INDEX.

Abraham, Mount, [72].
Adirondacks, [237].
Advertiser, Boston Daily, [182].
Alden, John, [97].
Aldrich, T. B., [84].
Alps, [84], [122], [168].
“American Women of Note,” [239].
Amesbury, [98], [134], [146], [170].
Anderson, Hans, [176].
Andover, [145], [219].
Andrew, Governor, [111].
Androscoggin, [227].
Anglo-Saxon Poetry, [49].
Annapolis, [224].
Appledore, [166].
Appleton, Nathan, [7].
Arnold, Matthew, [191].
Arthur, Prince, [131].
Asquam, Lake, [229].
Atlantic Monthly, [153], [189], [239].
“At Her Bedside,” [199].
Attleboro’, [122].
“At the Beautiful Gate,” [173], [187].
Bacon, Francis, [91].
Baker, Mrs. I. W., [32];
letter to, [38];
living with, [44].
Barrett, Lois, [1].
Bass River, [2].
Beaufort, S. C., [112].
Berkshire Hills, [237].
Berlin Falls, [188], [227].
Bermuda, [182].
Bethel, [224], [227].
Bethlehem, [227], [230].
Betsy’s, Aunt, cucumbers, [32].
Beverly, [1], [2];
life in, [43-46], [74], [113], [115], [133], [144], [153], [156], [170];
division of, [246];
love for, [252].
Beverly Farms, [1].
Blanchard, Dr. Amos, [13].
Blue, Mount, [42].
Bonnechose, de, [118].
Boston, [123], [125], [156], [172], [246];
troops in, [89];
Harbor, [115].
Boston Journal, [36].
Bradford Academy, [172].
Bradford, England, [190].
“Breathings of the Better Life,” [159].
Brooks, Rev. Phillips, [185], [207], [209], [225], [248], [252], [275];
letter on preaching, [185];
friendship for Lucy Larcom, [186];
letter on Lord’s Supper, [186];
preaching of, [207];
preaches on “Old Year,” [211];
preaches about Heaven, [214];
letter about church-membership, [220];
letter about “The Little Town of Bethlehem,” [232];
letter, [241];
invites all to Communion, [244];
letter, [250];
at Wheaton, [265];
elected Bishop, [268];
Consecration of, [274];
death of, [285].
Brown, J. Appleton, [183].
Brown of Ossawatomie, [81].
Browning, [180], [278].
Browning, Mrs., [159].
Bushnell, Horace, [159].
Campton, [99], [152].
Cape Ann, [166], [180].
Carlyle, [70].
Carter, Franklin, [153], [237];
letters to, [205], [281].
Cary Sisters, The, [196].
Centre Harbor, [227], [230].
Chadwick, Rev. J. W., [174].
Chasles, Philarète, [11].
Chaucer’s Daisies, [167].
Childs, G. W., [234], [236].
Childs, Mrs., [118].
Childhood Songs, [3], [176], [177].
Child-Life, [3], [176], [177].
Christian Union, [233], [285].
Clough, Arthur, [258].
Coleridge, [5], [54].
Congregational Church, [55], [190], [201], [207], [242];
administration of Communion in, [245].
Congregationalist, The, [233].
Contrabands, [154].
Conybeare, and Howson, Life of St. Paul, [116].
Cook, Mrs., [196].
Corinth, [144].
Cottage Hearth, The, [233].
Cousin, [70].
Crayon, The, [63].
Croswell, Dr., poems, [81].
Curtiss, Hariot, [10].
Cushman, Miss, [149].
Davis, Jeff, [102];
capture of, [157].
Dickens, Charles, [8].
Dickinson, Emily, [285].
Digby, [224].
District of Columbia, slavery in, [139].
Dodge, Mrs. Mary Mapes, [177-178].
Donelson, Fort, [124].
Durand, John, [65];
letter to, [66].
Easter Gleams, [187].
Elizabeth, Queen, [93].
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, [125], [178], [278];
“Parnassus,” [186].
England, [117], [190];
against slavery, [116].
Episcopal Church, [11], [81], [187], [207], [209], [220], [243], [249], [284];
criticism of, [254-256];
little side of, [272].
Essex County, [1], [193].
Evangeline, [223].
Farley, Hariett, [10].
Farrar, Canon, [226].
Fichte, [128].
Fields, James T., letter to, [148], [153], [159].
Fields, Mrs. James T., [149];
letters to, [155], [160], [163], [178];
books loaned by, [156].
Fitch, Mrs., [224].
Florida, [130].
Fobes, Miss P., [38];
letters to, [46], [47], [282].
Forrester, Fanny, [175].
Fox, George, journal of, [97], [106].
Franconia Notch, [100], [151].
Freeman, Miss, [247].
Frémont, [111].
French Acadians, [224].
Gannett’s, Dr., school, [172].
Gardiner, Maine, [71].
Garfield, Mrs., [210].
Garfield, President, [191];
assassination of, [210].
Garrison, W. L., [14].
Gaspereau, [223].
Gethsemane, [137].
Gibbon, [118].
Godfrey, Captain B., [37].
“Golden-Rod,” [191].
Gordon, Rev. Mr., [267].
Grand Pré, [223].
Great Britain, [166].
Greenough, Mrs., [186].
Greenwood, Grace, [175].
Guild, Mrs., [236], [276].
Gulliver’s Travels, [5].
Guyon, Madame, [159].
“Hail Columbia,” [139].
Halifax, [224].
Hamilton, Gail, [157].
Hammond, Wisconsin, [155].
“Hand in Hand with Angels,” [173].
Hannah, Aunt, [4].
“Hannah Binding Shoes,” [63], [173], [179];
set to music, [65].
Hare’s “Mission of the Comforter,” [54].
Harper’s Magazine, [183], [233].
Haskell, Mrs. Abby O., [29];
letter to, [42].
Hatteras, Fort, [102].
Hawthorne’s “Little Annie’s Ramble,” [176].
“Heart of God,” The, [189].
Hegel, [128].
Herbert, George, [79], [159].
Higginson, Mr., [197].
“Hilary,” [153], [173].
Hindoo, [112].
Hopkins, Dr. Mark, [281].
Horder, Rev. W. Garrett, [190], [196].
Horticultural Association, [152].
Howells, W. D., [189], [230].
Humiston, Esther S., [54], [103], [135];
letters to, [54], [75];
dying, [91];
death, [92];
grave of, [136];
letters of, [138];
mother of, [142], [152].
Hunter, Dr. John, [197].
“Idyl of Work,” [179], [190].
“Immortal Now,” The, [285].
Independent, The, [233].
Ingelow, Jean, [174];
letter to, [165].
Ipswich, [1];
Academy of, [172].
Isles of Shoals, [166].
Italy, [83], [108].
Jackson, H. H., [196].
Jameson’s, Mrs., “Legends of the Madonna,” [79].
Kant, [128].
Keble, [209], [215].
Kennebec River, [74].
Knickerbocker, The, [63];
letter to, [64].
Koeppen, [83].
Lamb’s “Dream Children,” [176].
Larcom, Mrs., [6], [262];
boarding-house of, [8];
death of, [171].
Larcom, Benjamin, [1].
Larcom, Cornelius, [1].
Larcom, David, [1].
Larcom, Jonathan, [1].
Larcom, Lucy, birth, [1];
at school, [4];
love for hymns, [5];
books she read, [9];
writes for manuscript papers, [9];
working in Lowell mills, [11];
early religious ideas, [12];
signs petition to Congress, [14];
meets Mr. Whittier, [15];
book-keeper in Lawrence Mills, [15];
writing in prose sketch-book, [16];
writing poetry, [17];
goes to Illinois, [18];
diary of journey, [21-27];
in Maryland, [23];
At Pittsburgh, [25];
at St. Louis, [26];
lives on Looking-glass Prairie, [27];
hardships in school-teaching, [28];
letters to sisters, Abby and Lydia, [29];
examined for position as teacher, [31];
sick with “agey,” [33];
enters Monticello, [38];
life at Monticello, [39-43];
debating society, [40];
compositions, [41];
engagement, [43];
teaching in Beverly, [44-46];
enters Wheaton Seminary, [46-47];
room at Norton, [48];
love for flowers, [49];
knitting stockings for soldiers, [49];
power as a teacher, [49-53];
lecture on Anglo-Saxon Poetry, [49];
lecture on compositions, [50];
in the class-room, [50];
founding the “Rushlight,” and Psyche Literary Society, [50-51];
called “Mother Larcom,” [51];
letter on death, [52];
girl’s love affairs, [52];
scholar’s love for her, [52];
friendship for Miss Humiston, [54-57];
ideas about church-membership, and doctrines, [55-57];
leaves Norton, [57];
reasons for not marrying, [57-59];
publishes “Similitudes,” [61];
wins Kansas prize song, [62];
publishes Lottie’s Thought-book, [62];
prints “Hannah Binding Shoes,” [63];
writes to New York Tribune, [64];
letter to John Durand, [65];
unsuccessful attempt to print a volume of verse, [66];
submits verses to Mr. Whittier for criticism, [68];
diary, [69-147];
thoughts on mystics, [70];
thoughts on “The Sabbath,” [74];
reasons for keeping a diary, [75];
remarks on ministers, [76-77];
reads “Wilhelm Meister,” [78];
depression of spirits, [84];
thoughts on eternal life and death, [85];
gifts on her birthday, [86];
unpleasant sermon on Satan, [88];
remarks on friendship, [93];
visits the Webster place, [96];
visits Plymouth, [96];
visits the Whittiers, [98];
love for mountains, [100];
on the Rebellion, [101];
concerning her diary, [103];
concerning gossip, [110];
on child’s knowledge of the Bible, [120];
sleigh-ride to Attleboro’, [122];
on Sarah Paine’s death, [128];
hears Emerson, [125];
education of nieces, [127];
religious talks with scholars, [129];
introspection, [132];
thoughts on the resurrection, [133];
love for the Whittiers, [135];
singing around Liberty Pole, [139];
prays for C——, [140];
skeptical, [141];
school trials, [141];
death of C——, [144];
visits Andover, [145];
letter to Mr. Fields, enclosing poem, [149];
letter to Whittier about the mountains, [150];
gives up teaching at Wheaton, [152];
home in Waterbury, [152];
writes for the Atlantic, [153];
letter about death of her sister Louisa, [155];
edits “Our Young Folks,” [157];
publishes “Breathings of the Better Life,” [159];
letters to Mrs. James T. Fields, [159-163];
letter to Mrs. Thaxter, [163];
letter to Miss Ingelow, [165];
letter to Mr. Whittier about her mother’s illness, [170];
publishes “Poems,” [173];
name of, [175];
work with Mr. Whittier, [175];
letters to Mrs. Dodge, [177];
publishes “An Idyl of Work,” [179];
prints “Roadside Poems,” [180];
letter on Romans, [181];
visits Bermuda, [182];
prints “Landscape in American Poetry,” [183];
letter to Mrs. Wheaton, [183];
present at breakfast to Dr. Holmes, [184];
first meeting with Phillips Brooks, [185];
prints “Wild Roses of Cape Ann,” [187];
letter to Mr. Pickard, [188];
criticism of her poetry, [189-198];
letter to Dr. Hunter, [197];
religious changes, [200];
letter to Franklin Carter, [205];
learns to know the Episcopal Church, [107-120];
opinion of faith-cure, [212];
reads Renan, [216];
letter from Nova Scotia, [223];
letter to Phillips Brooks, [225];
summer homes of, [227];
on Theosophy, [231];
conversation with Mr. Whittier about finances, [233];
visits President Carter, [237];
prints “A New England Girlhood,” [238];
communes at Trinity Church, [244];
confirmed, [252];
converses with Mr. Brooks, [269-270];
illness of, [280-281];
letter to Miss Fobes, [282];
last letter to Phillips Brooks, [285];
on the death of Mr. Brooks, [287];
death of, [289];
burial of, [290].
Larcom, Mordecai, [1].
Lavater, [119].
Lawrence Mills, [15].
Lazarus, Emma, [259].
Lebanon, [31].
Lee, surrender of,

[156].
Leigh, Miss, [247].
Liberty Pole, [139].
Lincoln, Abraham, [191];
assassination of, [156].
Longfellow, H. W., [80], [166], [179], [180], [196];
letter to Miss Larcom, [198];
death of, [220].
Longfellow, Rev. Samuel, [65].
Lowell, mills in, [6];
lyceum of, [8];
poem on, [179];
article in Atlantic Monthly on, [239].
Lowell, Francis Cabot, [7].
Lowell, J. R., [180].
Lowell, Maria, [196].
Lowell Offering, [10].
“Loyal Woman’s No,” [58], [153].
Maine, [226].
Maintenon, Madame de, [93].
Manassas, [130].
Mansel, Dean, [75].
Martineau, Dr., [196].
Mason and Slidell, [115].
Maurice, [70], [75], [76], [209], [214], [218], [265].
Maury’s Physical Geography, [91].
Melrose, [219].
Memphis, [144].
Merrimac, [99], [101], [130], [139];
sinking of, [154].
Middlesex Standard, [15].
Milton, [194], [259].
Milton Hills, [109].
Mississippi, [167].
Missouri, [124].
“Monitor,” [130].
Monticello, [238], [283];
prospectus of, [37].
Moosilauke, [227], [263], [272], [277].
Morris’ Poems, [75].
Moultrie, Fort, [81].
Müller, Max, [210].
“My Mountain,” [192].
Myrtle, Minnie, [175].
Neander’s “History of the Church,” [116], [118], [218].
Neck-woods, [123].
Newburyport, [179].
New England Emigrant Aid Co., [62].
“New England Girlhood,” [2], [238], [250].
New Hampshire, [105], [168], [226].
New York Tribune, The, [63], [64].
Norfolk, [130], [139].
North Carolina, [124].
Norton, Mass., [53], [57], [105], [115], [153], [172], [183].
Notch Mountains, [151], [168], [227].
Nova Scotia, [224].
Olivet, [137].
“On the Beach,” [191].
Operatives’ Magazine, [10].
Osgood & Co., [179].
Ossipee Park, [227], [230], [279].
“Our Christ,” [190].
Our Young Folks, [3], [157], [172], [176].
Paine, Sarah, [123].
Park, Professor, [145].
Parker, Theodore, [71].
Passion Week, [243], [266].
Paula, [93].
Pembroke, [98].
Pemigewasset, [99], [168].
Pilgrims, [80], [165], [167].
Pilgrim’s Progress, [5].
Pitman, Harriet, [171], [178].
“Phebe,” [189].
Phelps, Prof., [145].
Phillips, Adelaide, [65].
Plato, [119], [217], [236];
reading, [54];
teaching, [118].
Plymouth, [96].
“Poems,” [173], [174].
Portland Transcript, [227].
Potomac, [111].
Prairie sleigh-ride, A, [36].
Psyche Literary Society, [50].
Puritans, [107], [113], [201], [150].
Quaker, [97], [135];
worship of, [98];
contrast with Puritan, [107].
Quaker Home, [234].
Readville, [109].
Renan, [216].
Richter, Jean Paul, [16].
“Roadside Poems,” [180].
Robertson, F. W., [138], [159], [160], [203], [209], [266].
“Rose Enthroned,” The, [154], [192].
Rossetti, W. M., [197].
Rushlight, The, [50].
Ruskin, [75].
Russell, John, [227].
“Sabbath Bells,” [15].
Saddle-back, [72].
Schelling, [128].
Scott, Sir Walter, [5].
Sears’ “Foregleams and Foreshadows,” [54].
Shakespeare, [118], [149], [194].
“Shared,” [189].
Shelley, [180].
“Similitudes,” [61].
“Skipper Ben,” [65], [173].
Smith, John Cotton, [215].
Spalding, Mrs. S. I., [179], [230];
letters to, [181], [187], [193], [240], [250], [271].
Spaulding, George, [33], [36].
Spaulding, Lucy Larcom, [289].
Spenser, [5], [191].
Socrates, [217].
Solis-Cohen, Dr. S., [260].
“Songs of Three Centuries,” [259], [279].
South Carolina, [81].
Southey, [5].
St. Ann’s Church, Lowell, [14], [207].
St. Nicholas, [3], [157], [177], [178], [233].
St. Peter’s Church, Beverly, [290].
Standish, Miles, [97].
Stanley, Aunt, [4].
Stedman, Mr., [93].
Stephen, Sir James, [118].
Stone, Dr., [215].
Stone, Lucy, [46].
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, [146].
Stowe, Prof., [145].
Sumatra, [133].
Sumner, Charles, [108].
Swedenborg, [54], [119].
Switzerland, [168].
Tauler’s Sermons, [54].
Taunton, [90].
Tennyson, [278].
Thanksgiving, A, [174], [194].
Thaxter, Mrs. Celia, [163].
Thayer, Prof., [178].
“The Chamber Called Peace,” [173].
Tholuck, [159].
Thomas, Rev. Abel C., [10].
Thorndike, Colonel, [2].
Trinity Church, [207], [226], [252];
free seats in, [208];
services at, [209];
passing of old year at, [211].
Trowbridge, [157].
Unitarianism, [112], [215].
Universalists, [56].
Unseen Friend, The, [283].
“Unwedded,” [59].
Vincent, Henry, [179].
Walker’s Rhyming Dictionary, [18].
Wallace Lane, [2].
Wallis, Becky, [32].
Ward, Susan Hayes, [238];
letters to, [53], [222].
Waterbury, Conn., [54], [152].
Waterville, [100].
Webster, Daniel, [96].
Wellesley College, [247].
Wheaton, Judge, [46].
Wheaton, Mrs. E. B., [183].
Wheaton Seminary, [46], [152], [172], [238], [265].
White Face, [192].
White Mountains, [168].
White, Richard Grant, [197].
White, Sunday, A, [174].
Whitney, Mrs. A. D. T., [184], [239].
Whittier, Elizabeth, [15], [67], [80], [98], [137], [151], [154], [191].
Whittier, John G., [66], [98], [134], [163], [179], [185], [232];
first meeting with Miss Larcom, [15];
friendship for Miss Larcom, [66];
letter to Lucy Larcom, [67];
“Home Ballads,” [80];
“Panorama,” [80];
letters to, [150], [170], [180], [223], [230], [275], [276];
rhymed note of, [161];
at Isles of Shoals, [166];
collaboration with Miss Larcom, [175];
letter to Lucy Larcom, [176];
criticism of her poetry, [193];
letter to O. W. Holmes, [198];
visit of, [218];
poem, “Wood-Giant,” [230];
on Bishop Brooks, [271];
death of, [277].
Wide Awake, [233].
Wilberforce, Canon, [247].
“Wild Roses of Cape Ann,” [187], [188].
Williams College, [153], [205].
Williamstown, [237].
Winnipiseogee, [98], [168].
Winter, William, [185].
Wolfboro’, [229].
Woodberry, George E., [257], [258].
Wordsworth, [5], [180].
Year in Heaven, A, [173].
Youth’s Companion, [3].

FOOTNOTES:

[1] An Idyl of Work, p. 34.

[2] An Idyl of Work, p. 69.

[3] An Idyl of Work, p. 74.

[4] Ibid, p. 136.

[5] Similitudes.

[6] Elizabeth Whittier.

[7] Wild Roses of Cape Ann.