Index.
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Abdy, Edward S., Mrs. Child's letters to, VIII. Adams, John Quincy, indebted to Mr. Child for facts on the Texas question, VIII.; maintains the right to proclaim emancipation in war time, 151. Adams, Samuel, Miss Whitney's statue of, 257. Advertisements of fugitive slaves, 128, 129. Alcott, A. Bronson, and family, 239. Allen, Mr., of Alabama, testifies to horrors of slavery, 131. Allyn, Rev. Dr., letter to, 9. American Anti-Slavery Society, formation of, VIII. American Missionary Association, refuses to circulate Mrs. Child's “Freedmen's book,” 201. Andrews, William P., sonnet to Mrs. Child, XXIII. “An English governess at the Siamese Court,” 210. Animals, the treatment of, 214. Anti-Slavery Society (Mass.), annual meeting of, mobbed, 148-150. “Appeal in behalf of that Class of Americans called Africans,” by Mrs. Child, IX., 48, 195. Armstrong, General, and Hampton Institute, 241. Arnold, Edwin, 257. “Aspirations of the world,” by Mrs, Child, XIX., 246. “Aurora Leigh,” by Mrs. Browning, 87, 197. “Autobiography of a female slave,” 90, 132.B.
Banneker, Benjamin, 184. Beecher, Henry Ward, magnetic power of, 193; defends the Chinese, 251. Beethoven's music contrasted with Mendelssohn's, 76. Benson, Edmund, 89. Berrien, John McP., U. S. Senator, anecdote of, 179. Bettine and Goethe, 50, 51. Bible, anti-slavery texts from, 123-125. Bishop, Madame Anna, 140. Bleby, Rev., Henry, 134. Boston Athenaeum, privileges of, given to, and withdrawn from, Mrs. Child, 195, 264. Boutwell, George S , speech of, 168. Bremer, Fredrika, meets Mrs. Child, 65; relates anecdote of Jenny Lind, 66; her estimation of Lowell and Emerson, 66. Brisbane, Mr., 51. “ Broken Lights,” by Miss Cobbe, 184. Brooks, Governor, v. Brown, John, letter of Mrs. Child to, 118; his reply, 119; martyrdom of, 137. Browning's (Mrs.) “Aurora Leigh,” 87. Bryant, William C., writes to Mrs. Child, 186. Buckle's “History of civilization,” 99. Buddha, 257. Burns, Anthony, returned to slavery from Boston, 72.C.
Carpenter, E., letters to, 19, 22, 26. Carpenter, Joseph, letters to, 41, 68. Cassimir, a nephew of Kossuth, 162. Chadwick, John W., 242. Channing, William Ellery, discusses the anti-slavery movement with Mrs. Child, 24; letters of, to Mrs. Child, 44, 45; Mrs. Child's reminiscences of, 48; influenced by Mrs. Child's “Appeal,” 77; her imagination of him in the spiritual world, 144. Channing, William H., 188, 257. Chicago Tribune has biographical sketch of Mrs. Child, 201. Chapman, Maria Weston, 19, 147. Child, letter to a, 36. Child, David Lee, biographical sketch of, VIII.; first meet Miss Francis, 8; his marriage, 10: letters to, from his wife, 10, 82, 86, 88, 96; his domestic happiness, XVI.; his death, XIX,, 229; Mrs. Child's reminiscences of, XVI. Child, Lydia Maria, publishes her “Appeal” in behalf of the colored people, IX.; her consequent unpopularity, IX.; an advocate of individual freedom, 12; describes pro-slavery excitement in New York, 15; indifference to literary success, 21; on the prejudice against color among Friends, 23; converses with Dr. Channing on the anti-slavery movement, 24; hears Angelina Grimke speak, 26; life in Northampton, 29-41 ; discussions with slave-holders, 30; abusive letters [276] to, from Southerners, 41; edits the “Standard,” in New York, 42 ; lives with Isaac T. Hopper's family; 48 ; interest in New Church doctrines, 43; letters of Dr. Channing to, 44, 45; her reminiscences of Dr. Channing, 48: life in New York, 50-60 ; characterization of, by Rev. Mr. Kent, 55; interview with Dr. Palfrey, 56: reads Emerson's e-says, 57; her admiration of Domenichino's “Cumaean Sibyl,” 57; has a birthday celebration, 59; her views on a salaried priesthood, 61; reads the “Countess of Rudolstaat,” 62; dislikes letters of introduction, 63; her enjoyment of music, 64; at work on “The progress of Religious Ideas,” 65; meets Fredrika Bremer, 65; makes her will, 74; passes through strange spiritual experiences, 74, 75; spends a lonely winter at Wayland, 75; prefers Mendelssohn:s music to Beethoven's, and Raphael's works to Michael Angelo's, 76; her labor in writing “The progress of Religious Ideas,” 78; her interest in the Fremont campaign and Kansas conflict, 79, 80: working for the Kansas emigrants, 83; writes a Free Soil song, 83; death of her father, 87; interviews with Charles Sumner and Henry Wilson, 88; her low estimate of worldly rank, 89 ; corresponds with Miss Mattie Griffith, 89: meets David A. Wasson, 91; her grief at Ellis Gray Loring's death, 95; meets J. G. Whittier, 97; her indebtedness to her brother, 98; her delight in works of art and in nature, 98, 99; reads Buckle's “History of civilization,” 99; lines in memory of Ellis Gray Loring, 101; correspondence with John Brown, Governor Wise, and Mrs. Mason, 103-137: attends prayer-meeting of colored people, 13 ; reads F. W. Newman's books, 139 ; reads “Counterparts,” 140; visit to Whittier, 141; discusses a future state of existence, 143; attends an anti-slavery festival, 147; describes a mob at an antislavery meeting, 148, 149; denounces the return of fugitive slaves by U. S. troops, 150; her thoughts absorbed by the war, 153; meets old friends at the Anti-Slavery office, 155 ; visits at Mr. Sewall's, 156; her dread of a war with England, 163; reads “John Brent,” 164; donations for the “contrabands,” 165; working for the Kansas troops, 168: metaphysics her aversion, 169 ; her active winter life at Wayland, 170; her feelings about the Emancipation Proclamation, 171; death of her brother, 172; her indebtedness to him, 173; her sorrow at Colonel Shaw's death, 176; partial destruction of her house by fire, 177; reads Weiss's “Life of Parker,” 179; meets George Thompson, 181; her happiness over Lincoln's reflection, 183; success of her “Looking towards Sunset,” 185; her enjoyment of winter scenery, 191; publishes “The freedmen's book,” 192: her “Right way the Safe way,” 192; on novels and sermons, 192, 193: not a loser, but a gainer, by her adherence to the anti-slavery cause, 194; her first meeting with Mr. Garrison, 195; the privileges of the Boston Athenaeum given to, and withdrawn from, her, 195, 264 ; cultivates cheerfulness, 196 ; reads the “Spanish Gypsy,” 197; her sixty-seventh birthday, 198; on Fourier and. the labor question, 199; her jubilation over Grant's election, 200; reads Taine's papers on art, 200 ; her “Freedmen's book” and the American Missionary Association, 201; her aversion to newspaper publicity, 201; her judgment of George Sand, 205; lines to George Thompson, 206; her appeal to Mr. Sumner in behalf of the rights of women, 208; on Grant's reflection, 213; on the treatment of animals, 214; on the Indian question, XX., 218-221; in favor of the prohibitory law, 221; reads Mrs. Somerville's Life, and Mill's Autobiography, 222, and “A princess of Thule,” 223; her grief at Charles Sumner's death, 224; her reformation of a drunkard, 227; her views on “Sex in education,” 229; her loneliness after her husband's death, 230; passes the winter at Staten Island, 231; Christmas in New York, 232; returns to Wayland, 233; investigates “spirit photography,” 234; visits the Alcotts at Concord, 239; on the equality of the sexes, 243 ; reads Renan's “Life of Jesus,” 245; publishes “Aspirations of the world,” 247; her reminiscences of George Thompson, 248; her views on the Chinese question, 251; speculations on a future life, 252; on the death of Mr. Garrison, 2,54, 255; reads “The light of Asia,” 257; reminiscences of anti-slavery days, 258; her interest in Garfield's election, 260; her last days, 261; reminiscences of, XXI. ; Mr. Phillips's remarks at her funeral, 263; Whittier's poem to her memory, 269. Chinese in America, agitation against the, 251. Choate, Rufus, employed to defend the slave child, Med, 20. Christianity an accretion of all the antecedent religious aspirations of mankind, 202. “ Christian Register,” The, 194, 201. “Church of the future,” The, by Miss Cobbe, 184. Clarke, Edward H., M. D., on “Sex in education,” 229. [277] Clarke, James Freeman, addresses an anti-slavery meeting, 149; Mr. Garrison's letter to, 243. Cobbe, Frances Power, her “Broken lights,” and “Church of the future,” 184. Colored people of Boston commemorate John Brown's death, 137. Constantine, the Emperor, his conversion to Christianity, 187. Constitution, U. S., passage of 13th Amendment to, 188. “Contrabands,” anecdotes of the, 158: donations for, 165. Conway, Martin F., of Kansas, 168. Correggio's “Diana,” Toschi's engraving of, 70. “Countess of Rudolstaat,” The, a novel, 62. Crawford, Mr., of London, 12. “ Cumaean Sibyl,” by Domenichino, 57. Curtis, George William, 79: oration of, 85 ; conducts Sunday services, 233; letter on caucus dictation, 252.D.
Davis, Jeff., 152. De Stael, Madame, 247. Devens, Charles, redeems Thomas Sims from slavery, 189. Domenichino's “Cumaean Sibyl,” 57. Douglass, Frederick, 259. Draft riots of 1863 in New York, 178. Dresel, Mrs., Anna Loring, letter to, 191. Dresser, Amos, publicly flogged at Nashville, Tenn., 184. Dwight, John S., 29, 37, 50.E.
“Eclectic review,” The, VIII. Education of women in Egypt and India, the, 212, 213. Elssler, Fanny, 385. Emancipation Proclamation, 171. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, attitude of the Unitarians towards, 34; sends Mrs. Child his Essays, 57; speaks at a mobbed anti-slavery meeting, 149. Emerson and the Sphinx, 247. “Eminent women of the age,” VI. Equality of the sexes, 243-245.F.
“Fable for critics,” A, by J. R. Lowell, XIV. Faneuil Hall, meeting at, in behalf of Anthony Burns, 73. “Fingal's Cave,” Mendelssohn's overture of, 223. Foote, Henry S., U. S. Senator, 179. Fortress Monroe, fugitive slaves at, 150, 151. Forten, R. R., 184. Fort Pickens (Florida), fugitive slaves returned from, by U. S. officers, 150. Fort Wagner, the attack on, 236; the grave of Colonel Shaw at, 238. Fourier, Francois Charles Marie, 199. Francis, Miss A. B., letters to, 231, 251, 258. Francis, Convers, aids and encourages his sister, v.,VI.,1; letters to l,2,4, 5, 6, 7, 12,16, 17, 29, 33. 39, 40, 50, 58, 63, 64, 65, 74, 89, 98; on the death of his wife, 163; death of, 172. Francis, Lydia Maria, birth of, v.; her first schooling, v., VI.; ambitious to write a novel, VI.; reads “Paradise lost,” 1, 2; “Guy Mannering,” 2; Gibbon's “Roman Empire,” 4; “Shakespeare,” 4; “The Spectator,” 5; Johnson her favorite writer, 5; takes a school in Gardiner, Me., 5; her opinion of Byron, 7: discusses Paley's system, 7; her early literary successes, VII., 10; first meets Mr. Child, 8; her marriage, 10. “Freedmen's book,” The, by Mrs. Child, 192, 201. Free Religious Association, meeting of the, 239. Fremont, John C., 79: his emancipation proclamation, 162. Friends, the, degeneracy of, 22, 28. Frothingham, Rev. O. B., 232. “Frugal Housewife,” The, VII. Fugitive slaves, advertisements of, 128, 129; returned by U. S. troops, 149,150, Furness, Rev. William It., 81. Future life, speculations on the, 252G.
Garfield, James A., 260. Garrison, William Lloyd, interests Mr. and Mrs. Child in the slavery question, VIII, 23; favors the dissolution of the Anti-Slavery Society, 190; his first interview with Mrs. Child, 195; mobbed in Boston streets, 235; letter to J. F. Clarke, 243 ; defends the Chinese, 251; the tributes to, on his death, 254; his belief in continued existence, 254; his influence on Mrs. Child's life, 255. Gay, Mrs. S. II., 177. Gibbons, James S., house of, gutted by rioters, 178. Giles, Governor, message of, to Virginia Legislature, 132. “Girl's book.” The, VII. Goethe and Bettine, 50, 51, Grant's (President U. S.) election, 199; reelection, 213; his Indian policy, 220. Griffith, Miss, Mattie, emancipates her slaves, 89-91; her “Autobiography of a female slave,” 90, 132. Grimke, Angelina, addresses a committee of the 1;Massachusetts Legislature, 26; her testimony against slavery, 130. Grimke, Sarah M., her testimony against slavery, 129.H.
Hampton Institute and General Armstrong, 241. Hedrick. Professor, expelled from North Carolina, 108. Henry the Eighth and the Protestant reformation, 187. [278] Heyrick, Elizabeth, promulgates the doctrine of “Immediate Emancipation,” 23. Higginson, T. W., his biographical account of Mrs. Child, VI., XIII.; sermon to the people of Lawrence, Kans., 84; speech at an anti-slavery meeting, 149. Hincks, Governor, of the West Indies, 134. “History of women,” VII. Hoar, Samuel, expelled from South Carolina, 108. “Hobomok,” Mrs. Child's first story, VII. Hopper, Isaac T., 43; Mrs. Child's Life of, XIII. Hosmer, Harriet, 68. Hovey, Charles F., 82.I.
Indians, treatment of the, 218-220.J.
Jack, Captain, the Modoc chief, 220. Jackson, General, Andrew, and the Seminole War, 219. Jackson, Francis, 260. Jay, John, 188. Jefferson, Thomas, testimony of against slavery, 133. “John Brent,” by Theodore Winthrop, 164. “John Brown Song,” the, 157. Johnson, Andrew, speech of, at Nashville, 184. Johnson, Oliver, 232. Johnson, Rev., Samuel, 96, 214. Julian, George W., letter to, 187. “Juvenile Miscellany,” VII., 10, 256.K.
Kent, Rev. Mr., characterizes Mrs. Child. 55. King, Miss Augusta, letters to, 37, 52, 56.L.
Labor question, the, 199. Lafayette's observation of the change in color of the slaves in Virginia, 126. Laws of the Slave States, against intermarriage, 126; against negro testimony, 126; in regard to punishment of slaves, 127; by which the master appropriated a slave's earnings, 128; prohibiting education of the blacks, 128. Leonowens, Mrs. A. H., her book on Siam, 210, 216. “ Letters from New York,” Mrs. Child's, XI., 45. “ Light of Asia,” The, 257. Lincoln, President, faith of the slaves in, 150; reflection of, 183. Lind, Jenny, anecdote of, 63. “ Linda,” the author of, 204. Lives of Madame Roland and Baroness de Stael, by Mrs. Child, XI. Livingstone, Dr., and Stanley, 221. “Looking towards Sunset,” by Mrs. Child, success of, 185. Loring, Miss, Anna, letters to, 53, 94. Loring, Ellis Gray, 21; letters to, 43, 65, 74; death of, 95; lines by Mrs. Child in memory of, 101. Loring, Mrs., Ellis Gray, letters to, 15, 28, 62. Lowell, J. R., tribute to Mrs. Child in his “Fable for critics,” XIV., XVIII.; Fredrika Bremer's estimate of, 66.M.
“Marm Betty,” Mrs. Child's earliest teacher, v. Married Women “dead in the law,” 74 Martineau, Harriet, anecdote of, 19 ; her letter to the “Standard,” 167. Maryland, emancipation in, 184. Mason, Mrs. M. J. C., letter of, to Mrs. Child, 120; Mrs. Child's reply to, 123. Mason and Slidell, capture of, 162. Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, annual meeting of mobbed, 148-150. “Massachusetts Journal,” the, VIII. May, Rev., Samuel, 72. May, Rev. Samuel J., commends Mrs Chill's “Progress of Religious Ideas,” 77; meets Mrs. Child, 156; letters to, 192, 194; his “Recollections of our Anti-slavery conflict,” 194; death of, 212; reminiscence of, 249. Med, the slave-child, case of, 20. Mendelssohn and Beethoven, their music contrasted, 76. Mexico, the plot against denounced by Mr. Child, VIII. Michael Angelo and Raphael, 76. Mill's (John Stuart) Autobiography, 222. Milmore's (Martin) bust of Charles Sumner. 187. Minute Man at Concord, the, 257. Missouri Compromise, efforts to repeal the, 70. Mobbing of the anti-slavery meetings, 148-150. Modocs, persecution of the, 220; their assault on the Peace Commissioners, 221. Montgomery, Col., James, 161,162. Morse, Professor, on Japan, 246. “ Mother's Book,” The, VII. Muller's (Max) “Science of language,” 201.N.
Nebraska Bill, passage of the, 72. “Negro Boat Song,” by Whittier, 159. “New chapter of Christian evidences,” in the “Atlantic monthly, 202.” New Church doctrines, Mrs. Child's interest in, 43. New England Anti-Slavery Society, formation of the, VIII. Newman's (Francis W.) works on “The soul,” and “Phases of faith,” 139. New York draft riots of 1863, 178. “ North American Review” praises Mrs Child, VII. Novels and Sermons, comparative value of, 192.[279]