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Gray, Asa, professor at Harvard, 196, 197.

“Gray, Billy,” 264.

Greeley, Horace, editor of the Tribune, 97, 175;
attitude towards Lincoln, 178, 179.

Greenleaf, Simon, professor of law at Harvard, 32, 81.

Guyot, Arnold, story of his dinner-party, 199.

Hale, Charles, 251.

Hale, Horatio, member of Wilkes’s exploring expedition, 25, 26;
prints vocabulary of Micmac Indian language, 26, 27.

Hale, John Parker, minister to Spain, 218.

Hale, Nathan, Jr., at Harvard, 27, 29, 30;
editor, 35, 36, 83–86, 114;
member of the “Band,” 70, 73, 74.

Hale, Sarah Everett, 71, 72.

Hall, Newman, 194.

Hancock, Governor, 18.

Hartington, Lord, 248.

Harris, Clarendon, 154.

Harrison, President, speech at New York, at the centennial of the
adoption of the Constitution, 269, 270.

Hart, ——, referred to in J.R. L.’s correspondence, 242.

Hart, Albert B., review of diplomatic relations between United
States and Spain, in Harper’s Monthly, 218, 221.

Harvard College, sends Pietas et Gratulatio to George III., 7;
life at, 15–26, 36;
library, 16, 68, 271;
Phi Beta Kappa and Commencement dinners, 117;
modern language work, 126, 127, 130;
growth of the college, 128–130, 133, 134, 192;
professors contemporary with Lowell, 170;
quarter-millennial celebration, 198.

Harvard men in the Civil War, 180.

Harvard Society of Alumni, J.R. L. president of, 117.

Harvardiana, 25, 29, 30, 35–39, 93, 94;
Lowell one of the editors of, 25, 35–39.

Haskell, Daniel N., 67.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, in Concord, 43, 44;
in Boston, 58;
a contributor to the Boston Miscellany of Literature and
Fashion, 84;
publishes books, 152;
member of the Saturday Club, 202;
remark on English women, 275.

Hayes, Rutherford B., elected President, 212, 213;
appoints J.R. L. minister to England, 234, 238.

Hayward, Charles, one of the editors of Harvardiana, 25–27.

Heath, Frank, college friend of J.R. L., prominent in Confederate
army, 95.

Hebrew origins studied by J.R. L., 276.

Hecuba, 128.

Hedge, Dr. F.H., his Phi Beta Kappa address, 128, 129;
contributor to War Songs for Freemen, 185.

Hercules and the Hydra, 211.

Herder, Johann Gottfried von, 46.

Hermann, Friedrich B.W. von, 58.

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, pupil of William Wells, 13;
his
classical scholarship, 14;
trained in English by E.T. Channing, 19;
Cheerful Yesterdays, 100;
a contributor to The Atlantic Monthly, 166.

Hildreth, Richard, historian, 69, 152.

Hildreth, Samuel Tenney, one of the editors of Harvardiana, 25–27.

Hill, Thomas, president of Harvard, 129, 130, 134, 193, 194–196.

Hillard, George Stillman, contributor to North American Review, 61.

Hilliard & Gray, publishers, 153, 155.

Historical Society, library of, 68.

Hoar, George Frisbie, 202.

Hoar, Judge, president of Phi Beta Kappa, 117;
member of the Saturday Club, 202.

Hoar family, in Concord, 44.

Hoffman, August Heinrich, 46.

Holden, Mr., 122.

Holmes, John, his classical scholarship, 14, 188, 266.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, pupil of William Wells, 13;
classical scholarship, 14;
trained in English by E.T. Channing, 19;
after-dinner speaker, 40;
heard in public in Boston in the 40’s, 57, 67;
note to J.R. L. quoted, 118, 119;
member of the Saturday Club, 157, 158, 201;
referred to in speaking of the Atlantic, 160;
My Hunt after the Captain, 161;
the Autocrat, 165;
contributor to War Songs for Freemen, 185;
calls Emerson the Buddha of the West, 203;
later companionship with J.R. L., 266.

“Hospital for Incurable Children” (anecdote), 263.

Hotel France et Lorraine, Lowell’s home in Paris, 206, 207.

House of Commons, visited by Charles Lowell, 19.

Howe, Dr. and Mrs. Estes, 145, 266.

Howe, Mrs. Julia Ward, 185, 186.

Howells, William Dean, contributor to and editor of The Atlantic
Monthly, 151;
contributor to the North American, 169;
member of the Saturday Club, 202.

Hughes, Thomas, friend of J.R. L. and guest at Elmwood, 258, 259.

Hughes, Mrs. Thomas, 259.

Hunt, William Morris, 202.

Hunter, Mrs. Leo, 257.

Hutten, Heinrich von, member of Kossuth’s suite, 138;
translates Uncle Tom’s Cabin into German, 138.

Hutten, Ulrich von, 138.

Immortality, Lowell’s belief in, 281, 282.

In Memoriam, published by Ticknor & Fields, 65;
anecdote concerning, 65, 66.

Independent in Politics, The, address before New York Reform Club,
270.

Inglis, Fanny. _See_ Calderon de la Barca, Madam.

Irish-Americans not satisfied with J.R. L. as minister to England,
238.

Irish sympathizers’ criticism of J.R. L., 276.

Irving, Washington, minister to Spain, 213.

Isabella II., of Spain, 220.

Jackson, Judge, 58.

James, Henry, 202.

Jefferson, Thomas, hated by Josiah Quincy, 18;
at William and Mary’s College, 126.

Jennison, James, professor at Harvard, 170.

Jewish strain in Lowell family, 276.

Jowett, Life of, 22;
his opinion of sermons, 99.

July reviewed by September, 171.

Jungfrau, first ascent of, by Agassiz, 198.

Kansas, struggle for freedom of, 101, 171, 218.

Keats, John, his poems, published in Philadelphia, 23;
J.R. L.’s admiration of, 89.

King, Augusta Gilman, 71, 72.

King, Caroline Howard, 71.

King, John Gallison, friend of J.R. L., 70, 74, 79.

King, John Glen, distinguished lawyer, 79.

King, Rufus, at Harvard, 27, 29–33, 35, 36;
lawyer and citizen of eminence in Cincinnati, 31, 32;
member of the Constitutional Convention of Ohio, 32;
Dean of the Faculty of the Cincinnati Law School, 32;
contributor to Harvardiana, 36.

King, Rufus (the elder), leader of Federalist party, 31.

King, Thomas Starr, settles in Boston, 67;
bright sayings, 106, 107.

“King’s Arms, The,” 74.

Knickerbocker Magazine, 82, 83, 160.

Koerner, Gustav, minister to Spain, 218.

Lane, General, 183.

Lane, George M., professor at Harvard, 170.

Lass of the Pamunky, The, 186.

Laud, Bishop, 103, 104.

Lawrence, Abbott, minister to England, 239.

Lawrence, Amos Adams, anecdote of, 264.

Lecture system. _See_ Lyceum system.

Ledger. _See_ New York Ledger, 284.

Leland, Charles Godfrey, 186.

Leland, Henry Perry, 186.

Lexington, battle of, 2.

Liberator, The, 56, 174.

Liberty Bell, The, 97–101.

Libraries in Boston before 1850, 66, 68.

Lilliburlero, 186.

Lilliput circle of Boston and Cambridge, 51.

Lincoln, Abraham, 172, 178, 200, 201, 218.

Lincoln, Robert, reminiscence of Lowell, 142, 143;
anecdote of his entrance to Harvard, 200, 201.

Lippitt, George Warren, at Harvard, 27, 29, 30, 35, 36;
secretary of legation at Vienna, 29;
Unitarian preacher, 32, 33.

Literary Messenger, The, 82.

Lochinvar, 280.

London Quarterly Review, The, 62, 168.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, “Smith professor” at Harvard, 19–21, 40,
41, 128, 130;
contributor to the North American Review, 61, 62;
succeeded in his professorship by J.R. L., 127;
friendship with J.R. L., 135, 137;
kindness to Heinrich von Hutten, 138, 144;
member of the Saturday Club, 157, 202;
contributor to the Atlantic, 165, 166;
anecdote of, 187;
dies during J.R. L.’s residence in England, 266.

Longfellow, Samuel, 31.

Longfellow Park, 278.

Loring, Caleb Williams, 161.

Loring, Charles Greeley, Boston lawyer, 81.

Loring, Frederick Wadsworth, 131, 132, 185.

Loring, George Bailey, intimate friend of J.R. L., 36, 58, 80;
contributor to Harvardiana, 36, 109, 132.

Louis Napoleon. _See_ Napoleon III.

Lovering, Joseph, professor at Harvard, 134, 170.

Lowell, A. Lawrence, extracts from, and references to, his memoir
of J.R. L., 149, 162–164, 172, 210, 260, 270.

Lowell, Blanche, daughter of J.R. L., 149.

Lowell, Charles, brother of J.R. L., 12.

Lowell, Charles, father of J.R. L., minister of West Church, Boston,
1, 6–12, 53, 54, 96, 101.

Lowell, Charles Russell, nephew of J.R. L., killed during the Civil
War, 180–182.

Lowell, Frances Dunlap, wife of J.R. L., 145, 205, 207, 208, 234,
235, 240, 241, 259, 260.

Lowell, Francis Cabot, founder of the city of Lowell, 7.

Lowell, Harriet Spence, mother of J.R. L., 3, 4, 276, 283.

Lowell, James Jackson, nephew of J.R. L., killed during the Civil
War, 180–184.

Lowell, James Russell, parentage, 1, 3;
boyhood, 1, 3–5, 11–14;
early views on slavery, 8;
college days, 15–21;
one of the editors of Harvardiana, 25, 35;
member of Alpha Delta Phi, 27;
early poems, 30, 34, 39;
appointed class poet, 39;
“rusticated” in consequence of indifference to college rules, 40,
41;
stay at Concord, 43–54;
class poem, 50–53;
choice of a profession, 58, 59, 69;
intimate friends 70–77;
abandons law for literature, 81, 82, 85;
a contributor to The Boston Miscellany of Literature and Fashion,
35, 82–86;
with Robert Carter establishes The Pioneer, which dies after three
months, 86–91;
goes to New York for treatment of his eyes, 88–90;
marries Maria White, 1844, 92;
publishes A Year’s Life, 1841, 93, 94;
spends winter of 1844–45 in Philadelphia, 96;
writes for The Liberty Bell and the National Anti-Slavery Standard,
97, 98, 173, 175;
publishes The Biglow Papers, first series, 98;
lectures in behalf of the anti-slavery and temperance reforms, and
on literary subjects, 100, 101, 109–117;
gives Lowell Institute course, 112–117;
president of the Harvard Society of Alumni, 117–121;
president of the Phi Beta Kappa of Cambridge, 117–121;
death of Mrs. Lowell, 125;
goes to Europe, 125;
“Smith professor” at Harvard, 125, 127, 130, 132–135, 137–139,
141–144, 164, 170, 171, 193–201;
marries Miss Frances Dunlap, 145;
editorial work, 145–169, 179, 180;
member of the Saturday Club, 157, 158, 201;
goes abroad, 163;
political essays, 171, 175;
contributor to the National Anti-Slavery Standard, 175–177;
losses of relatives in the Civil War, 180;
visits Paris, 205–208;
Rome, 209;
returns to Elmwood, 209;
his stand in political matters, 211;
presidential elector, 212, 213;
offered several foreign missions, appointed to Spain, 192, 213, 214;
difficulties of the position, 215–221, 225;
life in Madrid, 228–234;
transferred to England, 234;
life in London, 238–261;
death of the second Mrs. Lowell, 241, 259;
tour on the Continent, 253;
returns to America, 261, 262;
last years, 262–284;
public addresses and readings, 266, 269, 278, 279;
Lowell Institute lectures, 270, 279;
later literary work, 270, 271;
etymological study, 271, 272;
death, 262.

Lowell, John, minister at Newburyport, 6.

Lowell, John [2d], judge, 6, 7;
his opposition to slavery, 6;
a verse-writer, 7.

Lowell, John [3d], founder of the Lowell Institute, 7, 9, 112, 113.

Lowell, John, judge, great grandson of John Lowell [2d] above, 202.

Lowell, John Amory, 197.

Lowell, Mabel. _See_ Burnett, Mabel Lowell.

Lowell, Maria White, wife of J.R. L., 71, 72, 75, 76, 78, 86, 87,
91–93;
writes for The Liberty Bell and National Anti-Slavery Standard, 97;
death of, 125, 163.

Lowell, Mary. _See_ Putnam, Mary Lowell.

Lowell, Percival, 7.

Lowell, Rebecca, sister of J.R. L., 11.

Lowell, Robert Traill Spence, brother of J.R. L., 11, 267, 276.

Lowell, Rose, daughter of J.R. L., 149, 163.

Lowell, Walter, son of J.R. L., 163.

Lowell, William, brother of J.R. L., 11, 12.

Lowell factory girls, 83.

Lowell Institute, the, 7, 66, 67, 112, 113;
lectures before, by J.R. L., 112, 113, 270, 279.

“Lyceum system,” 99, 100, 102–110, 112, 152;
influence of, in developing anti-slavery sentiment, 104.

Lyman, Mrs., Life of, 167.

Lyttelton, Lady, friend of J.R. L. and Mrs. L., 259.

Macaulay, T.B., remark on Bunyan, 277.

Macaulay’s History, published in Boston, 156.

Man without a Country, The, published in The Atlantic Monthly,
161, 162.

Mann, Horace, 194.

Mansfield, Lord, decision of, in regard to slavery in England
(Somerset case), 6.

Mason, John Y., member of the Ostend conference, 217.

Mason and Slidell, J.R. L.’s writing concerning, 260.

Massachusetts Bay Colony, 102, 103.

Massachusetts Bill of Rights, anti-slavery clauses, 6, 8.

Massachusetts Historical Society, 68, 110, 152.

Massachusetts Society for Diffusing Useful Knowledge, 110.

Mayhew, Thomas, pastor of West Church, first suggested federation of
American colonies, 9.

McClellan, Gen. George B., 181.

McCoil, Fein, 241.

McInerny, John, Irish suspect, 244.

McLeod, Mrs., teacher in Boston, 224.

McMicken bequest, 32.

Mead, Edwin D., article on the Pioneer, 87, 88.

Mechanics’ Association, 110.

Mechanics’ Institutes, 105.

Memorial Hall, Cambridge, 118.

Mercantile Library Association, 66, 67, 110.

Mercedes, queen of Alphonso XII., 232, 233.

Mexican War, 162.

Miller, William, Second Adventist, 57.

Minister’s position in New England in the 18th century, 9.

Miscellany, The Boston. _See_ #Boston Miscellany of Literature
and Fashion.

Missouri Compromise, 8, 96.

Modern language instruction at Harvard, 15, 126, 130;
at William and Mary’s, 126.

Modoc Indians, 210.

Monroe, James, publisher, 154.

Montgomery, Robert, 281.

Monthly Anthology, The, 62, 152.

Montpensier, Duchess of, 219.

Morris, Gouverneur, opinion of, on the Union, 18.

Morse, John T., jr., his Life of Dr. Holmes, 11, 201.

Mosby, Colonel, 182.

Motley, John Lothrop, publishes Merrymount, 69;
member of the Saturday Club, 157, 158, 202;
contributor to the Atlantic, 165, 166;
the North American, 169;
minister to Austria, 213;
to England, 239;
anecdote of, 263.

Moxon, Edward, 85.

Murray’s Dictionary, 253–257, 272.

Music (poem), 12.

“Mutual Admiration Society,” 57, 59–66, 134, 169.

My Brook, 284–286.

My First Client, 80, 85.

Napoleon III. (Louis Charles Napoleon Bonaparte), his action during
the American Civil War, 218–220.

Nation, The, occasion of its composition, 210.

National Anti-Slavery Standard, 97, 101, 149, 163, 171–179.

Natural History Society at Harvard, foundation of, 23.

New England Emigrant Aid Company, 212.

New England Magazine, first, 82;
present series, 87, 201.

New Tariff Bill, The, 171.

New York Ledger, 284.

New York Reform Club, 270.

New York Tribune, The, during the Civil War, 175–179.

Niagara, described by Rev. Barzillai Frost, 45.

“Nightingale in the Study, The,” 271.

Nolan, Philip, 217.

Norna, 4, 277.

North American Review, early character and influence of, 59–64, 82,
152, 167, 168;
edited by Palfrey, 59–61;
by Edward and Alexander Everett, 62, 63;
by Lowell and Norton, 145, 167–169, 171, 179.

North, Christopher, 37.

Norton, Caroline, 188.

Norton, Grace, letters to, 229, 281.

Norton, Charles Eliot, friend of J.R. L. and editor of his letters,
33, 78, 80, 122, 135, 265, 266;
editor, with J.R. L., of the North American Review, 151, 168, 169;
member of the Saturday Club, 202.

Ode, 85, 86.

Odeon, 57.

Old and New, edited by Nathan Hale, 35;
by E.E. Hale, 164, 216.

Old Corner Bookstore, 57, 64, 66.

Old English Dramatists, first draft of, 29;
published in Boston Miscellany, 85;
reception by the press, 92;
later series, 270, 279.

Oliver, Thomas, lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts, lives at
Elmwood in 1774, 1;
resigns his commission, 2.

Oriental Society, 235.

Ostend, conference at, 217.

Oxford Dictionary. _See_ Murray’s Dictionary.

Page, William, 73, 266.

Paine, John Knowles, 189.

Palfrey, John Gorham, member of Harvard divinity faculty, editor of
the North American Review, 59–61;
reads Carlyle’s French Revolution, 61;
remark quoted, 68;
devotes himself to historical work, 69.

Palmerston, Lord, 249.

Parker, Theodore, lectures in Boston
and elsewhere, 101, 103, 104, 106.

Parkman, Francis, 202.

Parsons, T.W., 57.

Payne, John Howard, diplomatic correspondence concerning final
disposition of his remains, 245–247.

Peabody, Andrew Preston, acting president of Harvard, 196.

Peabody, Elizabeth, 58, 84.

Peirce, Benjamin, professor at Harvard, 24, 41, 128, 134.

Peirce, James Mills, professor at Harvard, 170, 202.

Perkins, Colonel, 264.

Perry, Horatio, secretary of American Legation at Madrid, 219.

Perseus and the dragon, 211.

Phi Beta Kappa dinners at Harvard, 40, 117, 203.

Phi Beta Kappa fraternity, 27;
J.R. L., president of Cambridge chapter, 117;
Dr. Hedge’s address, 128.

Philippines, the, 159.

Philistinism, 211.

Phillips, Moses Dresser, publisher. _See_ Phillips & Sampson.

Phillips, Wendell, 57;
as a lecturer, 101, 103, 104, 106, 108.

Phillips & Sampson, publishers, 64, 150–159.

Philological Society undertakes a dictionary, 254.

Photography, invention of, 31;
first photograph taken in New England, 31.

Pickens-and-Stealin’s Rebellion, The, 171.

Pickering correspondence, 217.

Pierce, Franklin, administration of, 180, 218.

Pierce, John, of Brookline, 10.

Pierpont, John, 174.

Pietas et Gratulatio, 7.

Pillsbury, Parker, 103.

Pioneer, The, established by Lowell and Robert Carter, 86–91, 95,
147, 149.

Polk, James K., 156, 217.

Portfolio, The, 82.

Power of Music, The, 13.

Power of Sound, The, 121–123.

Prescott, William Hickling, 69, 152, 159;
contributor to the Atlantic, 165, 166;
member of the Saturday Club, 202.

Present Crisis, The, 150.

President’s Policy, The, 171.

Prose and poetry, Lowell’s use of, 274.

Publishing houses in Boston, 152–157.

Putnam, Mary Lowell, sister of J.R. L., 4, 5, 11, 12, 266.

Putnam, William Lowell, nephew of J.R. L., killed during the Civil
War, 180, 181, 184, 185.

Quarter-Millennial celebration at Harvard, 198, 268.

Question of the Hour, The, 171.

Quincy, Edmund, 176.

Quincy, Josiah, president of Harvard, 15, 17, 18, 40, 41, 125, 133,
192, 193;
mayor of Boston, 17, 18;
belief in guidance of a “Daimon,” 18.

Randolph, John, defied by Josiah Quincy, 18.

Rebellion, The, its Causes and Consequences, 171.

Reconstruction, 171.

Reno, General, 181.

Renouf, Edward Augustus, classmate of J.R. L., 32.

Riano, Don Juan, archæologist, 236.

Riverside Press, 165.

Rogers, Nathaniel P., editor of the National Anti-Slavery Standard,
173, 174.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 46.

“Row up,” 47.

Rowfant Club, Cleveland, issues limited edition of Lowell’s first
course of Lowell Institute lectures, 114.

Royal Library at Madrid, 127.

Russell, Francis Lowell Dutton, 180.

Russell, James, great-grandfather of J.R. L., 7, 277.

Russell, Lord John, 249.

Russell, Warren Dutton, 180.

Sagasta, Spanish premier, 222, 223.

St. John in Patmos, 44.

Salamanca, General, 227.

Salignac’s drill corps, 184.

Sampson, Charles, publisher, 153, 154.

Santiago de Cuba, 225.

Saturday Club; first dinner-party, 156, 157;
history and membership, 201, 202, 266.

Sawyer, Warren, 67.

Saxton, General, 187.

Scates, Charles Woodman, at Harvard, 27, 29, 30, 35, 36;
lawyer in Carolina, 29;
friend of J.R. L., 33, 50.

Schmitt, Captain, 183.

Scotch the Snake or Kill it?, 171.

Second-sight possessed by J.R. L., 3, 4, 277.

Sedgwick, Mrs. T., 186.

Serenade, The, 74, 75.

Shelley’s poems published in Philadelphia, 23.

Shepherd of King Admetus, The, 85.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 9.

Sickles, D.E., 208, 225.

Silliman, Benjamin, 57.

Sixth Massachusetts Regiment in Baltimore, 181.

Skillygolee, 37.

Skillygoliana, 37, 38.

Slattery, John, Irish suspect, 244.

Slaves freed in Massachusetts, 6.

Smalley, George W., on J.R. L. as minister to England, 252, 260,
261, 275.

Smith, Abiel, benefactor of Harvard, 125, 126.

Smith, Adam, 126.

Smith professorship at Harvard, 19, 20, 126, 127, 130.

Societies at Harvard, 16, 26–29.

Somerset case. _See_ Mansfield, Lord, 6.

Sonnet to Keats, 85.

Sophocles, Professor, 170.

Soulé, Pierre, minister to Spain, 217, 218.

South, Dr., 282.

Southborough, J.R. L.’s residence in, 265, 276.

Southern Literary Magazine, 82.

Spain, American relations with, 208, 215–221, 225–228.

Spanish people, 222, 230, 231.

Sparks, Jared, president of Harvard, 41, 69, 129, 130, 133, 152, 193.

Spectator, The, quoted, 260.

Spence family, J.R. L.’s maternal ancestors, 3, 276.

Star Chamber, 104.

Stearns, Elijah Wyman, 50.

Stearns, Edward, 67.

Stedman, Edmund C., 169.

Stephen, Leslie, 180, 181.

Sterling, John, 106.

Story, Judge Joseph, professor of law at Harvard, 32, 81.

Story, Mary, 71, 72.

Story, William Wetmore, classmate of Lowell and Dr. Hale, 23;
visits West Point, 23;
assists Nathan Hale in the Boston Miscellany, 35;
contributes to Harvardiana, 36;
member of “The Band,” 70, 74, 76;
legal work, 79;
with Lowell in Rome, 163, 209;
work as a sculptor, 209;
later meeting with Lowell, 253;
separation, 266.

Stowe, Calvin Ellis, anecdote of, 187.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 83.

Strauss’s Leben Jesu, 59.

Summer Shower, poem by Longfellow, 20.

Sumner, Charles, his classical scholarship. 14;
trained in English by E.T. Channing, 19;
contributor to North American Review, 61;
lectures in Boston, 67;
member of the Saturday Club, 202.

Supreme Court of Mass, frees slaves, 6.

Taylor, Jeremy, 282.

Tacitus, Wells’s edition of, printed in Cambridge, 13.

Talbot, William H. Fox, inventor of photography, 31.

Tempora Mutantur, occasion of its composition, 210.

Tennyson’s poems at Harvard, 21.

Texas, annexation of, 96.

Thayer, J.B., 40.

Thiers, President, Lowell’s judgment of, 206.

Thomas, Isaiah, publisher of the first American Bible, 154.

Thoreau, Henry D., at Harvard, 25;
in Concord, 43, 44.

Thorndike, Israel, benefactor of Harvard, 68.

“Three Thousand New England Clergymen,” memorial addressed to, 101.

Thursday lecture, 103.

Ticknor, George, first “Smith professor” at Harvard, 20, 126, 127.

Ticknor & Fields, booksellers, 65, 154, 155.

Tilden, Samuel J., 212, 213.

Times, The London, 209, 210.

To Lamartine, 177.

To Perdita Singing, 85.

Tory refugees, 1.

Traill, Mary, grandmother of J.R. L., 3.

Traill, Robert, of Orkney, great-grandfather of J.R. L., 3.

Traill family, ancestors of J.R. L., 3, 276.

Transcendentalists, 202, 203.

Treadwell, Daniel, instructor in science at Harvard, 23.

Trench, Dean, 254.

Tribune. _See_ New York Tribune.

Trimmers, Miss, 11.

Troil, Minna, 3.

Tuckerman. Jane Frances, 72.

Tuckerman. John Francis, 72, 74.

Tudor, William, 58, 264.

Tupper, Martin, 281.

Turgot, Soulé’s duel with, 217.

Two, The, 85.

Tyler, John, President of the U.S., his position on the annexation
of Texas, 96;
his third veto, 111.

Ultra-Americanism of Lowell, 275.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin translated into German, 138.

Undergraduates’ attitude toward instructors, 140, 141.

Underwood, F.H., 157, 159.

University Hall, Harvard College, on title-page of Harvardiana, 37.

University of Cincinnati, foundation of, 32.

Ursuline Convent, Charlestown, 78.

Useful Knowledge Society, 105.

Vallandigham, Clement Laird, 162.

Virginius massacre, 208, 225.

Virtuoso’s Collection, A., 84.

Vision of Sir Launfal, The, 163.

“Voluntaries” at Harvard, 15.

Walker, James, president of Harvard, 57, 133, 134, 170, 193, 200.

Walpole, Horace, 63.

Ware, Henry, lectures in Boston, 106.

War Songs for Freemen, 185.

Warren, George, 67.

Washburn, Edward A., classmate of J.R. L., 32;
contributor to Harvardiana, 36.

Washington in Cambridge, 3;
visits Boston in 1792, 18;
visits Governor Shirley in Boston in 1756, 65.

Webster, Daniel, 57, 59, 67.

Webster’s Dictionary, motto of, 272, 273.

Weekly Pasquil, 176.

Wells, William, teacher of J.R. L., 13.

Welsh, John, minister to England, 239.

Wendell, Barrett, his paper on Lowell, 139, 140.

West Church, Boston, 9, 11.

West Indies in the Civil War, 218–220.

West Point, visit to, 23.

What is there in the Midnight Breeze? hitherto unpublished poem
by J.R. L., 34, 35.

Wheeler, Charles Stearns, one of the editors of Harvardiana, 25–27.

Whipple, Edwin P., 67, 158, 202.

Whitby, a favorite resort of J.R. L., 240, 279–281, 283.

White, Maria. _See_ Lowell, Maria White.

White, William Abijah, brother of Maria White Lowell, 70, 74, 78, 79.

White, William Orne, his classical scholarship, 14.

Whitman, Walt, 84.

Whittier, John G., 202.

Wilberforce, William, 9.

Wilbur, Parson, 44, 45.

Williams, Henry, 27.

Willis, N.P., his criticism of Lowell as an editor, 88, 148;
as a poet, 90.

Wilson, Henry, 175, 179.

Winthrop, John, 160.

Winthrop, Robert C., 67.

Winthrop, Theodore, killed near Hampton, 161;
a contributor to The Atlantic Monthly, 161.

World’s Fair, The (poem), 210.

Worthington, Governor, of Ohio, 31.

“Yankee Plato,” 203.

Year’s Life, A, 12, 74, 93–95.

Young, Edward, 281.

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Footnote 1:

That copy is still preserved,—among the treasures of Mr. Emerson’s
library in Concord,—beautifully bound, for such was his habit with
books which he specially loved.

Footnote 2:

Margaret Fuller was nine years older than Lowell. A good deal of her
early life was spent in Cambridge; and his banter in the _Fable for
Critics_, which was really too sharp, belongs, not to his manhood’s
serious views, but to a boy’s humor.

Footnote 3:

In the preface Bancroft says that he has formed the design of writing
our history “to the present time.” “The work will extend to four,
perhaps five, volumes.” In fact, four volumes carried him to 1776.
When he died he had published twelve, which brought him to 1789. One
volume of this series, which advances the history only one year,
followed its predecessor after two years.

Footnote 4:

I have that little volume now, enriched with James’s marks and
annotations, and full of pleasant memories.

Footnote 5:

_The Serenade._

Footnote 6:

The oldest form of this song is—

“The siege of Belle Isle,
I was there all the while.”

This carries it back as far as 1761.

Footnote 7:

Seeing that Miss Barrett herself recognized the fact that these
American magazine publishers were among the first people who ever
paid her any money, it is sufficiently English that in the same
volume of her correspondence which contains her acknowledgment there
is talk about “American piracy.” One would like to know whether Mrs.
Browning did not receive in the long run more money from American
than from English publishers.

Footnote 8:

Alas, to be eclipsed again!

Footnote 9:

This anecdote arrested attention when it was first published, and I
received more than one note explaining to me that it could not be
true.

All the same it is true. And I took care to verify the dates of the
several steps of the story.

Footnote 10:

Copyright, 1890, by Robert Bonner’s Sons.

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Transcriber’s note:

Illustrations and photographs were not included in pagination. The captions are retained, but have been re-positioned to avoid falling mid-paragraph.

Minor errors in punctuation and formatting have been silently corrected.

Minor inconsistencies and errors which are obviously due to the printer have been corrected, as noted in the table below.

Several page references in the Index were missing, and have been added. The reference to Lady Lyttelton appeared on p. 259. Likewise, the reference to ‘A Virtuoso’s Collection’ appeared on p. 84.

On p. 260, the sentence beginning ‘And Mr. Smalley at the time wrote...’ seems to call for a new paragraph.

In the final poem, ‘My Brook’, the line ‘And Will-o’-Wisp light me his lantern no more?’ was not indented, though the regular form of the poem would indicate that it should have been.

p. 115 dilustered _sic._ delustered?
p. 217 show what Jef[f]erson thought Added. Line-break error.
p. 258 Amelia [Blandford] Edwards _sic._ Blanford

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The following are transcriptions of the several reproduced documents given in the text. Those which are hand-written are sometimes illegible, and are annotated as such.

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Transcription of document between p. 50-51.

TO THE CLASS OF ’38,

BY THEIR OSTRACIZED POET, (SO CALLED,)

J.R. L.

I.

Classmates, farewell! our journey’s done,
Our mimic life is ended,
The last long year of study’s run,
Our prayers their last have blended!

CHORUS.

Then fill the cup! fill high! fill high!
Nor spare the rosy wine!
If Death be in the cup, we’ll die!
_Such_ death would be divine!

II.

Now forward! onward! let the past
In private claim its tear,
For while _one_ drop of wine shall last,
We’ll have no sadness here!

CHORUS.

Then fill the cup! fill high! fill high!
Although the hour be late,
We’ll hob and nob with Destiny,
And drink the health of Fate!

III.

What though ill-luck may shake his fist,
We heed not him or his,
We’ve booked our names on Fortune’s list,
So d—n his grouty phiz!

CHORUS.

Then fill the cup! fill high! fill high!
Let joy our goblets crown,
We’ll bung Misfortune’s scowling eye,
And knock Foreboding down!

IV.

Fling out youth’s broad and snowy sail,
Life’s sea is bright before us!
Alike to us the breeze or gale,
So hope shine cheerly o’er us!

CHORUS.

Then fill the cup! fill high! fill high!
And drink to future joy,
Let thought of sorrow cloud no eye,
Here’s to our eldest boy!

V.

Hurrah! Hurrah! we’re launched at last,
To tempt the billows’ strife!
We’ll nail our pennon to the mast,
And DARE the storms of life!

CHORUS.

Then fill the cup! fill high once more!
There’s joy on time’s dark wave;
Welcome the tempest’s angry roar!
’T is music to the brave.

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Transcription of document between p. 52-53.

VALEDICTORY EXERCISES OF THE HARVARD CLASS OF 1838

HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

VALEDICTORY EXERCISES OF THE SENIOR CLASS OF

1838,

TUESDAY JULY 17, 1838.

1. VOLUNTARY. BY THE BAND.

2. PRAYER. BY THE REV. DR. WARE JR.

3. ORATION. BY JAMES I.T. COOLIDGE. _Boston._

4. POEM. By JAMES R. LOWELL.^* _Boston._

5. ODE. BY JOHN F.W. WARE. _Cambridge._

TUNE. “_Auld Lang Syne._”

THE voice of joy is hushed around,
Still is each heart and tongue;
We part for aye,—at duty’s call
We break the pleasing spell.

We meet to part,—no more to meet
Within these sacred walls,—
No longer Wisdom to her shrine
Her wayward children calls.

We met as strangers at the fount
Whence Learning’s waters flow,—
And now we part, the prayers of friends
Attend the path we go.

CHORUS.

And on the clouds that shade our way,
If Friendship’s star shine clear,
No grief shall dim a brother’s eye,
No sorrow tempt a tear.

Yet often when the soul is sad,
And worldly ills combine,
Our hearts shall hither turn, and breathe
One sigh for “Auld Lang Syne.”

Then, brothers, blessed be your lot,
May Peace forever dwell
Around the hearths of those we’ve known
And loved so long,—farewell.

CHORUS.

Farewell,—our latest voice sends up
A heartfelt wish of love,—
That we may meet again, and form
One brotherhood above.

6. BENEDICTION.

* On account of the absence of the Poet the Poem will be omitted.

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Transcription of handwritten note between p. 92-93.

List of Copies of the “Conversation” to be given away
by “the Don”

1 W.L. Garrison with author’s respects.

2 C. F. Briggs by Wily & Putnam N.Y.

3 Mrs Chapman with author’s affectionate regards.

4 T. W. Parson, copy of poems & Conversations with author’s love.
(a note to go with these).

5 John S. Dwight (left at Munroe's bookstore Boston) with
author’s love.

6 W. Page with author’s love.

7 R. C. " " "

8 Rev^d D^r Lowell Dedication Copy. ask Owen to send it up.

9 Charles R. Lowell j^r with uncle’s love (No 1, Winter Place)

10 Rev^d Chandler Robbins with authors sincere regard (Munroe's
bookstore)

13 J.R.L. 3 through Antislavery office Care J. M. M^cKim

14 Mr Nichols (printing office) with author’s sincere regards.

15 { R.W. Emerson with author’s affectionate respects. { 16 { N. Hawthorne, with author’s love.

Both then in one package directed to Hawthorne & left at Miss
Peabody’s

17 Frank Shaw with author’s love.

18 C.W. Storey jr with happy New Year.

I suppose Mr Owen will allow me 20 copies as he
did of the poems.

If the “Don” thinks of any more which I [illegible]
forgotten let him send them with judicious inscriptions.

19 “To Miss S.C. Lowell with the best newyear’s wishes of her
affectionate nephew the author.”

(Mr Owen will send this up.)

20 Joseph T. Buckingham Esq with author’s regards & thanks.