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Index.
A.
Abbott, Mr. and
Mrs. Jacob, 292.
Aberdeen, reception in, 221.
Abolition, English meetings in favor of, 389.
Abolition sentiment, growth of, 87.
Abolitionism made fashionable, 253.
Adams, John Quincy, crusade of, against slavery, 509; holds floor of Congress fourteen days, 510; his religious life and trust, 511; died without seeing dawn of liberty, 511; life and letters of, 510.
“Agnes of
Sorrento,” first draft of, 374; date of, 490;
Whittier's praise of, 503.
Alabama planter, savage attack of, on H. B. S., 187.
Albert, Prince,
Mrs. Stowe's letter to, 160; his reply, 164, meeting with, 271, death, 368.
America, liberty in, 193;
Ruskin on, 354.
American novelist,
Lowell on the, 330.
Andover, Mass., beauty of, 186;
Stowe family settled in, 188.
Anti-slavery cause: result of English demonstrations, 252; letters to
England, 160; feeling dreaded in
South, 172; movement in
Cincinnati, 81; in
Boston, 145;
Beecher family all anti-slavery men, 152.
Arabian Nights, H. B. S.'s delight in, 9.
Argyll, Duke and
Duchess of 229, 232; warmth of, 239; H. B. S. invited to visit, 270, 271; death of father of
Duchess, 368.
Argyll, Duchess of, letter from H. B. S. to, on
England's attitude during our Civil War, 368;
on post bellum events, 395.
Atlantic monthly, contains “Minister's Wooing,” 327;
Mrs. Stowe's address to women of
England, 375;
The true story of Lady Byron's life, 447, 453.
B.
Bailey, Gamaliel, Dr., editor of
National era, 157.
Bangor, readings in, 493.
Bates, Charlotte Fiske, reads a poem at
Mrs. Stowe's seventieth birthday, 505.
Baxter's “Saints' rest,” has a powerful effect on H. B. S., 32.
Beecher, Catherine, eldest sister of H. B. S., 1; her education of H. B. S., 22; account of her own birth, 23; strong influence over Harriet, 22; girlhood of, 23; teacher at New London, 23; engagement, 23; drowning of her lover, 23; soul struggles after
Prof. Fisher's death, 25, 26; teaches in his family, 25; publishes article on
Free Agency, 26; opens school at
Hartford, 27; solution of doubts while teaching, 28, 29; her conception of Divine Nature, 28; school at
Hartford described by H. B. S., 29; doubts about Harriet's conversion, 35; hopes for
Hartford female Seminary, 37; letter to Edward about Harriet's doubts, 38; note on Harriet's letter, 43; new school at
