Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life

Index

Agassiz, Prof., Louis, 164; described, 96.

Alcott, A. Bronson, 68, 277; on Higginson's literary methods, 155.

Alexander, Mrs., 352.

Alfred, King of England, millenary celebration of, 360-62.

American Sonnets, 319, 369, 419.

Andrew, Gov. John A., 203, 210; and Higginson's plan, 204, 205.

Anti-Slavery Society, Mass., Higginson speaks at, 180, 181; Phillips speaks at, 201; Emerson speaks at, 201.

Appleton Anne, marries Capt. Storrow, 3. See also Storrow, Anne Appleton.

Appleton, Fanny, 26. See also Mrs. H. W. Longfellow.

April Days, 157, 408.

Army Life in a Black Regiment, 227, 230, 237, 363, 411, 423; at work on, 282.

Arnim, Bettina von, Higginson reads, 343-46.

Arnold, Edward, Higginson visits, 331, 332.

Arnold, Matthew, and Higginson, 301.

Atlantic Essays, 156, 157, 411.

Baby of the Regiment, The, 237, 412.

Barney, Margaret Dellinger, granddaughter of T. W. H., 394, 395.

Barney, Margaret Higginson, daughter of T. W. H. See Higginson, Margaret Waldo.

Barney, Wentworth Higginson, grandson of T. W. H., 394.

Bartol, Rev. Cyrus A., honors Higginson, 148, 149.

Beecher, Henry Ward, described, 97; account of, 131, 321; later impression of, 309, 310.

Bentzon, Madame, Th. (Mme. Blanc), writes A Typical American, 386, 387.

Bernhardt, Sarah, Higginson first sees, 342, 343.

Besant, Mrs., Annie, trial of, 329, 330.

Bigelow, Mrs. Ella H., edits sonnets with Higginson, 319.

Blanc, Louis, 340.

Book and Heart, 386, 421.

Boston Authors' Club, 315, 391, 399.

Boston Radical Club, 267, 268.

Bradlaugh, Charles, Higginson hears, 324; and Besant trial, 330.

Bridgman, Laura, account of, 97.

Brook Farm, described, 49.

Brown, Rev., Antoinette, 134, 135.

Brown, John, 204: Higginson first meets, 190; plans postponed, 191-93; imprisonment, 193; attempt to secure counsel for, 193, 194; ‘John Brown Collection of Letters,’ 194; proposed rescue of, 194; A Visit to John Brown's Household, 194, 195, 408; revenge for, 195, 196; farewell and death, 196; Higginson on affair of, 199, 200.

Brown, Theophilus, and T. W. Higginson, 118.

Browning, Miss (sister of poet), account of, 355, 356.

Browning, Robert (the poet), 80; Higginson meets, 334, 335; account of, 356, 357.

Browning, Robert (son of poet), described, 356.

Bryce, James, and Higginson, 325.

Burlingame, Anson, on Higginson's speech in Sim's case, 113.

Burns, Anthony, a fugitive slave, affair of, 142-46.

Butler, General, Benjamin, opposition to statue of, 394.

Butman, A. O., 177; riot, 149-51.

Cambridge, Mass., early accounts of, 21, 22, 27, 29.

Canterbury, Archbishop of, 328.

Carlyle, Thomas, 323.

Carlyle's Laugh, and Other Surprises, 323, 396, 428.

Carnegie, Andrew, 284.

Cary, Alice, 130.

Cary, P$hoebe, 130.

Chalmers, Thomas, described, 339.

Channing, Barbara, on rescue of Sims, 112.

Channing, Ellery, 48; on literary profits, 51.

Channing, Francis (Lord Channing of Wellingborough), reception at, 350.

Channing, Mary E., engaged to T. W. Higginson, 48; T. W. Higginson's letters to, 56, 57, 73, 75, 83; Higginson dedicates journal to, 67; and James Freeman Clarke, 68; marriage, 85. See also Higginson, Mary Channing.

Channing, Rev. W. H., 85.

Channing, Dr., Walter, 48, 70.

Charge with Prince Rupert, A, 156, 408.

Cheerful Yesterdays, 148, 159, 190, 312. 326, 341, 384, 387, 421-23; work on, 382; Higginson's summary of, 387, 388.

Child, Lydia Maria, 68; Higginson reviews book of, 65, 66; his memoir of, 279.

Clarke, Mrs., daughter of John Bright, 360.

Clarke, Dr., Edward, 23.

Clarke, James Freeman, influence of, 68, 85.

Cleveland, Grover, impression of, 309.

Coleridge, Lord, and Higginson, 360.

Coleridge, E. Hartley, and Higginson, 349, 350.

Collyer, Dr., Robert, and Higginson, 392, 393. [430]

‘Conference for Education in the South,’ at Birmingham, Ala., 365, 366.

Conway, Moncure D., Higginson preaches for, 326, 327; at Besant trial, 329, 330; parish of, gives present to Higginson, 346, 347; Convention, 336, 337.

Crane, Walter, 340.

Crawford, Marion, and Higginson, 354, 355.

Crothers, Rev. Samuel M., officiates at Colonel Higginson's funeral, 399-401.

Cummings, Rev., Edward, 366.

Curson, Mrs., the Higginsons live with, 105, 106.

Curtin, Gov., and Higginson's plan, 204, 205.

Curtis, Daniel, and Higginson, 42, 43.

Curtis, George William, and anti-slavery, 142.

Cushman, Charlotte, described, 130, 131.

Dall, Mrs. C. H., 141; on ‘Mademoiselle and her Campaigns,’ 157.

Dame, Mrs., a Quaker, 255, 258.

Dana, Richard H., about Higginson, 320.

Darwin, Charles, account of, 324; visit to, 334.

Decoration Day, a poem, 273, 340.

Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson, 396, 398, 428.

Devens, Charles, appeal to, 111, 112.

Dickens, Charles, 339; reaction against, 336.

Dickens, Child Pictures from, 277, 410.

Dickinson, Emily, Higginson's acquaintance with, 312, 313; letters and poems of, edited, 368, 369.

Disunion, plan for, 181, 182.

Dobell, Sydney, account of, 339, 340.

Driftwood, Fire, A, 275, 410; Higginson's estimate of, 276.

Durant, Henry F., founder of Wellesley, 24.

Ellis, Charles Mayo, 112, 113.

Emerson, George B., asks Higginson to write youthful history of United States, 284, 285; success of history, 286-88.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 68, 129, 193; anecdote about, 87; described, 96, 130; at Anti-Slavery meeting, 201; visit to, 266; influence of, 270; Concord celebration for, 390.

Epictetus, 263, 329, 365, 369, 409.

Faneuil Hall. meetings at, 144.

Farragut, Admiral, 260, 261.

Fayal and the Portuguese, 164, 408.

Fields, James T., 229, 275, 280; letter to, 277.

Forbes, Hugh, threatens Brown's plans, 191, 200.

Francis, Dr., 78.

Free Religious Association, 398; Higginson's address at, 164; his activity in, 268; similar English organization, 336, 337.

Free Soil Party, 89-91, 115.

Frothingham, O. B., 78; on Higginson's style, 156.

Froude, J. A., 323.

Fugitive Slave Law, 111, 114, 144, 148.

Future Life, The, in In After Days, 254, 428.

‘Galatea Collection’ founded by Higginson at Boston Public Library, 284.

Galton, Francis, and Higginson, 328.

Garrison, William Lloyd, favors disunion, 181; estimate of, 202.

Geary, Gov., 172, 174; account of, 176.

Gladstone, W. E., Higginson meets, 324.

Grant, Judge, Robert, poem for Col. Higginson's birthday, 391.

Grant, Gen. U. S., 264.

Greeley, Horace, at Syracuse, 133.

Greene, Henry Copley, 374.

Greene, W. B., influence of, 72.

Hale, Edward Everett, 399; and Higginson, 24, 83; account of, 261; festival for, 387.

Hamilton, Sir, William, described, 339.

Hardy, Thomas, Higginson meets, 352, 353.

Harris, Dr., Thaddeus William, 24, 28.

Harvard University, Stephen Higginson, steward of, 8; class of 1841, 23, 24; dress regulations, 25; early account of, 29, 30; exhibition at, 33, 34; Higginson represents, at Winchester, Eng., 360-62.

Harvard Memorial Biographies, 263, 409, 410; working on, 275.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, at Concord, 51.

Hayes, President, and wife visit Newport, 260.

Hazlett, Albert, 199, 200; project to rescue, 196-98.

Higginson, Anna, sister of T. W. H., 12, 290; death of, 381.

Higginson, Rev., Francis, the Puritan, I; as non-conformist, 110.

Higginson Francis (brother of T. W. H.), 11, 20.

Higginson, George, 271; illustrates family generosity, 379.

Higginson, Gen. Sir George Wentworth, at ‘Trooping the colors,’ 332-34; Higginson visits, 350, 351.

Higginson, Major Henry L., and T. W. H., 313, 314, 332-34.

Higginson, Louisa, sister of T. W. H., 11, 12.

Higginson, Louisa Storrow (mother of T. W. H.), character, 5, 6; son's tribute to, 7, 56; letters to her son, 10, 36, 116; accounts of him, 12, 13, 15, 16; son's letters to (early), 18, 19, 35-38, 47, 55, 56, 58-60, 65, 74, 75, 79-81; (Newburyport) 87, 91– 93, 96, 97, 99, 100, 102, 104, 106, 108, 110, 113, 116; (Worcester) 119, 125, 128, 136-38, 148, 154, 159, 160, 163-65, 202-04, 210, 211-13; (Kansas journey) 168, 169, 171, 172; (war) 216, 222, 226, 228-31, 249, 250; moves from Kirkland Street, 19, 20; moves to Brattleboro. Vt., 47; tribute to son, 56; encourages him, 71, 81, 82, 86; watchful care of, 90, 148; advice to, 116, 120; influence of, 120; death, 254.

Higginson, Louisa Wentworth, daughter of T. W. H., birth, 294; death, 295.

Higginson, Margaret Waldo, second daughter of T. W. H., birth of, 298; and her father, 300-07, 318-21, 372, 373; his letters to, 304, 305, 371; in Italy, 354; in London, 359, 360; birthday celebration of, 372; marriage, 392.

Higginson, Mary Channing, new home, 85, 86; on her husband's philanthropies and sermons, 93, 94, 266, 267; husband's letters to, 133, 144, 161; (Kansas) 167, 171; (Penn.) 197, 198; (war) 220, 222, 229, 233- [431] 35, 237, 248, 249; goes to Fayal, 163-65; on Kansas troubles, 175; moves to Newport, 235; invalidism, 255, 256, 287; Aunt Jane drawn from, 280; housekeeping, 288, 289; death, 290, 291.

Higginson, Stephen, Ist (great-grandfather of T. W. H.), account of, I.

Higginson, Stephen, 2d (grandfather of T. W. H.), career, 1, 2.

Higginson, Stephen, Life and Times of, 427; begun, 392.

Higginson, Stephen, 3d, father of T. W. H., account of. 1, 2, 5; called ‘Man of Ross,’ 2; marriage, 5; hospitality, 6; death, 7, 19; and Harvard College, 8, 9; son's verses about, 8.

Higginson, Stephen, brother of T. W. H., 11, 18.

Higginson, Thacher, 14, fatal voyage of, 6, 38; J. R. Lowell's letter to, 14.

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, ancestry, 1-4; name, 5; and his Aunt Nancy, 5, 6, 10, 16-18, 57, 77, 87, 122, 129, 146, 147; tribute to mother, 7, 56; his father, 7, 8; and Phi Beta Kappa, 8, 34, 35; childhood, 10-20; his home, 12; school, 12, 14, 15; his mother about, 12, 13, 15, 16, 56; methodical habits, 14, 25, 26; and J. R. Lowell, 14, 15, 66; early letters of, 16-20, 32, 37; earliest interest in negroes, 17, 38; Old Cambridge, 19, 386; moves from Kirkland St., 19, 20; boyhood, 20-22; amusements, 20-22, 27-29, 53; enters Harvard, 22; appearance, 23; and E. E. Hale, 24, 83, 261; describes college life, 25, 30; fondness for athletics, 25-27, 61, 77, 138, 139, 256, 257; interest in natural history, 28; birthdays, 30, 65, 125, 276, 297, 300, 316, 395; susceptibility of, 30, 31; scholarship, 32, 33; at Harvard exhibitions, 33, 34; and his mother, 35, 36, 56, 65, 71, 74, 81, 82, 86, 90, 108, 110, 116, 120, 122, 125, 148, 211, 216, 228; visits the South, 37, 38; love of books, 39, 122; graduates from Harvard, 39; teacher in Mr. Weld's school, 41-46; moves to Jamaica Plain, 41; youthful frivolity of, 43-45, 47, 53; private tutor in Perkins family, 45-54; engagement, 48; publishes first poem, 49, 50; and Samuel Johnson, 50, 78, 82, 126; reading, 50-52; love of nature, 52, 53, 138-40, 206, 207; dislikes teaching, 54; goes back to Cambridge, 55-57; economy, 55, 70, 85, 86; describes new life, 57-59; goes to gymnasium, 59; poverty, 60, 67; plan of study, 60; and abolition, 60, 61; dislikes restraint, 61, 67, 68; love of study, 62; loneliness, 63; uncertainty of future career, 63, 64; dreams of being a poet, 64, 65; reviews book, 65, 66; and Mrs. J. R. Lowell, 66, 67; decides to study for the ministry, 68, 69; rooms in Divinity Hall, 69; visits Niagara, 70; student life, 70-74; friendship for Samuel Longfellow, 71, 72, 78, 90, III; for W. H. Hurlbut, 72, 125-27, 280; for W. B. Greene, 72; on rights of women, 73, 92, 93, 134-38, 141, 266; on Texas question, 73, 74; leaves Divinity School, 74, 75; returns to solitary study, 75-78; on disunion, 76; on anti-slavery question, 76, 77, 93, 103, 129; and Samuel Johnson, 78, 82, 85, 104; reenters Divinity School, 78-83; explains withdrawal, 78, 79; sermons, 81, 94, 95, 102, 103, 105, 107, 123; family anxiety, 82; desire for individuality, 82; his address on ‘Clergy and Reform,’ 83; becomes pastor of a Newburyport Church, 84, 85; marriage, 85; new home, 85, 86; parishioners, 86, 87, 94; dislikes forms of worship, 87; interest in working people, 88; and Free Soil Party, 89-91; and temperance, 91, 92, 116, 310; fondness for children, 94, 95, 120. 121, 257, 272; establishes evening school at Newburyport, 95; early acquaintance with noted persons, 96-100; and David Wasson, 100, 101; and F. B. Sanborn, 100, 129; on Unitarian gatherings, 100, 101; doubts fitness for ministry, 101, 102; early lectures, 102, 107; resigns from Newburyport church, 103, 104; lives at Artichoke Mills, 105, 106; preaches in a hall, 107; keeps up interest in Newburyport affairs, 107, 108; interest in public libraries, 108, 140; writes editorials, 110, 111; Thalatta, 111; and Fugitive Slave Law, III, 112; and Sims, 112-15; becomes pastor of Free Church in Worcester, 115, 116; leaves Newburyport, 117, 18; Worcester home, 118; preaches own installation sermon, 119, 120; his Sunday School, 120; and Free Church, 121-23; interest in Worcester public affairs, 123; fearlessness of, 123, 125, 312; desires great things, 124, 127; public speaking, 127, 198, 315-17; on Thackeray, 128, 129; sense of humor, 129; noted visitors to Worcester, 130-32; on a western lecture trip, 132-34, 316, 317; Lucy Stone, 134-36; attends her wedding, 137; interest in botany, 140; and public reforms, 140, 141; bequest to, 141; and Anthony Burns affair, 142-46; court-house incident, 143, 149; describes excitement in Worcester, 144, 145; preaches sermon Massachusetts in Mourning, 146; arrest of, 146-48; trial, 148; Butman affair, 149-51; helps slaves, 151-54; literary work at Worcester, 155-60; Atlantic Essays, 156, 157; A Charge with Prince Rupert, 156; Saints and their Bodies, 156; Woman and the Alphabet, 156, 157; Mademoiselle and her Campaigns, 157; April Days, 157; My Outdoor Study, 157; Thalatta, 159; ‘Atlantic’ dinner, 159, 160; gives up housekeeping, 160; lectures in Maine, 161, 162, 316; visits Mt. Katahdin, 161, 162; summer outing, 162, 163; asks for colleague in Free Church, 163; Fayal, 163-65; Fayal and the Portuguese, 164; Sympathy of Religions, 164; goes West to aid Kansas emigrants, 166-68; returns to Worcester, 168, 169; goes to Kansas, 169; describes Kansas conditions, 169-81; and Dr. Seth Rogers, 175-77, 237, 321; preaches at Lawrence, 177, 178; in Leavenworth, 178, 179; speaks at AntiSla-very meeting, 180, 181; favors disunion, 181, 182; describes St. Louis slave market, 182-89; first interview with John Brown, 190; approves his plans, 191; disapproves of their postponement, 191-93; aids Brown, 193, 194; hopes to rescue Brown, 194; visits Brown's home, 194, 195; kidnapping plan. [432] 195, 196; warned, 196, 197; plan to rescue Brown's companions, 196-98; goes to Pennsylvania, 197; writes to Stevens, 198, 199; on the John Brown affair, 199, 200; guards Phillips at Anti-Slavery meetings, 201-03; scheme for safety of Washington, 203-05; goes to Harrisburg, 204; studies military tactics, 205; anxious to have a share in war, 207-09; resigns from Free Church, 209, 210; recruiting a regiment, 210, 211; decides to join the army, 211, 212; his military company, 213, 214; offered command of regiment of freed slaves, 214; accepts, 215; as a commander, 216-18, 227, 228; camp life, 218-20, 226, 228; sayings of men, 219, 220, 227, 230, 237, 245, 246-48; soldiers' pay, 221, 226, 230, 237, 252; up the St. Mary's, 222, 223; fascination of war, 223, 224; regimental wedding, 224; expedition to Jacksonville, 225, 220; at Port Royal, 226-30; Army Life, 227; increase in negro regiments, 229; expedition up the South Edisto, 230, 231; wounded, 230, 231; on furlough, 231; returns to regimental difficulties, 232, 233; impaired health, 234, 237; holiday festivities, 235; presented with sword, 236; the baby of the regiment, 237, 238; proposition for brigadier-generalship, 238; attempted expedition, 239-41; life on advanced picket, 241, 242, 244, 245; Court Martial scene, 243, 244; describes 9th U. S. Colored Regiment, 244, 245; chaplain's sermon, 245, 246; negro songs, 246; account of chaplain, 248; retires from army, 248-250, 251; village named for, 250; keeps up interest in his regiment, 250, 251; writing about war experiences, 251, 252; memorial sent to, at regimental reunion, 252; interest in Newport public affairs, 253, 254; death of his mother, 254; letters to his sisters, 254, 258, 260, 266, 270, 271, 301, 305; lives in Quaker boarding-house, 254, 255; and invalid wife, 255, 256; a day's work, 255, 256 277; celebrated persons at Newport, 258-62; Oldport Days, 262; charm of military life, 262, 263, 282; translates Epictetus, 263; edits Harvard Memorial Biographies, 263, 275; as a public speaker, 263-66, 273; visits Whittier, 266; visits Emerson, 266; and the Boston Radical Club, 267, 263; religious toleration of, 268; his ‘Creed,’ 268-70; influence of Emerson, 270; various honors, 270, 271; summers at the ‘Point,’ 272, 273; his poem Decoration Day, 273; ‘The Things I Miss,’ 273; elasticity of his nature, 274, 276, 296; on his own style, 274, 275; Malbone, 275, 278-82, 289; and Atlantic Monthly, 275; Driftwood Fire, 275, 276; translates Petrarch, 276-78; compiles Child Pictures from Dickens, 277; literary work, 277, 279; working on Army Life, 282; increased reputation, 283; literary projects, 283, 284, ‘Galatea Collection,’ 284; writes Young Folks' History, 284, 285; success of, 285,286,288; revision, 308, 396; money matters, 286-88; housekeeping, 288, 289; plans European journey, 289, 290; critical work, 290; death of wife, 290, 291; marries again, 292; settles in Cambridge, 292, 294; visits Harper's Ferry, 292-94; birth and death of first child, 294, 295; at Plymouth, N. H., 296; A Search for the Pleiades, 296; in legislature, 296-99; birth of second child, 298; at Cowpens, 299; and his daughter, 300-07, 318-21, 372, 373; writes Larger History, 301; and Matthew Arnold, 301; summers at Holden, Mass., 305-07; a week's work, 307, 308; Life of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, 307, 308; writes Women and Men, 308; in politics, 308-10, 317, 318; company reunion, 310; on dreams, 310, 311; Monarch of Dreams, 311, 312; and Emily Dickinson, 312, 313; edits her letters and poems, 368, 369; confused with Maj. Higginson, 313, 314; love of music, 314; interest in many organizations, 314, 315; in public affairs, 316, 320; western lecture tour, 316, 317; Afternoon Landscape, 319; state historian, 319, 320; summer at East Gloucester, 320, 321; first European journey (1872), 322-27; enjoys London, 322, 323, 326, 327; meets eminent persons, 322-27; visits Oxford, 325, 326; second visit to Europe (1878), 327-46; meets eminent persons, 328-37, 340; at Besant trial, 329, 330; attends public meetings, 330, 331; visits Edwin Arnold, 331, 312; Gen. Higginson, 332-34; and Darwin, 334; English Liberal Thinkers, 336, 337; in Oxford, 337, 338; in Scotland, 338-40; returns to London, 340; at Paris, 340-43; in Normandy, 343; on the Rhine, 343-45; at Frankfort, 345, 346; at Nuremberg and Dresden, 346; on foreign travel, 346; journey to Europe (1897), 347-53; in London, 347-51; Horder's description of, 348, 349; visits at country houses, 350, 351; at Oxford, 351; at Stratford, 351, 352; at Salisbury, 352, 353; at Paris, 353; in Switzerland, 353; journey to Europe (1901), 353-62; impressions of Granada, 353; at Castellamare, 353, 354; illness of his daughter, 354; at Capri, 355; at Florence, 355-57; in England, 357-59; in London, 359, 360; at the Winchester celebration, 360-62; revisits the South (1878), 362-64; another visit to the South (1904), 364-66; and colored people at Boston, 366-67; visits Gettysburg, 370, 371; summers in Dublin, N. H., 371-76; and Mark Twain, 373, 374; verses for Smith outdoor theatre, 374; and Dublin village life, 374, 375; desires to be Harvard's oldest graduate, 376, 398; interest in students, 376, 377; receives degrees, 377, 378; kindliness of, 378, 379; at polls, 380; death of sister, 381; at Columbus celebration, 381; seventieth birthday, 381; lectures at Western Reserve, 382; illness, 382-84; gives away books, 384, 385; renewed activity, 385, 386, 392; book about, 386, 387; Cheerful Yesterdays, 382; and Shaw monument, 388; musical poems, 388, 389; lectures before Lowell Institute, 389; 390; at Emerson celebration, 390; eightieth birthday celebration, 391; sons of Veterans Post named for, 391; at work on Stephen Higginson and Part of a Man's Life, 392; Robert Collyer, 392, 393; and church organization, 393, [433] 394; activity, 394; delight in grandchildren, 394, 395; gradual withdrawal from active life, 395-99; Carlyle's Laugh and Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson, 396; interested in Simplified Spelling, 398; and socialism, 398, 399; death, 399; farewell services, 399-401.

Higginson, Thomas Went worth, Post Sons of Veterans, 391, 400.

Higginson, Waldo, brother of T. W. H., account of, II, 14, 40; letter about Mr. Wells, 15.

Hoar, Senator George F., and Higginson's hymn, 64; at Emerson celebration, 390.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, conversation with, 159, 160.

Hopper, Edward, 135.

Hopper, Isaac, 135.

Horder, Rev., W. Garrett, describes Higginson, 348, 349, 362; preaches memorial sermon, 349.

Houghton, Lord, 328.

Houghton, Rowena, wife of village blacksmith, 8.

Howe, Julia Ward, 93; at Newport, 258; and Higginson, 31$; at Paris, 342.

Howe, Dr., Samuel Gridley, 26,113,193,204; and John Brown's plans, 192.

Hugo, Victor, 340, 353.

Hunt, Helen, at Newport, 258, 259. See also Jackson, Helen Hunt.

Hunter. Gen., and black regiment, 221, 225.

Hurlbut. W. H., 85; Higginson's friendship, for, 72, 125-27; portrayed in Malbone, 280.

Huxley, T. H., 335, 34o; Higginson meets, 324.

Jackson, Rev. A. W., on Higginson and his black regiment, 216-18, 223.

Jackson, Helen Hunt, literary success, 258, 259.

Johnson, Rev., Samuel, 50, 101; and Higginson, 78, 82; letter to, about resignation, 104, 105.

Kansas, troubles in, 166, 167, 180, 181; Higginson in, 169-80; people of, 174-77.

Kidner, Rev., Reuben, and Higginson, 358, T 359, 375, 376.

Kossuth, described, 97, 98.

La Farge, John, described, 259.

Lane, Gen., Jim, 172, 174.

Larger History of the United States, 417, 427: Higginson at work on, 301.

Le Barnes, J. W., on kidnapping project, 106.

Leigh ton, Caroline Andrews, letter to, 154.

Leighton, Celia, account of, 109. See also Thaxter, Celia.

Lind, Jenny, account of, 09, 100.

Littlefield, Col., on colored troops, 229.

Livermore, Mrs. Mary A., in London, 340.

Livingstone, David, 341, 342.

Long, Governor John D., and Higginson, 296, 299.

Longfellow, Henry W., 26,37,50; visit from, 295.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 386, 424.

Longfellow, Mrs., Henry Wadsworth, 50;

Higginson's impression of, 72.

Longfellow, Samuel, and T. W. Higginson, 71, 72, 78, 90, 114; Thalatta, 111, 159.

Lowell, James Russell, 156; first impression of, 14, 15; literary earnings of, 66; Swinburne on, 336.

Lowell, Maria White, Higginson's impressions of, 66. 67.

Lowell Institute, Higginson lectures before on ‘American Orators and Oratory,’ 389; on ‘American Literature,’ 389; on ‘English Literature,’ 390.

Lyttleton, Lord, and Higginson, 324.

McCarthy, Justin, Higginson visits, 336.

McCarthy, Mrs., Justin, described, 336.

McKinley, President, death of, 361.

Mademoiselle and her Campaigns, 157, 407.

Maine, Sir Henry, 328.

Malbone, 289, 411, 423; beginning of, 275, 278; writing, 279-81, published, 281, 282.

Manning, Cardinal, account of, 328, 329.

Marguerite, Queen of Italy, Higginson's Sonnets of Petrarch sent to, 278.

Marks, Lionel, poem on engagement of, 388, 389.

Martineau, James, reception at, 329.

Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the War of 1861-65, 386. 421.

Massachusetts in Mourning, 146, 406.

Masson, Prof, and Higginson, 328; dines with, 339, 340.

May, Rev. Samuel, Jr., letter to, about anti-slavery excitement, 144, 145; and fugitive slaves, 152.

Medici, Marchesa Peruzzi de, daughter of Story, visit to, 355-57.

Michigan University, influence of Higginson's writings on, 157.

Miller, Joaquin, 336.

Monarch of Dreams, 417, 423; account of, 311. 312.

Montgomery, Capt., James, leader of rescue party, 197, 198, 200; plan to recall, 203.

Moore, Thomas, visits to birthplace of, 322.

Mott, Lucretia, described, 135, 136.

Mount Auburn, early, 18, 21, 22.

Muller, Max, account of, 328.

Munthe, Dr., 354.

My Outdoor Study, 157, 408.

Negroes, Higginson's early interest in, 17, 38; Underground Railroad, 151-54; St. Louis slave market described, 182-89; regiment of freed, 216-51; discipline in, 217, 218, 226, 227; sayings of, 219, 220, 227, 230, 237, 245, 246; barbecue, 235: religious differences described, 244; description of, 246-48; Question of, in Newport, 253, 254; Higginson's address to, at Alabama, 366; at Boston, 366, 367.

Newburyport, Mass., evening schools in, 95, 107; pro-slavery sentiment in, 103; resolutions concerning departure of Higginson from, 117.

Newman, F. W., 334.

North, Christopher, described, 339.

Norton, Charles Eliot, and Higginson family, 6. [434]

Ogden, Robert, his educational trip, 364-66.

Old Cambridge, 19, 386, 423.

Oldport Days, 262, 412.

Ossoli, Margaret Fuller, Higginson writes about, 279; memorial meeting for, 397.

Ossoli, Margaret Fuller, 279, 307, 308, 416.

Outdoor Papers, 217, 313, 409.

Parker, Francis E., 33, 58; describes Higginson, 23; Higginson's letters to, 32, 37, 41.

Parker, Theodore, 148; encourages Higginson, 83; influence of, 90, 115; and John

Brown's plans, 191.

Part of a Man's Life, 426; work on, 392.

Pattison, Dr., Mark, 340; and Higginson, 337, 338.

Peabody, Josephine Preston, Higginson writes poem to, 388, 389.

Pedro, Dom, of Brazil, account of, 261, 262.

Perkins, Stephen H., Higginson becomes tutor in family of, 45-54.

Petrarch, Fifteen Sonnets of, 278, 425.

Phillips, Wendell, 113, 132; impression of

Higginson, 96; and Burns affair, 142; favors disunion, 181; Anti-Slavery speeches at Music Hall, 201-03.

Phillips, Mrs., Wendell, on Sims case, 112.

Porter, Admiral, 260, 261.

Pratt, Dexter, Longfellow's village blacksmith, 8.

Prescott, Harriet, letters of Higginson to, 53, 122,130,157,181; describes Higginson, 95, 96; receives literary prize, 107, 108.

Quakers, described, 135, 255.

Quincy, President Josiah (of Harvard College), 90; and students, 29, 30, 32, 33, 36.

Radcliffe College, 20, 377.

Rawnsley, Canon, 358.

Red path, James, 176; warns Higginson, 196, 197.

Ride through Kansas, A, 169, 173, 407.

Robinson, Gov., 176.

Rogers, Dr., Seth, letters to, 175-77, 232, 233, 239-41, 250, 263; becomes surgeon in colored regiment, 216; and Higginson, 237, 282, 321.

Rosebery, Earl of, account of, 330, 362.

Round Table Club, 315.

St. Louis, Mo., slave-market in, 182-89.

Saints and their Bodies, 156, 407.

Sanborn, F. B., 190; and T. W. Higginson, j 100; described, 129; seeks aid for Brown, i 192, 193.

Sargent, Dr. D. A., 156.

Sargent, J. T., Radical Club meets at home of, 267.

Saxton, Gen., Rufus, offers command of black regiment to Higginson, 214; offer accepted, 215; and Higginson, 217, 248; and battle of Olustee, 241.

Scott, Sir, Walter, 339.

Search for the Pleiades, A, 296, 415.

Sewall, S. E., 193.

Sharp, Professor, account of, 338, 339.

Shaw, Robert Gould, Higginson writes verse about monument to, 388.

Sims, Thomas, 142; the fugitive slave, 112– 15.

Sixty and Six, a poem, 301.

Smith, Joseph Lindon, 372; his outdoor theatre, 374.

Smith College, influence of Higginson's writings on, 156, 157.

Somerset, Lady, Henry, account of, 315.

Soule, Silas, gains admission to prison, 198.

Spenser, Herbert, account of, 335, 336.

Spofford, Harriet Prescott. See Prescott, Harriet.

Spooner, Lysander, kidnapping project, 195, 196.

Stanley, Dean, described, 325.

Stanley, Henry M., account of, 341, 342.

Stevens, A. D. , 199, 200; project to rescue, 196-98; Higginson's letter to, 198, 199.

Stewart, Capt., of Kansas, 151.

Stone, Lucy, described, 97; Higginson's friendship with, 134-36; marries Henry Blackwell, 137.

Storrow, Anne (Aunt Nancy), account of, 5, 6; and T. W. Higginson, 10, n, 122; T. W. Higginson's letters to, 16-18, 57, 77, 87, 129, 146, 147.

Storrow, Mrs., Anne Appleton, life of, 3-5.

Storrow, Farley, 28, 37.

Storrow, Louisa, birth, 5; marries Stephen Higginson, 5. See also Higginson, Louisa Storrow.

Storrow, Capt., Thomas, of the British army, 2; sketch of, 3, 4.

Storrow, Thomas Wentworth, uncle of T. W. H., his namesake, 5.

Story, Judge, 35, 116.

Story, W. W., the sculptor, 355.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, nr, 159.

Stowell, Martin, party led by, 168.

Sumner, Charles, 38, 166, 238; described, 96, 97; buys and frees negro family, 153.

Sunshine and Petrarch, 276-78, 410.

Swanwich, Anna, 334.

Swinburne, A. C., on Lowell, 336; Higginson visits, 359, 360.

Sympathy of Religions, 164, 328, 411.

Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic, 386, 422.

Taylor, Helen, 340.

Tennyson, Alfred, 357; account of, 326.

Thackeray, Miss, and Higginson, 326.

Thackeray, William Makepeace, Higginson describes, 128, 129.

Thalatta, 159, 405.

Thaxter, Celia (Leighton), account of, 109. Thaxter, Levi, 45, 57; friendship for Higginson, 23; and Isles of Shoals, 108, 109; the Higginsons on, 109.

Thayer, Abbot, at Dublin, 373.

Things I Miss, The, a poem, account of, 273.

Thoreau, Henry D., 129, 139; account of, 98.

Todd, Mabel Loomis, edits poems of Emily Dickinson, 368, 369.

Topeka, Kan., letter from, 172, 173; account of, 175, 176.

Travellers and Outlaws, 319, 418.

Tubman, Harriet, 219.

Twain, Mark, account of, 259, 260, 373, 374.

Tyndall, John, 335; Higginson hears, 324; letter from, 327. [435]

Underwood, F. H., and Atlantic, 155; Higginson's protest to, 158.

Up the St. Mary's, 251, 409.

Vere, Aubrey de, Higginson on, 323.

Voltaire, Centenary, 340; birthplace, 341.

Walker, Brig.-Gen., and Higginson, 227, 228.

Ward, Julia, 26. See also Howe, Julia Ward.

Ware, Thornton, 17, 18.

Washington, Booker, school, 365; and northern colored people, 366.

Washington, D. C., plan for safety of, 203-05.

Wasson, David, and T. W. Higginson, 100, 101.

Webb, R. D., Higginson visits, 322.

Weiss, Rev. Mr., 267.

Weld, Samuel, Higginson teaches in school of, 41-46.

Wells, William, his school, 14, 15.

Wentworth, Sir, John, 4.

Wentworth, John, Governor of New Hampshire, 3.

Western Reserve University, confers degree on Col. Higginson, 377; Higginson lectures at, 382.

Whitman, Walt, 336; Higginson quotes, 395.

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 336; Higginson visits, 98, 266; described, 259.

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 424; Higginson at work on, 386.

Williams, Henry, 233.

Wilson, John. See North, Christopher.

Woman and the Alphabet, or Ought Women to learn the Alphabet? 407; inquiry about, 156; influence of, 156, 157.

Women and Men, 308, 418.

Woman Who Most Influenced Me, The, 7, 421.

Woman's Suffrage, rights of women, 73, 92, 93, 137, 138, 141; convention, 134-36, 266; Bill, 296, 297; in England, 331, 340.

Worcester, Free Church at, 115, 121-23; people of, 118, 119; free public library at, 140.

Worden, Capt., 260, 261.

Wordsworth, William, home of, described, 357, 358.

Wordsworth, William, grandson of poet, 357; Higginson visits, 355.

Young Folks' History of the United States, 365, 413, 415; Higginson asked to write, 284; work on, 285; great success of, 285, 286, 288; revision, 308, 396. [436]