Sunday, the keeping of, =1=, 63, 64, 76, 77; an Indian's, =3=, 201,
202, 214, 215, 223, 229; in Provincetown, =4=, 252, 253; discourses,
=6=, 79, 97, 190, 233, 289, 291, 297.
Sun-fish, bream, or ruff, the fresh-water, =1=, 24-26.
Sunkhaze, the, =3=, 8, 325, 326.
Sunrise on Hoosac Mountain, =1=, 198. _See_ Morning.
Sunset, =1=, 416-418; a remarkable, =5=, 246-248.
Sunshine, the power of, =4=, 290, 291.
Sun-squall, sea-jellies called, =4=, 70.
Survey of Walden Pond, =2=, 315-324.
Surveying, =6=, 100, 209, 220, 234, 289, 291, 328, note, 333.
Surveyor of forest paths and across-lot routes, =2=, 20.
Suttle, Mr., of Virginia, =4=, 392.
Sutton (Mass.), =2=, 292.
Swamp, the luxury of standing in a, =1=, 319.
"Swampers," =3=, 242.
Swedenborg, Emanuel, =1=, 68; =6=, 300.
"Sweet cakes," =3=, 12.
Table-lands of Eastham, =4=, 62.
Tacitus, translation by T. from, =4=, 452-454.
"Tactics" of Scott, =6=, 356.
Tahatawan, =6=, 13-18.
Talking, =6=, 54, 106, 175, 176, 230, 255, 301.
Tamias, the steward squirrel, =5=, 198.
Tansy, =1=, 18.
Tappan, William, of New York, =6=, 72, 73, 79, 81, 82, 95, 97, 101,
113, 117, 122.
Tarbell, Deacon, =6=, 244.
Tarkiln Hill, New Bedford, =6=, 262, 305.
Taunton, =6=, 13, 17-19.
Tavern, the gods' interest in the, =5=, 153; compared with the church,
the, 161, 162.
Taxes, T.'s experience with, =4=, 369, 370; in jail for refusal to
pay, 374-381.
Taxpaying, =6=, 50, 52.
Taylor, Jane, =6=, 115.
Tching-thang, quoted, =2=, 98.
Tea, varieties of forest, =3=, 227; hemlock, its value, =6=, 326.
Teaching, =6=, 6, 10, 23-27, 83.
Teats, =6=, 223.
Telasinis Lake, =3=, 267.
Telos Lake, =3=, 235, 245, 264, 267; Indian name for, 270, 274, 281,
290, 299.
Temperature, of pond water in spring, =2=, 330.
Temple, defined, =6=, 195; too close, 191.
Tent, description of, =3=, 196, 197.
Tenures, Canadian, =5=, 63.
Tests, our lives tried by a thousand simple, =2=, 11.
"Thank God, who seasons thus the year," verse, =5=, 407.
Thanksgivings, cattle-shows and so-called, =2=, 183; emotion of, =6=,
294; the festival, 282, 346.
"That Phaeton of our day," =1=, 103.
Thaw, sand formations due to, =2=, 336; Thor and, 341.
Thaw, The, verse, =5=, 409.
"The full-orbed moon with unchanged ray," verse, =5=, 406.
"The god of day his car rolls up the slopes," verse, =5=, 399.
"The Good how can we trust?" verse, =1=, 298; =6=, 177.
"The needles of the pine," verse, =5=, 133.
"The rabbit leaps," verse, =5=, 410.
"The respectable folks," verse, =1=, 7.
"The river swelleth more and more," verse, =5=, 120.
"The sluggish smoke curls up from some deep dell," verse, =5=, 165.
"The smothered streams of love, which flow," verse, =1=, 278.
"The waves slowly beat," verse, =1=, 229.
"The western wind came lumbering in," verse, =1=, 180.
"Then idle Time ran gadding by," verse, =1=, 181.
"Then spend an age in whetting thy desire," verse, =1=, 111.
Theophrastus, =5=, 292.
"There is a vale which none hath seen," verse, =1=, 184.
"Therefore a torrent of sadness deep," verse, =1=, 183.
"They," an authority impersonal as the Fates, =2=, 27.
Thieving, practiced only where property is unevenly divided, =2=, 191.
Thinking, =6=, 139, 162, 356, 357.
"This is my Carnac, whose unmeasured dome," verse, =1=, 267.
Thistle, the Canada, =3=, 96.
Thomson, James, quoted, =5=, 249.
Thor and Thaw, =2=, 341.
Thoreau, Cynthia (Dunbar), mother of Henry, =6=, 4, 11, 29, 68, 193,
225, 236, 251, 253, 289, 350, 351, 363, 364, 365, 381, 400, 405. _See
under_ Letters.
Thoreau, Helen, sister of Henry, =6=, 4, 11, 21, 23, 29, 32, 49, 52,
73, 74, 86, 92, 95, 98, 100, 111, 117. _See under_ Letters.
Thoreau, Henry David, starts on Concord and Merrimack journey, =1=,
12; ascent of Hoosac Mountain, 189-200; experience with an uncivil
mountain man, 214-220; invited to do various sorts of work, 324;
begins return voyage, 335; goes to live by Walden Pond, =2=, 3;
prefers to talk in the first person singular, 3, 4; beginning in the
woods, 45; purchase of Collins's shanty, 47; begins to occupy house,
49; plants beans, 60; earnings and spendings, 65-67; making bread, 68;
declines offer of a mat, 74; imaginary purchase of Hollowell farm, 92;
situation of house, 95, 126; purpose in going to woods, 100, 101; hoed
beans, did not read books, 123; listening to various sounds, 127-142;
friendship with Canadian woodchopper, 159-166; devotion to husbandry,
179; earnings and spendings on bean-field, 180, 181; put in jail for
not paying taxes, 190; fishing in Walden Pond, 192-195; boiling
chowder about 1824, 200; earliest days on Walden Pond, 212, 213; first
begins to inhabit house in cold weather, 268; finishes house with
plastering, 271; surveys Walden Pond, 315; leaves Walden, Sept. 6,
1847, 351; leaves Concord for Maine, Aug. 31, 1846, =3=, 3; starts "up
river" from Bangor, 4; strikes into the wilderness, 15; starts for
summit of Ktaadn, 61, 62; begins descent, 72; leaves Boston by steamer
for Bangor, Sept. 13, 1853, 93; takes Moosehead Lake steamer for
return home, 159; starts on third excursion to Maine Woods, July 20,
1857, 174; reaches farthest northern point, 259; lands at Oldtown, the
journey finished, 326; various visits to Cape Cod, =4=, 3; starts for
Cape Cod, Oct. 9, 1849, 5; goes on a mackerel cruise, 182; takes leave
of Cape Cod, 257; experience with taxes, 368, 370; in jail for unpaid
taxes, 374-381; leaves Concord for Canada, Sept. 25, 1850, =5=, 3;
traveling outfit of, 31-34; leaves Quebec for Montreal on return trip,
95; leaves Montreal for Boston, 99; total expense of Canada excursion
100, 101; walk from Concord to Wachusett and back, 133-152;
observation of a red squirrel, 190, 191; experience with government
squash seed, 203; his fame increasing, =6=, vii, 398, 399; his
character, ix, xii; industry of, ix, 11, 34, 170, 171, 289, 368, 369;
his affection for his family, ix, 33, 34, 68, 98, 99, 118, 119; for
his brother John, 35, 41, 74; for the Emersons, 50, 53, 93, 103, 135,
136, 142, 157; French elegance of, x; jesting habit of, x; birth and
death, 3; ancestry and early days, 3-7; epochs in his life, 5, 6, 11,
12, note, 35, 50, 160; affairs of, 6, 7, 23, 34-38, 105, 107, 108,
126-132, 135, 169-172, 209, 355; books written by, 6, 7, 139, 156,
233, 238, 252, 272; college "part," 7-10; philosophic mind of, 11, 26;
Emerson's view of, 11; exaggeration by, 11, 203, 220, 224; Indian
dialect of, 13-18; tastes of, 18, 23, 33, 34, 36, 37, 44, 45, 47, 49,
58, 64, 79, 82, 93, 114, 115, 193; his Indian relics, 19, 20; wish to
go West, 20; habits, 23, 24, 34, 135, 192, 326, 366-369; school, 23,
24; advises Helen, 25-31; a Transcendental brother, 32-34;
acquaintance with Emerson, 34, 35, 48, 49; with Mrs. Brown, 35-42
(_see_ Letters); with R. F. Fuller, 45 (_see_ Letters); love of music,
41, 45, 46; writes to Emerson, 49 (_see_ Letters); at Emerson's house,
35, 50; intimate with Hawthorne, 51; with Alcott, 52, 64, 136, 146,
151, 153, 238, 281, 291, 297, 307, 328, note; with Emerson's children,
54, 136, 150, 152, 153; with Mrs. Emerson, 53 (_see_ Letters); with C.
S. Wheeler, 58, 59, note; edits "Dial," 59-63; admirers of, 65, 138,
139, 158, 235, 238, 239, 298, 397, 398; his college life, 5, 7, 8, 10,
58, 67, 328; college professors and tutors, 58, 109, 137, 145; college
studies, 65-67; goes to Staten Island, 68; meets Horace Greeley, Henry
James, etc., 68; describes New York, 69-72, 78, 79, 82, etc.; verses
on his brother John, 74; describes James, Channing, and Brisbane, 80,
81; and other friends, 82; at W. Emerson's, 85, 86; his pursuits,
84-91; criticises Concord and the "Dial," 92-94; describes
immigration in 1843, 96, 109, 110; hears Lucretia Mott, 97; laments
Stearns Wheeler, 97, 98; regrets Concord and separation, 99; writes
for magazines, 100, 102, 107, 108, 109; mentions Channing, Greeley,
James, Longfellow, 101; translates Greek, 102; sees publishers, 105;
mentions Webster and C. Dunbar, 105; reads Quarles, 113; criticises
Ellery Channing and Lane, 113, 114; Emerson too, 115; likes the Irish,
116; objection to W. H. Channing, 118; hears from Emerson, 120; and
Ellery Channing, 121; lives by Walden, 122, 125; hears from Lane,
122-125; sends fish to Agassiz, 125-132; returns to Emerson's house,
132; writes to Sophia, 132 (_see_ Letters); cares for the Emerson
family, 135; helps Alcott with the summer-house of Emerson, 136;
describes Scientific School, 138; refuses marriage, 138, 139; finds no
publisher, 139, 156; his account of Hugh Whelan, 140, 143, 144, 148,
149; hears from Emerson, 142 (_see_ Letters); hears Parker, Whipple,
and Hudson at Lyceum, 145; describes a dinner, 147; sends verses, 147;
describes the Emerson household, 152, 153; and W. E. Channing, 153;
reads lectures, 6, 55, 154; writes to J. E. Cabot, 155 (_see_
Letters); his mode of writing, 156; meets H. G. O. Blake, 158; their
correspondence, 158-383 (_see_ Letters); believed in simplicity, 161;
defines his life, 163, 168, 174, 175, 178, 179, 186; lectures on
bread, 164-166; on duties, 167; corresponds with Greeley, 169;
fathoming character, 169; lives by hand-labor, 170, 171; writes for
"Graham" and "Putnam," 169, 172; his debts, 219, note, 221; visits
Fire Island, 183; elected to Boston Society of Natural History, 188;
lectures in Boston, 190; in Plymouth, Salem, etc., 190-192; satirizes
spiritism, 193, 194; will be a scarecrow, 195; his temples, 195, 196;
essay on Chastity, 197-209; goes land-surveying, 209; on "doing good,"
211; reflects on life, 212-215; differs with G. W. Curtis, 216;
moralizes, 217-223; feebleness of, 217, 218, 275; reads Haydon and
Layard, 224; gets a new coat, 225; lessons therefrom, 226-228; finds
fault with men, 229; paddles up river by night, 230, 231; lectures in
Worcester, 232, 233, 303, 349, 358; publishes "Walden," 233; meets
Ricketson and T. Cholmondeley, 235; geniality of, 238, 239, 274, 301;
visits Nantucket and New Bedford, 240, 245, 247; moralizes to Blake,
241-244; writes to Cholmondeley, 249; to Sanborn, 252, 385; prefers
home to city, 248; visits Cape Cod, 254-257; incipient disease, 257;
his boat, 258; describes Ricketson, 259; deals with E. Hosmer for an
old house, 261, 262; praises Gilpin, 263; visits New Bedford, 265,
283; gathers driftwood, 267-269; meets Mary Emerson, 269; receives
books from Cholmondeley, 270, 271; the greatest walker in Concord,
277; idealizes sugar-making, 278; visits Alcott in New Hampshire, 282,
283, 285; invited to teach, 285; fondness for home, 285; the
Eagleswood community described, 287-289; meets Walt Whitman, 291;
visits Greeley, 291; his morning in Worcester, 292, 293; describes
Whitman, 295-297; hears H. W. Beecher, 297; quotes Confucius to Wiley,
299 (_see_ Letters); lands on Clark's Island, 301, note; meets Alcott
and Channing in New Bedford, 306, 307; goes to Cape Cod with Channing,
308; analyzes glow-worms for M. Watson, 309 (_see_ Letters); praises
Hillside, 328, 329; criticises W. Flagg, 311; in Maine woods, 312,
315, 322-326 (_see_ Letter to Higginson); his camp outfit, 326, 327;
habit in touring, 329, 330; visits White Mountains (in 1858), 330-336;
goes to Monadnock, 333, 368; finds the arnica in Tuckerman's Ravine,
335; his camp on Mt. Washington, 335, 336; writes on autumn tints,
340; is visited by Cholmondeley in 1858-59, 342; ridicules Boston
clubs, 344, 345; criticises H. James, 346; his parable of the
mountain ravine, 347, 348; his father dies, 350; returns to
hand-labor, 355, 356; praises John Brown, 358; his speech published,
with Emerson's, by Redpath, 359; reflections on man and fate, 360-362;
invited to John Brown's grave, 363; goes with Channing to Monadnock,
364; speeds Frank Merriam to Canada, 366, 367; explains his silence to
Ricketson, 354; gets a Canada lynx, 355; describes life on Monadock,
371, 372; hints for the Prince of Wales, 372; is visited by Blake and
Brown, 376; mentions Alcott's success, 377; writes to P. Pillsbury,
378; falls ill and goes to Minnesota, 373, 380-384, 385-391; his last
letter from Cholmondeley, 380; describes his illness, 393; sits for his
portrait in New Bedford, 394; writes for the "Atlantic Monthly," 395;
grows worse, 396; writes his last letter, 399; dies, 400; expedition
to Catskills and Berkshires, 406, 407; visited by Greene, 409;
self-criticism, 410; lecturing irksome, 411; daguerreotype taken, 411.
Thoreau, Jane (aunt), mentioned, =6=, 120.
Thoreau, John (father of Henry), =6=, 4-7, 11, 21, 68, 73, 99, 111,
289, 342, 349; day-book of, 5; lines to, 87; described by Thoreau,
350; dies, 350, 351.
Thoreau, John (grandfather of Henry), =6=, 5, note, 323.
Thoreau, John, brother, lines to, =1=, 2, 12; brings Nathan, a country
boy, to the boat, 308; =6=, 4, 7, 13, 14, 17-24, 32, 35; his death,
41, 74, 75; his bluebird-box, 21, 22. _See_ Letters.
Thoreau, Maria, =6=, 118.
Thoreau, Philip (great-grandfather of Henry), =6=, 5.
Thoreau, Sophia (sister of Henry), =6=, 4, 24, 25, 29, 31, 34, 71,
111, 119, 132, 193, 286, 363, 396, 398, 400; dies, 400. _See_ Letters.
Thor-finn, and Thor-eau, =4=, 191, 192; voyage of, 247, 248.
Thorhall, the disappointment of, =4=, 187.
Thorn-apple, the, =4=, 14, 15.
Thornton's Ferry, =1=, 174, 227, 232.
Thorwald, voyage of, =4=, 247, 248.
"Thou dusky spirit of the wood," verse, =5=, 113.
"Thou, indeed, dear swallow," verse, =1=, 240.
"Thou sing'st the affairs of Thebes," verse, =1=, 241.
"Though all the fates should prove unkind," verse, =1=, 151.
Thoughts, sell your clothes and keep your, =2=, 361.
"Thracian colt, why at me," verse, =1=, 243.
Thrasher, brown, =2=, 175.
Three Rivers (Que.), =5=, 21, 93.
Three-o'clock courage, =5=, 208, 209.
Thrush, wood, Indian word for, =3=, 186; =6=, 75.
Thseng-tseu, quoted, =2=, 241.
Thunder-storm, violent, =3=, 261, 262.