Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child
John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall, Ed.

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[276] to, from Southerners, 41; edits the “Standard,” in New York, 42 ; lives with Isaac T. Hopper's family; 48 ; interest in New Church doctrines, 43; letters of Dr. Channing to, 44, 45; her reminiscences of Dr. Channing, 48: life in New York, 50-60 ; characterization of, by Rev. Mr. Kent, 55; interview with Dr. Palfrey, 56: reads Emerson's e-says, 57; her admiration of Domenichino's “Cumaean Sibyl,” 57; has a birthday celebration, 59; her views on a salaried priesthood, 61; reads the “Countess of Rudolstaat,” 62; dislikes letters of introduction, 63; her enjoyment of music, 64; at work on “The progress of Religious Ideas,” 65; meets Fredrika Bremer, 65; makes her will, 74; passes through strange spiritual experiences, 74, 75; spends a lonely winter at Wayland, 75; prefers Mendelssohn:s music to Beethoven's, and Raphael's works to Michael Angelo's, 76; her labor in writing “The progress of Religious Ideas,” 78; her interest in the Fremont campaign and Kansas conflict, 79, 80: working for the Kansas emigrants, 83; writes a Free Soil song, 83; death of her father, 87; interviews with Charles Sumner and Henry Wilson, 88; her low estimate of worldly rank, 89 ; corresponds with Miss Mattie Griffith, 89: meets David A. Wasson, 91; her grief at Ellis Gray Loring's death, 95; meets J. G. Whittier, 97; her indebtedness to her brother, 98; her delight in works of art and in nature, 98, 99; reads Buckle's “History of civilization,” 99; lines in memory of Ellis Gray Loring, 101; correspondence with John Brown, Governor Wise, and Mrs. Mason, 103-137: attends prayer-meeting of colored people, 13 ; reads F. W. Newman's books, 139 ; reads “Counterparts,” 140; visit to Whittier, 141; discusses a future state of existence, 143; attends an anti-slavery festival, 147; describes a mob at an antislavery meeting, 148, 149; denounces the return of fugitive slaves by U. S. troops, 150; her thoughts absorbed by the war, 153; meets old friends at the Anti-Slavery office, 155 ; visits at Mr. Sewall's, 156; her dread of a war with England, 163; reads “John Brent,” 164; donations for the “contrabands,” 165; working for the Kansas troops, 168: metaphysics her aversion, 169 ; her active winter life at Wayland, 170; her feelings about the Emancipation Proclamation, 171; death of her brother, 172; her indebtedness to him, 173; her sorrow at Colonel Shaw's death, 176; partial destruction of her house by fire, 177; reads Weiss's “Life of Parker,” 179; meets George Thompson, 181; her happiness over Lincoln's reflection, 183; success of her “Looking towards Sunset,” 185; her enjoyment of winter scenery, 191; publishes “The freedmen's book,” 192: her “Right way the Safe way,” 192; on novels and sermons, 192, 193: not a loser, but a gainer, by her adherence to the anti-slavery cause, 194; her first meeting with Mr. Garrison, 195; the privileges of the Boston Athenaeum given to, and withdrawn from, her, 195, 264 ; cultivates cheerfulness, 196 ; reads the “Spanish Gypsy,” 197; her sixty-seventh birthday, 198; on Fourier and. the labor question, 199; her jubilation over Grant's election, 200; reads Taine's papers on art, 200 ; her “Freedmen's book” and the American Missionary Association, 201; her aversion to newspaper publicity, 201; her judgment of George Sand, 205; lines to George Thompson, 206; her appeal to Mr. Sumner in behalf of the rights of women, 208; on Grant's reflection, 213; on the treatment of animals, 214; on the Indian question, XX., 218-221; in favor of the prohibitory law, 221; reads Mrs. Somerville's Life, and Mill's Autobiography, 222, and “A princess of Thule,” 223; her grief at Charles Sumner's death, 224; her reformation of a drunkard, 227; her views on “Sex in education,” 229; her loneliness after her husband's death, 230; passes the winter at Staten Island, 231; Christmas in New York, 232; returns to Wayland, 233; investigates “spirit photography,” 234; visits the Alcotts at Concord, 239; on the equality of the sexes, 243 ; reads Renan's “Life of Jesus,” 245; publishes “Aspirations of the world,” 247; her reminiscences of George Thompson, 248; her views on the Chinese question, 251; speculations on a future life, 252; on the death of Mr. Garrison, 2,54, 255; reads “The light of Asia,” 257; reminiscences of anti-slavery days, 258; her interest in Garfield's election, 260; her last days, 261; reminiscences of, XXI. ; Mr. Phillips's remarks at her funeral, 263; Whittier's poem to her memory, 269.

Chinese in America, agitation against the, 251.

Choate, Rufus, employed to defend the slave child, Med, 20.

Christianity an accretion of all the antecedent religious aspirations of mankind, 202.

“ Christian Register,” The, 194, 201.

“Church of the future,” The, by Miss Cobbe, 184.

Clarke, Edward H., M. D., on “Sex in education,” 229.