in Florence, 314;
teaching of, by J. R. L., 385;
influence over J. R. L., 390;
portrait of, given by J. R. L. to his class, 393;
“New Life” of, given also, 393;
the church in which he was baptized, 394;
not used in examination, 395;
Longfellow’s translation of, scrutinized by the Dante Club, ii. 84;
and reviewed by J. R. L. and C. E. Norton, 113;
article on, by J. R. L., 150;
some interpretation of, by J. R. L., 381.
_Darkened Mind, The_, a record of J. R. L.’s mother, i. 91;
quoted, 305.
Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, marriage of, i. 440.
Davis, Mr. (and Mrs.) Edward M., friends of Mrs. White and M. W., i. 151;
arrange for J. R. L.’s work in Philadelphia, 152;
entertain the Lowells at their home, 173;
J. R. L. writes to, 176, 177;
written to on birth of Blanche, 178.
Davis, Jefferson, J. R. L’s phrases on, ii. 9, 10.
_Day in June, A_, i. 269.
“Days” by Emerson, J. R. L. on, i. 414.
_Dead House, The_, i. 435.
Declaration of Independence, i. 209.
“Decuman,” J. R. L.’s defence of the word, ii. 140.
Dedications to J. R. L., ii. 401.
Deerfoot Farm, J. R. L.’s residence at, ii. 322.
_Democracy_, ii. 312-316.
_Democracy and Other Addresses_, ii. 334;
copyright on, 350.
Dickens, Charles, compared with Thackeray by J. R. L., i. 297;
letters of, published by Forster and Fields, ii. 149.
_Dirge, A_, extracts from, i. 147.
Dixwell, Epes Sargent, a New England scholar, i. 23.
Dr. Primrose, the name given by J. R. L. to his father, i. 11.
Donne, John, on Elizabeth Drury, i. 361;
his poems revised by J. R. L., ii. 102;
edited for Grolier Club, 102, note.
Douglas, David, the Edinburgh publisher, ii. 329.
Downing, Major Jack, i. 261.
“Dred” by Mrs. Stowe, i. 409, 412.
Dresden, J. R. L. settles down in, for study, i. 381;
his winter in, 383.
Dresel, Otto, i. 442.
Dryden, John, J. R. L. edits poems of, ii. 101.
Dublin, J. R. L. at, ii. 153.
Dunlap, Elizabeth, i. 400.
Dunlap, Frances, governess of Mabel Lowell, i. 401;
her character, 401;
characterized by J. R. L., 401;
marries J. R. L., 241;
_see_ Lowell, Frances Dunlap.
Durham, J. R. L’s impression of, ii. 156.
Duyckinck, Evert Augustus, J. R. L. writes to, with sonnets, i. 95;
writes to J. R. L. proposing a book, 135;
J. R. L. writes to, about Hawthorne, 283;
his and his brother’s Cyclopædia of American Literature, ii. 362.
Dwight, John Sullivan, contributor to the _Pioneer_, i. 105.
Dwight, Timothy, ii. 361.
Edwards, Jonathan, ii. 361.
_Election in November, The_, ii. 17.
Eliot, Charles William, on _Commemoration Ode_, ii. 69.
Eliot, Samuel, remembers J. R. L.’s boyhood, i. 24.
Eliot, Dr. S. R., treats J. R. L. for trouble with his eyes, i. 109;
is a _compagnon du voyage_, 380.
Elmwood, birthplace of J. R. L., i. 1;
one of the loyalist houses, 2;
described, 4;
its successive owners, 4-6;
as a nesting-place for J. R. L., 15, 16;
J. R. L. will not use it as a title to a volume, ii. 119;
J. R. L.’s final return to, 393.
Elwyn, Dr., i. 155.
Ely, J. R. L. at, i. 345.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, characterizes Charles Lowell, i. 8;
J. R. L. goes to hear him lecture in his junior year at college, 49;
his acquaintance made by J. R. L. in Concord, 50;
animadverted on in class poem, 56, 57;
letter to, by J. R. L. in exculpation, 58, 59;
his abandonment of the ministry, 64;
characterizes “Philothea,” 80;
introduced into _A Fable for Critics_, 239, 240, 243, 254;
on J. R. L.’s magazine project, 287;
as a friend of Thoreau, 293;
characteristic of, 297;
promises to write for _Putnam’s_, 350;
his “Adirondacs” quoted, 404;
a member of the Adirondack Club, 405;
dines with Mr. Phillips, 410;
J. R. L. to, on his signature of article, 414;
on “Days,” 414;
his Brahma, 415;
J. R. L. to, on his contributions, 416;
his importance to the _Atlantic_, 420;
advised by J. R. L. respecting his publisher, 451.
Comments of, on J. R. L.’s poetry, ii. 33, note;
on Lincoln, 71;
extract from his journal on J. R. L.’s poetry, 121;
is with J. R. L. in Paris, 161;
his character, 164;
good to love, 167;
in _Agassiz_, 177, 178;
on J. R. L.’s _Under the Old Elm_, 189;
characterized, 365;
his Life by J. E. Cabot, 366.
Emiliani, i. 329.
_Endymion_, ii. 371.
England, J. R. L. finds reaction in politics since 1848, in, ii. 27;
J. R. L. an exponent of American temper toward, 40.
Episcopal church, J. R. L. on, ii. 311.
_Epistle to George William Curtis, An_, quoted, i. 17;
postscript to, ii. 368.
_E Pluribus Unum_, ii. 23;
quoted, 276.
Erskine, Fanny, i. 329.
“Essays on Free Thinking and Plain Speaking,” J. R. L. on, ii. 175.
_Estrangement_, ii. 295.
Eudamidas, brother of Agis, i. 434.
_Eurydice_, i. 228.
Evarts, William Maxwell, J. R. L. sends despatch
to on congratulating the king of Spain, ii. 224;
and on the king’s marriage, 230;
and on a bull fight, 234;
J. R. L. to, on the Irish question, 277;
approves J. R. L.’s course, 280.
_Every Saturday_, J. R. L. proposes to translate for, ii. 137.
Exhibition Day at Harvard, i. 26.
_Ex-Mayor’s Crumb of Consolation, The_, i. 259.
_Fable for Critics, A_, quoted, i. 139, 166;
begun, 238;
specimens of it sent to Briggs, 239;
a gift to that friend, 240;
proposed disposition of profits by J. R. L., 241;
by Briggs, 242;
interrupted, 243;
resumed, 245;
passage in it on bores, traced, 246;
its title-page, 249;
published, 250;
comparison with Hunt’s “The Feast of the Poets,” 250;
no mystery about its authorship, 251;
J. R. L.’s afterthought of it, 252;
its ephemeral character, 253;
its permanent qualities, 254;
its expression of its author, 254;
thrown into the shade by the _Biglow Papers_, 255;
the apostrophe to Massachusetts in it, 266;
contrasted with _Agassiz_, ii. 176.
“Faery Queene, The,” the first poem read by J. R. L., i. 14;
discussed by the boys J. R. L. and W. W. S., 24.
_Falconer, The_, afterward _The Falcon_, i. 180.
_Fancy’s Casuistry_, i. 406.
Fawcett, Edgar, J. R. L. praises, ii. 199.
Fay, Maria, letter to, from J. R. L. of
entrance into Rome, i. 318;
of Christmas, 323.
Fayerweather house in Cambridge, i. 3.
“Feast of the Poets, The,” by Leigh Hunt, i. 250;
compared with the _Fable_, 251.
“Federalist, The,” as a piece of American literature, ii. 362.
Feltham, Owen, ii. 359.
Felton, Cornelius Conway, professor of Greek at
Harvard in J. R. L.’s youth, i. 27;
one of the editors of an annual, 93;
has a copy of _A Fable for Critics_ sent him, 249;
at supper at Longfellow’s, 346;
discovers a cryptic joke of J. R. L., 434.
Field, John W., meets J. R. L. at Orvieto, i. 384;
visits the Lowells with his wife, ii. 251;
a friend to J. R. L. in his troubles. 252;
with his wife stays with Mrs. Lowell while J. R. L. goes to England, 258;
J. R. L. writes him on letter-writing, 266:
his sociability, 272;
J. R. L. writes him from Paris, 273;
J. R. L. to, on his own abstinence, 296;
letter from J. R. L. to, on death of Mrs. Lowell, 319;
and on growing old; 325.
Fielding, Henry, J. R. L. on, ii. 298.
Fields, James Thomas, wants J. R. L. to write a novel, i. 348;
asks also for his Lowell Institute lectures, 373;
succeeds J. R. L. as editor of the _Atlantic_, 453;
calls forth the second series of _Biglow Papers_, ii. 35;
J. R. L. to, on sending him _Mr. Hosea Biglow to
the Editor of the Atlantic Monthly_, 57;
J. R. L. to, on sending him _Fitz Adam’s Story_, 105;
and a tale and poem for _Our Young Folks_, 105;
writes a notice of _A June Idyll_ which calls out
a poetical response from J. R. L., 116;
discusses title of J. R. L.’s book, 119;
J. R. L. sends him the log of the _North American_, 122;
asked to print the journal of a Virginia gentleman, 135;
takes J. R. L.’s daughter Mabel to Europe, 137;
_The Cathedral_ dedicated to him, 140;
publishes “Yesterdays with Authors,” 149.
“Financial Flurry, The,” by Parke Godwin, ii. 2.
_Fireside Travels_, first title given to _Cambridge Thirty Years Ago_, i. 354.
_First Snow-Fall, The_, i. 274.
Fischer, Peter, i. 392.
Fish, Hamilton, ii. 203.
_Fitz Adam’s Story_, i. 302;
read by F. J. Child, ii. 104.
Florence, the Lowells in, i. 314-316.
Follen, Charles, characterized by J. R. L. in the _Pioneer_, i. 106.
Follen, Eliza Lee, contributor to the _Standard_, i. 193.
Foote, Henry Stuart, satirized by J. R. L., i. 215.
Forbes, Mrs. Archibald, ii. 335.
“Forerunners,” Emerson’s, i. 378.
Foster, Stephen, portrait of by J. R. L., i. 231.
_Fountain of Youth, The_, i. 351.
Fountain’s Abbey, ii. 154, 156.
_Fragments of an Unfinished Poem_, i. 302, 353.
France, the revolution in, characterized by J. R. L., i. 204-206.
“Frederick the Great,” Carlyle’s, ii. 89.
“Free Lance in the Field of Life and Letters, A,” ii. 197, note.
Freiligrath, Ferdinand, wishes to succeed Longfellow, i. 375.
Frelinghuysen, Frederick Theodore, succeeds Mr. Blaine
in State department, ii. 290, note.
Frémont, John Charles, J. R. L. looks wistfully toward, ii. 29.
French, Old, J. R. L.’s studies in, ii. 186. 187.
_French Revolution of 1848, The_, i. 204.
Freneau, Philip, his one line, ii. 361.
“Friendship,” Thoreau’s essay on, noticed by J. R. L., i. 293.
Frost, Rev. Barzillai, the clergyman with whom J. R. L.
studied at Concord, i. 47, 48, 61.
Fugitive Slave Bill, ii. 6.
Fuller. [Sarah] Margaret, in _A Fable for Critics_, i. 244-247;
criticises J. R. L., 244, note.
Furness, Horace Howard, on praise of J. R. L., ii. 388.
Gallillee, the Misses, ii. 356.
Gardner, Francis, master of Boston Latin School, i. 23.
Garfield, James Abram, his illness and the sympathy of England, ii. 268;
his death, 270.
Garrison, William Lloyd, characterized by J. R. L. in the _Pioneer_, i. 105;
treatment of, by J. R. L. in _London Daily News_, 187;
his character sketched, 189;
the verses upon him, 190;
his _Liberator_, 192;
what he thought of J. R. L., 197;
his views on anonymous articles, 199;
two poems on, by J. R. L., 258-260;
his ineffectiveness compared with the Charleston batteries, ii. 26.
Gay, Sydney Howard, one of the editors of _Standard_, i. 192;
sole editor, 192;
letter to, by J. R. L. defining relations with, 194-200;
his views on signed articles, 199;
confers with J. R. L., 202;
writes respecting J. R. L.’s terms, 203;
has no time to compliment J. R. L., 212;
his earnestness, 228;
edits a contribution by J. R. L., 229;
values J. R. L.’s work, 229, 230;
not absolute in his control of _Standard_, 230;
his financial aid of J. R. L., 281;
J. R. L. writes to, of his own delinquency, 295;
loses a child, 305;
is invited to join the Lowells in Europe, 307;
enquires into the landing of the Pilgrims, 307, note;
has a hand in the reissue of _Biglow Papers_ in England, 454.
Geneva, ii. 171.
George, Henry, ii. 315.
Gerry, Elbridge, lives at Elmwood, i. 5.
Gesu, music at the church of, i. 326.
Ghent, ii. 170.
Gibraltar, Straits of, i. 313.
Gibson, Right Hon. Edward, ii. 300.
Giher, Don Palo, ii. 336.
Gilbert, William Schwenck, topical songs of, i. 258.
Gilder, Richard Watson, J. R. L. writes to, on the
_North American_ and Lincoln, ii. 51, note;
J. R. L. to, on composition of _Commemoration Ode_, 63;
J. R. L. sends poems to, 295;
J. R. L. sends Landor’s letters to, 342;
and writes rhymes on Mrs. Gilder, 343, note;
J. R. L. to, 387;
gives poem at Harvard, 397.
Gilman, Miss Alice, J. R. L. to, with sonnet, ii. 214, 215.
Gines de los Rios, Don Herminigildo, Spanish teacher of J. R. L., ii. 242.
Giotto, portrait of Dante by, i. 393.
Girandola, the, i. 341.
Gladstone, William Ewart, Irish lack of faith in, ii. 280;
epigram on, 334.
_Glance behind the Curtain, A_, i. 124.
Gloucester, J. R. L. on cathedral art, ii. 157.
Godkin, Edwin Lawrence, J. R. L. to, on impeachment, ii. 109, note;
J. R. L. to, on grandchildren, 185;
_Three Memorial Poems_ inscribed to, 213;
advises J. R. L. to accept the mission to Spain, 220.
Godwin, Parke, and _Putnam’s Monthly_, i. 348;
writes for _Atlantic_, ii. 2, 3, 4.
Goethe, J. R. L. comments on, i. 79;
associations of, with Offenbach and Weimar, 271.
Gold Democrats, political advantage of the, i. 213.
_Gold-Egg; a Dream Fantasy_, ii. 58, note.
Goldsmith, Oliver, his “Retaliation,” ii. 174.
Goodwin, William Watson, ii. 145, note.
_Good Word for Winter, A_, ii. 34, note, 112, 143.
_Graham’s Magazine_, notice of J. R. L. in, i. 97;
J. R. L. asked to write for, 153;
his early contributions to, 161;
article on Poe contributed to, 162;
_Leaves from my Italian Journey_ published in, 364.
Grant, Ulysses Simpson, second administration of, ii. 191;
visits Spain, 247;
his visit to Cuba thought significant in Spain, 255.
Granville, Lord, on Irish-Americans, ii. 287;
compared with J. R. L, 291.
Grasmere, ii. 156.
Gray, Ana, J. R. L.’s lines on, ii. 325.
Gray, Thomas, J. R. L. compares his own odes with those of, ii. 44, note.
Greece, J. R. L.’s impressions of, ii. 238.
Griswold, Rufus Wilmot, on Poe, i.
164;
J. R. L.’s characterization of, 164.
Grolier Club publishes Donne, ii. 102, note.
Gurney, Ephraim Whitman, ii. 122, 123.
Hale, Edward Everett, quoted, i. 24;
his reference to “The Band,” 89.
Hale, Nathan, an editor of _Harvardiana_, i. 45;
editor of _Boston Miscellany_, 98.
Halleck, Fitz Greene, reviewed by J. R. L., i. 160.
Hallowell, Mrs. R. P., reminiscence by, i. 173.
Hallyar, J., i. 332.
_Hamadryad, The_, i. 289.
Hamilton College invites J. R. L. to give a poem, i. 379.
_Harper’s New Monthly Magazine_, i. 319.
Harvard College, i. 25;
its modest proportions in J. R. L.’s boyhood, 26;
its great days, 26, 27;
its officers, 27;
its courses of study, 29;
its discipline, 30;
holds commemoration over soldiers, ii. 63;
address before, on 250th anniversary, 337.
_Harvard Crimson, The_, publishes extracts of lectures by J. R. L., i. 396.
_Harvardiana_, the college paper of which J. R. L. was an editor, i. 44, 45.
“Hasty Pudding,” Barlow’s, ii. 361.
Hasty Pudding Club, i. 40.
Hawley, Joseph Roswell. ii. 326.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, contributor to the _Pioneer_, i. 105;
his reference to. J. R. L. in “The Hall of Fantasy,” 117;
characterized in _A Fable for Critics_, 254;
aided by J. R. L. and others, 283;
his letters and action in the case, 283-286;
promises contributions to _Putnam’s_, 350;
his importance to the _Atlantic_, 420;
his advantage in seeing Lincoln, ii. 72;
Life of, suggested to J. R. L., 102;
characterized, 365;
J. R. L. to write his life, 372.
Hawthorne, Sophia, M. W. L. to, i. 155;
publishes her husband’s “Note-Books,” ii. 102.
Haydon, Benjamin Robert, and John Keats, i. 116;
discourses on the Elgin marbles, 117.
Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, J. R. L. votes for, ii. 216;
his invitation to J. R. L. through W. D. Howells,
to take a foreign embassy, 217;
comes to Boston, where J. R. L. meets him, 218;
the impression he makes on J. R. L., 219.
Hayward, Abraham, abuses Monckton Milnes, ii. 335.
Hazlitt, William Carew, as editor, ii. 78.
_Heartsease and Rue_, collected, ii. 357;
published, 368.
Heath, John Francis, aids J. R. L. in the
publication of _A Year’s Life_, i. 93.
Hemans, Charles, i. 332.
Herbert, Auberon, ii. 335.
Hereford, ii. 157.
Herrick, Mrs. Sophie Bledsoe, characterizes Mrs. F. D. Lowell, i. 404;
on composition of _Commemoration Ode_, ii. 65, note;
writes an article on J. R. L., 196;
and calls out a response, 197;
entertains J. R. L. in Baltimore, 214;
J. R. L. to, on church-going, 311.
Higginson, Thatcher, schoolmate of J. R. L., i. 22.
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, day-scholar with J. R. L.
at Mr. Wells’s school, i. 22;
his recollection of J. R. L.’s boyhood, 24;
his “Old Cambridge” on J. R. L.’s suspension, 47;
J. R. L. to, on T. Parker, 290, note;
Underwood writes to, about a projected magazine, 354, note;
letter to, from J. R. L. on the independence of the _Atlantic_, 426;
J. R. L. to, on _Commemoration Ode_, ii. 67, note;
his saying on cosmopolitanism, 79;
J. R. L. to, on Italy, 270.
Hilda, B. V. Sancta, the patroness of Whitby, ii. 381.
Hill, Thomas, ii. 135.
Hillard, George Stillman, editor of an annual, i. 93;
is go-between for J. R. L. and others with Hawthorne, 284.
Hitchcock, Rev. Jeduthun, successor to Parson Wilbur, ii. 38.
Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood, J. R. L. makes the acquaintance of, i. 50;
member of the Adirondack Club, 405;
his speech at Stillman’s dinner,
448;
J. R. L. dedicates second series of _Biglow Papers_ to, ii. 104;
J. R. L.’s last note to, 407.
_Hob Gobbling’s Song_, ii. 106.
Hogarth, J. R. L.’s pleasure in, ii. 155, 171.
Holmes, John, friend of J. R. L. and member with him of whist club, i. 271;
his whimsical mode of giving a gift, 311;
letter to, from J. R. L., descriptive of life in Florence, 315;
letter to, from J. R. L., giving impressions of Rome, 342;
a member of the Adirondack Club, 405;
on his brother’s musical gifts, 448;
hears _Commemoration Ode_, ii. 64;
J. R. L. finds him in London, 154;
and in Paris, 161;
companion to J. R. L. in Paris, 163.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, in _A Fable for Critics_, i. 248, 254;
has a copy of the book sent him, 249;
writes of it to J. R. L., 251;
is written to about it by J. R. L., 252, note;
his poem at dinner given to J. R. L., 379;
dines with Mr. Phillips, 411;
J. R. L. makes it a condition precedent to the
editorship of the _Atlantic_, that he shall be a contributor, 413;
how he was regarded by some of the public, 426;
his poem in “The Round Table,” 431;
on the Saturday Club, 447;
tells stories at dinner, 448;
takes a photograph of J. R. L., ii. 72;
has a colloquy with Anthony Trollope, 83;
J. R. L. takes his place with an ode, 189;
J. R. L. to, on Irish troubles, 292;
his one imperishable poem, 365.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., wounded, ii. 31.
_Home, The_, i. 435.
Home rule, as a cure for Irish ills, ii. 284.
Houghton, Henry Oscar, first printer of the _Atlantic_, i. 421.
Howe, Estes, marries M. W. L.’s sister, i. 267;
member, with J. R. L., of whist club, 271;
letter to, from J. R. L. of approach to African coast, 313;
writes to J. R. L. of his father’s illness, 317;
letter to, from J. R. L. on travel, 329;
J. R. L. makes his home with, 384;
member of the Adirondack Club, 405.
Howells, William Dean, characterizes Mrs. Frances Dunlap Lowell, i. 403;
reviews Longfellow’s Dante, ii. 113;
J. R. L. to him on his writing, and on contributions to the _Atlantic_, 127;
and on _The Cathedral_, 130;
his account of the offer of a foreign mission to J. R. L., 217;
secures a poem from J. R. L. for _Harper’s Monthly_, 394.
_How I consulted the Oracle of the Goldfishes_, ii. 368, 369.
Hubbard, Gardiner Greene, on copyright, ii. 327.
Hughes, Thomas, introduces the _Biglow Papers_ in England, i. 266;
J. R. L’s letter to, on the book, 257, 262;
his familiarity with the book, 264;
J. R. L. writes to, on the demand for more _Biglow_, ii. 32;
J. R. L. makes personal acquaintance of, 146;
letters of J. R. L. to, on third journey in
Europe, 151, 152, 164, 170, 172, 182, 183;
J. R. L. to, on the political situation, 204;
J. R. L. advises him of his appointment to Spain, 219.
Hungarian question, the, discussed by Mrs. Putnam and J. R. L., i. 303, 304.
Hunt, Leigh, his “Feast of the Poets,” possibly
suggestive of _A Fable for Critics_, i. 250;
his poem compared with that, 251;
J. R. L. meets, 381.
“Hyperion,” i. 347.
_Ianthe_, a poetic image of M. W., i. 83.
“Ichabod,” by Whittier, i. 201.
“Illusions,” by Emerson, J. R. L. on, 414, 415.
_Imaginary Conversation, An_, i. 215.
Impeachment, J. R. L. on, ii. 109, note.
_Impressions of Spain_, referred to, and quoted from, ii. 230, 242, 244.
“In a Cellar,” by H. E. Prescott, i. 449.
_In an Album_, ii. 205.
_Incident in a Railroad Car, An_, i. 146.
_Independent in Politics, The Place of the_, quoted, i. 214, ii. 313, 314;
delivered in New York, 374.
_Indian Summer Reverie, An_, i. 278.
_Infant Prodigy, The_, ii. 397.
International Copyright, J. R. L. on, in speech at Washington, ii. 326-332;
in an epigram, 333;
Authors’ Reading for benefit of, 361.
Interview, a disagreeable, ii. 337.
_In the Half-way House_, ii. 45.
_In the Twilight_, i. 406.
_Invita Minerva_, i. 378.
_Irene_, expressive of M. W., i. 85, 86.
Irish, character of, J. R. L. on, ii. 274;
relations of, with England compared with Scottish, 276;
contention with England, 278;
imperfect sympathy of, with England, 280;
under guise of American citizens, 282.
Irish-American cases, ii. 284, seq.
Irving, Washington, in _A Fable for Critics_, i. 248;
his writings revived by Putnam, 349;
his relations to magazines, 420;
characterized, ii. 363.
_Italy, 1859_, i. 434.
James, Henry, on J. R. L.’s patriotism, ii. 80.
James, William, letters to, on coincidence in
_Commemoration Ode_, ii. 67, note.
Jefferson, Thomas, characterized by J. R. L., i. 218.
Jewell, Harvey, i. 450.
Jewett, John P., publisher of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” i. 354, 409.
Jewish race, J. R. L.’s interest in, ii. 301-305.
Johns Hopkins University, J. R. L. lectures before, ii. 213.
Johnson, Andrew, J. R. L. on, ii. 93.
Johnson, Reverdy, J. R. L. to, on the Spanish mission, ii. 220;
and on the work at Athens, 326.
Jones, William Alfred, i. 156.
Judd, Sylvester, in _A Fable for Critics_, i. 248.
June, J. R. L. the poet of, i. 268, 269.
_June Idyll, A_, i. 302;
J. R. L.’s humorous verses on, ii. 116.
Kansas-Nebraska, ii. 3, 6. 14.
Kant, Immanuel, suggests subject of _Class Poem_ to J. R. L., i. 56.
“Kavanagh,” reviewed by J. R. L., i. 291.
Keats, John, J. R. L. becomes acquainted with the poems of, i. 32;
his influence on J. R. L., 94;
a life of, contemplated by J. R. L., 95;
sonnet to, by J. R. L., 95, 96;
his “Isabella” compared with _A Legend of Brittany_, 118;
Fanny Brawne and, 121;
biographical sketch of, by J. R. L., 365;
influences J. R. L., ii. 88.
Keswick, ii. 156.
Killarney, J. R. L. visits, ii. 152.
King, Rufus, i. 45, 46.
Kingsley, Charles, shows J. R. L. Chester Cathedral, ii. 153.
“Kobboltozo,” by C. P. Cranch, ii. 96, note.
Lake Country, J. R. L. visits, ii. 154, 156.
Lamartine, characterized by J. R. L., i. 206.
_Lamartine, To_, i. 206.
Lamb, Charles, letter of, to Manning, i. 438;
J. R. L. compares himself to, in his fondness for London, ii. 335.
Landor, Walter Savage, J. R. L. becomes acquainted
with the writings of, i. 31;
his “Imaginary Conversation” contrasted with
J. R. L.’s _Conversations_, 135;
reviewed by J. R. L. in _Massachusetts Quarterly_, 293-295;
J. R. L. visits, 345;
his antiques, ii. 93;
his letters edited by J. R. L., 342.
_Last Poems_, ii. 368.
Lawrence, the Misses, J. R. L. to, on Wildbad, ii. 384.
_Leaves from my Journal_, referred to, i. 310, 314.
Lechmere house in Cambridge, i. 3.
Lee, Billy, his idea of a competence, i. 267.
Lee, Judge Joseph, house of, in Cambridge, i. 3.
Lee, William, a partner in Phillips & Sampson, i. 409;
takes a part in the establishment of the _Atlantic_, 409, 410;
absent in Europe at sale of the magazine, 450.
_Legend of Brittany, A_, contrasted with Keats’s “Isabella,” i. 118;
J. R. L.’s enjoyment of, 119;
Briggs’s comments on, 120.
Lessing, J. R. L. on the genius of, i. 138;
temperament of, like J. R. L.’s, ii. 110.
Letter-writing, conditions of, i. 445; ii. 75.
Lever, Charles, J. R. L. reads the novels of, i. 380.
_Liberator, The_, i. 186;
mouthpiece of W. L. Garrison, 192;
H. G. Otis enquires into, 258.
_Liberty Bell, The_, J. R. L. and M. W. L. contribute to, i. 180;
its sound haunts J. R. L., 295.
“Library of Old Authors,” ii. 77.
Lichfield, ii. 156.
Lincoln, Abraham, J. R. L. prefers Seward to, ii. 18;
characterized at the outset by J. R. L., 19;
election of, does not change the arguments of Republican party, 23;
J. R. L. disappointed in his public utterances, 25;
caution of, 27;
J. R. L.’s impatience at, 29;
poetized as the ideal captain, 43;
estimate of, by J. R. L., 50;
contrasted with McClellan, 55;
reëlection of, 57;
death of, noted by J. R. L., 62;
characterized in _Commemoration Ode_, 70-73.
Lincoln, England, ii. 156.
Lippitt, George Warren, i. 45.
Literature, J. R. L.’s introduction to, i. 31;
his beginnings in production of, 91;
his views on nationality in, as expressed in the _Pioneer_, 103;
and in the _North American_, 291;
J. R. L. on, as a subject for teaching, 388;
the basis of J. R. L.’s critical work, ii. 87;
J. R. L. on honesty in, 131;
honored by representatives at foreign courts, 260.
_See_ American Literature.
Little, Brown, & Co., publishers of the _British Poets_, i. 364;
as publishers for Emerson, 452;
undertake an edition of Old Dramatists, under
editorship of J. R. L., ii. 78, note.
Littré, Maximilian Paul Émile, C. E. Norton
gives J. R. L. a letter to, ii. 159.
Locke, John, studied by J. R. L. during his suspension from college, i. 47-49.
Longfellow, Mrs. Frances Appleton, her early encouragement of J. R. L., i. 97.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, home of, in Cambridge, i. 3;
his “Psalm of Life,” 74;
one of the editors of an annual, 93;
his “Poems on Slavery” noticed in the _Pioneer_, 105;
attacked by Poe, 164;
J. R. L. to, on Christ and Christianity, 169;
notes in his diary J. R. L.’s enthusiasm, 177;
his relation to anti-slavery commented on by J. R. L., 183, 197;
in _A Fable for Critics_, 243, 245;
hears part of the book read, 251;
characterised in it, 254;
sees the Lowells in Lenox, 273;
his “Kavanagh,” reviewed by J. R. L., 291;
his “Tales of a Wayside Inn,” 301;
entertains J. R. L., Clough, and others, 346;
notes J. R. L.’s novel, 348;
contributes to _Putnam’s Monthly_, 350;
comments on M. W. L., 356;
writes “The Two Angels,” 362;
hears Lowell lecture, 373;
gives up the Smith professorship, 375;
has J. R. L. for successor, 376;
bids him good-by on his leave for Europe, 378;
sees him off, 379;
sees him on his return at Nahant, 385;
dines with Mr. Phillips, 411;
interested in the _Atlantic_, 413;
has no desire to start a magazine, 419;
his importance to the _Atlantic_, 420;
dines with the Atlantic Club, 447.
His “Miles Standish” commented on by J. R. L., ii. 75;
Dante Club formed by him, 84;
his translation reviewed by J. R. L. and C. E. Norton, 113;
characterized by J. R. L., 114;
his scholarship, 115;
his Introduction to “Tales of a Wayside Inn,” 175;
offered the mission to England, 203;
talks of J. R. L. in the same position, 216;
bust of, unveiled in Westminster Abbey, 305;
characterised, 365.
_Look Before and After, A_, ii. 122.
Loring, Charles Greely, J. R. L. enters the office of, i. 70.
Loring, George Bailey, an early companion of J. R. L., i. 38;
his career, 39;
J. R. L.’s letters to, in college days, 39-42, 51-56;
takes up study of medicine, 66;
letters of J. R. L. to, on choice of a profession, 66, 68-70;
J. R. L. sends autobiographic verses to, 73-75;
J. R. L. to, on _Prometheus_, 119.
“Lost Occasion, The,” by Whittier, i. 120.
Louis Philippe, portrayed by J. R. L., i. 204, 205.
Louvain, ii. 170.
Lowell, Anna Cabot, wife of Charles Lowell, characterized, i. 42;
letter of, to J. R. L., 52, note;
attracts J. R. L. to the Beverly shore, 365.
Lowell, Blanche, first child of J. R. L. and M. W. L., born, i. 178;
J. R. L. on training of, 179;
her infancy described by J. R. L., 181;
her interruption of her father, 194;
is taken to Stockbridge for her health, 272;
dies, 273.
Lowell, Rev. Charles, buys Elmwood, i. 6;
his descent, 6;
his education and travels, 7;
his pastorate of West Church, 7-9;
characteristics, 7, 8;
his life at Elmwood, 8, 9;
his interview with Mrs. Dall, 10;
visits the Orkneys, 11;
becomes acquainted with Harriet Brackett Spence, 12;
his creed, 12;
takes J. R. L. with him on his parochial journeys, 20;
writes a letter of advice to J. R. L. about his college course, 43;
makes a journey abroad, 44;
writes to J. R. L. about _Harvardiana_, 44;
returns from Europe, 91;
his action in resigning his salary, 234, note;
retires from active charge of his parish, 270;
his grief over Blanche’s death, 273;
described by Miss Bremer, 298;
at the burial of Rose, 304;
is stricken with paralysis, 316;
letter to, of concern from J. R. L., 316;
letter to, from J. R. L. about Roman sights, 321;
about private theatricals, 331;
about his grandchildren, 334;
about Ely, 343;
is described by Clough, 347;
deaf and excitable, 361;
death of, 454, note.
Lowell, Charles Russell, oldest brother of J. R. L., i. 13;
his advisers, 42.
Lowell, Charles Russell, Jr., goes to the Adirondacks with J. R. L., i. 405.
Lowell, Frances Dunlap. _See_ Dunlap, Frances;
characterized by J. R. L., i. 404;
by W. J. Stillman, 402, 406;
by W. D. Howells, 403;
by Mrs. S. B. Herrick, 404;
on composition of _Commemoration Ode_, ii. 66, note;
goes with J. R. L. to Europe, 150;
stays in Paris when he goes to London, 168;
studies Italian with J. R. L., 171;
returns with J. R. L. to America, 182;
how she received the proposal of a foreign mission, 218;
sails with J. R. L. for Liverpool, 220;
reaches Madrid, 227;
goes with J. R. L. to Greece, 237;
returns with him to Madrid, 238;
proposes to stay at Tours while J. R. L. goes home, 249;
is taken ill, 250;
begins slowly to recover, 251;
is pleased with J. R. L.’s transfer to England, 256;
has a relapse, 257;
is removed to England, 258;
her invalidism affects J. R. L.’s hospitality, 266;
her thanksgiving dinner, 267;
remains at home while J. R. L. visits the continent, 270;
death of, 319.
Lowell, Francis Cabot, founder of Lowell, Massachusetts, i. 6.
Lowell, Mrs. Harriet Brackett Spence, of Orkney descent, i. 11;
her northern temperament, 12;
her first acquaintance with her husband, 13;
her children, 13, 14;
her disorder, 91;
her death, 305.
Lowell, James Jackson, goes to the Adirondacks with J. R. L., i. 405;
wounded, ii. 30;
his gallant action, 31.
Lowell, James Russell, birth and death of, i. 1;
his appreciation of his birthplace, 1;
his ancestry, 6;
his father, 6-10;
his mother, 11, 12;
his brothers and sisters, 13-15;
his recollections of childhood, 15-18;
hears of John Adams’s death, 19;
visits Portsmouth and Washington, 19;
drives with his father on his parochial journeys, 20;
so gets acquainted with pristine New England, 20;
his first schooling, 21;
his companions, 21, 22;
attends William Wells’s school, 22-24;
tells stories and reads Scott, 24;
enters Harvard, 26;
his immaturity in college, 30;
his browsings among books, 30-33;
his intimacy with W. H. Shackford, 33;
his letters to Shackford, 34-38;
change in handwriting, 37;
his friendship with G. B. Loring, 38, 39;
letters to Loring, 39-42;
becomes editor of _Harvardiana_, 44;
is suspended from college, 47;
goes to Concord in consequence, 48;
meets Emerson there, 49;
makes a friend in E. R. Hoar, 50;
letters to Loring, 51-56;
defends himself against the charge of indolence, 52;
works at _Class Poem_, 51, 53, 54, 56;
writes an exculpatory letter to Emerson, 58;
wishes to go abroad, 62;
weighs the professions of ministry and law, 62;
his attitude toward the ministry, 63;
his need of a livelihood, 65;
takes up and abandons law, 65;
thinks of going into a store, 66;
takes his brother Robert’s place, 67;
studies the art of poetry, 67;
delivers a lecture, 67;
is in miserable dubiety, 68;
resumes the study of law, 69;
enters Mr. Loring’s office, 70;
his disappointment in love an explanation of his vacillation, 71;
finds expression in verse, 73-75;
meets Maria White, 76;
translation of experience in verse, 82-85;
is introduced by her to the Band, 89;
takes up writing as a means of support, 91;
writes for _Southern Literary Messenger_, 92;
publishes _A Year’s Life_, 93;
proposes a life of Keats, 95;
writes to Duyckinck, 95;
contributes to the _Boston Miscellany_, 98;
reckons his resources, 99;
projects the _Pioneer_, 99;
associates himself with R. Carter in the issue of the magazine, 100;
the spirit that prompted him, 102;
his principles as displayed in the Introduction to the _Pioneer_, 103-105;
whom he drew to his side, 105;
his attitude toward Anti-slavery, 105;
goes to New York for his eyes, 107;
his course of life there, 109;
meets N. P. Willis, 111;
undergoing operations, 113;
forms a friendship with C. F. Briggs, 114;
returns to Cambridge, 114;
after failure of the _Pioneer_, returns to poetry, 114;
painted by Page, 115;
his relations to Page and Briggs, 116, 117;
publishes a volume of _Poems_, 118;
puts his radicalism into poetry, 121;
is autobiographic also, 125;
introduces wit and humor, 128;
works over some old material and new into
_Conversations on Some of the Old Poets_, 132;
his reference in it to contemporaries, 135;
his enquiry in it into the nature of poetry, 137;
his attitude in it toward formal religion, 140;
his vision of the inner verity of religion, 145;
his poetic disclosure of faith, 146;
his conception of the function of the poet, 149;
publication of _Conversations_, 150;
marriage to Maria White, 150;
goes to Philadelphia, 152;
undertakes work on the _Pennsylvania Freeman_, 152;
writes of his daily life to Carter, 152-155;
proposes to contribute to the _Broadway Journal_, 157;
sends a “letter to Matthew Trueman,” 158;
which is declined, 159;
sends poems and criticisms, 160;
writes for _Graham’s Magazine_, 161;
writes a sketch of Poe, 162;
comments on Poe, 163-167;
breathes the air of anti-slavery, 168;
sends stanzas to _Boston Courier_, 168;
his articles in _Pennsylvania Freeman_, 169, 173;
visits the Davis family, 173;
returns to Cambridge, 173;
writes his verses _On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves near Washington_, 174;
his attitude toward disunion, 175;
becomes distinctly a man of letters, 176;
he and Mrs. Lowell fall heirs to property, 177;
his indifference to wealth, 177 and note;
proposes a sojourn abroad, 178;
birth of his first born, 178;
his reflections before her birth, 179;
contributions to _Liberty Bell_, 180;
writes to Briggs about Blanche, 181;
studies French, 182;
discusses the suppression of Longfellow’s “Poems on Slavery,” 183, 184;
his views on the education of Blanche, 185;
contributes to the _London Daily News_, 186;
his judgment of Garrison, 187-190;
writes _Lines on the Death of Charles Turner Torrey_, 191;
becomes a contributor to the _National Anti-Slavery Standard_, 193;
writes to S. H. Gay on his proposed close
connection with that journal, 194-200;
writes his first _Biglow Paper_, 201;
contributes a paper to _Standard_ on Daniel Webster, 201;
becomes “corresponding
editor” of the _Standard_, 202;
his salary for this, 202;
his _Ode to France_ his first regular contribution, 204;
his article on _The French Revolution of 1848_, 204;
continues the discussion, 205;
his verses _To Lamartine_, 206;
writes an article _Shall we ever be Republicans_, 207;
his conceit of _The Sacred Parasol_, 209;
the reënforcement he brought to the Anti-slavery camp, 211;
is doubtful about his service, 212;
writes on _The Nominations for the Presidency_, 213;
writes _An Imaginary Conversation_, 215;
his comment on Jefferson, 218, note;
his interest in public men, 219;
especially in Webster, 220;
his articles on this statesman, 220-227;
the poems he contributed to the _Standard_, 227, 228;
his relations to the anti-slavery leaders, 228-232;
accepts a modification of his connection with the _Standard_, 233;
close of his engagement, 234;
the part he had played, 235, 236;
the worth his connection had been to him, 236;
his charity toward friends and opponents, 237;
begins on _A Fable for Critics_, 238;
sends specimens to Briggs, 239;
promises the book as a New Year’s gift, 240;
advises as to publication, 241;
is amused over Briggs’s disposition of anticipated profits, 243;
insists upon the freedom of the gift, 244;
reports progress, 245;
explains origin of passage on bores, 246;
finishes the book, 247;
gives direction about title-page, 249:
his after judgment of the poem, 252;
shows his independence in it, 254;
and his nature generally, 255;
his _Biglow Papers_, 255;
wishes he had used a _nom de plume_, 256;
gives his views on the political condition which gave rise to the book, 257;
his two poems suggested by Garrison and the _Liberator_, 258-260;
questions the bad spelling of Hosea, 261;
collects the papers into a volume, 262;
proposes an external fitness, 263;
writes of the success of the book, 264;
discloses his personality in it, 265;
writes _The Vision of Sir Launfal_, 266;
his conception of his poetry, 267;
is the poet of June, 269;
his whist club, 271;
goes to Stockbridge, 272;
loses his child Blanche, 273;
attempts tragedy, 274;
writes to Carter at Pepperell, 274;
writes to Briggs of the preparation of a volume of poems, 276;
his seclusion, 280;
confesses impecuniosity, 281;
his effort to help Hawthorne, 283;
meditates a magazine, 287;
writes to Theodore Parker on contributions to
the _Massachusetts Quarterly_, 288;
contributes papers to the _North American_, 290;
writes to Briggs respecting American society, 296;
on current English writers, 297;
is described in his home by Miss Bremer, 298;
issues his _Poems_ in two volumes, 299;
proposes _The Nooning_, 300;
his views on his poetic vocation, 302;
defends his sister on the Hungarian question, 304;
loses his child Rose, 304;
and his mother, 305;
birth of his child Walter, 305;
jests on the boy’s birthday, 306;
plans for a year in Europe, 307;
sails with his family, 309;
describes voyage, 309;
halts at Malta, 314;
describes his life at Florence, 315;
hears of his father’s illness, 316;
leaves for Rome, 317;
describes arrival in Rome, 318;
joins English and American friends, 320;
compares Roman with Lombard churches, 321;
visits the Campagna, 322;
describes his Christmas in Rome, 323;
criticises Roman architecture, 327;
comments on the people he sees, 328;
describes his habit of studying pictures, 330;
takes part in private theatricals, 331;
writes their grandfather of his children, 334;
loses his only son, 338;
describes Easter Sunday, 339;
his final impressions of Rome, 342;
makes an excursion to Subiaco, 343;
travels to Naples, 343;
is in England, 345;
takes passage for America, 345;
makes the acquaintance on shipboard of Thackeray and Clough, 346;
his opinion of Clough’s “Bothie,” 347;
projects a novel, 347;
abandons the attempt, 348;
begins _Our Own_ for _Putnam’s Monthly_, 351;
contributes _A Moosehead Journal_, 353;
and _Cambridge Thirty Years Ago_, 354;
interests himself in Underwood’s magazine, 355;
loses his wife, 357;
has dreams of her and Walter, 358;
prints her poems, 359; his solitude, 361;
takes comfort in his daughter, 363;
engages in literary jobs, 364;
spends a summer in Beverly, 365;
makes the acquaintance of Stillman, 367;
writes _Ode to Happiness_, 368;
lectures on poetry before the Lowell Institute, 370;
is appointed successor to Longfellow in the
Smith professorship at Harvard, 376;
goes West on a lecturing tour, 378;
has a farewell dinner given him, 378;
sails for Havre, 380;
goes to Paris and Chartres, 380;
to London, 381;
settles in Dresden for autumn and winter, 381;
takes lessons in German and Spanish, 382;
goes to Italy in the spring, 383;
returns to Dresden and to America, 381;
establishes himself at Dr. Howe’s, 384;
takes up his college work, 385;
discourses on philology and æsthetics, 386;
on the modern languages compared with the
ancient as disciplinary studies, 387;
the character of his teaching, 388;
his interest in literature as compelling force, 389;
his indebtedness to Dante, 390;
his relation to students, 391;
his use of object-aids, 392;
his manner in teaching, 393;
his indifference to academic routine, 395;
the generosity of his teaching-gifts, 396;
his hospitality to his students, 398;
what he got from his teaching, 399;
effect of academic life on productiveness, 400;
second marriage, 401;
comments on his wife and her family, 401, 402;
goes to the Adirondacks, 404;
his appreciation of wild life, 405;
his attitude toward poetry, 406;
asked to edit a magazine, 408;
goes to dine with M. D. Phillips, 411;
becomes editor of the _Atlantic_, 412;
makes it a condition that Dr. Holmes shall contribute, 413;
writes to Emerson on his contributions, 414;
and to Whittier, 417;
writes regarding terms of payment, 421;
to R. G. White on anonymity, 422;
compares the situation with that of a later date, 423;
upon the independence of the magazine, 424;
his qualifications for his post, 425;
his editorial function compared with that of his successors, 427;
his attitude toward contributors, 428;
his weariness of his routine, 429;
his regard for criticism, 430;
his own work as reviewer, 432;
his thoroughness, 433;
his injection of fun, 434;
his proposal to dictate five love-stories at once, 437;
writes a Lambish letter to Captain Parker, 438;
his impatience over details, 441;
his respect for proof-reading, 444;
his loss of spontaneity, 445;
his diversion, 446;
goes to club dinners, 447;
his critical faculty, 449;
concerned over the transfer of the _Atlantic_, 450;
gives his judgment of Ticknor & Fields, 451;
yields editorship of _Atlantic_ to Mr. Fields, 453;
returns to Elmwood to live, 453;
views on his own poetry, 454.
Writes a political paper for the _Atlantic_ jointly with Mr. Godwin, ii. 4;
does not reprint it, 5;
the qualities of the paper, 13;
writes a paper on _American Tract Society_, 13;
and two on Choate and Cushing, 14;
his main contention in these papers, 16;
identifies himself with Republican party, 17;
prefers Seward to Lincoln, 18;
his first characterization of Lincoln, 19;
his uncertainty as to results, 20;
writes on _The Question of the Hour_, 20;
and on secession, 23;
disappointed in Lincoln’s public utterances, 25;
writes on the English attitude, 27;
his private views on Lincoln, 29;
is anxious for his nephews, 30;
cannot write _Biglows_, 32;
writes _The Washers of the Shroud_, 33;
his refreshment in nature, 34;
writes the first of the second series of _Biglow Papers_, 34;
the ease with which he assumes the Yankee dialect, 35;
his greater firmness in his second series, 36;
the earnestness of his tone, 37;
his playing at old age, 38;
writes _Mason and Slidell_, 40;
and _Sunthin’ in the Pastoral Line_, 41;
writes his ode to the memory of Shaw, 42;
his
passion for freedom, 41;
undertakes with Mr. Norton the editorship of
the _North American Review_, 45;
is whimsically indignant over the announcement, 47;
writes to Mr. Motley for an article, 48;
stirred to action by Mr. Norton, 49;
writes on _The President’s Policy_, 50;
confesses his earlier doubt about Lincoln, 50;
his greater confidence in him, 51;
criticises McClellan, 52;
reexamines the causes of the war, 53;
compares the candidates for the presidency, 55;
exults in the promise of success, 57;
finds expression in verso and prose, 58;
forecasts reconstruction, 59;
rejoices over the end of the war, 60;
attacks the problem of reconstruction, 61;
writes of Lincoln’s death, 62;
called on to write his _Commemoration Ode_, 63;
is wasted by the work, 64;
comments on the structure of the ode, 66;
delivers it, 69;
his conception in it of Lincoln, 71;
his recognition finally of Lincoln’s greatness, 72;
finds in him the new American, 73;
his familiar letters, 74;
comments on “Miles Standish,” 75;
studies Spanish, 76;
makes his editing and teaching help each other, 77;
edits a volume of Old Dramatists, 78, note;
his loyalty to New England and America, 79;
his characterization of his ancestors, 81;
dines with Trollope, 82;
meets with the Dante Club, 84;
his relations to the whole field of intellectual life, 85;
his discourses on literature, 87;
his originality, 88;
his personality in criticism, 89;
reflex judgment on Carlyle, 89;
criticises poetry in Swinburne, 92;
his treatment of President Johnson, 93;
his poetry carries farther than his prose, 94;
entertains Cranch, 95;
writes on the weather, 96;
reflects on his personality, 99;
makes new arrangements with the college, 100;
edits Dryden, 101;
considers a biography of Hawthorne, 102;
writes to a friend on some points of speech, 103;
writes _Fitz Adam’s Story_, 104;
sends a fairy tale and poem to _Our Young Folks_, 105;
writes _The Seward-Johnson Reaction_, 107;
writes on Percival, 109;
his views on impeachment, 109, note;
finds a likeness to his own experience in Lessing, 110;
his use of lecturers in his essay-work, 111;
his personality in his writing, 112;
reviews Longfellow’s translation of Dante, 113;
his views on translations, 114;
his appearance at Elmwood, 115;
writes _A June Idyll_, 116;
collects a volume of his poetry, 118;
struggles over its title, 119;
gives expression to himself in two essays, 121;
is burdened with the _North American_, 122;
receives congratulations on _Under the Willows_, 125;
is interested in young writers, 127;
writes a letter of encouragement, 129;
writes on literary honesty, 131;
interests himself in the letters and journals of a Virginian, 135;
his sympathy with Southerners, 136;
sends his daughter abroad with Mr. and Mrs. Fields, 137;
is near being sent as minister to Spain, 138;
writes _The Cathedral_, 139;
defends his use of a word, 140;
his happiness in writing his poem, 142;
his hatred of debt, 143;
refuses to do hack work, 144;
lectures at Cornell, 145;
makes the acquaintance of T. Hughes, 145;
thanks R. G. White for a dedication, 146;
sells part of his estate, 147;
finds relief in this, 148;
thanks Mr. Fields for “Yesterdays with Authors,” 149;
sails for Europe with Mrs. Lowell, 150;
lands in Queenstown, 151;
visits Killarney, 152;
and Chester, 153;
is in lodgings in London, 154;
makes a tour in the north, 156;
and in the west, 157;
joins the Nortons in Paris, 158;
picks up books, 160;
works at Old French, 162:
has John Holmes for a companion, 163;
proposes to visit London to bid the Nortons good-by, 165;
is decorated with D. C. L. at Oxford, 169;
_en route_ to Italy, 170;
is charmed with Venice, 171;
considers a return to his professorship, 172;
writes _Agassiz_, 174;
defends his poem, 176;
goes to Rome where he is with Story, 179;
at Naples, 180;
returns to Paris, 181;
and to London, 183;
is decorated at Cambridge, 184;
returns to America, 184;
spends the summer at home, 186;
works at Old French, 187;
writes an article on Spencer, 188;
writes Concord and Old Elm odes, 189;
shows his patriotism in Fourth of July ode, 190;
writes bitter verses for the _Nation_, 191;
calls out thereby cheap wrath, 192;
defends himself in a letter to Joel Benton, 193;
publishes second series of _Among my Books_, 196;
refers to Mr. Wilkinson’s criticism, 197;
writes on Swift, 198;
his interest in national politics, 200;
presides at a political meeting, 201;
is a delegate to Republican convention, 202;
is talked of for a foreign mission, 203;
gives expression to his political views, 204;
is asked to run for Congress, and put on the
Republican ticket as elector, 205;
makes a speech at a caucus, 206;
gives vent to his faith and doubts in Fourth of July ode, 212;
publishes _Three Memorial Poems_, 213;
goes to Baltimore with F. J. Child to lecture at the Johns Hopkins, 213;
is entertained, 214;
writes a sonnet to Miss Alice Gilman, 215;
is urged as elector to vote for Tilden, 216;
is asked to accept the mission to Austria, 217;
declines and is given that to Spain, 218;
meets Mr. Hayes, 219;
sails with Mrs. Lowell for Liverpool, 220;
his real preparation for his office, 221;
his official consciousness, 223;
his dislike of business, 226;
arrives with Mrs. Lowell at Madrid, 227;
is presented at Court, 227;
finds pleasant quarters, 228;
his early diplomatic duties, 229;
writes of the marriage of the king, 230;
witnesses a bull-fight, 234;
buys books, 236;
takes a two months’ leave of absence, 237;
visits Constantinople, 238;
writes of the Queen’s illness and death, 239;
devotes himself to the study of Spanish, 241;
writes of Internal affairs, 242;
his opinion as to the future of Spain, 245;
receives General Grant, 247;
a judgement on the Spanish, 248;
proposes a flying visit to America, 249;
is stayed by his wife’s illness, 250;
which proves nearly fatal, 251;
sends a despatch on the change on ministry, 253;
writes on the Cuban situation, 254;
is offered the English mission, 255;
is disturbed over his wife’s condition, 256;
goes to London, returns to Madrid and removes his wife to England, 258;
his training for the English mission, 259;
a representative of American men of letters, 260;
his friendly reception, 261;
his championship of America, 262;
in demand as an after-dinner speaker, 264;
his embarrassment from his narrow means, 265;
his social relations, 266;
plays Romeo, 267;
his official duties in connection
with the assassination of President Garfield, 268;
makes a brief trip after the death of the President, 270;
visits Weimar, 271;
joins the Fields at Venice, 272;
makes a brief stay at Paris, 273;
his judgment on Irish affairs, 274;
describes the situation to Mr. Evarts, 277;
writes on the coercion bill, 280;
criticises the bill, 281;
his attitude toward Irish-Americans, 282;
lays down course of action, 284;
corresponds with Mr. Blaine on the measures to be taken, 285;
is called upon for the facts, 288;
is denounced and defended at home, 289;
his action recognized at home and abroad, 290;
compared with Lord Granville, 291;
writes to friends of his difficulties with the Irish, 292;
characterized by Mr. Watts-Dunton, 293;
reverts to poetry, 294;
sends poems to _The Century_, 295;
regrets the death of R. H. Dana, 296;
has his portrait painted, 297;
his perplexities in presenting his country women at court, 298;
makes a speech on the unveiling of bust of Fielding, 298;
is candidate for rectorship of St. Andrews, 299;
withdraws his name, 300;
addresses the students at St. Andrews, 301;
his monomania on Jews 302;
unveils bust of Longfellow, 305;
receives degree at Edinburgh, 306;
speaks on the newspaper, 307;
analyses Wordsworth’s power, 309;
his attitude toward the church, 311;
his address on Democracy, 313;
tenure of his diplomatic position, 316;
his hesitation about leaving England, 317;
is sounded about accepting a professorship at Oxford, 318;
death of his wife, 319;
his words respecting her, 319, 320;
speaks on Coleridge, 321;
returns to America, 321;
makes his home for the time being at Deerfoot Farm, 322;
takes up letter-writing as an occupation, 323;
his dependence on women, 324;
goes to Washington, 324;
begins to feel his age, 325;
gives an address at Chelsea, 326;
is president of American Archæological Institute, 326;
attends a hearing on international copyright, 326;
addresses the committee, 327-332;
writes an epigram on the subject, 333;
makes an epigram on Gladstone, 334;
his life in London, 335;
is harassed by his approaching Harvard address, 337;
annoyed by an interview, 337;
delivers his oration at Harvard, 338;
edits letters of Landor, 342;
makes rhymes for Mrs. Gilder, 343, note;
writes an introduction to “The World’s Progress,” 344;
his need of economy, 349;
his reputation, capital, 350;
goes to Chicago to give an address on Washington’s Birthday, 351;
gives six lectures on the Old Dramatists before the Lowell Institute, 352;
sails for England in spring of 1888, 355;
his life at Whitby, 356;
is at work on his new volume of poems, 357;
doubts about his work, 358;
writes to Mrs. Bell about Feltham, 359;
presides at an Authors’ Reading and discourses on American literature, 361;
writes poems which reflect his deeper nature, 368;
makes a slight beginning on his _Hawthorne_, 372;
issues his _Political Essays_, 372;
utters valedictories, 373;
gives his address on _The Independent in Politics_, 374;
his faith in his early ideals, 376;
makes a speech before the Civil Service Reform Association, 377;
goes to England in the spring of 1888, 379;
attends commemoration at Bologna and receives a degree, 379;
is again at Whitby, 380;
his antidote to sleeplessness, 383;
visits St. Ives and returns to London, 384;
writes to Misses Lawrence, 384;
returns to America and spends the winter in Boston, 386;
visits Washington, 387;
celebrates his seventieth birthday, 387;
gives up writing a paper on John Bright, 388;
writes on Walton, 389;
makes an after-dinner speech on “Our Literature,” 390;
makes a final visit to England, 391;
writes _The Brook_, 393;
returns to Elmwood, 393;
works at a uniform edition of his writings, 394;
his judgment on his early poems, 395;
suffers the first severe illness of his life, 396;
writes _The Infant Prodigy_, 397;
receives a visit from Mr. Stephen, 398;
writes of Milton, 398;
and of Parkman, 399;
his _Thou Spell, avaunt!_, 399;
writes a birthday letter to Whittier, 400;
has books dedicated to him, 401;
writes of his condition to Misses Lawrence, 402;
his occupation in his last days, 406;
death of, 408.
Lowell, James Russell, portraits of, by Page, i. 115;
the same, engraved by Hall, 354;
by Sandys and Mrs. Merritt, ii. 297.
Lowell, John, founder of Lowell Institute, i. 6.
Lowell, Hon. John, grandfather of J. R. L., i. 6.
Lowell, Mabel, referred to as “Mab,” i. 234, 242;
born, 274;
compared with Blanche, 276;
her experience on shipboard, 311;
her friskiness in Rome, 328;
her theological views, 334;
her proficiency in Italian, 335;
the consolation she gave her father after her mother’s death, 368;
under charge of Miss Dunlap, 401;
goes to Europe with Mr. and Mrs. Fields, ii. 137;
her remark on her father, 138, note;
marries Edward Burnett, 150.
_See_ Burnett, Mabel Lowell.
Lowell, Maria White, _see_ White, Maria;
goes with J. R. L. to Philadelphia, i. 151;
improves in health, 154;
writes to Mrs. Hawthorne, 155;
translates from the German, 156;
tells fairy tales and sings ballads, 175;
comes into a share of her father’s estate, 177;
gives birth to her first child, 178;
contributes to _Liberty Bell_, 180;
the color of her eyes, 185;
advises introducing Margaret Fuller into _A Fable for Critics_, 245;
thinks highly of _Sir Launfal_, 266;
her frail appearance, 273;
gives birth to her second child, 274;
described by Miss Bremer, 298;
loses her third child, 304;
gives birth to her fourth, 305;
goes to Europe with J. R. L., 309;
describes their life in Rome, 320;
loses her only son, 338;
returns with J. R. L. to America, 345;
her failing health, 356;
her death, 357;
her poetical work, 358;
poems of, printed by J. R. L., 359;
her likeness, 361;
her influence on J. R. L., 369.
Lowell, Mary Traill Spence, afterward Mrs.
S. R. Putnam, sister of J. R. L., i. 13;
her intellectual force, 14;
her anxiety over the _Pioneer_, 106;
writes on the Hungarian question, 304;
is in Dresden with J. R. L., 381;
J. R. L. at the home of, ii. 322, 386.
Lowell, Percival, first of the Lowell family in America, i. 6.
Lowell, Rebecca, sister of J. R. L., i. 13;
has charge of the household, 270;
eccentricity of, 361;
death of, ii. 150.
Lowell, Robert Trail Spence, brother of J. R. L., i. 12;
his career and productions, 13, 14, note;
goes boating with J. R. L., 40.
Lowell, Rose, birth and death of, i. 304.
Lowell, Walter, birth of, i. 305;
his birthday commented on, 306;
described, 337;
death of, 338.
Lowell, William, i. 13.
Lowell Institute, origin of, i. 6;
J. R. L.’s lectures before, in 1887, 133;
in 1855, 370;
methods of, 372, note;
public censorship of, 425;
J. R. L. lectures before, on Old Dramatists, ii. 332.
Lundy, Benjamin, i. 152.
Lyons, Lord, J. R. L. to, on suzerainty, ii. 294.
Lyttelton, Lady, J. R. L. to, on Irish affairs, ii. 293;
a friend in time of need, 320.
McCarthy, Justin, on Irish characteristics, ii. 292.
McClellan, George Brinton, Report of, reviewed by J. R. L., ii. 51;
character of, analyzed by J. R. L., 52;
contrasted with Lincoln, 55.
_McClellan or Lincoln_, ii. 55.
“McFingal,” ii. 362.
McKim, James Miller, editor of _Pennsylvania Freeman_, i. 152;
_Letter to_, quoted, 231;
the letter a forerunner of _A Fable for Critics_, 250.
Mallock, William Hurrell, ii. 299.
Manifest Destiny, ii. 15.
Manning, Lamb’s letter to, i. 438.
“Mark Twain,” ii. 367.
Marlowe, Christopher, ii. 354.
Marvell, Andrew, J. R. L. edits the poems of, i. 364.
_Mason and Slidell_, ii. 40.
Massachusetts Historical Society, Charles Lowell secretary of, i. 9;
J. R. L. a member of, 446, note;
its collections the basis of an article by J. R. L., ii. 79.
_Massachusetts Quarterly Review, The_, i. 287, 288.
Mathew, Father, a great benefactor of Ireland, ii. 275.
Matthews, Cornelius, “the centurion,” i. 242.
May, Samuel, contributor to the _Standard_, i. 193.
_Memoriæ Positum R. G. Shaw_, ii. 42.
Mercedes, Queen, marriage of, ii. 230;
illness of, and death, 239;
J. R. L. writes a sonnet to, 240.
Merelo, Manuel, ii. 246.
Merritt, Mrs. Anna Lea, paints J. R. L.’s portrait, ii. 297.
Mexico, J. R. L. on the war with, i. 257;
conquest of, J. R. L. proposes a tragedy on, 274;
General Grant’s visit to, ii. 255.
Michelangelo and Petrarch compared, ii. 111.
_Middleton, Thomas, The Plays of_, i. 148.
“Midsummer Night’s Dream,” J. R. L. plays parts in, i. 331.
Mifflin, Thomas, quartermaster-general, i. 2.
“Miles Standish,” J. R. L. on, ii. 75.
_Mill, The_, i. 228, 232.
Milnes, Richard Monckton, Mrs. Procter comes to the rescue of, ii. 335.
Milton, John, his “Lycidas,” ii. 175;
his “Areopagitica” introduced by J. R. L., 398.
“Minister’s Wooing,” by Mrs. Stowe, i. 412;
letter about, by J. R. L., 430;
reviewed by J. R. L., 449.
Minor, John Botts, journal of, ii. 135.
_Mirror, The_, i. 163.
_Misconception, A_, ii. 205.
_Mr. Hosea Biglow’s Speech in March Meeting_, ii. 94.
Mitchell, Dr. S. Weir, reports J. R. L.’s visions, i. 15;
takes care of J. R. L. at Bologna, ii. 379;
releases him from an engagement, 386;
dedicates a volume to J. R. L., 401.
Modern Language Association, J. R. L. before, i. 386.
_Moosehead Journal, A_, i. 353.
“Morning Glory, The,” i. 359.
“Mortal Antipathy, The,” i. 413, note.
Motley, John Lathrop, dines with Mr. Phillips, i. 411;
his importance to the _Atlantic_, 420;
J. R. L. asks him to write for the _North American_, ii. 48;
representative of American men of letters at Court of St. James, 260.
Müller, Max, his “Auld Lang Syne” quoted, ii. 263.
_My Garden Acquaintance_, ii. 112;
an expression of J. R. L.’s nature, 121.
_My Study Windows_, published, ii. 145.
Naples, J. R. L.’s delight in Museum at, ii. 180.
_National Anti-Slavery, Standard, The_,
official paper of the American Anti-Slavery Society, i. 192;
its several editors, 192;
its list of contributors, 193;
J. R. L.’s early relations to, 196-200;
a close connection begun with it by J. R. L., 202;
contributions to it by J. R. L., 203-234;
its value to J. R. L., 235;
compared with the _Atlantic_, ii. 3.
National literature; _see_ Literature.
Neal, John, contributor to the _Pioneer_, i. 105;
his advice to, J. R. L., 108.
_Nest, The_, sent by. J. R. L. to Underwood for his magazine, i. 355;
its significance, 357.
New England, J. R. L.’s early familiarity with, i. 20;
its early seclusion, 88;
more than a geographical division, ii. 80;
what it stood for with J. R. L., 80;
Puritanism in, 82.
_New England Two Centuries Ago_, referred to, i. 71;
contributed to _North American_, 79;
quoted, 81.
“New Portfolio, The,” i. 413 and note.
Newspapers, J. R. L. on, ii. 307.
“New Timon, The,” reviewed by J. R. L., i. 290.
Nichols, George, living in Judge Lee’s house, i. 3;
his work on the _Atlantic_, 444;
referred to by J. R. L. in an article, ii. 400.
_Nightingale in the Study, The_, i. 269; ii. 115.
_Nightwatches_, ii. 324.
_Nominations for the Presidency, The_, i. 213.
_Nooning, The_, proposed by J. R. L., i. 300;
its contents, 301;
described further, 302;
wanted for a serial, 351;
resumed, ii. 104.
Nordhoff, Charles, J. R. L. writes to, on the political situation, ii. 19.
Norris, W. E., a novelist liked by J. R. L., ii. 407.
_North American Review_, J. R. L.’s contributions
to, in his earlier period, i. 290-293;
discusses the Hungarian question, 303;
J. R. L. takes the editorship of, ii. 45;
its change of character, 46;
J. R. L. characterizes it under the old _régime_, 48;
J. R. L.’s political papers in, 49;
letter to publishers of, by Lincoln, 51, note.
Northampton, a limit of Dr. Lowell’s chaise tours, i. 20.
Norton, Charles Eliot, his _Letters of James Russell Lowell_ referred to,
i. 39, 60, 88, 200, 233, 237, 242, 296, 427, 435, 443, 444,
453; ii. 19, 33, 40, 44, 48, 65,
67, 116, 139, 140, 176, 193, 202, 204, 218, 219, 227, 262, 356.
Letter to, from J. R. L. on village music, i. 25;
letter to, from J. R. L. on Jefferson, 218, note;
on change in title-page of _A Fable for Critics_, 249, note;
entertains Clough and others, 346;
edits Donne’s poems, 365;
letter of J. R. L. to, on his life on the North Shore, 366;
letter of J. R. L. to, inviting him to hear him lecture, 370;
on Chartres, 380;
on his life in Dresden, 382;
meets J. R. L. at Orvieto, 384;
J. R. L. to, on his love of the country, 385;
his “New Life” of Dante, given by J. R. L. to his class, 393;
letters to, from J. R. L. concerning Miss Dunlap, 401, 402;
on editorial worries, 429;
on his desire for relief, 443, 444;
on the sale of the _Atlantic_, 451.
Associated with J. R. L. in editorship of the _North American_, ii. 45;
J. R. L. writes a rhymed letter to, on the announcement, 47;
and of his own delinquency, 49;
and in doubt of Lincoln, 55;
and in exultation, 60;
J. R. L. writes to, on college work, 76;
gives an account of the Dante Club meetings, 84;
J. R. L. writes to, of Cranch and the weather and his own personality, 95;
edits Donne with Mrs. Burnett, 102, note;
J. R. L. writes to, of his own likeness to Lessing, 110;
writes, with J. R. L., a review of Longfellow’s “Dante,” 113;
J. R. L. to, on _Voyage to Vinland_, 120;
letters to, from J. R. L. during third journey
in Europe, 154-164, 168, 170, 173-180;
in Paris, where J. R. L. joins him, 158;
leaves for London, 159;
sends the Emersons to J. R. L., 161;
returns to America, 168;
criticizes _Agassiz_, 177;
J. R. L. to, on leaving America for Spain, 220;
presides at dinner of tavern Club, 387.
Norton, Miss Grace, J. R. L. to, on Chester, ii. 153;
on Hayes, 219.
Norton, Miss Jane, letter of J. R. L. to, on Beverly woods, i. 365;
on lecturing in the West, 378;
on letter-writing, 445;
J. R. L. writes a palsied-hand letter to, ii. 38;
J. R. L. writes to, on _Commemoration Ode_, 63;
also on “Miles Standish,” 75;
and on his collegiate work, 76;
and on the museum at Naples, 180.
Nürnberg, ii. 170.
_Ode for the Fourth of July, 1876, An_, ii. 190.
_Ode read at Cambridge on the Hundredth
Anniversary of Washington’s Taking Command
of the American Army_, ii. 189.
_Ode read at the One Hundredth Anniversary of
the Fight at Concord Bridge_, ii. 189.
_Ode to France_, i. 204.
_Ode to Happiness_, i. 368, 434.
“Old Cambridge,” by T. W. Higginson, referred
to on J. R. L.’s suspension, i. 47;
on Underwood’s magazine, 354, note.
Old Dramatists, J. R. L.’s first studies in the, i. 98;
subject of, treated in lectures in 1887, 133;
treated of in _Conversations_, 134;
and in articles in _Atlantic_ and _North American_, ii. 77;
a volume of, edited by J. R. L., 78, note;
lectures on, by J. R. L. in 1887, 352.
Old Road in Cambridge, i. 2.
Oliver, Thomas, lieutenant-governor of the
Province, builds the Elmwood house, i. 4;
hastily leaves it, 5.
_On my twenty-fourth birthday_, i. 125.
_On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves near Washington_, i. 174; ii. 137, note.
_Origin of Didactic Poetry, The_, i. 418.
_Oriole’s Nest, The_; see _Nest, The_.
Orkney Islands, ancestral home of J. R. L.’s mother, i. 11.
O’Sullivan, John, editor of _Democratic Review_, i. 111;
J. R. L. writes to, about Hawthorne, 283.
Otis, Harrison Gray, action of, gives rise to
two of J. R. L.’s poems, i. 258-260.
_Our Literature_, J. R. L. on, ii. 390.
_Our Own_, published in _Putnam’s Monthly_, i. 351;
its failure, 352;
parts of, saved, 353.
“Our Whispering Gallery,” ii. 149.
_Our Young Folks_, J. R. L. writes for, ii. 105.
Owens, John, publishes _Conversations_, i. 132;
reports success of the book, 158;
wishes to suppress one of J. R. L.’s anti-slavery poems, 134.
Oxford, J. R. L. goes to, for his degree, ii. 169, 170;
professorship at, proposed for J. R. L., 318.
Page, William, J. R. L. meets, i. 78;
paints M. W.’s portrait, 79;
J. R. L.’s affection for, 116;
likened to Haydon, 117;
paints J. R. L.’s portrait, 117;
is shown a bit of _A Fable for Critics_, 240;
proposed as a beneficiary of the book, 241;
has faith in the book, 242;
paints Bryant’s portrait, 246, note;
with Briggs and Willis discusses J. R. L. and Poe, 282;
meets J. R. L. in Florence, 314;
dines with him there, 315;
meets him at Orvieto, 384.
Palfrey, John Gorham, his “History of New England”
reviewed by J. R. L., ii. 79.
Palmer, George Herbert, ii. 340.
_Parable, A_, i. 228.
Parker, Captain Montgomery, letter to, in China from J. R. L., i. 438.
Parker, Friend, with whom the Whites and Lowells
stayed in Philadelphia, i. 151, 152.
Parker, Theodore, editor of _Massachusetts Quarterly_, i. 287;
letter of J. R. L. to, 288;
characterized by J. R. L., 290, note.
Parkman, Francis, J. R. L. writes on, ii. 398.
Parnell, Charles Stewart, prosecution of, ii. 278;
his extraordinary characterization of Irish-Americans, 281.
Parsons, Thomas William, contributor to the _Pioneer_, i. 105;
J. R. L. to, on _A June Idyll_, ii. 117.
Peabody, Andrew Preston, editor of the _North American_, ii. 45.
Peirce, Benjamin, professor of mathematics at
Harvard in J. R. L.’s youth, i. 27.
Pellico, Silvio, i. 341.
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, exhibition of,
noticed by J. R. L., i. 160, 161.
_Pennsylvania Freeman_, J. R. L. engaged to write for, i. 152, 154;
his contributions to the paper, 169-173;
_Letter from Boston_ sent to, 181.
Pepperell, Massachusetts, i. 274.
Perceval, Hugh, a nom de plume of J. R. L., i. 92, 161.
Percival, James Gates, J. R. L. on, ii. 109.
Perry, Mrs. Lilla Cabot, J. R. L. to, on Spenser, ii. 188.
Peterboro, ii. 156.
Petrarch and Michelangelo compared, ii. 111.
Phillips, Moses Dresser, i. 409;
won over to the scheme of a magazine, 410;
gives a little dinner, 410;
interests Mrs. Stowe, 412;
dies, 449.
Phillips, Wendell, contributor to the _Standard_, i. 193;
his eloquence contrasted with that of the Charleston batteries, ii. 26.
Phillips & Sampson undertake the _Atlantic Monthly_, i. 408;
character of the house, 420;
J. R. L.’s duty toward, 426;
failure of, 450.
_Phœbe_, ii. 295.
_Pickens-and-Stealins’ Rebellion, The_, ii. 25.
_Pictures from Appledore_, ii. 302, 367.
_Pioneer, The_, projected by J. R. L. and R. Carter, i. 99;
prospectus of, 99, 100;
its purpose, 101;
introduction to, 103-105;
its contributors, 105;
its contents, 105;
carried on in absence of J. R. L., 106;
suspended, 107;
how it looked in New York, 109;
J. R. L.’s concern for, 110-113;
J. R. L.’s formal bow in, ii. 390.
Pipe, the, as a weather-sign, ii. 358.
“Pirate, The,” i. 11.
_Place of the Independent in Politics, The_; see _Independent in Politics_.
_Plays of Thomas Middleton, The_, extract from, on poets, i. 149.
_Pocket Celebration of the Fourth, The_, ii. 14, note.
Poe, Edgar Allan, contributor to _The Pioneer_, i. 105;
rate of payment to, by _Broadway Journal_, 158;
sketched by J. R. L. in _Graham’s Magazine_, 162;
his criticism of J. R. L., 163;
his allusions to Longfellow’s family, 164;
J. R. L.’s judgment of, 165-167;
the correspondence with J. R. L., 165, note;
his relation with J. R. L. discussed by Briggs, Willis, and Page, 382.
_Poems_, J. R. L. preparing the volume of, i. 239.
_Poems_, second series by J. R. L. issued, i. 277;
analyzed, 277-280.
Poetry, J. R. L.’s enquiry into, in _Conversations_, i. 137;
his lectures on, at Lowell Institute, 373-375.
“Poet’s Yorkshire Haunts, A,” quoted, ii. 356.
_Political Essays_, articles not included by J. R. L. in his, ii. 5;
published, 372.
Pontine marshes, the, i. 344.
Pope, the, J. R. L. sees, i. 324;
hears him celebrate mass, 325;
likens him to an American statesman, 326.
Pope, Alexander, criticised by J. R. L., i. 290;
treated at length in lectures on poetry, 374.
Portsmouth, early visited by J. R. L., i. 19, 20.
Postmaster at Stockbridge, account of, by J. R. L., i. 272.
_Power of Sound, The_, quoted, i. 20.
Prescott, Harriet Elizabeth, J. R. L. meets at dinner, i. 449.
Prescott, William Hickling, his “Conquest of Mexico,” i. 274;
importance of, to the _Atlantic_, 420.
Presepio on Christmas eve in Rome, i. 324, 325.
_President on the Stump, The_, ii. 93.
“President’s Message, The,” by Parke Godwin, ii. 3.
Proctor, Mrs. Bryan Waller, ii. 335.
Professorship at Oxford proposed for J. R. L., ii. 318.
_Prometheus_, i. 115;
at work on, 119;
its character, 121;
compared with Keats’s “Hyperion,” 122;
Briggs and J. R. L. on, 123.
Proof-reading, J. R. L. on, i. 444.
Provincial Newspaper Society, J. R. L. before, ii. 306.
_Punch_ on J. R. L. as an alien, ii. 300.
Puritanism in New England, ii. 82.
Putnam, George, J. R. L. to, ii. 182, 296.
Putnam, George Palmer, to publish _A Fable for Critics_, i. 242;
does not notice the rhymed title-page, 249, note;
his character as a publisher, 349.
Putnam, Mrs. S. R., _see_ Lowell, Mary Traill Spence.
Putnam, William Lowell, killed at Ball’s Bluff, ii. 30.
_Putnam’s Monthly_, established, i. 348;
prospectus of, 349;
its decline, 350.
Puttenham’s “Art of English Poesie,” i. 67.
_Question of the Hour, The_, ii. 20.
Quincy, Edmund, writes the life of his father, Josiah Quincy, i. 27;
one of the editors of the _Standard_, 192;
a contributor to the same, 193;
corresponding editor of, 202;
the quality of his work, 211;
valued by J. R. L., 230, 231;
“correspondence” with J. R. L., 235;
writes for _Atlantic_, ii. 2.
Quincy, Josiah, president of Harvard, i. 27;
portrayed by J. R. L., 27, 28.
_Rebellion, The; its Causes and Consequences_, ii. 53.
_Rebellion Record, The_, reviewed by J. R. L., ii. 61.
_Reconstruction_, ii. 57.
Reed, Dwight, secretary of J. R. L. at Madrid, ii. 251;
his constant service, 252.
Religion, J. R. L. on, ii. 310.
Reviewing, evolution of, i. 430;
disliked by J. R. L., 433.
Rheims, ii. 170.
Rhett, Robert, ii. 24.
_Rhæcus_, i. 120.
Riaño, Don Juan and Doña Emilia de, faithful friends
of Mrs. Lowell in her sickness, ii. 252.
Riedesel, Baroness, a resident of Cambridge, quoted on Tory Row, i. 3.
“Rimini and other Poems, by Leigh Hunt,” i. 250.
Ripon, ii. 154, 156.
Riverside Press, The, i. 421;
J. R. L.’s walk to, 444.
Rogers, Samuel, J. R. L. indebted to, ii. 177.
Rölker, Bernard, sings a song, i. 379.
Rome, J. R. L.’s entrance into, i. 318;
life at, 320;
early impressions of, 321;
Christmas at, 323;
art in, 327;
people in, 328;
revision of judgment concerning, 330;
social life in, 331;
illumination of St. Peter’s at, 339;
final impressions of, 342.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, i. 375.
“Round Table, The,” i. 431.
Rousseau, article on, compared with lecture on, ii. 111;
suggests the subject of the Jews to J. R. L., 301.
Rowfant Club, the, prints J. R. L.’s lectures on poetry, i. 373.
Rowse, Samuel W., hears _Commemoration Ode_, ii. 64;
a guest of J. R. L., 82;
missed by J. R. L., 157, 161.
Royce, Josiah, ii. 67, note.
Ruskin, John, J. R. L. advises workingmen to read his books, ii. 86;
praises _The Cathedral_, 140;
on Turner’s “Old Téméraire,” 369.
_Sacred Parasol, The_, i. 209.
St. Andrews, J. R. L. proposed for the rectorship of, ii. 299;
students of, addressed by J. R. L., 301.
St. Angelo, bridge of, i. 319;
J. R. L. sees illumination from, 340.
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, sends the
_Atlantic_ a paper on Béranger, ii. 77.
St. Ives, a resort for J. R. L., ii. 356.
St. Peter’s in Rome, J. R. L. comments on size of, i. 321;
the Pope celebrates mass at, 325;
illumination of, 339.
Sales, Francis, instructor in French and
Spanish at Harvard in J. R. L.’s youth, i. 27.
_Sample of Consistency, A_, ii. 14, note.
Sampson, Charles, i. 409.
San Luigi dei Francesi, midnight mass at the church of, i. 323, 325.
Santa Maria Maggiore, illumination at church of, i. 323, 324.
Saturday Club, The, i. 447.
Sawin, Birdofredom, character of, i. 265.
Scates, Charles Woodman, i. 45, 53.
Schooling, J. R. L.’s early, i. 21.
_Scotch the Snake, or kill it?_, ii. 61.
Scotland, relations of, with England, ii. 276.
Scott, Sir Walter, early read by J. R. L., i. 24;
Lockhart’s Life of, read by J. R. L., 46;
his diary read by J. R. L. in the last days, ii. 407.
Sedgwick, Catherine, the tales of, i. 88.
_Self-possession vs. Prepossession_, ii. 27.
Seminoles, J. R. L.’s early interest in, i. 37.
Service for the Dead, J. R. L. repeats the, i. 362.
Sewall, Jonathan, i. 3.
Seward, William Henry, preferred by J. R. L. for the presidency, ii. 18.
_Seward-Johnson Reaction, The_, ii. 107.
Shackford, William Henry, a college friend of J. R. L., i. 33;
goes to teach at Phillips Exeter Academy, 33;
his relation to J. R. L., 34;
letters of J. R. L. to, 34-38.
Shady Hill, home of the Norton family, i. 446.
Shakespeare, an early acquaintance of J. R. L., i. 15;
read by him in college, 37;
White’s edition of, reviewed by J. R. L., 432, 433;
lectured on and written about by J. R. L., ii. 77.
_Shakespeare Once More_, quoted, i. 388; ii. 87.
_Shakespeare’s Richard III._, ii. 351.
Shaw, Frank, i. 314.
Shaw, Robert Gould, J. R. L. commemorates in a poem, ii. 42;
honors in a letter to his mother, 43.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, J. R. L. introduced to the writings of, i. 32;
his genius likened to St. Elmo’s fire, 138;
the shell of, 375.
_Shepherd of King Admetus, The_, i. 147.
Sicily, J. R. L. visits and characterizes, i. 384.
Sidney’s “Defense of Poesie,” i. 67.
“Simple Cobbler of Agawam,” ii. 367.
_Sirens, The_, i. 85.
“Sir Galahad” suggests _Sir Launfal_, i. 268.
“Skipper Ireson’s Ride,” by Whittier, J. R. L. on, i. 417, 418.
“Slave Mother, The,” verses by M. W. L., i. 180.
Sleeplessness, J. R. L.’s cure for, ii. 383.
Slick, Sam, i. 261.
Smalley, George W., on J. R. L.’s Americanism, ii. 262.
Smith Professorship, Longfellow resigns, i. 375;
and it is given to J. R. L., 376;
afterwards emeritus, ii. 322.
Smith, Sydney, on Daniel Webster, i. 221;
his scornful question, ii. 363.
Socialism, ii. 315, 349.
“Solitude and Society” by Emerson, J. R. L. on, i. 416.
_Song sung at an Anti-Slavery Picnic_, J. Owen wishes to suppress, i. 184.
Sonnet, J. R. L. on the, as seen in Longfellow’s writing, ii. 306.
Sophocles, the Philoctetes of, ii. 404.
Southborough, ii. 322.
“Southern History of the War” reviewed by J. R. L., ii. 53.
_Southern Literary Messenger_, a vehicle for J. R. L.’s work, i. 92.
_Sower, The_, i. 228.
Spanish, J. R. L. studies, ii. 76;
a familiar tongue to him when he went to Madrid, 221;
how J. R. L. worked at it, 241, 242.
_Spectator_, London, on J. R. L. and Lord Granville, ii. 291.
Spence, Keith, maternal grandfather of J. R. L., i. 11.
Spence, Mary Traill, J. R. L.’s loyalist grandmother, i. 11, note.
Spens, Sir Patrick, a poetic forbear of J. R. L., i. 11.
Spenser, Edmund, earliest of J. R. L.’s poets, i. 14, and note;
imitated by J. R. L., 351;
essay on, by J. R. L., ii. 188.
Squirrels, J. R. L.’s care for, ii. 407.
Stanley, Henry Morton, ii. 296.
Stedman, Edmund Clarence, J. R. L. to, on modern antiques, ii. 93.
Stephen, Leslie, J. R. L. to, on Carlyle, ii. 89;
his description of J. R. L. quoted, 115;
J. R. L. comments on his “Are we Christians?” 165;
and his “Essays on Free Thinking and Plain Speaking,” 175, 176;
J. R. L. to, on politics, 202;
resorts to St. Ives, 356;
visits Elmwood, 398.
Stewart, Dugald, a teacher of Charles Lowell, i. 7.
Stillman, William James, starts _The Crayon_, i. 367;
inspirits J. R. L., 367;
J. R. L. sends a poem to his paper, 378;
J. R. L. to, on the drying up of the poetic fount, 400;
his estimate of Miss Dunlap, 402;
forms the Adirondack Club, 404;
characterizes J. R. L. in the woods, 405;
and in his married life, 406;
dinner given to, 448;
on J. R. L.’s care of his squirrels, ii. 407.
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, visited by J. R. L. and family, i. 272.
Stone, Thomas Treadwell, contributor to the _Standard_, i. 193.
Story, William Wetmore, an early friend and playmate of J. R. L., i. 22;
contributor to the _Pioneer_, 105;
J. R. L. meets him in Rome, 320;
hunts for a lion’s skin, 333;
goes with J. R. L to Subiaco, 343;
hears _Commemoration Ode_ read, ii. 64;
J. R. L. on his works, 86;
at Crosby Lodge on Eden, 154;
visited by J. R. L., 156;
entertains J. R. L. in Rome, 179;
J. R. L. on his statues, 179;
J. R. L. to, on Mrs. Lowell’s death, 320.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, relied on to float a magazine, i. 354;
her books published by Phillips & Sampson, 409;
interested in the _Atlantic_ by Mr. Phillips, 412;
her importance, 420;
her “Minister’s Wooing” criticised by J. R. L., 430;
and reviewed by him, 449.
Stubbs, Charles William, Canon, later Dean,
on J. R. L.’s cure for sleeplessness, ii. 382.
Sumner, Charles, characterises J. R. L.’s lecture on Milton, i. 373.
_Sunthin’ in the Pastoral Line_, i. 269; ii. 41.
Swift, Jonathan, J. R. L. writes on, ii. 198.
Swinburne’s Tragedies, reviewed by J. R. L., i. 374; ii. 92.
“Tales of a Grandfather,” one of J. R. L.’s first books, i. 25.
“Tancred” reviewed by J. R. L., i. 290.
Tarifa, Spanish town of, i. 313.
Tavern Club gives J. R. L. a dinner on his seventieth birthday, ii. 387.
Taylor, Jeremy, on the Countess of Carbery, i. 361.
Taylor, Zachary, nominated for the presidency, i. 220.
_Tempora Mutantur_, ii. 191.
Tennant, Miss Dorothy, ii. 296.
Tennyson, Alfred, J. R. L.’s early interest in the poems of, i. 94, 96;
Arthurian legends of, compared with _Sir Launfal_, 268;
influence of, on J. R. L., ii. 88;
J. R. L. lunches with, 261.
Terracina, J. R. L. at, i. 343.
Texas, debate on, i. 167;
verses on, by J. R. L., 168.
Thackeray, William Makepeace, J. R. L. comments on, i. 297;
J. R. L. makes the acquaintance of, 346.
Thaxter, Levi Lincoln, on J. R. L.’s letter to M. W., i. 89, note.
Thayer, James Bradley, J. R. L. to, on _The Nooning_, i. 302;
J. R. L. to, on the measure of his odes, ii. 44, note;
and on the _Commemoration Ode_, 65, 67.
Theatricals, private, in Rome, J. R. L. takes part in, i. 331;
writes prologues for, 332-334.
Thoreau, Henry David, reviewed by J. R. L. in
_Massachusetts Quarterly_, i. 292;
wanted by J. R. L. as contributor to the _Atlantic_, 415, 417.
Ticknor, William, D., character of, as publisher, i. 451.
Ticknor & Fields buy the _Atlantic_, i. 451.
Tilden, Samuel Jones, J. R. L. urged to vote for, ii. 216.
_Times, London_, quoted, ii. 318.
Titian, the “Sacred and Profane Love” of, i. 327, 328, note;
poem suggested by, ii. 371.
_Token, The_, i. 146.
Toombs, Robert, ii. 24.
Tory Row, Cambridge, i. 2;
the houses on it, 2-4.
_To the Muse_, i. 406.
Tours, Mrs. Lowell plans to stay at, ii. 249.
Traill, Robert, great-grandfather of J. R. L., i. 11.
Trattoria, a, in Florence, i. 315.
_Tribune, The New York_, on J. R. L. in 1843, i. 117;
in 1882, ii. 289.
“Tritemius,” by Whittier, J. R. L. on, i. 418.
Troil, Minna, of “The Pirate,” literary forbear of J. R. L., i. 11.
Trollope, Anthony, J. R. L. dines with, ii. 82.
Trowbridge, John Townsend, on Emerson’s “Brahma,” i. 415.
“Trueman, Matthew, Letter to,” i. 158, 159.
“Two Angels, The,” Longfellow’s poem, i. 362.
_Turner’s Old Téméraire_, ii. 368, 369.
_Two Scenes from the Life of Blondel_, ii. 43.
_Uncle Cobus’s Story_, ii. 106.
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” published by J. P. Jewett,
success of, suggests a magazine, i. 354;
declined by Phillips & Sampson when offered to them, 409.
_Under the Old Elm_, ii. 189.
_Under the Willows_, i. 268;
title chosen for volume, ii. 119;
brings congratulatory letters, 125.
Underwood, Francis Henry, projects a magazine, i. 354;
receives for it a poem from J. R. L., 354;
letter to, from J. R. L. on failure of magazine, 355;
proposes the _Atlantic_ 408;
secures the aid of J. R. L. and others, 409;
wins over Phillips & Sampson, 410;
dines with publisher, editor and chief contributors, 411;
goes to England for the magazine, 412;
is J. R. L.’s right-hand man, 414;
attends to correspondence, 428.
Union League Club in Chicago, ii. 352.
Valedictories, J. R. L.’s, ii. 373.
Van Buren, Martin, nominated for the presidency, i. 224.
“Vanity Fair,” J. R. L. on, i. 297.
Vassall, Henry, i. 2.
Vassall, Colonel John, his house in Cambridge
the headquarters of Washington and home of Longfellow, i. 3.
Vaughan, Henry, quoted, ii. 99.
Venice, J. R. L.’s delight in, ii. 171;
his return thither, 272.
Very, Jones, contributor to the _Pioneer_, i. 105.
“Virginian in New England, Thirty-five Years ago, A,” ii. 136.
_Vision of Sir Launfal, The_, i. 266;
the brook in, 267;
compared with Tennyson’s romances, 268;
June in, 268.
_Voyage to Vinland_, called also _Leif’s Voyage_, i. 301;
J. R. L. on, ii. 120.
Wales, Henry Ware, J. R. L.’s tribute to, ii. 403-406.
Walker, James, president of Harvard College, i. 376;
urges J. R. L. to attend Faculty meetings, 395.
Walton, Isaak, J. R. L. on, ii. 389.
“Wanderer,” yacht, i. 440.
Ward, Nathaniel, ii. 367.
_Washers of the Shroud, The_, ii. 33.
Washington, early visit of J. R. L. to, i. 19.
Washington, George, takes command of American army, i. 2;
his headquarters, 3.
Watertown, Massachusetts, the home of the Whites, i. 76;
temperance celebration at, 88.
Watts-Dunton, Theodore, on J. R. L.’s characteristics, ii. 293.
Waverley Oaks, J. R. L.’s early rambles to, i. 19.
Webster, Daniel, J. R. L. hears him plead, i. 67;
attitude toward, on part of anti-slavery men, 201;
article on, by J. R. L., and poem on, by Whittier, 201;
J. R. L. treats elaborately, 220-227;
characterized by Sydney Smith, 221;
as a writer, ii. 365.
Webster, John, J. R. L. on, ii. 354.
“Wedgwood’s Dictionary” reviewed by J. R. L., i. 433.
“Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, A,” reviewed by J. R. L., i. 292.
Weimar, J. R. L. visits, ii. 271.
Weiss, John, contributor to the _Standard_, i. 193.
Wells, William, J. R. L.’s schoolmaster living in Fayerweather house, i. 3;
carries forward the traditions of English scholarship, 22, 23.
Wells, Mrs. William, J. R. L. recalls the kindness of, i. 23.
Welsh, James, ii. 332, note.
Wendell, Barrett, on Lowell as a teacher, i. 392, 394, 395.
_What will Mr. Webster do?_, i. 220.
“Where will it End?” by Edmund Quincy, ii. 2.
Whipple, Edwin Percy, i. 411.
Whist Club, i. 271;
holds its last meeting, ii. 407.
Whitby, J. R. L.’s fondness for, ii. 356.
White, Abijah, father of M. W., i. 76;
characterized by J. R. L., 76;
death of, 177;
his estate, 177;
which proves less than expected, 182.
White, Maria, J. R. L. makes the acquaintance of, i. 76;
his first impressions of her, 77;
her portrait by Page, 79;
appears in a vision to J. R. L., 80;
and at commencement, 80;
her confession of love, 82;
embodied in _A Year’s Life_, 82-86;
the type to which she belonged, 87;
“Queen of the May” at a temperance festival, 88;
a member of the Band, 89;
a poet, 90;
encourages J. R. L. to print, 93;
her attitude towards the _Pioneer_, 108;
characterized by C. F. Briggs, 120;
her influence over J. R. L., 121;
veiled under poetic names in poems, 126;
her transcendentalism, 129;
letter of, to C. F. Briggs, 129-132;
criticises title of Briggs’s journal, 130;
her views on the marriage rite, 131, 132;
makes a cover design for _Conversations_, 132;
is married to J. R. L., 150.
_See_ Lowell, Maria White.
White, Richard Grant, goes to hear J. R. L. lecture, i. 373;
letter to, from J. R. L. on policy of the _Atlantic_, 423;
from same on American literary criticism, 431;
his Shakespeare reviewed by J. R. L., 432;
letter to, from J. R. L. on the worries of editing, 442;
on the delights of Elmwood, 453;
asks for another _Biglow_, ii. 32;
J. R. L. writes to, about his own work on Shakespeare, 77;
dedicates a book to J. R. L., 146.
White, Thomas W., editor of _Southern Literary Messenger_, i. 92.
White, William Abijah, brother of M. W., i. 76;
an active reformer, 87;
prompts Rölker, 379.
Whitman, Walt, his poem “My Captain,” ii. 70.
Whittier, John Greenleaf, characterized by J. R. L. in the _Pioneer_, i. 105;
compared with J. R. L., 139;
editor of _Pennsylvania Freeman_, 152;
his “Ichabod” and “The Lost Occasion,” 201;
his poetry reviewed by J. R. L., 229;
censured by Gay, 229;
in _A Fable for Critics_, 254;
his indebtedness to the _Atlantic_, 417;
J. R. L. to him on “Skipper Ireson’s Ride,” 417, 418;
his rhymes criticized by J. R. L., ii. 103;
his title conflicts with one by J. R. L., 118;
J. R. L. writes a sonnet on his birthday, 296;
his “Captain’s Well,” 400.
_Widow’s Mite, The_, ii. 206.
Wilbur, Parson, proposes to educate Hosea Biglow, i. 268;
another Jedediah Cleishbotham, 262;
faintly hints at J. R. L.’s father, 263;
in the flesh, 263, note;
as seen in second series, ii. 36;
his voice and J. R. L.’s, 37;
his death and table-talk, 38;
his views on the war, 39.
Wild, Hamilton, ii. 181.
Wilkinson, William Cleaver, criticism of, on J. R. L., ii. 197 and note.
Williams, Frank Beverly, prepares notes to the _Biglow Papers_, i. 256.
Willis, Nathaniel Parker, J. R. L. makes the acquaintance of, i. 111;
his kindness to J. R. L., 112;
in _A Fable for Critics_, 243, 245;
comments on J. R. L.’s kindness to Mrs. Clemm, 282.
_Windharp, The_, i. 368.
Women, J. R. L.’s dependence on, ii. 324.
Wood, Shakespeare, i. 332.
Woodberry, George Edward, his “Edgar Allen Poe” referred to, i. 160;
edits J. R. L.’s letters to Poe, 165, note.
Woodman, Horatio, i. 405.
“Words and their Uses,” by R. G. White, ii. 146.
Wordsworth, William, politics and poetry of, i. 236;
address on, by J. R. L., ii. 308.
_World’s Fair, The_, 191;
copied, 192
J. R. L.’s comments on, 193.
“World’s Progress, The,” J. R. L. writes an introduction to, ii. 344.
“Wuthering Heights” commented on by J. R. L., i. 297.
Wyman, Jeffries, i. 405.
Wyman, Dr. Morrill, ii. 402.
_Year’s Life, A_, a poetic record of J. R. L.’s experience, i. 82.
“Yesterdays with Authors,” ii. 149, note.
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[1] “Take up arms against a sea of troubles.”
[2] “The Pocket Celebration of the Fourth,” in the _Atlantic_ for
August, 1858, and “A Sample of Consistency,” in the same for November,
1858.
[3] _Letters_, i. 307-309.
[4] James Jackson Lowell.
[5] William Lowell Putnam.
[6] It was very likely after reading this poem that Emerson wrote in
his diary, 17 January, 1862: “We will not again disparage America
now that we have seen what men it will bear. What a certificate of
good elements in the soil, climate, and institutions is Lowell, whose
admirable verses I have just read! Such a creature more accredits the
land than all the fops of Carolina discredit it.”
[7] See _Letters_, i. 318.
[8] Eight years later, when writing in his happiest mood the paper “A
Good Word for Winter,” the memory of these boys came back with the
suggestion of snow-forts, and tears trembled in the passage which
slipped from his pen.
[9] _Letters_, i. 343.
[10] In an interesting letter to J. B. Thayer (_Letters_, ii. 191),
Lowell says, comparing his odes with those of Gray and Coleridge: “All
these were written for the closet--and mine for recitation. I chose my
measures with my ears open. So I did in writing the poem on Rob Shaw.
That _is_ regular because meant only to be read, and because also I
thought it should have in the form of its stanza something of the
formality of an epitaph.”
[11] “In the Half-way House.”
[12] See _Correspondence of J. L. Motley_, ii. 167. Copied in
_Letters_, i. 334.
[13] In a letter written to Mr. R. W. Gilder, 7 February, 1887, Lowell
says: “I spent the night with my friend Norton last Wednesday. There I
found a pile of the N. A. R.... By the way the January, ’64, number was
‘second edition.’ I fancy the old lady making her best curtsey at being
thus called out before the footlights. The article was reprinted as a
political tract and largely circulated. Lincoln wrote a letter to the
publishers which I forgot to look for.”
[14] The fairy story was “Gold-Egg: a Dream Fantasy,” which appeared in
the _Atlantic_ for May, 1865.
[15] _Letters of James Russell Lowell_, i. 345, 346. Copyrighted 1893,
by Harper & Brothers. Mrs. S. B. Herrick, whose friendship with Lowell
will be referred to later, writes: “I was speaking to Mrs. Lowell of
my strong admiration for its fire and eloquence, and she told me that
after Mr. Lowell had agreed to deliver the poem on that occasion, he
had tried in vain to write it. The last evening before the date fixed,
he said to her: ‘I must write this poem to-night. Go to bed and do not
let me feel that I am keeping you up, and I shall be more at ease.’ He
began it at ten o’clock. At four in the morning he came to her door and
said: ‘It is done and I am going to sleep now.’ She opened her eyes to
see him standing haggard, actually wasted by the stress of labor and
the excitement which had carried him through a poem full of passion and
fire, of 523 lines in the space of six hours.”
[16] Lowell writes again of this and makes proposed changes and
additions in a letter to Col. T. W. Higginson, 28 March, 1867. See
_Letters_, i. 379.
[17] There was a curious psychical incident connected with the delivery
of the Ode which came to light afterward but apparently was not
recorded till several years later. The incident is fully set forth
in two letters to Dr. William James, which were published in the
_Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research_, March,
1889, where Dr. Royce printed a “Report of the Committee on Phantasms
and Presentiments.” The first letter is from the gentleman in whose
experience the incident occurred:--
MY DEAR MR. JAMES,--I passed the night before commemoration day on
a lounge in Hollis 21, the room of my college chum H., who had been
tutor since our graduation, three years before. I woke (somewhat
early, I should say) saying to myself these words: “And what they
dare to dream of dare to die for.” I was enough awake to notice
the appropriateness of the words to the occasion, but was sleepy
enough to wonder whether they really expressed a lofty thought, or
were lofty only in sound. Before I had made up my mind I dropped to
sleep again.
In the afternoon I was in about the middle of the tent. Mr.
Lowell stood under Hollis at nearly the same table. I heard very
distinctly as he read “Those love her best.” I felt that something
was coming which was familiar, and as he ended the line I felt
that I could repeat the next one, and I did so, ahead of him. But
as we proceeded I was confounded with the fact that apparently my
line would not rhyme with his. As I said “die for,” he said “do.”
I spent some minutes in trying to determine whether I liked his
sentiment or mine the most.
That is all. After twenty-one years, details are dim. Some years
ago, just before Mr. Lowell sailed for England, I sent him a
statement, more detailed probably than this; but no doubt it became
carbonic acid and water before he left the house.
The second letter is from Lowell, to whom Mr. W.’s letter had been sent
by Dr. James:--
17th Feb., 1888.
DEAR DR. JAMES,--My Commemoration Ode was very rapidly written, and
came to me unexpectedly, for I had told Child, who was one of the
committee (I suppose), that he must look for nothing from me. I sat
up all the night before the ceremony, writing and copying out what
I had written during the day. I think most of it was composed on
that last day. I have no doubt the verse quoted by Mr. W. came to
me in a flash, but whether during that last night or not I cannot
say. Perhaps my MS. would show, if I had kept it, or if anybody
else has. Child will remember my taking him apart under an elm,
between Massachusetts and the Law School, that morning, that I
might read him a part of the Ode, to see if it would do, for ’twas
so fresh that I knew not, having probably not even had time to read
it over. It was such a new thing in more senses than one.
I recollect Mr. W.’s letter, and think it was substantially like
that to you. I did not burn it, I am sure, and ’twill, no doubt,
turn up somewhere in my hay-stack of letters when I am “up back of
the meetin’-house,” as Yankees used to say while there were any
Yankees left....
There is one painful suggestion in the fact of Mr. W.’s
anticipation, which I hardly venture to speak of. Was the verse
already _do_? Did I steal it? Not to my knowledge; but perhaps it
might be well to set a literary detective on my trail.
I return the letter.
Faithfully yours,
J. R. LOWELL.
[18] Quoted by A. V. G. Allen in his _Life and Letters of Phillips
Brooks_, i. 552.
[19] An interesting venture was made by Little, Brown & Co. in the
summer of 1864, which unfortunately proved too uncertain to be carried
through. Lowell was to have edited a series of volumes illustrative
of the Old Dramatists, from Marlowe down. He prepared one volume,
which was put into type but never published. A set of proofs is in the
library of Harvard University.
[20] “James Russell Lowell,” in the _Atlantic Monthly_, January, 1892.
[21] “Shakespeare Once More,” iii. 33.
[22] “Chaucer,” iii. 292.
[23] “Thoreau,” i. 361.
[24] This was no doubt Cranch’s _Kobboltozo_.
[25] “To J. B. on sending me a seven-pound trout,” _Atlantic Monthly_,
July, 1866.
[26] The lost copy of Donne turned up, and after Lowell’s death his
daughter and Mr. Norton used it for the production of a special edition
by the Grolier Club in 1895.
[27] See _supra_, i. 300-302.
[28] What Lowell thought of the impeachment business may be inferred
from a passage in a letter written to Mr. Godkin, 20 December, 1867:
“I was sorry to see you [in the _Nation_] relaxing a little about
impeachment. For myself, I have seen no sufficient reason to change
my old opinion of its folly. They remind me of the boy’s playing at
hanging, who finds he has done it all right,--only forgotten to cut
himself down. We _might_ be able to stand it, we are a wonderful
people, of course, but the other lesson of standing A. J. to the end
of his tether is worth ten of this. The South is as mad now as it ever
will be.”
[29] With a single exception, for which see _infra_, p. 122.
[30] _Letters_, i. 349.
[31] “Rousseau,” in _Literary Essays_, ii. 256.
[32] _Letters_, i. 408.
[33] After all Whittier changed his mind and gave his book the title
“Among the Hills.”
[34] The bookbinder who wanted the lettering for the volume.
[35] Originally designed to make part of _The Nooning_.
[36] George Eliot’s _The Spanish Gipsy_.
[37] It was Gobright’s _Recollections_.
[38] Lowell amplified this thought in his paper on Chaucer, _Literary
Essays_, iii. 299, 300.
[39] _Letters_, ii. 5. There was a reciprocity of feeling, if we may
judge from the striking fact that on the right, within the gate which
leads to the impressive common tomb of the Army of Tennessee, in New
Orleans, is an inscription taken from Lowell’s poem, “On the Capture of
Fugitive Slaves near Washington.”
“Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.”
[40] Perhaps it was on this journey that she told Mrs. Fields she never
thought of her father as a poet, but just her father.
[41] _Letters_, ii. 52.
[42] _Letters_, ii. 35.
[43] _Letters_, ii. 38.
[44] See _Letters_, ii. 64-67. Also the Cambridge edition of Lowell’s
poems, p. 479.
[45] On Goodwin’s _Plutarch’s Morals_.
[46] _Yesterdays with Authors_, published first in the _Atlantic_,
where Lowell also read it, as “Our Whispering Gallery.”
[47] The first volume of Forster’s _Dickens_ was published in advance
of the others.
[48] _Letters_, ii. pp. 81-128.
[49] Mr. Norton with his family was at St. Germain, near Paris.
[50] The difficulty has since been obviated by the system of sabbatical
years at Harvard, with half salary.
[51] After three weeks spent with Mr. Norton and his family at their
hotel in Paris, Mr. and Mrs. Lowell moved across the river, upon the
departure of their friends to London. As will be seen later, this
little hotel became their familiar home whenever they were in Paris.
They endeared themselves to their host and hostess, and long after
there hung, perhaps still hangs, in the office, a large photograph of
Lowell.
[52] A well known second-hand bookseller in Boston.
[53] Mrs. Burnett’s first child had lately been born.
[54] _Letters_, ii. 125.
[55] See _Letters_, ii. 115.
[56] “While the wise nose’s firm-built aquiline.”
[57] One clause of his will reads: “I give to the corporation of
Harvard College, the Library thereof, my copy of Webster on Witchcraft,
formerly belonging to Increase Mather, President of the College; and
also any books from my library of which the College Library does not
already possess copies, or of which the copies or editions in my
library are for any reason whatever preferable to those possessed by
the College Library.” He had at the time of his death about seven
thousand books in his library.
[58] He was wont to assemble on the fly-leaf of a volume notable words
that had struck him when reading the text, and it is worth noting
that the careful index to the Riverside edition of Lowell’s writings
contains under the heading “Words and Phrases” some seven score
examples.
[59] The verse in “Agassiz” which cut deepest was that containing the
lines
“And all the unwholesomeness
The Land of Broken Promise serves of late
To teach the Old World how to wait.”
When he reprinted in the poem in _Heartsease and Rue_, Lowell made some
verbal changes, and in this passage substituted “the Land of Honest
Abraham” for the “Land of Broken Promise.” One may ponder over the
change and settle it with himself which stings more, irony or sarcasm.
[60] The letter was also printed by Mr. Norton in _Letters_, with a few
of the omitted passages filled in.
[61] The reference is to a volume by Mr. William Cleaver Wilkinson,
entitled _A Free Lance in the Field of Life and Letters_, published
in 1874, which contained three papers on “Mr. Lowell’s Poetry,” “Mr.
Lowell’s ‘Cathedral,’” and “Mr. Lowell’s Prose.” In a letter to Mrs.
Clifford (_Letters_, ii. 290) Lowell refers to this book apparently
when he says: “You will be glad to hear that a man once devoted an
entire volume to the exposure of my _solecisms_, or whatever he chose
to call them. I never read it--lest it should spoil my style by making
it conscious.” The papers on Lowell constitute, however, less than a
third of Mr. Wilkinson’s book.
[62] See, for further detail, Mr. E. P. Bliss’s statement in _Letters_,
ii. 160, 161, footnote.
[63] Mr. Blaine.
[64] _Letters_, ii. 171.
[65] _Letters_, ii. 173-178.
[66] _Literary Friends and Acquaintances_, pp. 237, 238.
[67] Elmwood, 5 June, 1877. _Letters_, ii. 104.
[68] To Miss Grace Norton. _Letters_, ii. 195, 196.
[69] _Letters_, ii. 200-202.
[70] Copied in _Impressions of Spain_, pp. 53-72.
[71] Señor Cánovas del Castillo.
[72] See, for the larger part, _Impressions of Spain_, pp. 23-42.
[73] “Bare is back without a brother behind it.”
_Norse Proverb._
[74] _Letters_, i 343.
[75] _New York Tribune_, 16 August, 1891.
[76] _Auld Lang Syne_, p. 179.
[77] The succession of Mr. Arthur to the presidency naturally set
flying all sorts of rumors about a fresh deal in high offices.
[78] The old inn at which he and the Fields had formerly stayed.
[79] “E Pluribus Unum,” _Political Essays_, pp. 67, 68. Printed first
in the _Atlantic Monthly_, February, 1861.
[80] Despatch No. 132, dated 26 February, 1881.
[81] _Foreign Relations_, 1881, p. 543.
[82] The title of the act, called sometimes the “coercion” sometimes
the “protection” act, was “An act for the better protection of person
and property in Ireland.”
[83] Mr. Frelinghuysen had succeeded Mr. Blaine as Secretary of State.
[84] _The New York Tribune_, 5, 6 April, 1882.
[85] _The Spectator_, 1 August, 1891.
[86] _Letters_, ii. 293, 294.
[87] _The Athenæum_, 22 August, 1891.
[88] January, 1897. “Conversations with Mr. Lowell.”
[89] _Literary Essays_, iv.
[90] “The Place of the Independent in Politics,” in _Literary and
Political Addresses_.
[91] 13 August, 1891.
[92] Report No. 1188, 49th Congress, 1st session, p. 28.
[93] All these remarks were stenographically reported and subjected
probably to little revision, certainly to none by the speaker.
[94] Mr. James Welsh, representing the Typographical Union.
[95] See _supra_, vol. i. p. 293.
[96] “I went also,” he says, after hunting up the magazine in the
Athenæum, “to see Whittier, who was in town. He was very cordial. There
is a wrinkled freshness about him as of a russet apple in April, but I
fear we shan’t have him much longer.”
[97] A month before Mr. Gilder had asked for a poem, and Lowell had put
him off thus: “Rhymes for Gilder indeed! He doesn’t need ’em for he can
make ’em. But I have a pocketful. I give you one at a time:--
“Love to Mrs. Gilder
_And_ to all the childer.”
After that, in a series of brief notes called out by the Landor
article, there was a peppering of these lines, each note ending in a
couplet, as--
“Give my love to Mrs. Gilder,
Hope this weather hasn’t chill’d her.”
“Love to Mrs. Gilder,
Glad that it thrilled her.”
“Love to Mrs. Gilder:
At her birth kind fairies filled her
(to be continued in my next).”
“(Continued)
Cup with all sweet gifts and trilled her
(to be continued)”
but in his next he is obliged to write: “I have lost my cue in the epic
poem to Mrs. Gilder’s address. I thought I could carry it in my memory,
but find that her pocket has holes in it.”
[98] That is, by parting with more of his land in Cambridge.
[99] _Letters_, ii. 337.
[100] See “A Poet’s Yorkshire Haunts,” in the _Atlantic Monthly_,
August, 1895.
[101] Chickering Hall, New York, 28 November, 1887.
[102] In one of the verses of this poem Lowell had used the picturesque
phrase:--
“Let the bull-fronted surges glide
Caressingly along thy side,
Like glad hounds leaping by the huntsman’s knees.”
In answer to a criticism from a friend, he wrote: “There is no mixed
metaphor. I don’t compare the waves to bulls, but merely say they are
bull-fronted,--and so they are, with the foam curling over between
their horns as in the bulls which I have often interviewed in the
pastures here--with a stout stone wall between us _viersteht sich_.
That I afterward say they leap like hounds implies no confusion of
images. My dog Vixen has a bull-front, if ever there was one, and is
always leaping about my knees, as my trousers can testify.---- saw the
waves and heard ’em butt against the prow. Ask her. I always see what I
describe while I am thinking of it. I see the waves now, as if I were
in mid ocean on board the good barque Sultana in ’51.” To the same
friend he wrote a month later: “I am glad you found something in the
Téméraire for all that,--or try to be glad. But when I saw it in print,
it saddened me.”
[103] Dr. Mitchell likewise received an honorary degree in medicine
from the University of Bologna on this occasion.
[104] In a note to me at the same time he wrote: “I begin to examine my
cards curiously, expecting to find that of Old Age overlooked in some
corner.”
[105] _The Westminster Gazette_, 21 August, 1893.
[106] The poem was by Mr. Bliss Carman.
[107] “Small-Beer Chronicle,” in _Roundabout Papers_.
[108] An examination made after Lowell’s death showed that the bleeding
with which the sickness began eighteen months or more previously was
the first step in the course of the growth of a cancer of the kidney.
The disease had extended to the liver, and at the last to the lungs.
[109] See an interesting note by W. J. Stillman in the _Spectator_, 1
July, 1899.
[110] For these details I am indebted to statements made by Mrs. Mary
Lowell Putnam and to _The Historic Genealogy of the Lowells of America
from 1639 to 1899_. Compiled and edited by Delmar R. Lowell.
[111] As Mrs. Lowell’s paternal ancestry went back but two generations
on this side of the Atlantic, it has been thought well to trace her
grandmother’s descent from Robert Cutt [the name later becoming Cutts],
who was in the same generation with John Lowell, the son of the first
Perceval Lowell. I am indebted for most of this material to _Genealogy
of the Cutts family in America_, compiled by Cecil Hampden Cutts
Howard. Albany: Joel Munsell’s Sons. 1892.
[112] Abbreviated afterward in this record as “Standard.”