It stormed all the time I was in Portland and Bangor,

so I saw nothing of them. Now I am in a palace car

riding alongside the Kennebec, and recalling the

incidents of my trip. I certainly had very satisfactory

houses; and these pleasant little visits, and meetings

with old acquaintance, would be well worth having,

even though I had made nothing in a pecuniary sense.

On the whole it is as easy a way of making money as

I have ever tried, though no way of making money is

perfectly easy,--there must be some disagreeables. The

lonesomeness of being at a hotel in dull weather is

one, and in Portland it seems there is nobody now to

invite us to their homes. Our old friends there are

among the past. They have gone on over the river. I

send you a bit of poetry that pleases me. The love of

the old for each other has its poetry. It is something

sacred and full of riches. I long to be with you, and

to have some more of our good long talks.

The scenery along this river is very fine. The oaks

still keep their leaves, though the other trees are

bare; but oaks and pines make a pleasant contrast. We

shall stop twenty minutes at Brunswick, so I shall get

a glimpse of the old place.

Now we are passing through Hallowell, and the Kennebec

changes sides. What a beautiful river! It is now full

of logs and rafts. Well, I must bring this to a close.

Good-by, dear, with unchanging love. Ever your wife.

From South Framingham, Mass., she writes on November 7th:--

Well, my dear, here I am in E.'s pretty little house.

He has a pretty wife, a pretty sister, a pretty baby,

two nice little boys, and a lovely white cat. The last

is a perfect beauty! a Persian, from a stock brought

over by Dr. Parker, as white as snow, with the softest

fur, a perfect bunch of loving-kindness, all purr and

felicity. I had a good audience last evening, and

enjoyed it. My audiences, considering the horse disease

and the rains, are amazing. And how they do laugh! We

get into regular gales.

E. has the real country minister turn-out: horse and

buggy, and such a nice horse too. The baby is a beauty,

and giggles, and goos, and shouts inquiries with the

rising inflection, in the most inspiring manner.

_November 13._ Wakefield. I read in Haverhill last

night. It was as usual stormy. I had a good audience,

but not springy and inspiriting like that at Waltham.

Some audiences seem to put spring into one, and some

to take it out. This one seemed good but heavy. I had

to lift them, while in Framingham and Waltham they

lifted me.

The Lord bless and keep you. It grieves me to think

you are dull and I not with you. By and by we will be

together and stay together. Good-by dear. Your ever

loving wife,

H. B. S.

_November 24._ "I had a very pleasant reading in

Peabody. While there visited the library and saw the

picture of the Queen that she had painted expressly

for George Peabody. It was about six inches square,

enameled on gold, and set in a massive frame of solid

gold and velvet. The effect is like painting on ivory.

At night the picture rolls back into a safe, and great

doors, closed with a combination lock, defend it. It

reminded me of some of the foreign wonders we have seen.

"Well, my course is almost done, and if I get through

without any sickness, cold, or accident, how wonderful

it will seem. I have never felt the near, kind presence

of our Heavenly Father so much as in this. 'He giveth

strength to the faint, and to them of no might He

increaseth strength.' I have found this true all my

life."

From Newport she writes on November 26th:--

"It was a hard, tiring, disagreeable piece of business to read in New

London. Had to wait three mortal hours in Palmer. Then a slow, weary

train, that did not reach New London until after dark. There was then

no time to rest, and I was so tired that it did seem as though I could

not dress. I really trembled with fatigue. The hall was long and

dimly lighted, and the people were not seated compactly, but around in

patches. The light was dim, except for a great flaring gas jet arranged

right under my eyes on the reading desk, and I did not see a creature

whom I knew. I was only too glad when it was over and I was back again

at my hotel. There I found that I must be up at five o'clock to catch

the Newport train.

"I started for this place in the dusk of a dreary, foggy morning.

Traveled first on a ferry, then in cars, and then in a little cold

steamboat. Found no one to meet me, in spite of all my writing, and so

took a carriage and came to the hotel. The landlord was very polite to

me, said he knew me by my trunk, had been to our place in Mandarin,

etc. All I wanted was a warm room, a good bed, and unlimited time to

sleep. Now I have had a three hours' nap, and here I am, sitting by

myself in the great, lonely hotel parlor.

"Well, dear old man, I think lots of you, and only want to end

all this in a quiet home where we can sing 'John Anderson, my Jo'

together. I check off place after place as the captive the days of his

imprisonment. Only two more after to-night. Ever your loving wife."

Mrs. Stowe made one more reading tour the following year, and this time

it was in the West. On October 28, 1873, she writes from Zanesville,

Ohio, to her son at Harvard:--

You have been very good to write as often as you have,

and your letters, meeting me at different points, have

been most cheering. I have been tired, almost to the

last degree. Read two successive evenings in Chicago,

and traveled the following day for thirteen hours, a

distance of about three hundred miles, to Cincinnati.

We were compelled to go in the most uncomfortable

cars I ever saw, crowded to overflowing, a fiend of a

stove at each end burning up all the air, and without

a chance to even lay my head down. This is the grand

route between Chicago and Cincinnati, and we were on it

from eight in the morning until nearly ten at night.

Arrived at Cincinnati we found that George Beecher had

not received our telegram, was not expecting us, had no

rooms engaged for us, and that we could not get rooms

at his boarding-place. After finding all this out we

had to go to the hotel, where, about eleven o'clock, I

crept into bed with every nerve aching from fatigue.

The next day was dark and rainy, and I lay in bed most

of it; but when I got up to go and read I felt only

half rested, and was still so tired that it seemed as

though I could not get through.

Those who planned my engagements failed to take, into

account the fearful distances and wretched trains out

here. On none of these great Western routes is there a

drawing-room car. Mr. Saunders tried in every way to

get them to put one on for us, but in vain. They are

all reserved for the night trains; so that there is no

choice except to travel by night in sleeping cars, or

take such trains as I have described in the daytime.

I had a most sympathetic audience in Cincinnati; they

all seemed delighted and begged me to come again. The

next day George took us for a drive out to Walnut

Hills, where we saw the seminary buildings, the house

where your sisters were born, and the house in which

we afterwards lived. In the afternoon we had to leave

and hurry away to a reading in Dayton. The next evening

another in Columbus, where we spent Sunday with an old

friend.

By this time I am somewhat rested from the strain of

that awful journey; but I shall never again undertake

such another. It was one of those things that have to

be done once, to learn not to do it again. My only

reading between Columbus and Pittsburgh is to be here

in Zanesville, a town as black as Acheron, and where

one might expect to see the river Styx.

Later. I had a nice audience and a pleasant reading

here, and to-day we go on to Pittsburgh, where I read

to-morrow night.

I met the other day at Dayton a woman who now has

grandchildren; but who, when I first came West, was a

gay rattling girl. She was one of the first converts

of brother George's seemingly obscure ministry in the

little new town of Chillicothe. Now she has one son

who is a judge of the supreme court, and another in

business. Both she and they are not only Christians,

but Christians of the primitive sort, whose religion

is their all; who triumph and glory in tribulation,

knowing that it worketh patience. She told me, with

a bright sweet calm, of her husband killed in battle

the first year of the war, of her only daughter and

two grandchildren dying in the faith, and of her own

happy waiting on God's will, with bright hopes of a

joyful reunion. Her sons are leading members of the

Presbyterian Church, and most active in stirring up

others to make their profession a reality, not an

empty name. When I thought that all this came from the

conversion of one giddy girl, when George seemed to be

doing so little, I said, "Who can measure the work of

a faithful minister?" It is such living witnesses that

maintain Christianity on earth.

Good-by. We shall soon be home now, and preparing for

Florida. Always your own loving mother,

H. B. S.

Mrs. Stowe never undertook another reading tour, nor, after this one,

did she ever read again for money, though she frequently contributed

her talent in this direction to the cause of charity.

The most noteworthy event of her later years was the celebration of

the seventieth anniversary of her birthday. That it might be fittingly

observed, her publishers, Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. of Boston,

arranged a reception for her in form of a garden party, to which they

invited the _literati_ of America. It was held on June 14, 1882, at

"The Old Elms," the home of Ex-Governor Claflin of Massachusetts, in

Newtonville, one of Boston's most beautiful suburbs. Here the assembly

gathered to do honor to Mrs. Stowe, that lovely June afternoon,

comprised two hundred of the most distinguished and best known among

the literary men and women of the day.

From three until five o'clock was spent socially. As the guests arrived

they were presented to Mrs. Stowe by Mr. H. O. Houghton, and then they

gathered in groups in the parlors, on the verandas, on the lawn, and in

the refreshment room. At five o'clock they assembled in a large tent

on the lawn, when Mr. Houghton, as host, addressed to his guest and

her friends a few words of congratulation and welcome. He closed his

remarks by saying:--

"And now, honored madam, as

"'When to them who sail

Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past

Mozambic, off at sea northeast winds blow

Sabean odors from the spicy shore

Of Arabie the blest,'

so the benedictions of the lowly and the blessings of all conditions

of men are brought to you to-day on the wings of the wind, from every

quarter of the globe; but there will be no fresher laurels to crown

this day of your rejoicing than are brought by those now before

you, who have been your co-workers in the strife; who have wrestled

and suffered, fought and conquered, with you; who rank you with the

Miriams, the Deborahs, and the Judiths of old; and who now shout back

the refrain, when you utter the inspired song:--

"'Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously.'

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

'The Almighty Lord hath disappointed them by the hand of a woman.'"

In reply to this Mrs. Stowe's brother, Henry Ward Beecher, said: "Of

course you all sympathize with me to-day, but, standing in this place,

I do not see your faces more clearly than I see those of my father and

my mother. Her I only knew as a mere babe-child. He was my teacher and

my companion. A more guileless soul than he, a more honest one, more

free from envy, from jealousy, and from selfishness, I never knew.

Though he thought he was great by his theology, everybody else knew he

was great by his religion. My mother is to me what the Virgin Mary is

to a devout Catholic. She was a woman of great nature, profound as a

philosophical thinker, great in argument, with a kind of intellectual

imagination, diffident, not talkative,--in which respect I take

after her,--the woman who gave birth to Mrs. Stowe, whose graces and

excellences she probably more than any of her children--we number but

thirteen--has possessed. I suppose that in bodily resemblance, perhaps,

she is not like my mother, but in mind I presume she is most like her.

I thank you for my father's sake and for my mother's sake for the

courtesy, the friendliness, and the kindness which you give to Mrs.

Stowe."

The following poem from John Greenleaf Whittier was then read:--

"Thrice welcome from the Land of Flowers

And golden-fruited orange bowers

To this sweet, green-turfed June of ours!

To her who, in our evil time,

Dragged into light the nation's crime

With strength beyond the strength of men,

And, mightier than their sword, her pen;

To her who world-wide entrance gave

To the log cabin of the slave,

Made all his wrongs and sorrows known,

And all earth's languages his own,--

North, South, and East and West, made all

The common air electrical,

Until the o'ercharged bolts of heaven

Blazed down, and every chain was riven!

"Welcome from each and all to her

Whose Wooing of the Minister

Revealed the warm heart of the man

Beneath the creed-bound Puritan,

And taught the kinship of the love

Of man below and God above;

To her whose vigorous pencil-strokes

Sketched into life her Oldtown Folks,

Whose fireside stories, grave or gay,

In quaint Sam Lawson's vagrant way,

With Old New England's flavor rife,

Waifs from her rude idyllic life,

Are racy as the legends old

By Chaucer or Boccaccio told;

To her who keeps, through change of place

And time, her native strength and grace,

Alike where warm Sorrento smiles,

Or where, by birchen-shaded isles

Whose summer winds have shivered o'er

The icy drift of Labrador,

She lifts to light the priceless Pearl

Of Harpswell's angel-beckoned girl.

To her at threescore years and ten

Be tributes of the tongue and pen,

Be honor, praise, and heart thanks given,

The loves of earth, the hopes of heaven!

"Ah, dearer than the praise that stirs

The air to-day, our love is hers!

She needs no guaranty of fame

Whose own is linked with Freedom's name.

Long ages after ours shall keep

Her memory living while we sleep;

The waves that wash our gray coast lines,

The winds that rock the Southern pines

Shall sing of her; the unending years

Shall tell her tale in unborn ears.

And when, with sins and follies past,

Are numbered color-hate and caste,

White, black, and red shall own as one,

The noblest work by woman done."

It was followed by a few words from Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes,

who also read the subjoined as his contribution to the chorus of

congratulation:--

"If every tongue that speaks her praise

For whom I shape my tinkling phrase

Were summoned to the table,

The vocal chorus that would meet

Of mingling accents harsh or sweet,

From every land and tribe, would beat

The polyglots of Babel.

"Briton and Frenchman, Swede and Dane,

Turk, Spaniard, Tartar of Ukraine,

Hidalgo, Cossack, Cadi,

High Dutchman and Low Dutchman, too,

The Russian serf, the Polish Jew,

Arab, Armenian, and Mantchoo

Would shout, 'We know the lady.'

"Know her! Who knows not Uncle Tom

And her he learned his gospel from,

Has never heard of Moses;

Full well the brave black hand we know

That gave to freedom's grasp the hoe

That killed the weed that used to grow

Among the Southern roses.

"When Archimedes, long ago,

Spoke out so grandly, '_Dos pou sto_,--

Give me a place to stand on,

I'll move your planet for you, now,'--

He little dreamed or fancied how

The _sto_ at last should find its _pou_

For woman's faith to land on.

"Her lever was the wand of art,

Her fulcrum was the human heart,

Whence all unfailing aid is;

She moved the earth! Its thunders pealed

Its mountains shook, its temples reeled,

The blood-red fountains were unsealed,

And Moloch sunk to Hades.

"All through the conflict, up and down

Marched Uncle Tom and Old John Brown,

One ghost, one form ideal;

And which was false and which was true,

And which was mightier of the two,

The wisest sibyl never knew,

For both alike were real.

"Sister, the holy maid does well

Who counts her beads in convent cell,

Where pale devotion lingers;

But she who serves the sufferer's needs,

Whose prayers are spelt in loving deeds,

May trust the Lord will count her beads

As well as human fingers.

"When Truth herself was Slavery's slave

Thy hand the prisoned suppliant gave

The rainbow wings of fiction.

And Truth who soared descends to-day

Bearing an angel's wreath away,

Its lilies at thy feet to lay

With heaven's own benediction."

Poems written for the occasion by Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, Miss Elizabeth

Stuart Phelps, Mr. J. T. Trowbridge, Mrs. Allen (Mrs. Stowe's

daughter), Mrs. Annie Fields, and Miss Charlotte F. Bates, were also

read, and speeches were made by Judge Albion W. Tourgée and others

prominent in the literary world.

Letters from many noted people, who were prevented from being present

by distance or by other engagements, had been received. Only four of

them were read, but they were all placed in Mrs. Stowe's hands. The

exercises were closed by a few words from Mrs. Stowe herself. As she

came to the front of the platform the whole company rose, and remained

standing until she had finished. In her quiet, modest, way, and yet so

clearly as to be plainly heard by all, she said:--

"I wish to say that I thank all my friends from my heart,--that is

all. And one thing more,--and that is, if any of you have doubt, or

sorrow, or pain, if you doubt about this world, just remember what

God has done; just remember that this great sorrow of slavery has

gone, gone by forever. I see it every day at the South. I walk about

there and see the lowly cabins. I see these people growing richer and

richer. I see men very happy in their lowly lot; but, to be sure, you

must have patience with them. They are not perfect, but have their

faults, and they are serious faults in the view of white people. But

they are very happy, that is evident, and they do know how to enjoy

themselves,--a great deal more than you do. An old negro friend in our

neighborhood has got a new, nice two-story house, and an orange grove,

and a sugar-mill. He has got a lot of money, besides. Mr. Stowe met

him one day, and he said, 'I have got twenty head of cattle, four head

of "hoss," forty head of hen, and I have got ten children, all _mine,

every one mine_.' Well, now, that is a thing that a black man could not

say once, and this man was sixty years old before he could say it. With

all the faults of the colored people, take a man and put him down with

nothing but his hands, and how many could say as much as that? I think

they have done well.

"A little while ago they had at his house an evening festival for their

church, and raised fifty dollars. We white folks took our carriages,

and when we reached the house we found it fixed nicely. Every one of

his daughters knew how to cook. They had a good place for the festival.

Their suppers were spread on little white tables with nice clean cloths

on them. People paid fifty cents for supper. They got between fifty and

sixty dollars, and had one of the best frolics you could imagine. They

had also for supper ice-cream, which they made themselves.

"That is the sort of thing I see going on around me. Let us never

doubt. Everything that ought to happen is going to happen."

* * * * *

Mrs. Stowe's public life ends with the garden party, and little more

remains to be told. She had already, in 1880, begun the task of

selection from the great accumulation of letters and papers relating

to her life, and writes thus to her son in Saco, Maine, regarding the

work:--

_September 30, 1880._

MY DEAR CHARLEY,--My mind has been with you a great

deal lately. I have been looking over and arranging

my papers with a view to sifting out those that are

not worth keeping, and so filing and arranging those

that are to be kept, that my heirs and assigns may

with the less trouble know where and what they are. I

cannot describe (to you) the peculiar feelings which

this review occasions. Reading old letters--when so

many of the writers are gone from earth, seems to me

like going into the world of spirits--letters full of

the warm, eager, anxious, busy life, that is _forever_

past. My own letters, too, full of by-gone scenes in

my early life and the childish days of my children.

It is affecting to me to recall things that strongly

moved me years ago, that filled my thoughts and made

me anxious when the occasion and emotion have wholly

vanished from my mind. But I thank God there is _one_

thing running through all of them from the time I was

thirteen years old, and that is the intense unwavering

sense of Christ's educating, guiding presence and care.

It is _all_ that remains now. The romance of my youth

is faded, it looks to me now, from my years, so _very_

young--those days when my mind only lived in _emotion_,

and when my letters never were dated, because they were

only histories of the _internal_, but now that I am no

more and never can be young in this world, now that the

friends of those days are almost all in eternity, what

remains?

Through life and through death, through sorrowing, through sinning,

Christ shall suffice me as he hath sufficed.

Christ is the end and Christ the beginning,

The beginning and end of all is Christ.

[Illustration: THE LATER HARTFORD HOME.]

I was passionate in my attachments in those far back

years, and as I have looked over files of old letters,

they are all gone (except one, C. Van Rensselaer),

Georgiana May, Delia Bacon, Clarissa Treat, Elisabeth

Lyman, Sarah Colt, Elisabeth Phenix, Frances Strong,

Elisabeth Foster. I have letters from them all, but

they have been long in spirit land and know more about

how it is there than I do. It gives me a sort of dizzy

feeling of the shortness of life and nearness of

eternity when I see how many that I have traveled with

are gone within the veil. Then there are all my own

letters, written in the first two years of marriage,

when Mr. Stowe was in Europe and I was looking forward

to motherhood and preparing for it--my letters when my

whole life was within the four walls of my nursery,

my thoughts absorbed by the developing character of

children who have now lived their earthly life and gone

to the eternal one,--my two little boys, each in their

way good and lovely, whom Christ has taken in youth,

and my little one, my first Charley, whom He took away

before he knew sin or sorrow,--then my brother

George and sister Catherine, the one a companion of my

youth, the other the mother who assumed the care of

me after I left home in my twelfth year--and they are

gone. Then my blessed father, for many years so true an

image of the Heavenly Father,--in all my afflictions he

was afflicted, in all my perplexities he was a sure and

safe counselor, and he too is gone upward to join the

angelic mother whom I scarcely knew in this world, who

has been to me only a spiritual presence through life.

In 1882 Mrs. Stowe writes to her son certain impressions derived from

reading the "Life and Letters of John Quincy Adams," which are given as

containing a retrospect of the stormy period of her own life-experience.

"Your father enjoys his proximity to the Boston library. He is now

reading the twelve or fourteen volumes of the life and diary of John

Q. Adams. It is a history of our country through all the period of

slavery usurpation that led to the war. The industry of the man in

writing is wonderful. Every day's doings in the house are faithfully

daguerreotyped,--all the mean tricks, contrivances of the slave-power,

and the pusillanimity of the Northern members from day to day recorded.

Calhoun was then secretary of state. Under his connivance even the

United States census was falsified, to prove that freedom was bad for

negroes. Records of deaf, dumb, and blind, and insane colored people

were distributed in Northern States, and in places where John Q. Adams

had means of _proving_ there were no negroes. When he found that these

falsified figures had been used with the English embassador as reasons

for admitting Texas as a slave State, the old man called on Calhoun,

and showed him the industriously collected _proofs_ of the falsity of

this census. He says: 'He writhed like a trodden rattlesnake, but said

the census was full of mistakes; but one part balanced another,--it

was not worth while to correct them.' His whole life was an incessant

warfare with the rapidly advancing spirit of slavery, that was coiling

like a serpent around everything.

"At a time when the Southerners were like so many excited tigers

and rattlesnakes,--when they bullied, and scoffed, and sneered, and

threatened, this old man rose every day in his place, and, knowing

every parliamentary rule and tactic of debate, found means to make

himself heard. Then he presented a petition from _negroes_, which

raised a storm of fury. The old man claimed that the right of petition

was the right of every human being. They moved to expel him. By the

rules of the house a man, before he can be expelled, may have the

floor to make his defense. This was just what he wanted. He held the

floor for _fourteen days_, and used his wonderful powers of memory and

arrangement to give a systematic, scathing history of the usurpations

of slavery; he would have spoken fourteen days more, but his enemies,

finding the thing getting hotter and hotter, withdrew their motion, and

the right of petition was gained.

"What is remarkable in this journal is the minute record of going to

church every Sunday, and an analysis of the text and sermon. There

is something about these so simple, so humble, so earnest. Often

differing from the speaker--but with gravity and humility--he seems

always to be so self-distrustful; to have such a sense of sinfulness

and weakness, but such trust in God's fatherly mercy, as is most

beautiful to see. Just the record of his Sunday sermons, and his

remarks upon them, would be most instructive to a preacher. He was a

regular communicant, and, beside, attended church on Christmas and

Easter,--I cannot but love the old man. He died without seeing even the

dawn of liberty which God has brought; but oh! I am sure he sees it

from above. He died in the Capitol, in the midst of his labors, and the

last words he said were, 'This is the last of earth; I am content.' And

now, I trust, he is with God.

"All, all are gone. All that raged; all that threatened; all the

cowards that yielded; truckled, sold their country for a mess of

pottage; all the _men_ that stood and bore infamy and scorn for the

truth; all are silent in dust; the fight is over, but eternity will

never efface from their souls whether they did well or ill--whether

they fought bravely or failed like cowards. In a sense, our lives

are irreparable. If we shrink, if we fail, if we choose the fleeting

instead of the eternal, God may forgive us; but there must be an

eternal regret! This man lived for humanity when hardest bestead; for

truth when truth was unpopular; for Christ when Christ stood chained

and scourged in the person of the slave."

In the fall of 1887 she writes to her brother Rev. Dr. Edward Beecher

of Brooklyn, N. Y.:--

49 FOREST STREET, HARTFORD, CONN., _October 11, 1887._

DEAR BROTHER,--I was delighted to receive your kind

letter. _You_ were my earliest religious teacher; your

letters to me while a school-girl in Hartford gave

me a high Christian aim and standard which I hope I

have never lost. Not only did they do me good, but

also my intimate friends, Georgiana May and Catherine

Cogswell, to whom I read them. The simplicity, warmth,

and childlike earnestness of those school days I love

to recall. I am the _only one living_ of that circle

of early friends. _Not one_ of my early schoolmates is

living,--and now Henry, younger by a year or two than

I, has gone--my husband also.[21] I often think, _Why_

am I spared? Is there yet anything for me to do? I am

thinking with my son Charles's help of writing a review

of my life, under the title, "Pebbles from the Shores

of a Past Life."

Charlie told me that he has got all written up to my

twelfth or thirteenth year, when I came to be under

sister Catherine's care in Hartford. I am writing daily

my remembrances from that time. You were then, I think,

teacher of the Grammar School in Hartford....

So, my dear brother, let us keep good heart; no evil

can befall us. Sin alone is evil, and from that Christ

will keep us. Our journey is _so_ short!

I feel about all things now as I do about the things

that happen in a hotel, after my trunk is packed to go

home. I may be vexed and annoyed ... but what of it! I

am going home soon.

Your affectionate sister,

HATTIE.

To a friend she writes a little later:--

"I have thought much lately of the possibility of my leaving you all

and going home. I am come to that stage of my pilgrimage that is within

sight of the River of Death, and I feel that now I must have all in

readiness day and night for the messenger of the King. I have sometimes

had in my sleep strange perceptions of a vivid spiritual life near to

and with Christ, and multitudes of holy ones, and the joy of it is like

no other joy,--it cannot be told in the language of the world. What I

have then I _know_ with absolute certainty, yet it is so unlike and

above anything we conceive of in this world that it is difficult to

put it into words. The inconceivable loveliness of Christ! It seems

that about Him there is a sphere where the enthusiasm of love is the

calm habit of the soul, that without words, without the necessity of

demonstrations of affection, heart beats to heart, soul answers soul,

we respond to the Infinite Love, and we feel his answer in us, and

there is no need of words. All seemed to be busy coming and going on

ministries of good, and passing each gave a thrill of joy to each as

Jesus, the directing soul, the centre of all, "over all, in all, and

through all," was working his beautiful and merciful will to redeem and

save. I was saying as I awoke:--

"''Tis joy enough, my all in all,

At thy dear feet to lie.

Thou wilt not let me lower fall,

And none can higher fly.'

"This was but a glimpse; but it has left a strange sweetness in my

mind."

FOOTNOTE:

[21] Professor Stowe died August, 1886.

INDEX.

ABBOTT, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob, 292.

Aberdeen, reception in, 221.

Abolition, English meetings in favor of, 389.

Abolition sentiment, growth of, 87.

Abolitionism made fashionable, 253.

Adams, John Quincy, crusade of, against slavery, 509;

holds floor of Congress fourteen days, 510;

his religious life and trust, 511;

died without seeing dawn of liberty, 511;

life and letters of, 510.

"Agnes of Sorrento," first draft of, 374;

date of, 490;

Whittier's praise of, 503.

"Alabama Planter," savage attack of, on H. B. S., 187.

Albert, Prince, Mrs. Stowe's letter to, 160;

his reply, 164;

meeting with, 271;

death, 368.

America, liberty in, 193;

Ruskin on, 354.

American novelist, Lowell on the, 330.

Andover, Mass., beauty of, 186;

Stowe family settled in, 188.

Anti-slavery cause: result of English demonstrations, 252;

letters to England, 160;

feeling dreaded in South, 172;

movement in Cincinnati, 81;

in Boston, 145;

Beecher family all anti-slavery men, 152.

"Arabian Nights," H. B. S.'s delight in, 9.

Argyll, Duke and Duchess of 229, 232;

warmth of, 239;

H. B. S. invited to visit, 270, 271;

death of father of Duchess, 368.

Argyll, Duchess of, letter from H. B. S. to, on England's attitude

during our Civil War, 368;

on _post bellum_ events, 395.

"Atlantic Monthly," contains "Minister's Wooing," 327;

Mrs. Stowe's address to women of England, 375;

"The True Story of Lady Byron's Life," 447, 453.

BAILEY, Gamaliel, Dr., editor of "National Era," 157.

Bangor, readings in, 493.

Bates, Charlotte Fiske, reads a poem at Mrs. Stowe's seventieth

birthday, 505.

Baxter's "Saints' Rest," has a powerful effect on H. B. S., 32.

Beecher, Catherine, eldest sister of H. B. S., 1;

her education of H. B. S., 22;

account of her own birth, 23;

strong influence over Harriet, 22;

girlhood of, 23;

teacher at New London, 23;

engagement, 23;

drowning of her lover, 23;

soul struggles after Prof. Fisher's death, 25, 26;

teaches in his family, 25;

publishes article on Free Agency, 26;

opens school at Hartford, 27;

solution of doubts while teaching, 28, 29;

her conception of Divine Nature, 28;

school at Hartford described by H. B. S., 29;

doubts about Harriet's conversion, 35;

hopes for "Hartford Female Seminary," 37;

letter to Edward about Harriet's doubts, 38;

note on Harriet's letter, 43;

new school at Cincinnati, 53, 64, _et seq._;

visits Cincinnati with father, 54;

impressions of city, 54;

homesickness, 62;

at water cure, 113;

a mother to sister Harriet, 509;

letters to H. B. S. to, on her religious depression, 37;

on religious doubts, 322.

Beecher, Charles, brother of H. B. S., 2;

in college, 56;

goes to Florida, 402;

letters from H. B. S., on mother's death, 2-4, 49.

Beecher, Edward, Dr., brother of H. B. S., 1;

influence over her, 22, 25;

indignation against Fugitive Slave Act, 144;

efforts to arouse churches, 265;

letters from H. B. S. to, on early religious struggles, 36, 37;

on her feelings, 39;

on views of God, 42, 43, 44, 48;

on death of friends and relatives, and the writing of her life

by her son Charles, 512.

Beecher, Esther, aunt of H. B. S., 53, 56, 57.

Beecher family, famous reunion of, 89;

circular letter to, 99.

Beecher, Frederick, H. B. S.'s half-brother, death of, 13.

Beecher, George, brother of H. B. S., 1;

visit to, 45;

enters Lane as student, 53;

music and tracts, 58;

account of journey to Cincinnati, 59;

sudden death, 108;

H. B. S. meets at Dayton one of his first converts, 499;

his letters cherished, 508.

Beecher, George, nephew of H. B. S., visit to, 498.

Beecher, Mrs. George, letter from H. B. S. to, describing new home,

133.

Beecher, Harriet E. first; death of, 1;

second, (H. B. S.) birth of, 1.

Beecher, Mrs. Harriet Porter, H. B. S.'s stepmother, 11;

personal appearance and character of, 11, 12;

pleasant impressions of new home and children, 12;

at Cincinnati, 62.

Beecher, Henry Ward, brother of H. B. S., birth of, 1;

anecdote of, after mother's death, 2;

first school, 8;

conception of Divine Nature, 28;

in college, 55;

H. B. S. attends graduation, 73;

editor of Cincinnati "Journal," 81;

sympathy with anti-slavery movement, 84, 85, 87;

at Brooklyn, 130;

saves Edmonson's daughters, 178;

H. B. S. visits, 364;

views on Reconstruction, 397;

George Eliot on Beecher trial, 472;

his character as told by H. B. S., 475;

love for Prof. Stowe, 475;

his youth and life in West, 476;

Brooklyn and his anti-slavery fight, 476;

Edmonsons and Plymouth Church, 477;

his loyalty and energy, 477;

his religion, 477;

popularity and personal magnetism, 478;

terrible struggle in the Beecher trial, 478;

bribery of jury, but final triumph, 479;

ecclesiastical trial of, 479;

committee of five appointed to bring facts, 479;

his ideal purity and innocence, 480;

power at death-beds and funerals, 480;

beloved by poor and oppressed, 481;

meets accusations by silence, prayer, and work, 481;

his thanks and speech at Stowe Garden Party, 501;

tribute to father, mother, and sister Harriet, 502;

death, 512.

Beecher, Isabella, H. B. S.'s half-sister, birth of, 13;

goes to Cincinnati, 53.

Beecher, James, H. B. S.'s half-brother, 45;

goes to Cincinnati, 53;

begins Sunday-school, 63.

Beecher, Rev. Dr. Lyman, H. B. Stowe's father, 1;

"Autobiography and Correspondence of," 2, 89;

verdict on his wife's remarkable piety, 3;

pride in his daughter's essay, 14;

admiration of Walter Scott, 25;

sermon which converts H. B. S., 33, 34;

accepts call to Hanover Street Church, Boston, 35;

president of Lane Theological Seminary, 53;

first journey to Cincinnati, 53;

removal and westward journey, 56 _et seq._;

removes family to Cincinnati, 56;

Beecher reunion, 89;

powerful sermons on slave question, 152;

his sturdy character, H. W. Beecher's eulogy upon, 502;

death and reunion with H. B. S's mother, 509.

Beecher, Mary, sister of H. B. S., 1;

married, 55;

letter to, 61;

accompanies sister to Europe, 269;

letters from H. B. S. to, on love for New England, 61;

on visit to Windsor, 235.

Beecher, Roxanna Foote, mother of H. B. S., 1;

her death, 2;

strong, sympathetic nature, 2;

reverence for the Sabbath, 3;

sickness, death, and funeral, 4;

influence in family strong even after death, 5;

character described by H. W. Beecher, 502;

H. B. S.'s resemblance to, 502.

Beecher, William, brother of H. B. S., 1;

licensed to preach, 56.

Bell, Henry, English inventor of steamboat, 215.

Belloc, Mme., translates "Uncle Tom," 247.

Belloc, M., to paint portrait of H. B. S., 241.

Bentley, London publisher, offers pay for "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 202.

"Betty's Bright Idea," date of, 491.

Bible, 48;

Uncle Tom's, 262;

use and influence of, 263.

"Bible Heroines," date of, 491.

Bibliography of H. B. S., 490.

Biography, H. B. S.'s remarks on writing and understanding, 126.

Birney, J. G., office wrecked, 81 _et seq._;

H. B. S.'s sympathy with, 84.

Birthday, seventieth, celebration of by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.,

500.

Blackwood's attack on Lady Byron, 448.

Blantyre, Lord, 230.

Bogue, David, 189-191.

Boston opens doors to slave-hunters, 144.

Boston Library, Prof. Stowe enjoys proximity to, 509.

Bowdoin College calls Prof. Stowe, 125, 129.

Bowen, H. C., 181.

Bruce, John, of Litchfield Academy, H. B. S.'s tribute to, 14;

lectures on Butler's "Analogy," 32.

Brigham, Miss, character of, 46.

Bright, John, letter to H. B. S. on her "Appeal to English Women,"

389.

Brooklyn, Mrs. Stowe's visit to brother Henry in, 130;

visit in 1852, when she helps the Edmonson slave family, 178-180;

Beecher, H. W. called to, 476;

Beecher trial in, 478.

Brown and the phantoms, 431.

Brown, John, bravery of, 380.

Browning, Mrs., on life and love, 52.

Browning, E. B., letter to H. B. S., 356;

death of, 368, 370.

Browning, Robert and E. B, friendship with, 355.

Brunswick, Mrs. Stowe's love of, 184;

revisited, 324.

Buck, Eliza, history of as slave, 201.

Bull, J. D. and family, make home for H. B. S. while at school in

Hartford, 30, 31.

Bunsen, Chevalier, 233.

Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress," Prof. Stowe's love of, 437.

Burritt, Elihu, writes introduction to "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 192;

calls on Mrs. Stowe, 223.

Butler's "Analogy," study of, by H. B. S., 32.

"Byron Controversy," 445;

history of, 455;

George Eliot on, 458;

Dr. Holmes on, 455.

Byron, Lady, 239;

letters from, 274, 281;

makes donation to Kansas sufferers, 281;

on power of words, 361;

death of, 368, 370;

her character assailed, 446;

her first meeting with H. B. S., 447;

dignity and calmness, 448;

memoranda and letters about Lord Byron shown to Mrs. Stowe, 450;

solemn interview with H. B. S., 453;

letters to H. B. S. from, 274, 282;

on "The Minister's Wooing," 343;

farewell to, 313, 339;

her confidences, 440;

Mrs. Stowe's counsels to, 451.

Byron, Lord, Mrs. Stowe on, 339;

she suspects his insanity, 450;

cheap edition of his works proposed, 453;

Recollections of, by Countess Guiccioli, 446;

his position as viewed by Dr. Holmes, 457;

evidence of his poems for and against him, 457.

"CABIN, The," literary centre, 185.

Cairnes, Prof., on the "Fugitive Slave Law," 146.

Calhoun falsifies census, 509.

Calvinism, J. R. Lowell's sympathy with, 335.

Cambridgeport, H. B. S. reads in, 491.

Carlisle, Lord, praises "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 164;

Mrs. Stowe's reply, 164;

writes introduction to "Uncle Tom," 192;

H. B. S. dines with, 228;

farewell to, 248;

letter from H. B. S. to on moral effect of slavery, 164;

letter to H. B. S. from, 218.

Cary, Alice and Phoebe, 157.

Casaubon and Dorothea, criticism by H. B. S. on, 471.

Catechisms, Church and Assembly, H. B. S.'s early study of, 6, 7.

Chapman, Mrs. Margaret Weston, 310.

Charpentier of Paris, publishes "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 192;

eulogy of that work, 242.

Chase, Salmon P., 69, 85.

Chelsea, H. B. S. reads in, 492.

Chicago, readings in, 498.

Children of H. B. S., picture of three eldest, 90;

appeal to, by H. B. S. 157;

described by H. B. S., 198;

letters to, from H. B. S. on European voyage and impressions, 205;

on life in London, 228;

on meeting at Stafford House, 232;

on Vesuvius, 301, 416.

"Chimney Corner, The," date of, 490.

Cholera epidemic in Cincinnati, 120.

Christ, life of, little understood, 127;

communion with Him possible, 487;

love and faith in, 513;

study of his life, 418;

his presence all that remains now, 507;

his promises comfort the soul for separations by death, 486.

"Christian Union," contains observations by H. B. S. on spiritualism

and Mr. Owen's books, 465.

Christianity and spiritualism, 487.

Church, the, responsible for slavery, 151.

Cincinnati, Lyman Beecher accepts call to, 53;

Catherine Beecher's impressions of, 54, 55;

Walnut Hills and Seminary, 54, 55;

famine in, 100;

cholera, 119;

sympathetic audience in, 498.

Civil War, Mrs. Stowe on causes of, 363.

Clarke & Co. on English success of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 190;

offer author remuneration, 202.

Clay, Henry, and his compromise, 143.

Cogswell, Catherine Ledyard, school-friend of H. B. S., 31.

College of Teachers, 79.

Collins professorship, 129.

Colored people, advance of, 255.

Confederacy, A. H. Stephens on object of, 381.

Courage and cheerfulness of H. B. S., 473.

Cranch, E. P., 69.

Cruikshank illustrates "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 192.

"DANIEL DERONDA," appears, in "Harper's," 473;

his nature like H. W. Beecher's, 481;

admiration of Prof. Stowe for, 482.

Da Vinci's Last Supper, H. B. S.'s impressions of, 305.

Death of youngest-born of H. B. S., 124;

anguish at, 198.

Death, H. B. S. within sight of the River of, 513.

"Debatable Land between this World and the Next," 464.

Declaration of Independence, H. B. S.'s feeling about, 11;

death-knell to slavery, 141.

Degan, Miss, 32, 41, 46.

Democracy and American novelists, Lowell on, 329.

"De Profundis," motive of Mrs. Browning's, 357.

De Staël, Mme., and Corinne, 67.

Dickens, first sight of, 226;

J. R. Lowell on, 328.

"Dog's Mission, A," date of, 491.

Domestic service, H. B. S.'s trouble with, 200.

Doubters and disbelievers may find comfort in spiritualism, 487.

Doubts, religious, after death of eldest son, 321.

Douglass, Frederick, 254;

letters from H. B. S. to, on slavery, 149.

Drake, Dr., family physician, 63;

one of founders of "College of Teachers," 79.

"Dred," 266;

Sumner's letter on, 268;

Georgiana May on, 268;

English edition of, 270;

presented to Queen Victoria, 271;

her interest in, 277, 285;

demand for, in Glasgow, 273;

Duchess of Sutherland's copy, 276;

Low's sales of, 278, 279;

"London Times," on, 278;

English reviews on, severe, 279;

"Revue des Deux Mondes" on, 290;

Miss Martineau on, 309;

Prescott on, 311;

Lowell on, 334;

now "Nina Gordon," publication of, 490.

Dudevant, Madame. See Sand, George.

Dufferin, Lord and Lady, their love of American literature, 284,

285.

Dundee, meeting at, 222.

Dunrobin Castle, visit to, 276.

E----, letter from H. B. S. to, on breakfast at the Trevelyans',

234.

"Earthly Care a Heavenly Discipline," 131.

East Hampton, L. I., birthplace of Catherine Beecher, 23.

Eastman, Mrs., writes a Southern reply to "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 163.

Edgeworth, Maria, 247.

Edinburgh, H. B. S. in, 216;

return to, 222.

Edmonson slave family; efforts to save, 179;

Mrs. Stowe educates and supports daughters, 179;

raises money to free mother and two slave children, 180.

Edmonson, death of Mary, 238.

Education, H. B. S.'s interest in, 72, 73.

Edwards, Jonathan, the power of, 406;

his treatise on "The Will," refuted by Catherine Beecher, 26.

Eliot, George, 419;

a good Christian, 420;

on psychical problems, 421;

on "Oldtown Folks," 443;

her despondency in "writing life" and longing for sympathy, 460;

on power of fine books, 461;

on religion, 462;

desires to keep an open mind on all subjects, 467;

on impostures of spiritualism, 467;

lack of "jollitude" in "Middlemarch," 471;

invited to visit America, 471;

sympathy with H. B. S. in Beecher trial, 472;

proud of Stowes' interest in her "spiritual children," 482;

on death of Mr. Lewes and gratitude for sympathy of H. B. S., 483;

a "woman worth loving," H. B. S.'s love for greater than her

admiration, 475;

letters from H. B. S. to, on spiritualism, 463;

describes Florida nature and home, 468;

reply to letter of sympathy giving facts in the Beecher case, 473;

from Professor Stowe on spiritualism, 419;

letter to H. B. S. from, 421;

with sympathy on abuse called out by the Byron affair, 458;

on effect of letter of H. B. S. to Mrs. Follen upon her mind, 460;

on joy of sympathy, 460;

reply to letter on spiritualism, 466;

sympathy with her in the Beecher trial, 472.

Elmes, Mr., 57.

"Elms, The Old," H. B. S.'s seventieth birthday celebrated at, 500.

"Elsie Venner," Mrs. Stowe's praise of, 360, 362, 415.

Emancipation, Proclamation of, 384.

Emmons, Doctor, the preaching of, 25.

England and America compared, 177.

England, attitude of, in civil war, grief at, 369;

help of to America on slave question, 166, 174.

English women's address on slavery, 374;

H. B. S.'s reply in the "Atlantic Monthly," 374.

Europe, first visit to, 189;

second visit to, 268;

third visit to, 343.

FAITH in Christ, 513.

Famine in Cincinnati, 100.

Fiction, power of, 216.

Fields, Mrs. Annie, in Boston, 470;

her tribute to Mrs. Stowe's courage and cheerfulness, 473;

George Eliot's mention of, 483;

her poem read at seventieth birthday, 505.

Fields, Jas. T., Mr. and Mrs., visit of H. B. S. to, 492.

Fisher, Prof. Alexander Metcalf, 23;

engagement to Catherine Beecher, 23;

sails for Europe, 23, 24;

his death by drowning in shipwreck of Albion, 24;

Catherine Beecher's soul struggles, over his future fate, 25;

influence of these struggles depicted in "The Minister's

Wooing," 25.

Florence, Mrs. Stowe's winter in, 349.

Florida, winter home in Mandarin, 401;

like Sorrento, 463;

wonderful growth of nature, 468;

how H. B. S.'s house was built, 469;

her happy life in, 474;

longings for, 482;

her enjoyment of happy life of the freedmen in, 506.

Flowers, love of, 405, 406, 416, 469;

painting, 469.

Follen, Mrs., 197;

letter from H. B. S. to, on her biography, 197.

Foote, Harriet, aunt of H. B. S., 5;

energetic English character, 6;

teaches niece catechism, 6, 7.

Foote, Mrs. Roxanna, grandmother of H. B. S., first visit to, 5-7;

visit to in 1827, 38.

"Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World," 464.

"Footsteps of the Master," published, 491.

"Fraser's Magazine" on "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 168;

Helps's review of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 175.

"Free Agency," Catherine Beecher's refutation of Edwards on "The

Will," 26.

French critics, high standing of, 291.

Friends, love for, 51;

death of, 410;

death of old, whose letters are cherished, 508;

death of, takes away a part of ourselves, 485.

Friendship, opinion of, 50.

Fugitive Slave Act, suffering caused by, 144;

Prof. Cairnes on, 146;

practically repealed, 384.

Future life, glimpses of, leave strange sweetness, 513.

Future punishment, ideas of, 340.

GARRISON, W. L., to Mrs. Stowe on "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 161;

in hour of victory, 396;

his "Liberator," 261;

sent with H. W. Beecher to raise flag on Sumter, 477;

letters to H. B. S. from, on "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 161;

on slavery, 251-262;

on arousing the church, 265.

Gaskell, Mrs., at home, 312.

Geography, school, written by Mrs. Stowe, 65 _note_, 158.

Germany's tribute to "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 195.

Gladstone, W. E., 233.

Glasgow, H. B. S. visits, 210;

Anti-slavery Society of, 174, 189, 213.

Glasgow Anti-slavery Society, letter from H. B. S. to, 251.

God, H. B. S.'s views of, 30, 42, 43, 46, 47;

trust in, 112, 132, 148, 341;

doubts and final trust in, 321, 396;

his help in time of need, 496.

Goethe and Mr. Lewes, 420;

Prof. Stowe's admiration of, 420.

Goldschmidt, Madame. See Lind, Jenny.

Görres on spiritualism and mysticism, 412, 474.

Grandmother, letter from H. B. S. to, on breaking up of Litchfield

home, 35;

on school life in Hartford, 41.

Granville, Lord, 233.

"Gray's Elegy," visit to scene of, 236.

Guiccioli, Countess, "Recollections of Lord Byron," 446.

HALL, Judge James, 68, 69.

Hallam, Arthur Henry, 235.

Hamilton and Manumission Society, 141.

Harper & Brothers reprint Guiccioli's "Recollections of Byron," 446.

Hartford, H. B. S. goes to school at, 21;

the Stowes make their home at, 373.

Harvey, a phantom, 430.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 353;

letter on, 187;

on slavery, 394;

letter to H. B. S. on, from English attitude towards America, 394.

Health, care of, 115.

Heaven, belief in, 59.

Helps, Arthur, on "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 175;

meets H. B. S., 229;

letter from H. B. S. to, on "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 175.

Henry, Patrick, on slavery, 141.

Hentz, Mrs. Caroline Lee, 69, 80.

Higginson, T. W., letter to H. B. S. from, on "Uncle Tom's Cabin,"

162.

"History, The, of the Byron Controversy," 490.

Holmes, O. W., correspondence with, 360, _et seq._;

attacks upon, 361;

H. B. S. asks advice from, about manner of telling facts in

relation to Byron Controversy, 452, 454;

sends copy of "Lady Byron Vindicated" to, 454;

on facts of case, 455;

on sympathy displayed in his writings, 411;

poem on H. B. S.'s seventieth birthday, 503;

tribute to Uncle Tom, 504;

letters from H. B. S. to, 359, 410;

on "Poganuc People," 414;

asking advice about Byron Controversy and article for "Atlantic

Monthly," 452;

letters to H. B. S. from, 360, 409;

on facts in the Byron Controversy, 456.

Houghton, Mifflin & Co., celebrate H. B. S.'s seventieth birthday, 500.

Houghton, H. O., presents guests to H. B. S., on celebration of

seventieth birthday, 500;

address of welcome by, 501.

"House and Home Papers" published, 490.

Howitt, Mary, calls on H. B. S., 231.

Human life, sacredness of, 193.

Human nature in books and men, 328.

Hume and mediums, 419.

Humor of Mrs. Stowe's books, George Eliot on, 462.

Husband and wife, sympathy between, 105.

IDEALISM _versus_ Realism, Lowell on, 334.

"Independent," New York, work for, 186;

Mrs. Browning reads Mrs. Stowe in, 357.

Inverary Castle, H. B. S.'s, visit to, 271.

Ireland's gift to Mrs. Stowe, 248.

JEFFERSON, Thomas, on slavery, 141.

Jewett, John P., of Boston, publisher of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 158.

KANSAS Nebraska Bill, 255;

urgency of question, 265.

"Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin" projected, 174;

written, 188; contains facts, 203;

read by Pollock, 226;

by Argyll, 239;

sickness caused by, 252;

sale, 253;

facts woven into "Dred," 266;

date of in chronological list, 490.

Kingsley, Charles, upon effect of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 196;

visit to, 286;

letters to H. B. S. from, on "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 196, 218.

Kossuth, on freedom, 195;

Mrs. Stowe calls upon, 237.

LABOUCHERE, Lady Mary, visit to, 283.

"Lady Byron Vindicated," 454;

date, 490.

Letters, circular, writing of, a custom in the Beecher family, 99;

H. B. S.'s love of, 62, 63;

H. B. S.'s peculiar emotions on re-reading old, 507.

Lewes, G. H., George Eliot's letter after death of, 483.

Lewes, Mrs. G. H. See Eliot, George, 325.

"Library of Famous Fiction," date of, 491.

"Liberator," The, 261;

and Bible, 263;

suspended after the close of civil war, 396.

Lincoln and slavery, 380;

death of, 398.

Lind, Jenny, liberality of, 181;

H. B. S. attends concert by, 182;

letter to H. B. S. from, on her delight in "Uncle Tom's Cabin,"

183;

letters from H. B. S. to, with appeal for slaves, 183, 184.

Litchfield, birthplace of H. B. S., 1;

end of her child-life in, 21;

home at broken up, 35.

Literary labors, early, 15-21;

prize story, 68;

club essays, 69-71;

contributor to "Western Monthly Magazine," 81;

school geography, 65;

described in letter to a friend, 94;

price for, 103;

fatigue caused by, 489;

length of time passed in, with list of books written, 490.

Literary work _versus_ domestic duties, 94 _et seq._, 139;

short stories--"New Year's Story" for "N. Y. Evangelist," 146;

"A Scholar's Adventures in the Country" for "Era," 146.

Literature, opinion of, 44.

"Little Pussy Willow," date of, 491.

Liverpool, warm reception of H. B. S. at, 207.

London poor and Southern slaves, 175.

London, first visit to, 225;

second visit to, 281.

Longfellow, H. W., congratulations of, on "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 161;

letter on, 187;

Lord Granville's likeness to, 233;

letters to H. B. S. from, on "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 161.

Love, the impulse of life, 51, 52.

Lovejoy, J. P., murdered, 143, 145;

aided by Beechers, 152.

Low, Sampson, on success of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" abroad, 189.

Low, Sampson & Co. publish "Dred," 269;

their sales, 279.

Lowell, J. R., Duchess of Sutherland's interest in, 277;

less known in England than he should be, 285;

on "Uncle Tom," 327;

on Dickens and Thackeray, 327, 334;

on "The Minister's Wooing," 330, 333;

on idealism, 334;

letter to H. B. S. from, on "The Minister's Wooing," 333.

MACAULAY, 233, 234.

McClellan, Gen., his disobedience to the President's commands, 367.

"Magnalia," Cotton Mather's, a mine of wealth to H. B. S., 10;

Prof. Stowe's interest in, 427.

Maine law, curiosity about in England, 229.

Mandarin, Mrs. Stowe at, 403;

like Sorrento, 463;

how her house was built, 469;

her happy out-door life in, relieved from domestic care, 474;

longings for home at, 492;

freedmen's happy life in South, 506.

Mann, Horace, makes a plea for slaves, 159.

Martineau, Harriet, letter to H. B. S. from, 208.

May, Georgiana, school and life-long friend of H. B. S., 31, 32;

Mrs. Sykes, 132;

her ill-health and farewell to H. B. S., 268;

letters from H. B. S. to, 44, 49, 50;

account of westward journey, 56;

on labor in establishing school, 65, 66;

on education, 72;

just before her marriage to Mr. Stowe, 76;

on her early married life and housekeeping, 89;

on birth of her son, 101;

describing first railroad ride, 106;

on her children, 119;

her letter to Mrs. Foote, grandmother of H. B. S., 38;

letters to H. B. S. from, 161, 268.

"Mayflower, The," 103, 158;

revised and republished, 251;

date of, 490.

Melancholy, 118, 341;

a characteristic of Prof. Stowe in childhood, 436.

"Men of Our Times," date of, 410.

"Middlemarch," H. B. S. wishes to read, 468;

character of Casaubon in, 471.

Milman, Dean, 234.

Milton's hell, 303.

"Minister's Wooing, The," soul struggles of Mrs. Marvyn,

foundation of incident, 25;

idea of God in, 29;

impulse for writing, 52;

appears in "Atlantic Monthly," 326;

Lowell, J. R. on, 327, 330, 333;

Whittier on, 327;

completed, 332;

Ruskin on, 336;

undertone of pathos, 339;

visits England in relation to, 343;

date of, 490;

"reveals warm heart of man" beneath the Puritan in Whittier's

poem, 502.

Missouri Compromise, 142, 257;

repealed, 379.

Mohl, Madame, and her _salon_, 291.

Money-making, reading as easy a way as any of, 494.

Moral aim in novel-writing, J. R. Lowell on, 333.

"Mourning Veil, The," 327.

"Mystique La," on spiritualism, 412.

NAPLES and Vesuvius, 302.

"National Era," its history, 157;

work for, 186.

Negroes, petition from, presented by J. Q. Adams, 510.

New England, Mrs. Stowe's knowledge of, 332;

in "The Minister's Wooing," 333;

life pictured in "Oldtown Folks," 444.

New London, fatigue of reading at, 496.

Newport, tiresome journey to, on reading tour, 497.

Niagara, impressions of, 75.

Normal school for colored teachers, 203.

"North American Review" on "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 254.

North _versus_ South, England on, 388, 391.

Norton, C. E., Ruskin on the proper home of, 354.

"OBSERVER, New York," denunciation of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 168, 172.

"Oldtown Fireside Stories," 438;

strange spiritual experiences of Prof. Stowe, 438;

Sam Lawson a real character, 439;

relief after finishing, 489;

date of in chronological list, 491;

in Whittier's poem on seventieth birthday "With Old New England's

flavor rife," 503.

"Oldtown Folks," 404;

Prof. Stowe original of "Harry" in, 421;

George Eliot on its reception in England, 443, 461, 463;

picture of N. E. life, 444;

date of, 490;

Whittier's praise of, "vigorous pencil-strokes" in poem on

seventieth birthday, 503.

Orthodoxy, 335.

"Our Charley," date of, 490.

Owen, Robert Dale, his "Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World"

and "The Debatable Land between this World and the Next," 464;

H. B. S. wishes George Eliot to meet, 464.

PALMERSTON, Lord, meeting with, 232.

"Palmetto Leaves" published, 405;

date, 491.

Papacy, The, 358.

Paris, first visit to, 241;

second visit, 286.

Park, Professor Edwards A., 186.

Parker, Theodore, on the Bible and Jesus, 264.

Paton, Bailie, host of Mrs. Stowe, 211.

Peabody, pleasant reading in, 496;

Queen Victoria's picture at, 496.

"Pearl of Orr's Island, The," 186, 187;

first published, 327;

Whittier's favorite, 327;

date of, 490.

"Pebbles from the Shores of a Past Life," a review of her life

proposed to be written by H. B. S. with aid of son Charles,

512.

Phantoms seen by Professor Stowe, 425.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, writes poem on H. B. S.'s seventieth

birthday, 505.

"Philanthropist, The," anti-slavery paper, 81, 87.

Phillips, Wendell, attitude of after war, 396.

"Pink and White Tyranny," date of, 491.

Plymouth Church, saves Edmonson's daughters, 179;

slavery and, 477;

clears Henry Ward Beecher by acclamation, 478;

calls council of Congregational ministers and laymen, 479;

council ratifies decision of Church, 479;

committee of five appointed to bring facts which could be

proved, 479;

missions among poor particularly effective at time of trial, 481.

"Poganuc People," 413;

sent to Dr. Holmes, 414;

date of, 491.

Pollock, Lord Chief Baron, 226.

Poor, generosity of touches H. B. S., 219.

Portland, H. B. S.'s friends there among the past, 494;

her readings in, 493.

Portraits of Mrs. Stowe, 231;

Belloc to paint, 241;

untruth of, 288.

Poverty in early married life, 198.

Prescott, W. H., letter to H. B, S. from, on "Dred," 311.

"Presse, La," on "Dred," 291.

Providential aid in sickness, 113.

"QUEER Little People," date of, 490.

READING and teaching, 139.

Religion and humanity, George Eliot on, 462.

"Religious poems," date of, 490.

"Revue des Deux Mondes" on "Dred," 290.

Riots in Cincinnati and anti-slavery agitation, 85.

Roenne, Baron de, visits Professor Stowe, 102.

Roman politics in 1861, 358.

Rome, H. B. S.'s journey to, 294;

impressions of, 300.

Ruskin, John, letters to H. B. S. from, on "The Minister's

Wooing," 336;

on his dislike of America, but love for American friends, 354.

Ruskin and Turner, 313.

SAINT-BEUVE, H. B. S.'s liking for, 474.

Sales, Francis de, H. W. Beecher compared with, 481.

Salisbury, Mr., interest of in "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 191.

Salons, French, 289.

Sand, George, reviews "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 196.

Scotland, H. B. S.'s first visit to, 209.

Scott, Walter, Lyman Beecher's opinion of, when discussing

novel-reading, 25;

monument in Edinburgh, 217.

Sea, H. B. S.'s nervous horror of, 307.

Sea-voyages, H. B. S. on, 205.

Semi-Colon Club, H. B. S. becomes a member of, 68.

Shaftesbury, Earl of, letter of, to Mrs. Stowe, 170.

Shaftesbury, Lord, to H. B. S., letter from, 170;

letter from H. B. S. to, 170;

America and, 369.

Skinner, Dr., 57.

Slave, aiding a fugitive, 93.

Slave-holding States on English address, 378;

intensity of conflict in, 379.

Slavery, H. B. S.'s first notice of, 71;

anti-slavery agitation, 81;

death-knell of, 141;

Jefferson, Washington, Hamilton, and Patrick Henry on, 141;

growth of, 142;

résumé of its history, 143;

responsibility of church for, 151;

Lord Carlisle's opinion on, 164;

moral effect of, 165;

sacrilege of, 193;

its past and future, 194;

its injustice, 255;

its death-blow; 370;

English women's appeal against, 375;

J. Q. Adams' crusade against, 509;

gone forever, 506.

Slaves, H. B. S.'s work for and sympathy with, 152;

family sorrows of, 318.

Smith, Anna, helper to Mrs. S., 115;

_note_, 200.

Soul, immortality of, H. B. S.'s essay written at age of twelve:

first literary production, 15-21;

Addison's remarks upon, 18;

Greek and Roman idea of immortality, 20;

light given by Gospel, 20, 21;

Christ on, 109.

South, England's sympathy with the, 370, 386.

South Framingham, good audience at reading in, 495.

"Souvenir, The," 105.

Spiritualism, Mrs. Stowe on, 350, 351, 464;

Mrs. Browning on, 356;

Holmes, O. W., on, 411;

"La Mystique" and Görres on, 412, 474;

Professor Stowe's strange experiences in, 420, 423;

George Eliot on psychical problems of, 421;

on "Charlatanerie" connected with, 467;

Robert Dale Owen on, 464;

Goethe on, 465;

H. B. S.'s letter to George Eliot on, 466;

her mature views on, 485;

a comfort to doubters and disbelievers, 487;

from Christian standpoint, 487.

Stafford House meeting, 233.

Stephens, A. H., on object of Confederacy, 381.

Storrs, Dr. R. S., 181.

Stowe, Calvin E., 56;

death of first wife, 75;

his engagement to Harriet E. Beecher, 76;

their marriage, 76, 77;

his work in Lane Seminary, 79;

sent by the Seminary to Europe on educational matters, 80;

returns, 88;

his Educational Report presented, 89;

aids a fugitive slave, 93;

strongly encourages his wife in her literary aspirations, 102,

105;

care of the sick students in Lane Seminary, 107;

is "house-father" during his wife's illness and absence, 113;

goes to water cure after his wife's return from the same, 119;

absent from Cincinnati home at death of youngest child, 124;

accepts the Collins Professorship at Bowdoin, 125;

gives his mother his reasons for leaving Cincinnati, 128;

remains behind to finish college work, while wife and three

children leave for Brunswick, Me., 129;

resigns his professorship at Bowdoin, and accepts a call to

Andover, 184;

accompanies his wife to Europe, 205;

his second trip with wife to Europe, 269;

sermon after his son's death, 322;

great sorrow at his bereavement, 324;

goes to Europe for the fourth time, 345;

resigns his position at Andover, 373;

in Florida, 403;

failing health, 417;

his letter to George Eliot, 420;

H. B. S. uses his strange experiences in youth as material for

her picture of "Harry" in "Oldtown Folks," 421;

the psychological history of his strange child-life, 423;

curious experiences with phantoms, and good and bad spirits, 427;

visions of fairies, 435;

love of reading, 437;

his power of character-painting shown in his description of a

visit to his relatives, 439;

George Eliot's mental picture of his personality, 461;

enjoys life and study in Florida, 463;

his studies on Prof. Görres' book, "Die Christliche Mystik," and

its relation to his own spiritual experience, 474;

love for Henry Ward Beecher returned by latter, 475;

absorbed in "Daniel Deronda," 482;

"over head and ears in _diablerie_," 484;

fears he has not long to live, 491;

dull at wife's absence on reading tour, 496;

enjoys proximity to Boston Library, and "Life of John Quincy

Adams," 509;

death, 512 and _note_;

letters from H. B. S. to, 80, 106;

on her illness, 112, 114, 117;

on cholera epidemic in Cincinnati, 120;

on sickness, death of son Charley, 122;

account of new home, 133;

on her writings and literary aspirations, 146;

on success of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 162;

on her interest in the Edmonson slave family, 180;

on life in London, 238;

on visit to the Duke of Argyle, 271;

from Dunrobin Castle, 275;

on "Dred," 282;

other letters from abroad, 282;

on life in Paris, 286;

on journey to Rome, 294;

on impressions of Rome, 300;

on Swiss journey, 348;

from Florence, 349;

from Paris, 353;

on farewell to her soldier son, 364;

visit to Duchess of Argyle, 366;

on her reading tour, 491;

on his health and her enforced absence from him, 492;

on reading, at Chelsea, 492;

at Bangor and Portland, 493;

at South Framingham and Haverhill, 495;

Peabody, 496;

fatigue at New London reading, 496;

letters from to H. B. S. on visit to his relatives and

description of home life, 440;

to mother on reasons for leaving the West, 128;

to George Eliot, 420;

to son Charles, 345.

Stowe, Charles E., seventh child of H. B. S., birth of, 139;

at Harvard, 406;

at Bonn, 412;

letter from Calvin E. Stowe to, 345;

letter from H. B. S. to, on her school life, 29;

on "Poganuc People," 413;

on her readings in the West, 497;

on selection of papers and letters for her biography, 507;

on interest of herself and Prof. Stowe in life and anti-slavery

career of John Quincy Adams, 509.

Stowe, Eliza Tyler (Mrs. C. E.), death of, 75;

twin daughter of H. B. S., 88.

Stowe, Frederick William, second son of H. B. S., 101;

enlists in First Massachusetts, 364;

made lieutenant for bravery, 366;

mother's visit to, 367;

severely wounded, 372;

subsequent effects of the wound, never entirely recovers, his

disappearance and unknown fate, 373;

ill-health after war, Florida home purchased for his sake, 399.

Stowe, Georgiana May, daughter of H. B. S., birth of, 108;

family happy in her marriage, 399;

letter from H. B. S. to, 340.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, birth and parentage of, 1;

first memorable incident, the death of her mother, 2;

letter to her brother Charles on her mother's death, 2;

incident of the tulip bulbs and mother's gentleness, 2;

first journey a visit to her grandmother, 5;

study of catechisms under her grandmother and aunt, 6;

early religious and Biblical reading, 8;

first school at the age of five, 8;

hunger after mental food, 9;

joyful discovery of "The Arabian Nights," in the bottom of a

barrel of dull sermons, 9;

reminiscences of reading in father's library, 10;

impression made by the Declaration of Independence, 11;

appearance and character of her stepmother, 11, 12;

healthy, happy child-life, 13;

birth of her half-sister Isabella and H. B. S.'s care of infant,

14;

early love of writing, 14;

her essay selected for reading at school exhibitions, 14;

her father s pride in essay, 15;

subject of essay, arguments for belief in the Immortality of the

Soul, 15-21;

end of child-life in Litchfield, 21;

goes to sister Catherine's school at Hartford, 29;

describes Catherine Beecher's school in letter to son, 29;

her home with the Bulls, 30, 31;

school friends, 31, 32;

takes up Latin, her study of Ovid and Virgil, 32;

dreams of being a poet and writes "Cleon," a drama, 32;

her conversion, 33, 34;

doubts of relatives and friends, 34, 35;

connects herself with First Church, Hartford, 36;

her struggle with rigid theology, 36;

her melancholy and doubts, 37, 38;

necessity of cheerful society, 38;

visit to grandmother, 38;

return to Hartford, 41;

interest in painting lessons, 41;

confides her religious doubts to her brother Edward, 42;

school life in Hartford, 46;

peace at last, 49;

accompanies her father and family to Cincinnati, 53;

describes her journey, 56;

yearnings for New England home, 60;

ill-health and depression, 64;

her life in Cincinnati and teaching at new school established by

her sister Catherine and herself, 65;

wins prize for short story, 68;

joins "Semicolon Club," 68;

slavery first brought to her personal notice, 71;

attends Henry Ward Beecher's graduation, 73;

engagement, 76;

marriage, 76;

anti-slavery agitation, 82;

sympathy with Birney, editor of anti-slavery paper in Cincinnati,

84;

birth of twin daughters, 88;

of her third child, 89;

reunion of the Beecher family, 89;

housekeeping _versus_ literary work, 93;

birth of second son, 101;

visits Hartford, 102;

literary work encouraged, 102, 105;

sickness in Lane Seminary, 107;

death of brother George, 108;

birth of third daughter, 108;

protracted illness and poverty, 110;

seminary struggles, 110;

goes to water cure, 113;

returns home, 118;

birth of sixth child, 118;

bravery in cholera epidemic, 120;

death of youngest child Charles, 123;

leaves Cincinnati, 125;

removal to Brunswick, 126;

getting settled, 134;

husband arrives, 138;

birth of seventh child, 139;

anti-slavery feeling aroused by letters from Boston, 145;

"Uncle Tom's Cabin," first thought of, 145;

writings for papers, 147;

"Uncle Tom's Cabin" appears as a serial, 156;

in book form, 159;

its wonderful success, 160;

praise from Longfellow, Whittier, Garrison, Higginson, 161;

letters from English nobility, 164, _et seq._;

writes "Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin," 174, 188;

visits Henry Ward in Brooklyn, 178;

raises money to free Edmondson family, 181;

home-making at Andover, 186;

first trip to Europe, 189, 205;

wonderful success of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" abroad, 189;

her warm reception at Liverpool, 207;

delight in Scotland, 209;

public reception and tea-party at Glasgow, 212;

warm welcome from Scotch people, 214;

touched by the "penny offering" of the poor for the slaves, 219;

Edinburgh soirée, 219;

meets English celebrities at Lord Mayor's dinner in London, 226;

meets English nobility, 229;

Stafford House, 232;

breakfast at Lord Trevelyan's, 234;

Windsor, 235;

presentation of bracelet, 233;

of inkstand, 240;

Paris, first visit to, 241;

_en route_ for Switzerland, 243;

Geneva and Chillon, 244;

Grindelwald to Meyringen, 245;

London, _en route_ for America, 247;

work for slaves in America, 250;

correspondence with Garrison, 261, _et seq._;

"Dred," 266;

second visit to Europe, 268;

meeting with Queen Victoria, 270;

visits Inverary Castle, 271;

Dunrobin Castle, 275;

Oxford and London, 280;

visits the Laboucheres, 283;

Paris, 289;

_en route_ to Rome, 294;

Naples and Vesuvius, 301;

Venice and Milan, 305;

homeward journey and return, 306, 314;

death of oldest son, 315;

visits Dartmouth, 319;

receives advice from Lowell on "The Pearl of Orr's Island," 327;

"The Minister's Wooing," 327, 330, 334;

third trip to Europe, 342;

Duchess of Sutherland's warm welcome, 346;

Switzerland, 348;

Florence, 349;

Italian journey, 352;

return to America, 353;

letters from Ruskin, Mrs. Browning, Holmes, 353, 362;

bids farewell to her son, 364;

at Washington, 366;

her son wounded at Gettysburg, 372;

his disappearance, 373;

the Stowes remove to Hartford, 373;

Address to women of England on slavery, 374;

winter home in Florida, 401;

joins the Episcopal Church, 402;

erects schoolhouse and church in Florida, 404;

"Palmetto, Leaves," 405;

"Poganuc People," 413;

warm reception at South, 415;

last winter in Florida, 417;

writes "Oldtown Folks," 404;

her interest in husband's strange spiritual experiences, 438;

H. B. S. justifies her action in Byron Controversy, 445;

her love and faith in Lady Byron, 449;

reads Byron letters, 450;

counsels silence and patience to Lady Byron, 451;

writes "True Story of Lady Byron's Life," 447, 453;

publishes "Lady Byron Vindicated," 454;

"History of the Byron Controversy," 455;

her purity of motive in this painful matter, 455;

George Eliot's sympathy with her in Byron matter, 458;

her friendship with George Eliot dates from letter shown by Mrs.

Follen, 459, 460;

describes Florida life and peace to George Eliot, 463;

her interest in Mr. Owen and spiritualism, 464;

love of Florida life and nature, 468;

history of Florida home, 469;

impressions of "Middlemarch," 471;

invites George Eliot to come to America, 472;

words of sympathy on Beecher trial from George Eliot, and Mrs.

Stowe's reply, 473;

her defense of her brother's purity of life, 475;

Beecher trial drawn on her heart's blood, 480;

her mature views on spiritualism, 484;

her doubts of ordinary manifestations, 486;

soul-cravings after dead friends satisfied by Christ's promises,

486;

chronological list of her books, 490;

accepts offer from N. E. Lecture Bureau to give readings from

her works, 491;

gives readings in New England, 491, _et seq._;

warm welcome in Maine, 493;

sympathetic audiences in Massachusetts, 495;

fatigue of traveling and reading at New London, 496;

Western reading tour, 497;

"fearful distances and wretched trains," 498;

seventieth anniversary of birthday celebrated by Houghton,

Mifflin & Co., 500;

H. O. Houghton's welcome, 501;

H. W. Beecher's reply and eulogy on sister, 502;

Whittier's poem at seventieth birthday, 502;

Holmes' poem, 503;

other poems of note written for the occasion, 505;

Mrs. Stowe's thanks, 505;

joy in the future of the colored race, 506;

reading old letters and papers, 507;

her own letters to Mr. Stowe and letters from friends, 508;

interest in Life of John Quincy Adams and his crusade against

slavery, 510;

death of husband, 512 and _note_;

of Henry Ward Beecher, 512;

thinks of writing review of her life aided by son, under title

of "Pebbles from the Shores of a Past Life," 512;

her feelings on the nearness of death, but perfect trust in

Christ, 513; glimpses

of the future life leave a strange sweetness in her mind, 513.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, twin daughter of H. B. S., 88.

Stowe, Henry Ellis, first son of H. B. S., 89;

goes to Europe, 269;

returns to enter Dartmouth, 278;

death of, 315;

his character, 317;

his portrait, 320;

mourning for, 341, 350.

Stowe, Samuel Charles, sixth child of H. B. S., birth of, 118;

death of, 124;

anguish at loss of, 198;

early death of, 508.

Study, plans for a, 104.

Sturge, Joseph, visit to, 223.

Suffrage, universal, H. W. Beecher advocate of, 477.

Sumner, Charles, on "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 196;

letter to H. B. S. from, 268.

Sumter, Fort, H. W. Beecher raises flag on, 477.

"Sunny Memories," 251;

date of, 491.

Sutherland, Duchess of, 188, 218;

friend to America, 228;

at Stafford House presents gold bracelet, 233;

visit to, 274, 276;

fine character, 277;

sympathy with on son's death, 319;

warm welcome to H. B. S., 346;

death of, 410;

letters from H. B. S. to, on "Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin," 188;

on death of eldest son, 315.

Sutherland, Lord, personal appearance of, 232.

Swedenborg, weary messages from spirit-world of, 486.

Swiss Alps, visit to, 244;

delight in, 246.

Swiss interest in "Uncle Tom," 244.

Switzerland, H. B. S. in, 348.

Sykes, Mrs. See May, Georgiana.

TALFOURD, Mr. Justice, 226.

Thackeray, W. M., Lowell on, 328.

Thanksgiving Day in Washington, freed slaves celebrate, 387.

"Times, London," on "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 168;

on Mrs. Stowe's new dress, 237;

on "Dred," 278;

Miss Martineau's criticism on, 310.

Titcomb, John, aids H. B. S. in moving, 137.

Tourgée, Judge A. W., his speech at seventieth birthday, 505.

Trevelyan, Lord and Lady, 231;

breakfast to Mrs. Stowe, 234.

Triqueti, Baron de, models bust of H. B. S., 289.

Trowbridge, J. T., writes on seventieth birthday, 505.

"True Story of Lady Byron's Life, The," in "Atlantic Monthly," 447.

Tupper, M. F., calls on H. B. S., 231.

"Uncle Tom's Cabin," description of Augustine St. Clair's mother's

influence a simple reproduction of Mrs. Lyman Beecher's

influence, 5;

written under love's impulse, 52;

fugitives' escape, foundation of story, 93;

popular conception of author of, 127;

origin and inspiration of, 145;

Prof. Cairnes on, 146;

Uncle Tom's death, conception of, 148;

letter to Douglas about facts, 149;

appears in the "Era," 149, 156;

came from heart, 153;

a religious work, object of, 154;

its power, 155;

begins a serial in "National Era," 156;

price paid by "Era," 158;

publisher's offer, 158;

first copy of books sold, 159;

wonderful success, 160;

praise from Longfellow, Whittier, Garrison, and Higginson, 161,

162;

threatening letters, 163;

Eastman's, Mrs., rejoinder to, 163;

reception in England, "Times," on, 168;

political effect of, 168, 169;

book under interdict in South, 172;

"Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin," 174, 188;

Jenny Lind's praise of, 183;

attack upon, 187;

Sampson Low upon its success abroad, 189;

first London publisher, 189;

number of editions sold in Great Britain and abroad, 190;

dramatized in U.S. and London, 192;

European edition, preface to, 192;

fact not fiction, 193;

translations of, 195;

German tribute to, 195;

George Sand's review, 196;

remuneration for, 202;

written with heart's blood, 203;

Swiss interest in, 244, 245;

Mme. Belloc translates, 247;

"North American Review" on, 254;

in France, 291;

compared with "Dred," 285, 309;

J. R. Lowell on, 327, 330;

Mrs. Stowe rereads after war, 396;

later books compared with, 409;

H. W. Beecher's approval of, 476;

new edition with introduction sent to George Eliot, 483;

date of, 490;

Whittier's mention of, in poem on seventieth birthday, 502;

Holmes' tribute to, in poem on same occasion, 504.

UPHAM, Mrs., kindness to H. B. S., 133;

visit to, 324.

VENICE, 304.

Victoria, Queen, H. B. S.'s interview with, 270;

gives her picture to Geo. Peabody, 496.

Vizetelly, Henry, first London publisher of "Uncle Tom's Cabin,"

189, 191.

WAKEFIELD, reading at, 495.

Walnut Hills, picture of, 65;

and old home revisited, 499.

Waltham, audience inspires reader, 496.

Washington, Mrs. Stowe visits soldier son at, 366.

Washington on slavery, 141.

Water cure, H. B. S. at, 113.

"We and our Neighbors," date of, 491.

Webster, Daniel, famous speech of, 143.

Weld, Theodore D. in the anti-slavery movement, 81.

Western travel, discomforts of, 498.

Whately, Archbishop, letter to H. B. S. from, 391.

Whitney, A. D. T., writes poem on seventieth birthday, 505.

Whitney, Eli, and the cotton gin, 142.

Whittier's "Ichabod," a picture of Daniel Webster, 143.

Whittier, J. G., 157;

letter to W. L. Garrison from, on "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 161;

letter to H. B. S. from, on "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 162;

on "Pearl of Orr's Island," 327;

on "Minister's Wooing," 327;

poem on H. B. S's seventieth birthday, 502.

Windsor, visit to, 235.

Womanhood, true, H. B. S. on intellect _versus_ heart, 475.

Woman's rights, H. W. Beecher, advocate of, 478.

Women of America, Appeal from H. B. S. to, 255.

Women's influence, power of, 258.

ZANESVILLE, description of, 499.

_A LIST OF THE WORKS OF HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.

NOVELS, STORIES, SKETCHES, AND POEMS, BY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.

_It is the great happiness of Mrs. Stowe not only to have written many

delightful books, but to have written one book which will be always

famous not only as the most vivid picture of an extinct evil system,

but as one of the most powerful influences in overthrowing it. . . . No

book was ever more a historical event than "Uncle Tom's Cabin." . . .

If all whom she has charmed and quickened should unite to sing her

praises, the birds of summer would be outdone._--GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS.

_UNCLE TOM'S CABIN._ A Story of American Slavery. 12mo,

$2.00.

New _Popular Edition_ from new plates. With account

of the writing of this story by Mrs. STOWE, and

frontispiece. 16mo, $1.00.

_Holiday Edition._ With an Introduction of more

than thirty pages by Mrs. STOWE, describing the

circumstances under which the story was written, and

a Bibliography of the various editions and languages

in which the work has appeared, by GEORGE BULLEN,

of the British Museum. With more than one hundred

illustrations, and red-line border. 8vo, full gilt,

$3.00; half calf, $5.00; morocco, or tree calf, $6.00.

The publication of this remarkable story was an event in American

history as well as in American literature. It fixed the eyes of the

nation and of the civilized world on the evils of slavery, presenting

these so vividly and powerfully that the heart and conscience of

mankind were thenceforth enlisted against them. But, aside from

its graphic portrayal of slavery, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is a story

of thrilling power, and abounds in humorous delineations of negro

and Yankee character. Its extraordinary annual sale of thousands of

copies, and its translation into numerous foreign languages, attest its

universal and permanent interest.

_DRED (NINA GORDON)._ A Story of Slavery. New Edition

from new plates. 12mo, $1.50.

This volume was originally published under the title "Dred." It has a

close connection with "Uncle Tom's Cabin," the object of both being to

picture life at the South as it was under the régime of slavery.

"Uncle Tom" and "Dred" will assure Mrs. Stowe a

place in that high rank of novelists who can give

us a national life in all its phases, popular and

aristocratic, humorous and tragic, political and

religious.--_Westminster Review_ (London).

_AGNES OF SORRENTO._ An Italian Romance. 12mo, $1.50.

In this story a plot of rare interest is wrought out, amid the glowing

scenery of Italy, with the author's well-known dramatic skill.

_THE PEARL OF ORR'S ISLAND._ 12mo, $1.50.

The scene of this charming tale is laid upon the coast of Maine. The

author's familiar knowledge of New England rural life renders the

volume especially attractive.

A story of singular pathos and beauty.--_North American

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_THE MINISTER'S WOOING._ 12mo, $1.50.

In this volume Mrs. Stowe has reproduced the New England of two

generations ago. It deals with the noblest and most rugged traits of

New England character.

_MY WIFE AND I_; or, Harry Henderson's History. New

Edition. Illustrated. 12mo, $1.50.

This book first appeared as a serial in the _Christian Union_, New

York. The author dedicates it to "the many dear, bright young girls

whom she is so happy as to number among her choicest friends."

_WE AND OUR NEIGHBORS._ New Edition. Illustrated. 12mo,

$1.50.

This is a sequel to "My Wife and I."

_POGANUC PEOPLE._ Their Loves and Lives. New Edition.

Illustrated. 12mo, $1.50.

A story of a New England town, its men and its manners.

_OLD TOWN FOLKS._ 12mo, $1.50.

Full to repletion of delicate sketches of very original

characters, and clever bits of dialogue, and vivid

descriptions of natural scenery.--_The Spectator_

(London).

_SAM LAWSON'S OLDTOWN FIRESIDE STORIES._ Illustrated.

New Edition, enlarged. 12mo, $1.50.

CONTENTS: The Ghost in the Mill; The Sullivan Looking-Glass; The

Minister's Housekeeper; The Widow's Bandbox; Captain Kidd's Money;

"Mis' Elderkin's Pitcher"; The Ghost in the Cap'n Brown House; Colonel

Eph's Shoe-Buckles; The Bull-Fight; How to Fight the Devil; Laughin' in

Meetin'; The Toothacre's Ghost Story; The Parson's Horse Race; Oldtown

Fireside Talks of the Revolution; A Student's Sea Story.

These stories will prove a mine of genuine fun;

pictures of a time, place, and state of society which

are like nothing on this side of the world, and

which, we suppose, are becoming rapidly erased.--_The

Athenæum_ (London).

_THE MAYFLOWER, AND OTHER SKETCHES._ 12mo, $1.50.

A series of New England sketches, many of which have become household

stories throughout the land.

The above eleven 12mo volumes, uniform, in box, $16.00.

_LITTLE PUSSY WILLOW, ETC._ Illustrated. Square 12mo, $1.25.

_A DOG'S MISSION, ETC._ Illustrated. Square 12mo, $1.25.

_QUEER LITTLE PEOPLE._ Illustrated. Square 12mo, $1.25.

These three Juvenile books, $3.75.

Three collections of delightful stories--the best of reading for young

folks.

_PALMETTO LEAVES._ Sketches of Florida. Illustrated. 16mo, $1.50.

Any one who wishes a delightful excursion to the land

of flowers has only to turn over these "Palmetto

Leaves" and he has it.--_New York Observer._

_HOUSE AND HOME PAPERS_. 16mo, $1.50.

CONTENTS: The Ravages of a Carpet; Home-Keeping _versus_ House-Keeping;

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The Lady who does her own Work; What can be got in America; Economy;

Servants; Cookery; Our House; Home Religion.

An invaluable volume, and one which should be owned and

consulted by every one who has a house, or who wants a

home.--_The Congregationalist_ (Boston.)

_LITTLE FOXES._ Common Household Faults. 16mo, $1.50.

The foxes are,--Fault-Finding, Irritability,

Repression, Persistence, Intolerance, Discourtesy,

Exactingness. Mrs. Stowe has made essays as

entertaining as stories, enlivened with wit,

seasoned with sense, glowing with the most kindly

feeling.--_Hartford Press._

_THE CHIMNEY CORNER._ 16mo, $1.50.

A series of papers on Woman's Rights and Duties, Health, Amusements,

Entertainment of Company, Dress, Fashion, Self-Discipline, etc. The

genial, practical wisdom of these subjects gives this volume great

value.

These three Household Books, uniform, in box, $4.50.

_RELIGIOUS POEMS._ Illustrated. 16mo, $1.50.

All characterized by the genius of Mrs. Stowe.... In

all, there is a profound appreciation of the _inner

life_ of religion,--a wrestling for nearness to

God.--_American Christian Review._

_FLOWERS AND FRUIT_, selected from the Writings of

Harriet Beecher Stowe. 16mo, $1.00.

A charming little book ... full of sweet passages,

and bright, discerning, wise, and in the best sense

of the term, witty sayings of our greatest American

novelist.--_Chicago Advance._

_DIALOGUES AND SCENES FROM THE WRITINGS OF MRS. STOWE._

For use in School Entertainments. Selected by EMILY

WEAVER. In Riverside Literature Series, extra number

_E_. 16mo, paper, 15 cents, _net_.

The selections are from some of Mrs. Stowe's most

true-to-life scenes,--full of pathos and mirth.... Nine

most charming dialogues.--_School Journal_ (New York).

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Transcriber's Notes:

Punctuation errors repaired.

Page 146, repeated word "the" removed from text. Original read (make

the the whole nation)

Page 179, "propect" changed to "prospect" (over the prospect of raising)

Page 205, "everywere" changed to "everywhere" (affection that

everywhere)

Page 205, "Frith" changed to "Firth" (of Solway Firth and)

Page 416, "neigbors" changed to "neighbors" (all the neigbors waiting)

Page 437, "nonenity" changed to "nonentity" (old book into nonentity)

Page 438, "aerial" changed to "ærial" (of my ærial visitors)

Page 505, "Tourgee" changed to "Tourgée" (Tourgée and others prominent)

Page 516, Stowe, Catherine, page reference added to (visits Cincinnati

with father, 54;)

Page 522, Lowell, J. R. "interesti n" changed to "interest in"

(Sutherland's interest in, 277)