INDEX.
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Academy, Concord, 46.
Acton, originally a part of Concord, 32.
Adams, John Quincy, 78.
Adams, Samuel, 100.
African Slaves in Concord, 203-205.
Agassiz, Louis, 115, 243, 245.
Agricola at Marseilles, 64.
Alcott, A. Bronson, sonnet on Thoreau, v.;
born in Connecticut, 63;
at Concord Lyceum, 49;
visits Dr. Ripley, 80;
in old age, 81;
goes to live in Concord, 117;
helps "raise" Thoreau's hut, 118;
his School of Philosophy, 121;
an early Transcendentalist, 124;
his Paradise at Fruitlands, 134-140;
a friend of John Brown, 148;
plan of living in Concord woods, 155;
builds a summer-house for Emerson, 194;
his friendship with Thoreau, 186;
his conversations, 187, 188, 190, 199;
from his diary, 192, 195, 304;
peddler in Virginia, 187, 260;
visits Horace Greeley, 188;
harbors a fugitive slave, 195;
lends Thoreau his axe, 209;
goes to the opera with Greeley, 241;
with Thoreau in New Bedford, 267;
his opinion of Thoreau, 306.
Alcott, Louisa, 63, 91.
Allston, Washington, visits Concord, 111.
American literature, Thoreau's view of, 160.
American Slavery, Thoreau's opposition to, 195, 199, 292;
John Brown's attack upon, 292, 303.
Assabet River, 15, 33, 114, 202.
Ball, B. W., 135.
Bangor, 1, 5, 245.
Barnes, Lucy, 109, 110.
Barrett, Humphrey, a Concord farmer, 89, 98, 103, 107.
Barrett, Joseph, 114-117.
Bartlett, Dr. Josiah, 43, 44.
Bartlett, Robert, 190.
Bedford (the town), 9, 12.
Bedford road, 12, 270.
Betsey (Thoreau), 3, 4.
Bigelow, Dr. H. J., 62.
Blake, Harrison, 141, 301, 305, 307.
Bliss, Rev. Daniel, 74, 75, 99, 100.
Bliss, Daniel, the Tory, 100, 204.
Bliss, Phebe, 75, 205.
Boston, the home of John Thoreau, the Jerseyman, 2, 6;
of Henry Thoreau, 27;
birth-place of Emerson, 63.
Boston Miscellany, 220.
Bowen, Prof. Francis, 62.
Bradford, George P., 46.
Bradford, Gershom, 105.
Bremer, Frederika, 141.
Brisbane, Albert, 133, 134.
Brister's Hill, 202.
Brister, a freedman, 203, 205, 208.
Brook Farm, 134, 141.
Brooks, Nathan, 42, 46, 77, 105, 112.
Brooks, Mrs. Nathan, 68.
Brown, John, of Osawatomie, 146, 185, 199, 242, 292, 293, 295, 303.
Brown, Mrs., of Plymouth, 60.
Brownson, Orestes A., 53.
Bruno, Giordano, quoted, 208.
Bulkley family in Concord, 33, 39, 98.
Burke, Edmund, quoted, 299.
Buttrick, Major, 102.
Cambridge, Thoreau's residence in, 51;
letters from, 56, 61;
Thoreau's visit to, 196.
Campbell, Sir Archibald, 68.
Canada, Thoreau's excursion to, 233, 235.
Cape Cod, 236, 264.
Carlyle, Thomas, 124, 125, 193, 233;
Thoreau's essay on, 218-224.
Channing, Rev. Dr., 80, 82, 144.
Channing, Ellery (the poet), 11, 41, 49-51, 63, 70, 135, 136, 177-189;
his lines on Emerson, 69;
on Thoreau, 185, 214;
quoted, 49-51;
his friendship for Thoreau, 178-185;
his verses on Hawthorne, 188;
his house, 198;
his letters to Thoreau, 209, 218;
calls Thoreau Idolon, 252;
and Rudolpho, 253;
visits Monadnoc, 255;
describes Thoreau, 262, 267, 291, 315;
his biography of Thoreau, 11, 49, 301.
Channing, Rev. W. H., 140, 141, 174, 216.
Chapman, Dr., 193.
Chappaqua, 241.
Cheney, Mrs., of Concord, 18, 93.
Cohasset, 91, 175.
Columella, 132.
Concord (town of) described, 32-40;
celebrities, 41-48, 63-96;
farmers, 97-123;
Lyceum, 47, 48, 168;
as a transcendental capital, 135, 143, 146;
the home of Channing and Thoreau, 178;
localities, 201-204;
freedmen, 204;
jail, 207;
the monument to Thoreau, 317.
Concord Fight, 76, 86, 99, 102, 109.
Concord grape, 34.
Concord River, 33, 140, 154, 167, 176, 178, 183, 188, 199, 202, 208.
Concord Village, 189, 201;
trade in, 35;
customs of, 40, 46, 48, 64, 72, 76, 87, 116, 122.
Connecticut, 73, 82, 127, 186.
Corner, Nine-Acre, 70, 84, 208.
Davenant, Sir William, 127, 164.
"Departure, The," 282, 305.
Dial, The, 127, 135, 163, 168, 171, 173, 212, 217, 248.
Diana, Ascription to, 260.
Dunbar, Rev. Asa, 8, 9, 20.
Dunbar, Charles, uncle of Thoreau, 21-24, 92, 93.
Dunbar, Cynthia (mother of Thoreau), 8, 18, 19, 21, 24-28, 50, 57, 92, 96, 312.
Dunbar, Louisa, 13-17, 21.
Edwards, Jonathan, quoted, 128.
"Egomites," 80.
Emerson, Charles, 46.
Emerson, Miss Mary, 19, 20, 75.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, born in Boston, 63;
a descendant of Concord ministers, 39;
quoted, 37;
began to lecture in Concord, 48;
begins acquaintance with Thoreau, 59;
goes to live in Concord, 69;
draws people there, 71;
describes Dr. Ripley, 77-84;
describes the "Concord Fight," 103;
on Captain Hardy, 121, 123;
goes to Europe, 281;
his "Forester," 251;
his proposition for an international magazine, 193;
on Thoreau's acquaintance with Nature, 251, 252;
on Thoreau's patience in observation, 250;
his relations with Thoreau, 189;
his summer-house, 194, 278;
tries to work in the woods, 278;
praises Thoreau's "Smoke," 287;
gives his funeral eulogy, 313.
Emerson, William, 190.
Endymion of Concord, 260.
Essays of Thoreau, in college, 150-163;
"Effect of Story Telling," 158;
"L'Allegro and Il Penseroso," 156;
"National Characteristics," 160;
"Paley's Common Reasons," 161;
"Punishment," 158;
"Source of our feeling for the Sublime," 159;
"Simplicity of Style," 156.
Everett, Edward, 88.
Fairhaven Cliffs, 153.
Fenda, the fortune teller, 204.
Fields, James T., 300, 306.
Forbes, Mrs. W. H., recollections of Thoreau, 270-273.
"Forester, The," verse by Emerson, 257.
"Fruitlands," in Harvard, 135-137.
Fugitive Slave, in Concord, 195.
Fuller, Margaret, in Concord, 70;
criticises Thoreau's poems, 169-172;
rejects a prose article by him, 173;
her character, 174;
in Cambridge, 191;
at a conversation, 190;
visit to Europe, marriage, and death, 230;
writes for the "Tribune," and lives with H. Greeley, 217.
Gardiner, Dr., 79, 80.
Garfield, his ancestors, 204.
Gilman, Rev. Nicholas, 128-130.
Goodwin, Rev. H. B., 83.
Graham, George R., 222, 224.
Graham's Magazine, 213, 224.
Graveyard in Lincoln, 204.
Greeley, Horace, as Mæcenas, 217;
editor of the "Tribune," 216;
described by Margaret Fuller, 217;
his correspondence with Thoreau, 219-229, 231-240;
invites Thoreau to Chappaqua, satirized by W. E. Channing, 218.
Griswold, R. W., 220, 222.
Hafiz, quoted, 166.
Hamilton, Alexander, 113.
Hampden, John, 107.
Hardy, Captain, 120-122.
Harvard Magazine, 196.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, moves and removes to Concord, 70;
quoted, 71;
Channing's verses on, 188;
Emerson's influence on, 148;
his "Scarlet Letter," 277;
invites Thoreau to lecture in Salem, 276;
returns to Concord, 278;
returns thither from Europe, 189.
Herald's Office, London, 108.
Heywood, Dr. Abiel, 38, 40-42.
Heywood, George, 39.
Hildreth, S. T., 57.
Hoar, E. R., 90, 312.
Hoar, Edward, 254.
Hoar, Miss Elizabeth, 239.
Hoar, Mrs. Samuel, 96.
Hoar, Samuel, 46, 72, 90, 95, 112.
Hollowell Farm, 172, note, 208.
Hosmer Cottage, 117.
Hosmer, Cyrus, 111.
Hosmer, Edmund, 118-120.
Hosmer, James, 98.
Hosmer, Joseph (the Major), 98, 99, 100, 109, 111, 112, 113.
Hosmer, Lucy, 110.
Hurd, Dr. Isaac, 42.
Icarus, 202.
Indians, (American), 240, 242, 248.
Ingraham, Cato, a slave, 203.
Ingraham, Duncan, 66-68.
Jack, John, a negro, 204;
epitaph on, 205.
Jackson, Dr. C. T., 246, 247.
James, Henry, 305.
Jarvis, Deacon Francis, 76, 77.
Jarvis, Dr. Edward, 76.
Jersey, Isle of, 1-4.
Journal of Thoreau, 2, 150, 154, 167.
Ktaadn, and Thoreau's visit there, 226, 227, 228, 245.
Keene, N. H., 18.
Kosta, Martin, 67.
Lane, Charles, 135-141.
Lee family, 114;
their farm and hill, 115.
Letters from Maria Thoreau, 5;
from D. Webster, 15;
from Josiah Quincy, 53, 61;
from Dr. Ripley, 57, 81;
from Dr. Channing to Dr. Ripley, 82;
from Charles Lane, to Thoreau, 137-140;
from A. G. Peabody, 55, 56;
from R. W. Emerson, 155, 193;
from F. B. Sanborn, 197;
from Henry Thoreau, 92, 181, 209, 210, 216, 307, 308, 314;
from Horace Greeley, 219, 222-231, 233-240;
from Margaret Fuller, 169-173;
from Dr. Ripley, 144-146;
from Sophia Thoreau, 176, 268, 306, 310, 314;
letter to Sophia Thoreau, 189, 216, 281.
Levet, Robert, 43.
Lowell, James Russell, 112, 246.
Mæcenas, Greeley as, 216-241.
Manse, Old, built in 1766, 75;
occupied by Hawthorne 85;
Channing's verses on, 188;
farmers at, 86-88;
"Mosses from," 183;
first mistress of, 205.
Marlboro road, 109.
Marryatt, Captain, 67.
Marvell, Andrew, 42.
Massey, Gerald, 240.
Merrick, Tilly, 67, 108.
Milton, John, 156, 157.
Minott, George, 22, 24, 92, 274.
Minott, Mrs., the grandmother of Thoreau, 9-11.
Minute-Man, statue of, 86.
Monadnoc, 115, 254-257.
Moore, Abel ("Captain Hardy"), 120, 121.
Morton, Edwin, 197.
Munroe of Lexington and Concord, 66;
William, 37, 152.
Musketaquid, 33.
Nature, "born and brought up in Concord," 96;
Thoreau's observation of, 252, 285.
Orrok, David, 2.
Orrok, Sarah, 2.
Out-door life of Thoreau, at Walden, 209, 211;
in general, 242, 243, 249-252, 264-267;
by night, 304.
Parker, Theodore, 69;
school candidate, 88.
"Past and Present," by Carlyle, notice of, 217.
Peabody, A. G., letter from, 54.
Peabody, Elizabeth P., 70, 168.
Penobscot River, 245.
Pepperell, Sir William, 129.
Perry, Joseph, 67.
Phalanstery, 140, 141, 216.
Phillips, Wendell, at Concord, 49.
Pierpont, Sarah, 128.
Pillsbury, Parker, 314.
Poems, quoted from Tennyson, 31;
from Ellery Channing, 24, 69, 119, 176, 184, 185, 215, 252, 255;
Emerson's "Saadi", 119;
"Maine Woods," 246, 247;
Milton, 181;
Thoreau's "Love," 167;
"Sympathy," 164;
"The Maiden in the East," 165;
to his brother John, 176;
The Departure, 282;
"The Pilgrims," 285;
"Smoke" (a fragment), 287;
from T. P. Sanborn, 260;
from Keats, 316.
Poet, the character of, 284.
Ponkawtassett Hill, 86, 182.
Putnam's Magazine, 236, 237.
Quarterly, Massachusetts, 230.
Quincy, Josiah, 52;
letter from, 53, 61;
certificate in favor of Thoreau, 61.
Ralston, Mrs. Laura Dunbar, 19.
Ricketson, Daniel, 176, 188, 263;
description of Thoreau's actual appearance, 266;
disappointment in imagined personal appearance of Thoreau, 264;
on Thoreau's domestic character, 267;
describes Thoreau's dance, 268;
Letters from Thoreau to, 308, 309;
Letter from Sophia Thoreau to, 310.
Ripley, Dr. (pastor at Concord), petition to Grand Lodge of Masons, 1-9;
letter from, 25;
certificate in favor of Thoreau's father, 26;
schism in parish of, 28, 85;
Thoreau baptized by, 45;
letter from Edward Everett to, 47;
letter introducing Thoreau as a teacher, 57;
anecdotes of, 73-80, 86, 87;
letter to Dr. Channing, 81;
reply, 82;
his prayers, 83, 84;
letter on the Transcendental movement, 144, 146.
Ripley, Rev. Samuel, 74.
Ripley, Mrs. Sarah, 85.
Robbins, Cæsar, a negro, 104, 203.
Sanborn, F. B., acquaintance with Thoreau, 196;
extract from diary, 198, 199;
introduces John Brown to Thoreau, 199;
letter to Thoreau, 197.
Sanborn, T. P., his "Endymion" quoted, 260.
Sartain, John, 232.
"Service, The," 172.
Sewall, Ellen, 163.
"Shay," a one-horse, 131-133.
Slave, fugitive, 195.
Staten Island, 89, 92, 305.
Sunday prospect, 152.
Sunday walkers, 85.
Tacitus, quoted, 64.
Teufelsdröckh, 210.
Thoreau family, 4, 5, 27-31.
Thoreau, Helen, 59-61.
Thoreau, Henry, his ancestry, 1-10;
born in Concord, 12;
his mother, 8, 24;
his father, 25;
as a pencil-maker, 37;
first dwelling-place, 45;
at the Concord Academy, 46;
enters Harvard College, 46;
at Chelmsford, 49;
his childish stoicism, 50;
his graduation, 51;
as school teacher, 52;
a beneficiary of Harvard College, 53, 54;
his certificate from Dr. Ripley, 57, 58;
from Emerson, 59;
beginning of acquaintance with Emerson, 59;
his "Sic Vita," 60;
Quincy's certificate, 61;
a Transcendentalist, 124;
first essays in authorship, 149, 153;
description of a visit to Fairhaven Cliffs, 153, 154;
his early poems, 164-167;
his first lecture, 168;
his "Walk to Wachusett," 169;
his earliest companion, 175;
his friendship with Ellery Channing, 178-183;
his praise of Alcott, 186;
goes to Alcott's conversations, 187;
visits Chappaqua and Walt Whitman, 188;
his burial place, 189;
his relation with Emerson, 189, 190;
reads his "Week" to Alcott, 192;
designs a lodge for Emerson, 194;
his acquaintance with Sanborn, 195;
at Walden, 201;
his reasons for going to Walden, 212;
edits "The Week," 212;
talks with W. H. Channing and Greeley, 216;
his essay on Carlyle, 218-225;
his paper on "Ktaadn" and the "Maine Woods," 225;
his "Week," 230;
asks Greeley for a loan, 235;
his "Canada," and "Cape Cod," 235, 236;
Greeley asks him to become a tutor, 241;
his out-door life, 242;
collects specimens for Agassiz, 243, 245;
his visits to Maine, 245, 248;
as a naturalist, 249-252;
a night on Mount Washington, 254;
his Monadnoc trip, 256-257;
his description of a Concord heifer, 258, 259;
his apostrophe to the "Queen of Night," 259;
his face, 199, 261, 266;
described by Channing, 262;
by Ricketson, 263-266;
travels on Cape Cod, 264;
domestic character, 267;
dances, 268;
sings "Tom Bowline," 269;
his social traits, 270-273;
as author and lecturer, 274-277;
his manual labor, 278;
fashion of his garments, 279;
income from authorship, 280;
lives in Emerson's household, 281;
his parable, 285;
his habit of versification, 286;
his reading, 286;
as naturalist, 288-291;
his theory of labor and leisure, 288;
his political philosophy, 292;
eras in his life, 297;
his aim in writing, 298;
his religion, 299;
his business in life, 300;
his method in writing, 304;
his sunset walks, 307;
his aversion to society, 307;
his decline and death, 313-316;
his funeral, 317.
Thoreau, John, the father, 25, 27.
Thoreau, John, the brother, 175, 178.
Thoreau, John, the Jerseyman; 1, 5-7, 37.
Thoreau, Maria, 1-8.
Thoreau, Sophia, 29, 38, 44, 265, 282, 301, 305, 310, 315;
letter from, 176, 268, 306, 310-314;
letters to, 189, 216, 281.
"Tom Bowline," sung by Thoreau, 268, 269, 272.
Transcendentalism, 124, 126, 133, 142, 247, 279;
in New England, 124-126;
in politics, 292-296;
social and unsocial, 141-145;
at Brook Farm, 134;
at Fruitlands, 137.
Transcendentalists of Concord, 63, 70, 76, 80, 119, 134-137, 143, 146, 148, 288, 307.
Transcendental Period, 124-147.
"Tribune," New York, 217, 230, 238.
Very, Jones, 51, 190.
Wachusett, 115, 138, 169, 220.
Walden (the book), 196, 211, 214, 239, 240.
Walden Hermitage, 201-215.
Walden woods, 11, 155, 202, 209, 212, 214.
Watson, Marston, 188, 197.
Webster, Daniel, a lover of Louisa Dunbar, 13, 14;
describes his native place, 15-17;
his friendship for Louisa Dunbar, 17, 93;
at the "Wyman Trial," 90;
his "rose-cold," 91;
visits in Concord, 93;
letter to Mrs. Cheney, 94;
described by Carlyle, 293;
by Thoreau, 294;
contrasted with Thoreau, 296.
Webster, Prof. J. W., 56.
"Week," The, (Thoreau's first book), 183, 196, 213, 230, 240, 299, 304.
Weiss, Rev. John, 57.
"Westminster Review," 240.
Wharton, Thomas, 298.
Whig Review, 238.
Whitefield, G., letter to, 129.
Whiting, Colonel, 36, 46.
Whiting, Rev. John, 65.
Whitman, Walt, 186, 188.
Whittier, J. G., quoted, 131.
Wigglesworth, Michael, 131.
Willard, Major, 32, 98.
Woolman, John, 127, 130.
Zilpha, the Walden Circe, 203.
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