dy existed, by implication, in the titles of these early sketches.
He was three years abroad and wrote to his sister, My poetic career is finished.
On his return in 1829 he became Professor in Bowdoin College.
He still wrote, If ever I publish a volume of poetry it will be many years first --it being actually nine.
He published text-books and wrote Outre-Mer, the first sketches for which originally appeared in the New England Magazine. In 1831 he was married to the daughter of the Hon. Barrett Potter of Portland, Mary Storer Potter.
She came of a family noted for a beauty which is prolonged into the present generation, and even the inadequate portrait of her, which is in their possession, vindicates the tradition.
It shows her to have had dark hair-dressed high, in the fashion of those times — with deep blue eyes, a sweet expression, and dignified though dainty bearing.
Her mental training had some peculiar characteristics, owing to the traditions of the period and the whims
e, 53, 58, 62, 63, 67, 104, 179, 180, 181.
Parsons, Charles, 77.
Parsons, T. W., 67.
Paul, Jean, (see Richter).
Peirce, Benjamin, 16.
Peirce, Prof., Benjamin, 143.
Peirce, C. S., 16.
Peirce, J. M., 16.
Percival, J. G., 175, 191.
Perry, T. S., 70.
Petrarch, Francis, 191.
Phelps, E. J., 195.
Phillips, M. D., 68.
Phillips, Wendell, 104, 179.
Phillips, Willard, 44.
Pierce, Pres., Franklin, 113.
Poe, E. A., 137, 144, 173.
Pope, Alexander, 90, 91.
Popkin, Dr. J. S., 23.
Potter, Barrett, 119.
Pratt, Dexter, 126.
Pratt, Rowena, 126.
Putnam, Rev., George, 54,
Putnam, Mrs. S. R., 16.
Puttenham, George, 159.
Quincy, Edmund, 67, 104.
Quincy, Pres., Josiah, 29, 43, 157.
Read, Gen., Meredith, 132.
Richter, J. P. F., 85, 116.
Riedesel, Baroness, 149, 150.
Ripley, George, 48, 54,57, 67, 113.
Rossetti, D. G., 132.
Rousseau, J. J., 191.
Ruggles, Mrs., 151.
Ruggles, Capt., George, 150.
Russell, Miss P., 75.
Sackville, Lord, 195.
Sales, Francis, 17, 23.
Sanborn,
285.
Pierce, Mrs. Anne (Longfellow), 91, 92, 100.
Pierce, George W., 81, 91, 99,112.
Pierpont, Rev., John, 145.
Platen, Count von, 191.
Pliny, 54.
Plymouth, Mass., 12.
Poe, Edgar A., 6, 10, 142-144, 168, 259, 267, 269, 276; admiration of Longfellow, 141; influence of, 268.
Pope, Alexander, 40.
Portland, Me., 11, 13, 14, 19, 57, 60,
61, 87, 98, 106, 172, 189.
Portland Academy, 15-17.
Portland Gazette, the, 22.
Potomac River, 116.
Potter, Anne (Storer), 60.
Potter, Hon., Barrett, 60, 63; Longfellow's letter to, about his wife's death, 107-111.
Potter, Eliza A., 109-111; Longfellow's letter to, 113-115; Longfellow's letter to, announcing his engagement, 172; Frances Appleton's letter to, 174, 175.
Potter, Margaret. See Thacher, Mrs. Peter.
Potter, Mary Storer. See Longfellow, Mary S. P.
Pratt, Dexter, 289.
Prescott, William H., 146, 161; on Longfellow's poems, 149.
Prothero, Canon, presides at Longfellow commemoration in Westminster Abbey, 249