The, ii. 393.
Brooks, Phillips, makes prayer at Harvard Commemoration, ii. 364.
Brown, Charles Brockden, ii. 364.
Browning, Robert, poems of, reviewed by J. R. L., i. 290, 291;
met by J. R. L., 381;
his dramas to be read, not seen, ii 70;
met by J. R. L. in Venice, 272.
Bruges, ii. 170.
Bryant, William Cullen, in A Fable for Critics, i. 245;
criticise J. R. L., 245, note;
J. R. L. uneasy over his judgment on, 253;
A New Englander in New York, 420;
his “Waterfowl,” ii. 365.
Buchanan, James, criticised by Parke Godwin in the Atlantic ii. 3;
and by J. R. L., 4, 6, 7, 11, 12, 21.
Buckingham, J. T., editor of Boston Courier, J. R. L. addresses, i. 174;
a hater of slavery, 175.
Bulfinch, Charles, architectural works of, i. 26.
Bull-fight, J. R. L. witnesses a, ii. 234.
Burke, Edmund, ii. 362.
Burleigh, C. C., editor of Pennsylvania Freeman, i. 152.
Burnett, Edward, marries Mabel Lowell, ii. 150;
entertains J. R. L. in Washington, 387.
Burnett, Mabel Lowell, see Lowell, Mabel;
edits Donne with Mr. Norton, ii. 102, note;
makes J. R. L. a grandfather, 166;
meets J. R. L. on his return from Europe, 185;
J. R. L. writes to her of Mrs. Lowell’s illness, 253;
and of his transfer to England, 255;
with her husband visits England, 258;
makes a home for J. R. L. in his last days, 393.
Butler, Benjamin Franklin, J. R. L. comments on, ii. 194;
a byblow of Democracy, 324.
Byron, his “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,” i. 250, note;
his “muddy stuff,” 337, 338.
Cabot, Arthur, buys Elmwood, i. 5.
Cabot, James Elliot, i. 411;
his “Life of Emerson,” ii. 366.
CÆsar, J. R. L. offers a new paragraph to his Commentaries, ii. 383.
Calderon, i. 269.
Calhoun, John Caldwell, satirized by J. R. L., i. 215-218.
California, J. R. L. on discovery of gold in, i. 177.
Cambridge, England, J. R. L. visits, to receive a degree, ii. 184.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, the birthplace of J. R. L., i. 1;
its character as a college town, 25;
its connection with Boston in J. R. L.’s boyhood, 26.
Cambridge Thirty Years Ago, addressed to W. W. Story, i. 22;
published in Putnam’s Monthly, 353.
Campagna, the, J. R. L.’s first view of, i. 318;
his walks in, 322, 328, 338.
CÁnovas del Castillo, J. R. L. comments on, ii. 233, 244, 246;
views of, on Cuba, 254.
Carlisle, ii. 156.
Carlyle, Thomas, satirized by J. R. L. in his Class Poem, i. 57;
in the apparatus of Biglow Papers, 263;
paper on, by J. R. L., ii. 89;
modification of judgment concerning, 90;
assessed, 91.
Carman, Bliss, ii 389.
Carter, Robert, associated with J. R. L. in the Pioneer, i. 99;
his career, 100, 101;
writes a card explaining J. R. L.’s silence, 107;
letters of J. R. L. to, from New York, 109-114;
letter of J. R. L. to, on going to Philadelphia, 152-155;
J. R. L. writes to, in Pepperell 274;
writes on the Hungarian question, 304;
letter to, from J. R. L. at Terracina, 343;
reports J. R. L.’s lecture before Lowell Institute, 373;
asks J. R. L to write for Appletons’ Journal, ii. 144;
interests himself in J. R. L’s political preferment, 202;
wishes to print the Fourth of July ode, 203.
Cass, Lewis, satirized by J. R. L., i. 215-217.
Castellar y Rissoll, Emilio ii. 244.
Cathedral, The, quoted, i. 17, 18, 380;
composition of, ii. 139;
first called A Day at Chartres, 140;
the pleasure it gave J. R. L., 142.
Caucus, speech of J. R. L. at, ii. 206-211.
“Centurion, The,” in A Fable for Critics, i. 242.
Century Magazine, The, on Lincoln and Lowell, ii. 71;
interested in international copyright, 333.
Certain Condescension in Foreigners, A, ii. 122, 262.
Chace, Senator, of Rhode Island, ii. 326.
Chamonix, ii. 171.
Changeling, The, i. 274;
praised by Briggs, 279.
Channing, Edward Tyrrel, i. 36.
Channing, William Ellery, ii. 364.
Channing, William Francis, contributor to the Standard, i. 193.
Chapman, George, ii. 354.
Chapman, Mrs. Maria Weston, manages bazaar, i. 181;
one of the editors of the National Anti-Slavery Standard, 192;
proposes to J. R. L. to contribute, 196;
overrates his popularity, 197.
Chartres, J. R. L. visits, i. 380;
gives title at first to The Cathedral, ii. 140.
“Chastelard,” ii. 92.
Chaucer, treated by J. R. L. in Conversations, i. 134;
quotation from paper on, ii. 88;
his appropriation of others’ work, 132.
Chelsea, J. R. L.’s address at, ii. 326.
Chester, J. R. L. at, with Canon Kingsley, ii. 153.
Chicago, address at, by J. R. L., ii. 351.
Child, David Lee, editor of the Standard, i. 192.
Child, Francis James, edits the British Poets, i. 364;
J. R. L. shows him the Commemoration Ode, ii. 63, 68, note;
likes Fitz Adam’s Story, 104;
accompanies J. R. L. to Baltimore, 213;
his popularity there, 214;
J. R. L. to, on the St. Andrews affair, 300.
Child, Mrs. Lydia Maria, the “Philothea” of, i. 80;
characterised by J. R. L. in the Pioneer, 105;
her “Letters from New York,” 114;
her editorship of the Standard, 192;
in A Fable for Critics, 245.
Chippewa Legend, A, i. 125.
Chivers, T. H., i. 375.
Choate, Rufus, J. R. L.’s article on, ii. 14.
Choir, village, J. R. L.’s characterization of, i. 20.
Christ, and Christianity, i. 169.
Christ Church, Cambridge, ecclesiastical home of loyalists, i. 2;
J. R. L. attends, ii. 311.
Church, the, J. R. L.’s comments on, in Conversations, i. 141-145;
a bulwark of Paganism, 170.
Church and the Clergy, The, J. R. L.’s articles in Pennsylvania Freeman, i. 169.
Civil-service reform, importance of, ii. 194, 202;
reference to, at caucus, 210;
address on, by J. R. L., 377.
Clarke, James Freeman, in politics, ii. 201.
Class Poem by J. R. L., i. 48, 50, 51, 53, 54, 56-61.
Clemm, Mrs., Poe’s mother-in-law, J. R. L.’s relations with, i. 282.
Cleveland, Grover, elected president, ii. 316;
J. R. L.’s judgment on, 324.
Clifford, Mrs. W. K., J. R. L. to, on confidants, ii. 323;
J. R. L. to, in response to an invitation, 391.
Clough, Arthur Hugh, comes to America on same boat with J. R. L., i. 346;
his reception in Boston and Cambridge, 346;
describes the Lowell household, 347;
J. R. L.’s judgment of his “Bothie,” 347;
Cranch reminds J. R. L. of, ii. 96.
Coercion Act, J. R. L. on, ii. 281.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, J. R. L. becomes acquainted with the poems of, i. 32;
J. R. L. compares his own odes with those of, ii. 44, note;
his want of scruple in matters of literary honesty, 134;
J. R. L. on unveiling the bust of, 321.
Colosseum at Rome, i. 338.
Commemoration Ode, i. 400;
tried on F. J. Child, ii. 63;
exhausts J. R. L., 64;
to be read aloud, 66;
its composition, 67;
its power to stimulate, 70;
a shrine of Lincoln, 71.
Concord, Massachusetts, J. R. L. sent there in suspension from college, i. 47;
his life there, 50-56.
“Conquest of Canaan,” Dwight’s, ii. 361.
Contributors’ Club, article in, by J. R. L., ii. 398.
Conversations on some of the Old Poets, quoted, i. 17;
books published, 132;
its contents analyzed, 134-145;
reviewed by Poe in the Mirror, 163;
compared with later work on same subject, ii. 354.
Cooke, Philip Pendleton, ii. 362.
Cooper, James Fenimore, in A Fable for Critics, i. 254;
has no desire to start a magazine, 419;
characterized, ii. 364.
Copyright, J. R. L. on, ii. 326-332.
“Cornwallis, The,” village drama of, i. 25.
Courtin’, The, i. 300.
Cranch, Christopher Pearse, visits J. R. L., ii. 95;
his ill-success, 96.
Crawford, Thomas, i. 332.
Crayon, The, Stillman’s journal, i. 367, 378.
Credidimus Jovem regnare, ii. 368.
Critic, The, publishes a “Lowell Birthday number,” ii. 387.
Cromwell, treated poetically by J. R. L., i. 124;
wanted by him for America, ii. 28.
Crosby & Nichols, publishers of the North American Review, ii. 47.
Cuba, Spanish relations with, ii. 254;
rumors of American purchase of, 255.
Curtis, George Ticknor, recalls Mr. Wells’s school, i. 23.
Curtis, George William, and Putnam’s Monthly, i. 348;
his “Prue and I,” 350.
Cushing, Caleb, J. R. L.’s article on, ii. 14, 15.
Dall, Mrs. Caroline Healey, quoted on Charles Lowell, i. 10.
Dana, Edmund, brother of R. H. D., Jr., i. 22.
Dana, Richard Henry, ii. 365.
Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., an early friend of J. R. L., i. 22;
death of, commented on by J. R. L., ii. 296.
Dante, quoted by J. R. L. in his college days, i. 54;
in Florence, 314;
teaching of, by J. R. L., 385;
influence over J. R. L., 390;
portrait of, given by J. R. L. to his class, 393;
“New Life” of, given also, 393;
the church in which he was baptized, 394;
not used in examination, 395;
Longfellow’s translation of, scrutinized by the Dante Club, ii. 84;
and reviewed by J. R. L. and C. E. Norton, 113;
article on, by J. R. L., 150;
some interpretation of, by J. R. L., 381.
Darkened Mind, The, a record of J. R. L.’s mother, i. 91;
quoted, 305.
Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, marriage of, i. 440.
Davis, Mr. (and Mrs.) Edward M., friends of Mrs. White and M. W., i. 151;
arrange for J. R. L.’s work in Philadelphia, 152;
entertain the Lowells at their home, 173;
J. R. L. writes to, 176, 177;
written to on birth of Blanche, 178.
Davis, Jefferson, J. R. L’s phrases on, ii. 9, 10.
Day in June, A, i. 269.
“Days” by Emerson, J. R. L. on, i. 414.
Dead House, The, i. 435.
Declaration of Independence, i. 209.
“Decuman,” J. R. L.’s defence of the word, ii. 140.
Dedications to J. R. L., ii. 401.
Deerfoot Farm, J. R. L.’s residence at, ii. 322.
Democracy, ii. 312-316.
Democracy and Other Addresses, ii. 334;
copyright on, 350.
Dickens, Charles, compared with Thackeray by J. R. L., i. 297;
letters of, published by Forster and Fields, ii. 149.
Dirge, A, extracts from, i. 147.
Dixwell, Epes Sargent, a New England scholar, i. 23.
Dr. Primrose, the name given by J. R. L. to his father, i. 11.
Donne, John, on Elizabeth Drury, i. 361;
his poems revised by J. R. L., ii. 102;
edited for Grolier Club, 102, note.
Douglas, David, the Edinburgh publisher, ii. 329.
Downing, Major Jack, i. 261.
“Dred” by Mrs. Stowe, i. 409, 412.
Dresden, J. R. L. settles down in, for study, i. 381;
his winter in, 383.
Dresel, Otto, i. 442.
Dryden, John, J. R. L. edits poems of, ii. 101.
Dublin, J. R. L. at, ii. 153.
Dunlap, Elizabeth, i. 400.
Dunlap, Frances, governess of Mabel Lowell, i. 401;
her character, 401;
characterized by J. R. L., 401;
marries J. R. L., 241;
see Lowell, Frances Dunlap.
Durham, J. R. L’s impression of, ii. 156.
Duyckinck, Evert Augustus, J. R. L. writes to, with sonnets, i. 95;
writes to J. R. L. proposing a book, 135;
J. R. L. writes to, about Hawthorne, 283;
his and his brother’s CyclopÆdia of American Literature, ii. 362.
Dwight, John Sullivan, contributor to the Pioneer, i. 105.
Dwight, Timothy, ii. 361.
Edwards, Jonathan, ii. 361.
Election in November, The, ii. 17.
Eliot, Charles William, on Commemoration Ode, ii. 69.
Eliot, Samuel, remembers J. R. L.’s boyhood, i. 24.
Eliot, Dr. S. R., treats J. R. L. for trouble with his eyes, i. 109;
is a compagnon du voyage, 380.
Elmwood, birthplace of J. R. L., i. 1;
one of the loyalist houses, 2;
described, 4;
its successive owners, 4-6;
as a nesting-place for J. R. L., 15, 16;
J. R. L. will not use it as a title to a volume, ii. 119;
J. R. L.’s final return to, 393.
Elwyn, Dr., i. 155.
Ely, J. R. L. at, i. 345.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, characterizes Charles Lowell, i. 8;
J. R. L. goes to hear him lecture in his junior year at college, 49;
his acquaintance made by J. R. L. in Concord, 50;
animadverted on in class poem, 56, 57;
letter to, by J. R. L. in exculpation, 58, 59;
his abandonment of the ministry, 64;
characterizes “Philothea,” 80;
introduced into A Fable for Critics, 239, 240, 243, 254;
on J. R. L.’s magazine project, 287;
as a friend of Thoreau, 293;
characteristic of, 297;
promises to write for Putnam’s, 350;
his “Adirondacs” quoted, 404;
a member of the Adirondack Club, 405;
dines with Mr. Phillips, 410;
J. R. L. to, on his signature of article, 414;
on “Days,” 414;
his Brahma, 415;
J. R. L. to, on his contributions, 416;
his importance to the Atlantic, 420;
advised by J. R. L. respecting his publisher, 451.
Comments of, on J. R. L.’s poetry, ii. 33, note;
on Lincoln, 71;
extract from his journal on J. R. L.’s poetry, 121;
is with J. R. L. in Paris, 161;
his character, 164;
good to love, 167;
in Agassiz, 177, 178;
on J. R. L.’s Under the Old Elm, 189;
characterized, 365;
his Life by J. E. Cabot, 366.
Emiliani, i. 329.
Endymion, ii. 371.
England, J. R. L. finds reaction in politics since 1848, in, ii. 27;
J. R. L. an exponent of American temper toward, 40.
Episcopal church, J. R. L. on, ii. 311.
Epistle to George William Curtis, An, quoted, i. 17;
postscript to, ii. 368.
E Pluribus Unum, ii. 23;
quoted, 276.
Erskine, Fanny, i. 329.
“Essays on Free Thinking and Plain Speaking,” J. R. L. on, ii. 175.
Estrangement, ii. 295.
Eudamidas, brother of Agis, i. 434.
Eurydice, i. 228.
Evarts, William Maxwell, J. R. L. sends despatch to on congratulating the king of Spain, ii. 224;
and on the king’s marriage, 230;
and on a bull fight, 234;
J. R. L. to, on the Irish question, 277;
approves J. R. L.’s course, 280.
Every Saturday, J. R. L. proposes to translate for, ii. 137.
Exhibition Day at Harvard, i. 26.
Ex-Mayor’s Crumb of Consolation, The, i. 259.
Fable for Critics, A, quoted, i. 139, 166;
begun, 238;
specimens of it sent to Briggs, 239;
a gift to that friend, 240;
proposed disposition of profits by J. R. L., 241;
by Briggs, 242;
interrupted, 243;
resumed, 245;
passage in it on bores, traced, 246;
its title-page, 249;
published, 250;
comparison with Hunt’s “The Feast of the Poets,” 250;
no mystery about its authorship, 251;
J. R. L.’s afterthought of it, 252;
its ephemeral character, 253;
its permanent qualities, 254;
its expression of its author, 254;
thrown into the shade by the Biglow Papers, 255;
the apostrophe to Massachusetts in it, 266;
contrasted with Agassiz, ii. 176.
“Faery Queene, The,” the first poem read by J. R. L., i. 14;
discussed by the boys J. R. L. and W. W. S., 24.
Falconer, The, afterward The Falcon, i. 180.
Fancy’s Casuistry, i. 406.
Fawcett, Edgar, J. R. L. praises, ii. 199.
Fay, Maria, letter to, from J. R. L. of
entrance into Rome, i. 318;
of Christmas, 323.
Fayerweather house in Cambridge, i. 3.
“Feast of the Poets, The,” by Leigh Hunt, i. 250;
compared with the Fable, 251.
“Federalist, The,” as a piece of American literature, ii. 362.
Feltham, Owen, ii. 359.
Felton, Cornelius Conway, professor of Greek at Harvard in J. R. L.’s youth, i. 27;
one of the editors of an annual, 93;
has a copy of A Fable for Critics sent him, 249;
at supper at Longfellow’s, 346;
discovers a cryptic joke of J. R. L., 434.
Field, John W., meets J. R. L. at Orvieto, i. 384;
visits the Lowells with his wife, ii. 251;
a friend to J. R. L. in his troubles. 252;
with his wife stays with Mrs. Lowell while J. R. L. goes to England, 258;
J. R. L. writes him on letter-writing, 266:
his sociability, 272;
J. R. L. writes him from Paris, 273;
J. R. L. to, on his own abstinence, 296;
letter from J. R. L. to, on death of Mrs. Lowell, 319;
and on growing old; 325.
Fielding, Henry, J. R. L. on, ii. 298.
Fields, James Thomas, wants J. R. L. to write a novel, i. 348;
asks also for his Lowell Institute lectures, 373;
succeeds J. R. L. as editor of the Atlantic, 453;
calls forth the second series of Biglow Papers, ii. 35;
J. R. L. to, on sending him Mr. Hosea Biglow to the Editor of the Atlantic Monthly, 57;
J. R. L. to, on sending him Fitz Adam’s Story, 105;
and a tale and poem for Our Young Folks, 105;
writes a notice of A June Idyll which calls out a poetical response from J. R. L., 116;
discusses title of J. R. L.’s book, 119;
J. R. L. sends him the log of the North American, 122;
asked to print the journal of a Virginia gentleman, 135;
takes J. R. L.’s daughter Mabel to Europe, 137;
The Cathedral dedicated to him, 140;
publishes “Yesterdays with Authors,” 149.
“Financial Flurry, The,” by Parke Godwin, ii. 2.
Fireside Travels, first title given to Cambridge Thirty Years Ago, i. 354.
First Snow-Fall, The, i. 274.
Fischer, Peter, i. 392.
Fish, Hamilton, ii. 203.
Fitz Adam’s Story, i. 302;
read by F. J. Child, ii. 104.
Florence, the Lowells in, i. 314-316.
Follen, Charles, characterized by J. R. L. in the Pioneer, i. 106.
Follen, Eliza Lee, contributor to the Standard, i. 193.
Foote, Henry Stuart, satirized by J. R. L., i. 215.
Forbes, Mrs. Archibald, ii. 335.
“Forerunners,” Emerson’s, i. 378.
Foster, Stephen, portrait of by J. R. L., i. 231.
Fountain of Youth, The, i. 351.
Fountain’s Abbey, ii. 154, 156.
Fragments of an Unfinished Poem, i. 302, 353.
France, the revolution in, characterized by J. R. L., i. 204-206.
“Frederick the Great,” Carlyle’s, ii. 89.
“Free Lance in the Field of Life and Letters, A,” ii. 197, note.
Freiligrath, Ferdinand, wishes to succeed Longfellow, i. 375.
Frelinghuysen, Frederick Theodore, succeeds Mr. Blaine in State department, ii. 290, note.
FrÉmont, John Charles, J. R. L. looks wistfully toward, ii. 29.
French, Old, J. R. L.’s studies in, ii. 186. 187.
French Revolution of 1848, The, i. 204.
Freneau, Philip, his one line, ii. 361.
“Friendship,” Thoreau’s essay on, noticed by J. R. L., i. 293.
Frost, Rev. Barzillai, the clergyman with whom J. R. L. studied at Concord, i. 47, 48, 61.
Fugitive Slave Bill, ii. 6.
Fuller. [Sarah] Margaret, in A Fable for Critics, i. 244-247;
criticises J. R. L., 244, note.
Furness, Horace Howard, on praise of J. R. L., ii. 388.
Gallillee, the Misses, ii. 356.
Gardner, Francis, master of Boston Latin School, i. 23.
Garfield, James Abram, his illness and the sympathy of England, ii. 268;
his death, 270.
Garrison, William Lloyd, characterized by J. R. L. in the Pioneer, i. 105;
treatment of, by J. R. L. in London Daily News, 187;
his character sketched, 189;
the verses upon him, 190;
his Liberator, 192;
what he thought of J. R. L., 197;
his views on anonymous articles, 199;
two poems on, by J. R. L., 258-260;
his ineffectiveness compared with the Charleston batteries, ii. 26.
Gay, Sydney Howard, one of the editors of Standard, i. 192;
sole editor, 192;
letter to, by J. R. L. defining relations with, 194-200;
his views on signed articles, 199;
confers with J. R. L., 202;
writes respecting J. R. L.’s terms, 203;
has no time to compliment J. R. L., 212;
his earnestness, 228;
edits a contribution by J. R. L., 229;
values J. R. L.’s work, 229, 230;
not absolute in his control of Standard, 230;
his financial aid of J. R. L., 281;
J. R. L. writes to, of his own delinquency, 295;
loses a child, 305;
is invited to join the Lowells in Europe, 307;
enquires into the landing of the Pilgrims, 307, note;<

J. R. L. takes his place with an ode, 189;
J. R. L. to, on Irish troubles, 292;
his one imperishable poem, 365.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., wounded, ii. 31.
Home, The, i. 435.
Home rule, as a cure for Irish ills, ii. 284.
Houghton, Henry Oscar, first printer of the Atlantic, i. 421.
Howe, Estes, marries M. W. L.’s sister, i. 267;
member, with J. R. L., of whist club, 271;
letter to, from J. R. L. of approach to African coast, 313;
writes to J. R. L. of his father’s illness, 317;
letter to, from J. R. L. on travel, 329;
J. R. L. makes his home with, 384;
member of the Adirondack Club, 405.
Howells, William Dean, characterizes Mrs. Frances Dunlap Lowell, i. 403;
reviews Longfellow’s Dante, ii. 113;
J. R. L. to him on his writing, and on contributions to the Atlantic, 127;
and on The Cathedral, 130;
his account of the offer of a foreign mission to J. R. L., 217;
secures a poem from J. R. L. for Harper’s Monthly, 394.
How I consulted the Oracle of the Goldfishes, ii. 368, 369.
Hubbard, Gardiner Greene, on copyright, ii. 327.
Hughes, Thomas, introduces the Biglow Papers in England, i. 266;
J. R. L’s letter to, on the book, 257, 262;
his familiarity with the book, 264;
J. R. L. writes to, on the demand for more Biglow, ii. 32;
J. R. L. makes personal acquaintance of, 146;
letters of J. R. L. to, on third journey in Europe, 151, 152, 164, 170, 172, 182, 183;
J. R. L. to, on the political situation, 204;
J. R. L. advises him of his appointment to Spain, 219.
Hungarian question, the, discussed by Mrs. Putnam and J. R. L., i. 303, 304.
Hunt, Leigh, his “Feast of the Poets,” possibly suggestive of A Fable for Critics, i. 250;
his poem compared with that, 251;
J. R. L. meets, 381.
“Hyperion,” i. 347.
Ianthe, a poetic image of M. W., i. 83.
“Ichabod,” by Whittier, i. 201.
“Illusions,” by Emerson, J. R. L. on, 414, 415.
Imaginary Conversation, An, i. 215.
Impeachment, J. R. L. on, ii. 109, note.
Impressions of Spain, referred to, and quoted from, ii. 230, 242, 244.
“In a Cellar,” by H. E. Prescott, i. 449.
In an Album, ii. 205.
Incident in a Railroad Car, An, i. 146.
Independent in Politics, The Place of the, quoted, i. 214, ii. 313, 314;
delivered in New York, 374.
Indian Summer Reverie, An, i. 278.
Infant Prodigy, The, ii. 397.
International Copyright, J. R. L. on, in speech at Washington, ii. 326-332;
in an epigram, 333;
Authors’ Reading for benefit of, 361.
Interview, a disagreeable, ii. 337.
In the Half-way House, ii. 45.
In the Twilight, i. 406.
Invita Minerva, i. 378.
Irene, expressive of M. W., i. 85, 86.
Irish, character of, J. R. L. on, ii. 274;
relations of, with England compared with Scottish, 276;
contention with England, 278;
imperfect sympathy of, with England, 280;
under guise of American citizens, 282.
Irish-American cases, ii. 284, seq.
Irving, Washington, in A Fable for Critics, i. 248;
his writings revived by Putnam, 349;
his relations to magazines, 420;
characterized, ii. 363.
Italy, 1859, i. 434.
James, Henry, on J. R. L.’s patriotism, ii. 80.
James, William, letters to, on coincidence in Commemoration Ode, ii. 67, note.
Jefferson, Thomas, characterized by J. R. L., i. 218.
Jewell, Harvey, i. 450.
Jewett, John P., publisher of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” i. 354, 409.
Jewish race, J. R. L.’s interest in, ii. 301-305.
Johns Hopkins University, J. R. L. lectures before, ii. 213.
Johnson, Andrew, J. R. L. on, ii. 93.
Johnson, Reverdy, J. R. L. to, on the Spanish mission, ii. 220;
and on the work at Athens, 326.
Jones, William Alfred, i. 156.
Judd, Sylvester, in A Fable for Critics, i. 248.
June, J. R. L. the poet of, i. 268, 269.
June Idyll, A, i. 302;
J. R. L.’s humorous verses on, ii. 116.
Kansas-Nebraska, ii. 3, 6. 14.
Kant, Immanuel, suggests subject of Class Poem to J. R. L., i. 56.
“Kavanagh,” reviewed by J. R. L., i. 291.
Keats, John, J. R. L. becomes acquainted with the poems of, i. 32;
his influence on J. R. L., 94;
a life of, contemplated by J. R. L., 95;
sonnet to, by J. R. L., 95, 96;
his “Isabella” compared with A Legend of Brittany, 118;
Fanny Brawne and, 121;
biographical sketch of, by J. R. L., 365;
influences J. R. L., ii. 88.
Keswick, ii. 156.
Killarney, J. R. L. visits, ii. 152.
King, Rufus, i. 45, 46.
Kingsley, Charles, shows J. R. L. Chester Cathedral, ii. 153.
“Kobboltozo,” by C. P. Cranch, ii. 96, note.
Lake Country, J. R. L. visits, ii. 154, 156.
Lamartine, characterized by J. R. L., i. 206.
Lamartine, To, i. 206.
Lamb, Charles, letter of, to Manning, i. 438;
J. R. L. compares himself to, in his fondness for London, ii. 335.
Landor, Walter Savage, J. R. L. becomes acquainted with the writings of, i. 31;
his “Imaginary Conversation” contrasted with J. R. L.’s Conversations, 135;
reviewed by J. R. L. in Massachusetts Quarterly, 293-295;
J. R. L. visits, 345;
his antiques, ii. 93;
his letters edited by J. R. L., 342.
Last Poems, ii. 368.
Lawrence, the Misses, J. R. L. to, on Wildbad, ii. 384.
Leaves from my Journal, referred to, i. 310, 314.
Lechmere house in Cambridge, i. 3.
Lee, Billy, his idea of a competence, i. 267.
Lee, Judge Joseph, house of, in Cambridge, i. 3.
Lee, William, a partner in Phillips & Sampson, i. 409;
takes a part in the establishment of the Atlantic, 409, 410;
absent in Europe at sale of the magazine, 450.
Legend of Brittany, A, contrasted with Keats’s “Isabella,” i. 118;
J. R. L.’s enjoyment of, 119;
Briggs’s comments on, 120.
Lessing, J. R. L. on the genius of, i. 138;
temperament of, like J. R. L.’s, ii. 110.
Letter-writing, conditions of, i. 445; ii. 75.
Lever, Charles, J. R. L. reads the novels of, i. 380.
Liberator, The, i. 186;
mouthpiece of W. L. Garrison, 192;
H. G. Otis enquires into, 258.
Liberty Bell, The, J. R. L. and M. W. L. contribute to, i. 180;
its sound haunts J. R. L., 295.
“Library of Old Authors,” ii. 77.
Lichfield, ii. 156.
Lincoln, Abraham, J. R. L. prefers Seward to, ii. 18;
characterized at the outset by J. R. L., 19;
election of, does not change the arguments of Republican party, 23;
J. R. L. disappointed in his public utterances, 25;
caution of, 27;
J. R. L.’s impatience at, 29;
poetized as the ideal captain, 43;
estimate of, by J. R. L., 50;
contrasted with McClellan, 55;
reËlection of, 57;
death of, noted by J. R. L., 62;
characterized in Commemoration Ode, 70-73.
Lincoln, England, ii. 156.
Lippitt, George Warren, i. 45.
Literature, J. R. L.’s introduction to, i. 31;
his beginnings in production of, 91;
his views on nationality in, as expressed in the Pioneer, 103;
and in the North American, 291;
J. R. L. on, as a subject for teaching, 388;
the basis of J. R. L.’s critical work, ii. 87;
J. R. L. on honesty in, 131;
honored by representatives at foreign courts, 260.
See American Literature.
Little, Brown, & Co., publishers of the British Poets, i. 364;
as publishers for Emerson, 452;
undertake an edition of Old Dramatists, under editorship of J. R. L., ii. 78, note.
LittrÉ, Maximilian Paul Émile, C. E. Norton gives J. R. L. a letter to, ii. 159.
Locke, John, studied by J. R. L. during his suspension from college, i. 47-49.
Longfellow, Mrs. Frances Appleton, her early encouragement of J. R. L., i. 97.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, home of, in Cambridge, i. 3;
his “Psalm of Life,” 74;
one of the editors of an annual, 93;
his “Poems on Slavery” noticed in the Pioneer, 105;
attacked by Poe, 164;
J. R. L. to, on Christ and Christianity, 169;
notes in his diary J. R. L.’s enthusiasm, 177;
his relation to anti-slavery commented on by J. R. L., 183, 197;
in A Fable for Critics, 243, 245;
hears part of the book read, 251;
characterised in it, 254;
sees the Lowells in Lenox, 273;
his “Kavanagh,” reviewed by J. R. L., 291;
his “Tales of a Wayside Inn,” 301;
entertains J. R. L., Clough, and others, 346;
notes J. R. L.’s novel, 348;
contributes to Putnam’s Monthly, 350;
comments on M. W. L., 356;
writes “The Two Angels,” 362;
hears Lowell lecture, 373;
gives up the Smith professorship, 375;
has J. R. L. for successor, 376;
bids him good-by on his leave for Europe, 378;
sees him off, 379;
sees him on his return at Nahant, 385;
dines with Mr. Phillips, 411;
interested in the Atlantic, 413;
has no desire to start a magazine, 419;
his importance to the Atlantic, 420;
dines with the Atlantic Club, 447.
His “Miles Standish” commented on by J. R. L., ii. 75;
Dante Club formed by him, 84;
his translation reviewed by J. R. L. and C. E. Norton, 113;
characterized by J. R. L., 114;
his scholarship, 115;
his Introduction to “Tales of a Wayside Inn,” 175;
offered the mission to England, 203;
talks of J. R. L. in the same position, 216;
bust of, unveiled in Westminster Abbey, 305;
characterised, 365.
Look Before and After, A, ii. 122.
Loring, Charles Greely, J. R. L. enters the office of, i. 70.
Loring, George Bailey, an early companion of J. R. L., i. 38;
his career, 39;
J. R. L.’s letters to, in college days, 39-42, 51-56;
takes up study of medicine, 66;
letters of J. R. L. to, on choice of a profession, 66, 68-70;
J. R. L. sends autobiographic verses to, 73-75;
J. R. L. to, on Prometheus, 119.
“Lost Occasion, The,” by Whittier, i. 120.
Louis Philippe, portrayed by J. R. L., i. 204, 205.
Louvain, ii. 170.
Lowell, Anna Cabot, wife of Charles Lowell, characterized, i. 42;
letter of, to J. R. L., 52, note;
attracts J. R. L. to the Beverly shore, 365.
Lowell, Blanche, first child of J. R. L. and M. W. L., born, i. 178;
J. R. L. on training of, 179;
her infancy described by J. R. L., 181;
her interruption of her father, 194;
is taken to Stockbridge for her health, 272;
dies, 273.
Lowell, Rev. Charles, buys Elmwood, i. 6;
his descent, 6;
his education and travels, 7;
his pastorate of West Church, 7-9;
characteristics, 7, 8;
his life at Elmwood, 8, 9;
his interview with Mrs. Dall, 10;
visits the Orkneys, 11;
becomes acquainted with Harriet Brackett Spence, 12;
his creed, 12;
takes J. R. L. with him on his parochial journeys, 20;
writes a letter of advice to J. R. L. about his college course, 43;
makes a journey abroad, 44;
writes to J. R. L. about Harvardiana, 44;
returns from Europe, 91;
his action in resigning his salary, 234, note;
retires from active charge of his parish, 270;
his grief over Blanche’s death, 273;
described by Miss Bremer, 298;
at the burial of Rose, 304;
is stricken with paralysis, 316;
letter to, of concern from J. R. L., 316;
letter to, from J. R. L. about Roman sights, 321;
about private theatricals, 331;
about his grandchildren, 334;
about Ely, 343;
is described by Clough, 347;
deaf and excitable, 361;
death of, 454, note.
Lowell, Charles Russell, oldest brother of J. R. L., i. 13;
his advisers, 42.
Lowell, Charles Russell, Jr., goes to the Adirondacks with J. R. L., i. 405.
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.

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.
Phoebe, 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

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.
Walton, Isaak, J. R. L. on, ii. 389.
“Wanderer,” yacht, i. 440.
Ward, Nathaniel, ii. 367.
Washers of the Shroud, The, ii. 33.
Washington, early visit of J. R. L. to, i. 19.
Washington, George, takes command of American army, i. 2;
his headquarters, 3.
Watertown, Massachusetts, the home of the Whites, i. 76;
temperance celebration at, 88.
Watts-Dunton, Theodore, on J. R. L.’s characteristics, ii. 293.
Waverley Oaks, J. R. L.’s early rambles to, i. 19.
Webster, Daniel, J. R. L. hears him plead, i. 67;
attitude toward, on part of anti-slavery men, 201;
article on, by J. R. L., and poem on, by Whittier, 201;
J. R. L. treats elaborately, 220-227;
characterized by Sydney Smith, 221;
as a writer, ii. 365.
Webster, John, J. R. L. on, ii. 354.
“Wedgwood’s Dictionary” reviewed by J. R. L., i. 433.
“Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, A,” reviewed by J. R. L., i. 292.
Weimar, J. R. L. visits, ii. 271.
Weiss, John, contributor to the Standard, i. 193.
Wells, William, J. R. L.’s schoolmaster living in Fayerweather house, i. 3;
carries forward the traditions of English scholarship, 22, 23.
Wells, Mrs. William, J. R. L. recalls the kindness of, i. 23.
Welsh, James, ii. 332, note.
Wendell, Barrett, on Lowell as a teacher, i. 392, 394, 395.
What will Mr. Webster do?, i. 220.
“Where will it End?” by Edmund Quincy, ii. 2.
Whipple, Edwin Percy, i. 411.
Whist Club, i. 271;
holds its last meeting, ii. 407.
Whitby, J. R. L.’s fondness for, ii. 356.
White, Abijah, father of M. W., i. 76;
characterized by J. R. L., 76;
death of, 177;
his estate, 177;
which proves less than expected, 182.
White, Maria, J. R. L. makes the acquaintance of, i. 76;
his first impressions of her, 77;
her portrait by Page, 79;
appears in a vision to J. R. L., 80;
and at commencement, 80;
her confession of love, 82;
embodied in A Year’s Life, 82-86;
the type to which she belonged, 87;
“Queen of the May” at a temperance festival, 88;
a member of the Band, 89;
a poet, 90;
encourages J. R. L. to print, 93;
her attitude towards the Pioneer, 108;
characterized by C. F. Briggs, 120;
her influence over J. R. L., 121;
veiled under poetic names in poems, 126;
her transcendentalism, 129;
letter of, to C. F. Briggs, 129-132;
criticises title of Briggs’s journal, 130;
her views on the marriage rite, 131, 132;
makes a cover design for Conversations, 132;
is married to J. R. L., 150.
See Lowell, Maria White.
White, Richard Grant, goes to hear J. R. L. lecture, i. 373;
letter to, from J. R. L. on policy of the Atlantic, 423;
from same on American literary criticism, 431;
his Shakespeare reviewed by J. R. L., 432;
letter to, from J. R. L. on the worries of editing, 442;
on the delights of Elmwood, 453;
asks for another Biglow, ii. 32;
J. R. L. writes to, about his own work on Shakespeare, 77;
dedicates a book to J. R. L., 146.
White, Thomas W., editor of Southern Literary Messenger, i. 92.
White, William Abijah, brother of M. W., i. 76;
an active reformer, 87;
prompts RÖlker, 379.
Whitman, Walt, his poem “My Captain,” ii. 70.
Whittier, John Greenleaf, characterized by J. R. L. in the Pioneer, i. 105;
compared with J. R. L., 139;
editor of Pennsylvania Freeman, 152;
his “Ichabod” and “The Lost Occasion,” 201;
his poetry reviewed by J. R. L., 229;
censured by Gay, 229;
in A Fable for Critics, 254;
his indebtedness to the Atlantic, 417;
J. R. L. to him on “Skipper Ireson’s Ride,” 417, 418;
his rhymes criticized by J. R. L., ii. 103;
his title conflicts with one by J. R. L., 118;
J. R. L. writes a sonnet on his birthday, 296;
his “Captain’s Well,” 400.
Widow’s Mite, The, ii. 206.
Wilbur, Parson, proposes to educate Hosea Biglow, i. 268;
another Jedediah Cleishbotham, 262;
faintly hints at J. R. L.’s father, 263;
in the flesh, 263, note;
as seen in second series, ii. 36;
his voice and J. R. L.’s, 37;
his death and table-talk, 38;
his views on the war, 39.
Wild, Hamilton, ii. 181.
Wilkinson, William Cleaver, criticism of, on J. R. L., ii. 197 and note.
Williams, Frank Beverly, prepares notes to the Biglow Papers, i. 256.
Willis, Nathaniel Parker, J. R. L. makes the acquaintance of, i. 111;
his kindness to J. R. L., 112;
in A Fable for Critics, 243, 245;
comments on J. R. L.’s kindness to Mrs. Clemm, 282.
Windharp, The, i. 368.
Women, J. R. L.’s dependence on, ii. 324.
Wood, Shakespeare, i. 332.
Woodberry, George Edward, his “Edgar Allen Poe” referred to, i. 160;
edits J. R. L.’s letters to Poe, 165, note.
Woodman, Horatio, i. 405.
“Words and their Uses,” by R. G. White, ii. 146.
Wordsworth, William, politics and poetry of, i. 236;
address on, by J. R. L., ii. 308.
World’s Fair, The, 191;
copied, 192
J. R. L.’s comments on, 193.
“World’s Progress, The,” J. R. L. writes an introduction to, ii. 344.
“Wuthering Heights” commented on by J. R. L., i. 297.
Wyman, Jeffries, i. 405.
Wyman, Dr. Morrill, ii. 402.
Year’s Life, A, a poetic record of J. R. L.’s experience, i. 82.
“Yesterdays with Authors,” ii. 149, note.

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