Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[332] 147; costume of, 147; suggestions for poems, 149, 150; college duties, 150-155; asks for leave of absence, 155, 156; sails for Europe, 157; asks for further leave of absence, 157, 158; the ‘Spanish Student,’ 162; returns home, 162; anti-slavery poems, 163-165; abolitionists on, 166; Irish abolitionist on, 167; intimacy with Lowell, 169; announces his engagement and marriage to Frances Appleton, 171, 172; aided in ‘Poets and Poetry of Europe,’ 173; in the class room, 176-179; letters about college work, 179-183; letter about elective system, 182, 183; finds college work monotonous, 186, 187; writes about his ‘Spanish Student,’ 188, 189; his ‘Poets and Poetry of Europe,’ 189-191; his fame, 192; ‘Evangeline,’ 194, 195; compared with Scandinavian poets, 196, 197; ‘Kavanagh,’ 198-200; resigns professorship, 202-207; begins ‘Hiawatha,’ 208; writes ‘The Courtship of Miles Standish,’ 210; death of his wife, 211; shorter poems, 213-218; sails for Europe, 219; speech by, 219,220; receives honorary degree at Cambridge, Eng., 220, 221; English praise for, 221-223; receives honorary degree at Oxford, 223; arrives home, 223; works on Dante translation, 225; friendly criticism, 226, 227; comparison of early with late translations, 229-231; comparison with Norton's translation, 231, 232; ‘Christus,’ 236-238, 242, 243; ‘New England Tragedies,’ 239; requests for autographs, 240, 275, 276; ‘The Divine Tragedy,’ 244; criticisms of ‘The Divine Tragedy,’ 245, 246; commemorated in Westminster Abbey, 248-257; his works essentially American, 258-260; interested in loal affairs, 260; dislikes English criticism of our literature, 263, 264; manner in which his poems came to him, 264,265; his alterations, 266, 267; compared with Browning, 270; relations with Whittier and Emerson, 271, 272; on Browning, 272, 273; on Tennyson, 273; his table-talk, 273-275; unpublished poems, 276; descriptions of, 278, 279; his works popular, 280; Cardinal Wiseman on, 281; resembles Turgenieff, 282; home life, 282-285; member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Spanish Academy, 288; removal of ‘spreading chestnut-tree’ and armchair made, 289, 290; his speech at Cambridge anniversary, 290, 291; his study, 291, 292; as a man, 292, 293; sickness, 293; death, 294.

Longfellow, Mary S. P., 172; school-mate of Longfellow, 60; becomes Longfellow's wife, 60; description of, 61; her books, 62-64; begins housekeeping, 66; her letter about the Round Hill School, 81, 82; her letter about Longfellow's ‘Outre-Mer,’ 83; her letters about their European trip, 88-106; her illness and death, 107-111; H. W. Longfellow's letter about, 113-115; her journals destroyed, 170.

Longfellow, Rev., Samuel, 71, 91, 92, 106; his memoir of his brother, cited, 30 note, 85 note, 99 note, 189 note, 191 note, 199 note, 207 note, 224 note; quoted, 37, 38, 41-43,48-52, 113, 124,126, 141, 145, 147, 148, 165, 168, 191, 192, 202, 203, 219-222, 226, 242, 245, 246, 257, 263, 264, 266, 276.

Longfellow, Stephen, 11, 13, 14, 17, 97; spelling of name, 11; letters to, from H. W. L. about his profession, 38-43; his reply, 40, 41; Mary S. P. Longfellow's letter to, 98, 99.

Longfellow, Judge, Stephen, appearance of, 13.

Longfellow, William, 12.

Longfellow, Zilpah (Wadsworth), 11, 87, 99; description of, 15; Longfellow writes to, 46, 47; Mary S. P. Longfellow's letter to, about European trip, 88-97; H. W. L.'s letter to, 97, 98.

Longfellow family, 60.

Longfellow Memorial Association, 121.

Louis the Sixteenth, 47.

‘Lover's Seat,’ the, cited, 143 note.

Lowell, John A., 182.

Lowell, James R., 1, 6, 57, 59, 82, 146, 192, 197, 211, 223, 228, 248, 251, 271, 273, 285, 294; intimacy with Longfellow, 168, 169; on