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[523] how her house was built, 469; her happy out-door life in, relieved from domestic care, 474; longings for home at, 492; freedmen's happy life in South, 506.

Mann, Horace, makes a plea for slaves, 159.

Martineau, Harriet, letter to H. B. S. from, 208.

May, Georgiana, school and life-long friend of H. B. S., 31, 32; Mrs.

Sykes, 132; her ill-health and farewell to H. B. S., 268; letters from H. B. S. to, 44, 49, 50; account of westward journey, 56; on labor in establishing school, 65, 66; on education, 72; just before her marriage to Mr. Stowe, 76; on her early married life and housekeeping, 89; on birth of her son, 101; describing first railroad ride, 106; on her children, 119; her letter to Mrs. Foote, grandmother of H. B. S., 38; letters to H. B. S. from, 161, 268.

“Mayflower, the,” 103, 158; revised and republished, 251; date of, 490.

Melancholy, 118, 341; a characteristic of Prof. Stowe in childhood, 436.

“ Men of Our Times,” date of, 410.

“Middlemarch,” H. B. S. wishes to read, 468; character of Casaubon in, 471.

Milman, Dean, 234.

Milton's hell, 303.

“Minister's Wooing, the,” soul struggles of Mrs. Marvyn, foundation of incident, 25; idea of God in, 29; impulse for writing, 52; appears in

Atlantic monthly, 326; Lowell, J.

R. on, 327, 330, 333; Whittier on, 327; completed, 332; Ruskin on, 336; undertone of pathos, 339; visits England in relation to, 343; date of, 490; “reveals warm heart of man” beneath the Puritan in Whittier's poem, 502.

Missouri Compromise, 142, 257; repealed, 379.

Mohl, Madame, and her salon, 291.

Money-making, reading as easy a way as any of, 494.

Moral aim in novel-writing, J. R. Lowell on, 333.

“Mourning veil, the,” 327.

“Mystique La,” on spiritualism, 412.


N.

Naples and Vesuvius, 302.

National era, its history, 157; work for, 186.

Negroes, petition from, presented by J. Q. Adams, 510.

New England, Mrs. Stowe's knowledge of, 332; in The minister's Wooing, 333; life pictured in Oldtown folks, 444.

New London, fatigue of reading at, 496.

Newport, tiresome journey to, on reading tour, 497.

Niagara, impressions of, 75.

Normal school for colored teachers, 203.

North American Review onUncle Tom's Cabin, 254.

North versus South, England on, 388, 391.

Norton, C. E., Ruskin on the proper home of, 354.


O.

“ Observer, New York,” denunciation of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 168, 172.

Oldtown Fireside stories, 438; strange spiritual experiences of Prof.

Stowe, 438; Sam Lawson a real character, 439; relief after finishing, 489; date of in chronological list, 491; in Whittier's poem on seventieth birthday With old New England's flavor rife, 503.

Oldtown folks, 404; Prof. Stowe original of “Harry” in, 421; George Eliot on its reception in England, 443, 461, 463; picture of N. E. life, 444; date of, 490; Whittier's praise of, “vigorous pencil-strokes” in poem on seventieth birthday, 503.

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