"Lately, alas, I knew a gentle boy," verse, =1=, 276.
Latin, grammars, =6=, 25; epistle, 27-29; pronunciation, 25; writers
mentioned or quoted, viii, xi, 27, 28.
Lawrence (Mass.), =1=, 89.
Laws, beautiful, =6=, 177; eternal, 173.
"Leach-hole" in Walden Pond, =2=, 322.
Lead, rain of, =5=, 26.
Leaf, resemblance of sand-formation to a, =2=, 338.
Leaves, fallen, =5=, 264-270; scarlet oak, 278-281.
Lectures, by T., =6=, 6, 145, 150, 154, 189-192, 232, 233, 244, 251,
276, 289, 303, 349.
Ledum (Labrador tea), =6=, 327.
Lee's Hill, =6=, 15, note; alias Nashawtuc or Naushawtuck, =6=, 15,
27, 30.
Lee-vites, a nickname, =6=, 15, note.
Legs, the, as compasses, =4=, 88.
Lescarbot, quoted, regarding abundance of fishes, =3=, 60; =4=, 240,
249.
"Let such pure hate still underprop," verse, =1=, 305.
_Leuciscus (argenteus, pulchellus)_, =6=, 127, 131.
Letters: From Louis Agassiz, =6=, 129. From A. B. Alcott, =6=, 397; to
him, 282. From H. G. O. Blake, =6=, 158, 159; to him, 160, 164, 173,
174, 177, 179, 185, 194, 197, 209, 217, 221, 225, 229, 258, 292, 302,
307, 308, 314, 330, 343, 349, 358, 360, 364, 368, 383. From Myron B.
Benton, =6=, 398; to him, 399. To Mrs. Lucy Cotton Brown, =6=, 35, 37,
40, 43, 46. From J. E. Cabot, =6=, 130, 131; to him, 126, 128, 155.
From Ellery Channing, =6=, 121, 271. From Thomas Cholmondeley, =6=,
380; to him, 245. From R. W. Emerson, =6=, 49, 58, 83, note, 94, note,
102, 104, 120, 125, 142, 155; to him, 50, 54, 59, 62, 78, 80, 92, 101,
107, 113, 135, 142, 144, 148, 151, 157, 183. From Mrs. R. W. Emerson,
=6=, 64; to her, 76, 87, 112. To Calvin H. Greene, =6=, 408-412. To
Isaac Hecker, =6=, 405, 407. To T. W. Higginson, =6=, 189, 323. From
Miss Elizabeth Hoar, =6=, 116. To Parker Pillsbury, =6=, 378. From
James Richardson, =6=, 10, note. From Daniel Ricketson, =6=, 238, 246,
257; to him, 239, 240, 246, 261, 263, 266, 270, 273, 284, 285, 304,
311, 313, 337, 341, 350, 353, 376. To F. B. Sanborn, =6=, 249, 385. To
Cynthia Thoreau, =6=, 68, 84, 89, 98, 104, 108. To Helen Thoreau, =6=,
12, 25, 27, 32, 74, 95, 117. To John Thoreau, Jr., =6=, 13, 19, 23. To
Sophia Thoreau, =6=, 31, 71, 132, 193, 286, 363. From B. M. Watson,
=6=, 190, 327; to him, 6, 191, 309, 327. To B. B. Wiley, =6=, 298,
300.
Lexington (Mass.), =2=, 306.
Libraries, at Cambridge, =6=, 252; at Concord, 270; at New York, 81,
106, 109, 114, 122.
Liebig, J. F. von, quoted, 2, 14.
Life, the world and, =1=, 310-316; cares and labors of, =2=, 6, 7; an
experiment, 10; students not to play or study, but to live, 56, 57;
purposes of, 100, 101; one has imagined living the, 356; live your,
however mean, 361; in us, like the water in the river, 366; emptiness
of ordinary, =6=, 161, 162, 179, 209, 210, 213, 214, 230; eternal,
161, 164, 173, 174, 194, 225; facts of, 44, 162, 212; labyrinth of,
173; mean aspects of, 79, 82, 229; phenomena of, xi, xii, 40, 47, 199,
203, 204, 216, 221, 222, 268, 328; qualifications for practical, 7,
11, 34, 59, 135, 171; spiritual and material, 9, 88, 160, 214, 227.