166.
Ward, Mrs. E. S. P., acquaintance with Whittier, 112.
Wardwell, Lydia, 85.
Warner, C. D., 178.
Washburn, E. A., 97.
Washington, D. C., 26, 48, 99, 171.
Wasson, David A., his opinion of Whittier, 153, 154.
Webster, Daniel, 6, 58, 156.
Webster, Ezekiel, 58.
Weld, Theodore, D., 115.
Wendell, Ann E., 171; Whittier's letter to, 81, 172.
Wendell, Professor, Barrett, his Literary History of America, quoted, 96.
West Amesbury, Mass., 45.
Wheelwright, Rev., John, 84.
White Mountains, the, 174, 179.
Whitman, Walt, 106.
Whitson, Thomas, 53.
Whittier, Elizabeth Hussey, 57; her poetic gifts, 31; attends women's antislavery convention, 62; description of, 107,108.
Whittier, John (father of poet), 24, 27.
Whittier, John Greenleaf, much read in England, 1; compared with Longfellow, 1, 2; interest in reforms, 3; birth, 4; ancestry, 4, 5; his homestead, 6-8; his Snow-bound, quoted, 6, 8-13; his Works, quoted, 6, 7, 19, 29, 34, 35, 52-55, 73-75, 84, 122-124, 166,