INDEX
INDEX
Abolitionism, [51], [56], [60].
Adams, Charles Francis, his opinion of Spain, [216], [217];
member of the Saturday Club, [202];
minister to Spain, [239].
Adams, President John Quincy, his action regarding Cuba, [221].
Adams, Samuel, credits Mayhew with idea of colonial federation, [9].
Address at the quarter-millennial celebration of Harvard, by
J.R. L., [268].
Admiralty law, [218].
Advertiser. See [Boston Advertiser].
Agassiz, Louis, lecturer before Lowell Institute, [197]–199;
professor at Harvard, [197], [198], [268];
member of the Saturday Club, [202].
Alcott, A. Bronson, [43].
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, editor of The Atlantic Monthly, [149], [151];
member of the Saturday Club, [202].
Alfonso XII., of Spain, [216], [223], [224].
Allen, Thomas J., [67].
Allen & Ticknor, booksellers, [65], [155].
Allston, Washington, friend of Dr. Charles Lowell, [12];
his pictures in Boston, [58].
Almakkari’s History, translated by Gayangos, [235].
Alpha Delta Phi, at Harvard, [26]–29;
society formed at Hamilton College, N.Y., [27].
Amadeo, king of Spain, abdication of, [208], [216].
Amadis, [18].
American Academy, [152].
American ministers to England, [239].
Andrew, Governor, [182], [202].
Andrews, C.C., [248].
Anglomaniacs, snubbed by J.R. L., [275].
Anti-Slavery Society, [173], [174].
Anti-Slavery Standard. See [National Anti-Slavery Standard].
Appleton, Thomas Gold, [202], [266].
“Arcturus, The,” [84].
Armstrong, Governor, [155].
Atlantic Monthly, The, [83], [145], [150]–152, [156]–162, [165]–167, [171],
Atlas, The Boston, edited by Richard Hildreth, [69].
Aubépine, Monsieur d’, nom de plume of Hawthorne, [84].
Bachi, Pietro, professor at Harvard, [128].
Bacon, John, [26].
Balliol College, Oxford, compared with Harvard, [22].
Ball’s Bluff, battle of, [183].
Bancroft, George, [68], [152], [155], [239].
“Band of Brothers and Sisters, The,” [71], [72].
Barrett, Elizabeth. See [Browning, Elizabeth Barrett].
Barrows, Mr., extracts from J.R. L.’s letters to, [242].
Battle of the Nile, The (song), [75].
“Baxter’s Boys They Built a Mill,” [75].
Beaver Brook, [177], [267], [284].
Beecher, Henry Ward, [104].
Beefsteak Club, [126].
Bellini, Charles, professor of modern languages at Harvard, [126].
Bellows, Henry Whitney, trained in English by E.T. Channing, [19].
Bells and Pomegranates, [85].
Bible, first American, [154].
Bigelow, Jacob, lectures in Boston, [106].
Biglow Papers, [44], [115], [124], [163], [176], [177];
first series, popular in England, [98], [99];
occasion of, [162];
second series, [164], [167], [181];
Birmingham address. See [Democracy].
Blackwood (magazine), [37], [82], [160].
Blaine, James G., relations with J.R. L., [259].
Blockade-running during the Civil War, [218]–220.
Board of Fellows of Harvard University, [15].
Bonner, Robert, publishes Lowell’s poem, My Brook, in New York
Ledger, [284].
Boston Advertiser, edited by Nathan Hale, [35], [79], [114];
publishes J.R. L.’s lectures, [114].
Boston as a publishing centre, [152], [153].
Boston, in the forties, [55]–58;
Boston Miscellany of Literature and Fashion, The, [29], [35], [82], [84]–87,
Boston Latin School, [128], [182].
Boston Lyceum, [110].
Boston Public Library, [66].
Boston “school of history,” [68].
Bowen, Francis, professor at Harvard, [50], [170].
Bradbury & Soden, publishers, [82], [83].
Braham, John, the singer, [58].
Briggs, Charles F., [84], [176].
Brooks, Charles T., [44], [185].
Brooks, Phillips, [202].
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, [84], [90].
Browning, Robert, [85], [258].
Browning’s Hebrew traits, [276].
Brownson, Orestes A., [57].
Bryant, William Cullen, [97].
Brunetti Latini, teacher of Dante, [49].
Buchanan, James, member of the Ostend conference, [217].
“Buddha of the West,” [203].
Bunyan, remark of Macaulay concerning, [277].
Burnett, Mabel Lowell, daughter of J.R. L., [143], [144], [188], [265], [267].
“Byles,” pseudonym of Edmund Quincy, [176].
Cabot, J. Elliot, member of the Saturday Club, [157], [158], [202];
remark quoted, [203].
Calderon, Serafin Estebanez (the poet), J.R. L.’s love for, [271].
Calderon Collantes, Fernando, [216].
Calderon de la Barca, Madam, governess in the Spanish royal family,
Calderon de la Barca, Pedro, [224].
Cambridgeport Women’s Total Abstinence Society, [111].
Carlyle, his books reprinted in America; their influence on Lowell, [21];
remark on Rousseau, [46];
his popularity in Cambridge, [60], [61];
London lectures, [105], [106];
his Chartism, [136].
Carpenter, George O., [67].
Carter, James, [40].
Carter, Robert, friend of J.R. L., [86], [91], [114].
Cathedral, The, Emerson’s criticism of, [164].
Changeling, The, [150].
Channing, Edward Tyrrel, professor at Harvard, [18], [19], [21], [35],
lectures in Boston, [67].
Channing, Walter, [22].
Channing, William Ellery (the younger), [43].
Channing, William Francis, abolitionist, [22].
Chase, Thomas, professor at Harvard, [170].
Chapman, Mrs., abolitionist, [175].
Chauncy, Charles, president of Harvard, [194].
Cheerful Yesterdays, [100].
Cherokee warrior of Lowell’s class poem, [51].
Child, Francis J., professor at Harvard, [170], [184]–187;
his War Songs for Freemen, [185], [186].
Child, Lydia Maria, contributor to the National Anti-Slavery Standard,
Choate, Joseph H., [40].
Choate, Rufus, lectures in Boston, [67];
J.R. L.’s article on, [166].
Christian Examiner, [152].
Church, the, position of, on the issues between North and South, [100].
Cincinnati Public Library, Rufus King a founder of, [32].
Civil Service Reform, [261].
Civil War, beginning of, [180].
Clarke, James Freeman, his classical scholarship, [14];
trained in English by E.T. Channing, [19];
member of the Saturday Club, [202].
Clarendon Press, Oxford, [254].
Class Day at Harvard, [39].
Class poem, Lowell’s, [51]–53.
Cleveland, Grover, elected president, [259];
does not retain J.R. L. as minister to England, [261].
Cleveland, Henry Russell, contributor to the North American
Review, [61].
Clough, Arthur Hugh, in Cambridge, [135], [136];
acquaintance with Emerson, [136], [137].
“Club, The,” [71].
“Coercion Act,” [243].
Coleridge’s poems published in Philadelphia, [23].
College life in America in J.R. L.’s time, [127]–131.
College societies at Harvard, [16].
Commemoration Ode, [8], [164];
delivery of, [188]–191.
Commencement dinners at Harvard, [117].
Commission of Thirty, [206].
Concord, Mass., scene of Lowell’s “rustication,” [43]–54.
Congregational church, schism in, [10].
Constitution of the United States, celebration of the adoption of,
J.R. L.’s address, [269].
Cooke, George Willis, [201].
Cooke, Josiah Parsons, professor at Harvard, [170], [197].
Coolidge, James Ivers Trecothick, classmate of J.R. L., [27], [32];
contributor to Harvardiana, [36];
class orator, [39].
Corner Bookstore. See [Old Corner Bookstore].
Courier, The, [162].
Craigie House, [137].
Crocker & Brewster, publishers, [153], [155].
Cromwell’s Head, sign of, [65].
Cuba, negotiations in regard to, between United States and Spain, [208],
Cummings & Hilliard, publishers, [155].
Curtis, George Ticknor, [71].
Cushing, Caleb, J.R. L.’s article on, [166].
Custer, Gen. George A., [182].
Cutler, Elbridge Jefferson, instructor at Harvard, [132], [133], [135], [185].
Daguerreotype, announced by Daguerre, in 1839, [31].
Daily Advertiser. See [Boston Advertiser].
Dallas, George M., [156].
Dana, Richard Henry, president of Phi Beta Kappa, [117];
member of the Saturday Club, [202], [266];
friend of J.R. L., [253].
Dana Law School, [183].
Dante, J.R. L.’s lectures on, [130], [140], [142], [144].
Dante, quotation from, [49].
Death of Queen Mercedes (sonnet), [233].
Democracy, Lowell’s address at Birmingham, [237], [252], [253], [268].
Democratic Review, Hawthorne’s stories in, [84].
Dictionary House, [255].
Diplomatic Correspondence, edited by Sparks, [69].
Diplomatic correspondence of J.R. L., [242]–244.
Donne, Dr., [282].
Douglas, Stephen A., [200].
Dublin University Magazine, [160].
Dunlap, Frances. See [Lowell, Frances Dunlap].
Duyckinck, E.A., editor of The Arcturus, [84].
Dwight, John Sullivan, [202].
Ebeling collection of early American authorities, [68].
Edinburgh Review, The, [62], [168], [235].
Election in November, The, [171].
Eliot, Charles William, president of Harvard, [40], [120], [129], [130], [170],
Eliot, Samuel, his classical scholarship, [14];
pupil of William Wells, [14].
Elliott, Dr., oculist, [89], [90].
Ellis, Rev. Dr. Rufus, classmate of J.R. L., [32];
contributor to Harvardiana, [36];
commencement orator, [54].
Ellsler, Fanny, [58].
Elmwood, home of James Russell Lowell’s family, [1];
occupied by Thomas Oliver in 1774, [1];
confiscated by the state after Oliver’s departure, [2];
lived in by Elbridge Gerry, [3];
used as a hospital during the Revolution, [3];
description, [3], [6], [11], [12];
occupied by J.R. L. after his marriage, [98], [126], [143], [145], [150],
return to, after residence abroad, [263]–265, [267], [270];
Dr. Hale’s last visit to Dr. Charles Lowell there, [101];
birthplace of James Jackson Lowell, [182].
Emerson, Ellen, [202].
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, trained in English by E.T. Channing, [19];
his copy of Tennyson’s first volume of poems, [21];
Lowell’s first acquaintance with, [48], [49];
address before Cambridge divinity school, [48];
contributes to the North American Review, [61], [63];
literary work as a profession, [63], [64];
English Traits, sale of, [63], [64];
connection with Mr. Phillips, [64];
lectures in London, [105];
at Dartmouth College, [108];
friendship with Arthur Hugh Clough, [136], [137];
publication of books, [152];
member of the Saturday Club, [157], [158];
English Traits, [63], [64], [154];
criticism of Lowell’s The Cathedral, [164];
Phi Beta Kappa addresses, [202]–205;
member of the Saturday Club, [157], [201];
Bowdoin prize dissertations, [202];
not infallible in judging character, [275].
Emerson, William, [202].
Emigrant Aid Company, destruction of hotel of the, [180].
English Traits, sale of, [63], [64].
English attitude towards America in 1863, [251].
English friends and acquaintances of J.R. L., [257]–259.
Esk River, [280].
Euripides, [128].
Eustis, Henry Lawrence, [27].
Eustis, John Fenwick, [26].
Evarts, William M., [214], [231], [239].
Evening Post, edited by Bryant and Gay, [177].
Everett, Alexander, [69], [152];
as minister to Spain, offers $100,000,000 for Cuba, [217];
remark quoted, [153].
Everett, Edward, lectures in Boston, [57], [67], [106];
remark quoted, [128];
president of Harvard, [133], [143];
his opinion of the Transcendentalists, [203];
congressman, [212];
opinion of American enthusiasm for things English, [237];
minister to England, [239].
Everett, William, [40], [212].
Fable for Critics, [58], [124], [163].
Fair Oaks, battle of, [183].
Fantasy, [85].
Federal party, [17].
Federation of colonies suggested by Mayhew, [9].
Felton, Cornelius Conway, president of Harvard, [41], [129], [130], [134],
contributor to the North American Review, [61], [194];
member of the Saturday Club, [202].
Fenians, [241].
Field, John W., friend of J.R. L., [253].
Fields, James T., [57], [65]–67;
editor of The Atlantic Monthly, [151], [166];
bookseller and publisher, [154], [155].
Fields, Osgood & Co., publishers, [169].
Fingal, relation to Fenians, [241].
First Class Book, [20].
First Snowfall, The, [12], [150].
Fish, Hamilton, instructions to Mr. Sickles regarding Spanish
Fitful Head, The, [4].
Five of Clubs, The, [60].
Flaxman’s pictures, [86].
Forbes, John Murray, [202].
Foreign press on America, [209], [210].
Fox, Charles James, [9].
Franklin, Benjamin, minister to France, [213].
Frazer’s Magazine, [160].
Frelinghuysen, F.T., letter of J.R. L. to, [244].
French travelers in America, reference to, [121].
Frost, Rev. Barzillai, Lowell’s tutor during his “rustication,”
instructor at Harvard, [44].
Frost, Mrs. Barzillai, [47].
Fuller, Margaret, [58].
Gage, General, in Boston, [2].
Galilee, the Misses, Whitby landladies, [281].
Galignani’s newspaper, [209].
Gardiner, Colonel, of Preston Pans, [224].
Garrison, Wendell Phillips, [272].
Garrison, William Lloyd, establishes the Liberator, [56], [57], [174];
influence as a lecturer, [101], [103], [104];
reference to, by J.R. L., [175].
Garrisonians, [173].
Gay, Sydney Howard, journalist and historian, [97], [149], [173]–179.
Gayangos, Pascual de, [235], [236].
George, Henry, arrested in Ireland, [241].
German literature at Harvard, [19].
Gerry, Elbridge, lived at Elmwood, [3].
Getting Up, [85].
“Giacopo il Rigiovinato,” [262].
Gilder, R.W., [262].
Gladstone, William Ewart, his first knowledge of Emerson, [108];
prime minister, [249];
his retirement, [250].
Godey’s Lady’s Book, [82].
Gower, Levison. See [Granville, Lord].
Graham’s Magazine, [82].
Grant, U.S., his action regarding Cuba, [221], [226];
anecdote of, [274].
Granville, Lord, association with Lowell, [240], [241], [246]–250.
Gray, Asa, professor at Harvard, [196], [197].
“Gray, Billy,” [264].
Greeley, Horace, editor of the Tribune, [97], [175];
attitude towards Lincoln, [178], [179].
Greenleaf, Simon, professor of law at Harvard, [32], [81].
Guyot, Arnold, story of his dinner-party, [199].
Hale, Charles, [251].
Hale, Horatio, member of Wilkes’s exploring expedition, [25], [26];
prints vocabulary of Micmac Indian language, [26], [27].
Hale, John Parker, minister to Spain, [218].
Hale, Nathan, Jr., at Harvard, [27], [29], [30];
editor, [35], [36], [83]–86, [114];
member of the “Band,” [70], [73], [74].
Hale, Sarah Everett, [71], [72].
Hall, Newman, [194].
Hancock, Governor, [18].
Hartington, Lord, [248].
Harris, Clarendon, [154].
Harrison, President, speech at New York, at the centennial of the
adoption of the Constitution, [269], [270].
Hart, ——, referred to in J.R. L.’s correspondence, [242].
Hart, Albert B., review of diplomatic relations between United
States and Spain, in Harper’s Monthly, [218], [221].
Harvard College, sends Pietas et Gratulatio to George III., [7];
Phi Beta Kappa and Commencement dinners, [117];
modern language work, [126], [127], [130];
growth of the college, [128]–130, [133], [134], [192];
professors contemporary with Lowell, [170];
quarter-millennial celebration, [198].
Harvard men in the Civil War, [180].
Harvard Society of Alumni, J.R. L. president of, [117].
Harvardiana, [25], [29], [30], [35]–39, [93], [94];
Lowell one of the editors of, [25], [35]–39.
Haskell, Daniel N., [67].
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, in Concord, [43], [44];
in Boston, [58];
a contributor to the Boston Miscellany of Literature and
Fashion, [84];
publishes books, [152];
member of the Saturday Club, [202];
remark on English women, [275].
Hayes, Rutherford B., elected President, [212], [213];
appoints J.R. L. minister to England, [234], [238].
Hayward, Charles, one of the editors of Harvardiana, [25]–27.
Heath, Frank, college friend of J.R. L., prominent in Confederate
army, [95].
Hebrew origins studied by J.R. L., [276].
Hecuba, [128].
Hedge, Dr. F.H., his Phi Beta Kappa address, [128], [129];
contributor to War Songs for Freemen, [185].
Hercules and the Hydra, [211].
Herder, Johann Gottfried von, [46].
Hermann, Friedrich B.W. von, [58].
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, pupil of William Wells, [13];
his
classical scholarship, [14];
trained in English by E.T. Channing, [19];
Cheerful Yesterdays, [100];
a contributor to The Atlantic Monthly, [166].
Hildreth, Richard, historian, [69], [152].
Hildreth, Samuel Tenney, one of the editors of Harvardiana, [25]–27.
Hill, Thomas, president of Harvard, [129], [130], [134], [193], [194]–196.
Hillard, George Stillman, contributor to North American Review, [61].
Hilliard & Gray, publishers, [153], [155].
Historical Society, library of, [68].
Hoar, George Frisbie, [202].
Hoar, Judge, president of Phi Beta Kappa, [117];
member of the Saturday Club, [202].
Hoar family, in Concord, [44].
Hoffman, August Heinrich, [46].
Holden, Mr., [122].
Holmes, John, his classical scholarship, [14], [188], [266].
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, pupil of William Wells, [13];
classical scholarship, [14];
trained in English by E.T. Channing, [19];
after-dinner speaker, [40];
heard in public in Boston in the 40’s, [57], [67];
note to J.R. L. quoted, [118], [119];
member of the Saturday Club, [157], [158], [201];
referred to in speaking of the Atlantic, [160];
My Hunt after the Captain, [161];
the Autocrat, [165];
contributor to War Songs for Freemen, [185];
calls Emerson the Buddha of the West, [203];
later companionship with J.R. L., [266].
“Hospital for Incurable Children” (anecdote), [263].
Hotel France et Lorraine, Lowell’s home in Paris, [206], [207].
House of Commons, visited by Charles Lowell, [19].
Howe, Dr. and Mrs. Estes, [145], [266].
Howe, Mrs. Julia Ward, [185], [186].
Howells, William Dean, contributor to and editor of The Atlantic
Monthly, [151];
contributor to the North American, [169];
member of the Saturday Club, [202].
Hughes, Thomas, friend of J.R. L. and guest at Elmwood, [258], [259].
Hughes, Mrs. Thomas, [259].
Hunt, William Morris, [202].
Hunter, Mrs. Leo, [257].
Hutten, Heinrich von, member of Kossuth’s suite, [138];
translates Uncle Tom’s Cabin into German, [138].
Hutten, Ulrich von, [138].
Immortality, Lowell’s belief in, [281], [282].
In Memoriam, published by Ticknor & Fields, [65];
anecdote concerning, [65], [66].
Independent in Politics, The, address before New York Reform Club,
Inglis, Fanny. See [Calderon de la Barca, Madam].
Irish-Americans not satisfied with J.R. L. as minister to England,
Irish sympathizers’ criticism of J.R. L., [276].
Irving, Washington, minister to Spain, [213].
Isabella II., of Spain, [220].
Jackson, Judge, [58].
James, Henry, [202].
Jefferson, Thomas, hated by Josiah Quincy, [18];
at William and Mary’s College, [126].
Jennison, James, professor at Harvard, [170].
Jewish strain in Lowell family, [276].
Jowett, Life of, [22];
his opinion of sermons, [99].
July reviewed by September, [171].
Jungfrau, first ascent of, by Agassiz, [198].
Kansas, struggle for freedom of, [101], [171], [218].
Keats, John, his poems, published in Philadelphia, [23];
J.R. L.’s admiration of, [89].
King, Augusta Gilman, [71], [72].
King, Caroline Howard, [71].
King, John Gallison, friend of J.R. L., [70], [74], [79].
King, John Glen, distinguished lawyer, [79].
King, Rufus, at Harvard, [27], [29]–33, [35], [36];
lawyer and citizen of eminence in Cincinnati, [31], [32];
member of the Constitutional Convention of Ohio, [32];
Dean of the Faculty of the Cincinnati Law School, [32];
contributor to Harvardiana, [36].
King, Rufus (the elder), leader of Federalist party, [31].
King, Thomas Starr, settles in Boston, [67];
“King’s Arms, The,” [74].
Knickerbocker Magazine, [82], [83], [160].
Koerner, Gustav, minister to Spain, [218].
Lane, General, [183].
Lane, George M., professor at Harvard, [170].
Lass of the Pamunky, The, [186].
Lawrence, Abbott, minister to England, [239].
Lawrence, Amos Adams, anecdote of, [264].
Lecture system. See [Lyceum system].
Ledger. See [New York Ledger], [284].
Leland, Charles Godfrey, [186].
Leland, Henry Perry, [186].
Lexington, battle of, [2].
Liberty Bell, The, [97]–101.
Libraries in Boston before 1850, [66], [68].
Lilliburlero, [186].
Lilliput circle of Boston and Cambridge, [51].
Lincoln, Abraham, [172], [178], [200], [201], [218].
Lincoln, Robert, reminiscence of Lowell, [142], [143];
anecdote of his entrance to Harvard, [200], [201].
Lippitt, George Warren, at Harvard, [27], [29], [30], [35], [36];
secretary of legation at Vienna, [29];
Unitarian preacher, [32], [33].
Literary Messenger, The, [82].
Lochinvar, [280].
London Quarterly Review, The, [62], [168].
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, “Smith professor” at Harvard, [19]–21, [40],
contributor to the North American Review, [61], [62];
succeeded in his professorship by J.R. L., [127];
friendship with J.R. L., [135], [137];
kindness to Heinrich von Hutten, [138], [144];
member of the Saturday Club, [157], [202];
contributor to the Atlantic, [165], [166];
anecdote of, [187];
dies during J.R. L.’s residence in England, [266].
Longfellow, Samuel, [31].
Longfellow Park, [278].
Loring, Caleb Williams, [161].
Loring, Charles Greeley, Boston lawyer, [81].
Loring, Frederick Wadsworth, [131], [132], [185].
Loring, George Bailey, intimate friend of J.R. L., [36], [58], [80];
contributor to Harvardiana, [36], [109], [132].
Louis Napoleon. See [Napoleon III].
Lovering, Joseph, professor at Harvard, [134], [170].
Lowell, A. Lawrence, extracts from, and references to, his memoir
of J.R. L., [149], [162]–164, [172], [210], [260], [270].
Lowell, Blanche, daughter of J.R. L., [149].
Lowell, Charles, brother of J.R. L., [12].
Lowell, Charles, father of J.R. L., minister of West Church, Boston,
[1], [6]–12, [53], [54], [96], [101].
Lowell, Charles Russell, nephew of J.R. L., killed during the Civil
War, [180]–182.
Lowell, Frances Dunlap, wife of J.R. L., [145], [205], [207], [208], [234],
[235], [240], [241], [259], [260].
Lowell, Francis Cabot, founder of the city of Lowell, [7].
Lowell, Harriet Spence, mother of J.R. L., [3], [4], [276], [283].
Lowell, James Jackson, nephew of J.R. L., killed during the Civil
War, [180]–184.
Lowell, James Russell, parentage, [1], [3];
early views on slavery, [8];
college days, [15]–21;
one of the editors of Harvardiana, [25], [35];
member of Alpha Delta Phi, [27];
early poems, [30], [34], [39];
appointed class poet, [39];
“rusticated” in consequence of indifference to college rules, [40], [41];
stay at Concord, [43]–54;
class poem, [50]–53;
choice of a profession, [58], [59], [69];
intimate friends [70]–77;
abandons law for literature, [81], [82], [85];
a contributor to The Boston Miscellany of Literature and Fashion,
with Robert Carter establishes The Pioneer, which dies after three
months, [86]–91;
goes to New York for treatment of his eyes, [88]–90;
marries Maria White, 1844, [92];
publishes A Year’s Life, 1841, [93], [94];
spends winter of 1844–45 in Philadelphia, [96];
writes for The Liberty Bell and the National Anti-Slavery Standard,
publishes The Biglow Papers, first series, [98];
lectures in behalf of the anti-slavery and temperance reforms, and
on literary subjects, [100], [101], [109]–117;
gives Lowell Institute course, [112]–117;
president of the Harvard Society of Alumni, [117]–121;
president of the Phi Beta Kappa of Cambridge, [117]–121;
death of Mrs. Lowell, [125];
goes to Europe, [125];
“Smith professor” at Harvard, [125], [127], [130], [132]–135, [137]–139,
[141]–144, [164], [170], [171], [193]–201;
marries Miss Frances Dunlap, [145];
editorial work, [145]–169, [179], [180];
member of the Saturday Club, [157], [158], [201];
goes abroad, [163];
political essays, [171], [175];
contributor to the National Anti-Slavery Standard, [175]–177;
losses of relatives in the Civil War, [180];
visits Paris, [205]–208;
Rome, [209];
returns to Elmwood, [209];
his stand in political matters, [211];
presidential elector, [212], [213];
offered several foreign missions, appointed to Spain, [192], [213], [214];
difficulties of the position, [215]–221, [225];
life in Madrid, [228]–234;
transferred to England, [234];
life in London, [238]–261;
death of the second Mrs. Lowell, [241], [259];
tour on the Continent, [253];
returns to America, [261], [262];
last years, [262]–284;
public addresses and readings, [266], [269], [278], [279];
Lowell Institute lectures, [270], [279];
later literary work, [270], [271];
etymological study, [271], [272];
death, [262].
Lowell, John, minister at Newburyport, [6].
Lowell, John [2d], judge, [6], [7];
his opposition to slavery, [6];
a verse-writer, [7].
Lowell, John [3d], founder of the Lowell Institute, [7], [9], [112], [113].
Lowell, John, judge, great grandson of John Lowell [2d] above, [202].
Lowell, John Amory, [197].
Lowell, Mabel. See [Burnett, Mabel Lowell].
Lowell, Maria White, wife of J.R. L., [71], [72], [75], [76], [78], [86], [87],
[91]–93;
writes for The Liberty Bell and National Anti-Slavery Standard, [97];
Lowell, Mary. See [Putnam, Mary Lowell].
Lowell, Percival, [7].
Lowell, Rebecca, sister of J.R. L., [11].
Lowell, Robert Traill Spence, brother of J.R. L., [11], [267], [276].
Lowell, Rose, daughter of J.R. L., [149], [163].
Lowell, Walter, son of J.R. L., [163].
Lowell, William, brother of J.R. L., [11], [12].
Lowell factory girls, [83].
Lowell Institute, the, [7], [66], [67], [112], [113];
lectures before, by J.R. L., [112], [113], [270], [279].
“Lyceum system,” [99], [100], [102]–110, [112], [152];
influence of, in developing anti-slavery sentiment, [104].
Lyman, Mrs., Life of, [167].
Lyttelton, Lady, friend of J.R. L. and Mrs. L., [259].
Macaulay, T.B., remark on Bunyan, [277].
Macaulay’s History, published in Boston, [156].
Man without a Country, The, published in The Atlantic Monthly,
Mann, Horace, [194].
Mansfield, Lord, decision of, in regard to slavery in England
(Somerset case), [6].
Mason, John Y., member of the Ostend conference, [217].
Mason and Slidell, J.R. L.’s writing concerning, [260].
Massachusetts Bay Colony, [102], [103].
Massachusetts Bill of Rights, anti-slavery clauses, [6], [8].
Massachusetts Historical Society, [68], [110], [152].
Massachusetts Society for Diffusing Useful Knowledge, [110].
Mayhew, Thomas, pastor of West Church, first suggested federation of
American colonies, [9].
McClellan, Gen. George B., [181].
McCoil, Fein, [241].
McInerny, John, Irish suspect, [244].
McLeod, Mrs., teacher in Boston, [224].
McMicken bequest, [32].
Mead, Edwin D., article on the Pioneer, [87], [88].
Mechanics’ Association, [110].
Mechanics’ Institutes, [105].
Memorial Hall, Cambridge, [118].
Mercantile Library Association, [66], [67], [110].
Mercedes, queen of Alphonso XII., [232], [233].
Mexican War, [162].
Miller, William, Second Adventist, [57].
Minister’s position in New England in the 18th century, [9].
Miscellany, The Boston. See #Boston Miscellany of Literature
and [Fashion].
Missouri Compromise, [8], [96].
Modern language instruction at Harvard, [15], [126], [130];
at William and Mary’s, [126].
Modoc Indians, [210].
Monroe, James, publisher, [154].
Montgomery, Robert, [281].
Monthly Anthology, The, [62], [152].
Montpensier, Duchess of, [219].
Morris, Gouverneur, opinion of, on the Union, [18].
Morse, John T., jr., his Life of Dr. Holmes, [11], [201].
Mosby, Colonel, [182].
Motley, John Lothrop, publishes Merrymount, [69];
member of the Saturday Club, [157], [158], [202];
contributor to the Atlantic, [165], [166];
the North American, [169];
minister to Austria, [213];
to England, [239];
anecdote of, [263].
Moxon, Edward, [85].
Murray’s Dictionary, [253]–257, [272].
Music (poem), [12].
“Mutual Admiration Society,” [57], [59]–66, [134], [169].
My Brook, [284]–286.
Napoleon III. (Louis Charles Napoleon Bonaparte), his action during
the American Civil War, [218]–220.
Nation, The, occasion of its composition, [210].
National Anti-Slavery Standard, [97], [101], [149], [163], [171]–179.
Natural History Society at Harvard, foundation of, [23].
New England Emigrant Aid Company, [212].
New England Magazine, first, [82];
New Tariff Bill, The, [171].
New York Ledger, [284].
New York Reform Club, [270].
New York Tribune, The, during the Civil War, [175]–179.
Niagara, described by Rev. Barzillai Frost, [45].
“Nightingale in the Study, The,” [271].
Nolan, Philip, [217].
North American Review, early character and influence of, [59]–64, [82],
edited by Palfrey, [59]–61;
by Edward and Alexander Everett, [62], [63];
by Lowell and Norton, [145], [167]–169, [171], [179].
North, Christopher, [37].
Norton, Caroline, [188].
Norton, Grace, letters to, [229], [281].
Norton, Charles Eliot, friend of J.R. L. and editor of his letters,
[33], [78], [80], [122], [135], [265], [266];
editor, with J.R. L., of the North American Review, [151], [168], [169];
member of the Saturday Club, [202].
Odeon, [57].
Old and New, edited by Nathan Hale, [35];
Old Corner Bookstore, [57], [64], [66].
Old English Dramatists, first draft of, [29];
published in Boston Miscellany, [85];
reception by the press, [92];
Oliver, Thomas, lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts, lives at
Elmwood in 1774, [1];
resigns his commission, [2].
Oriental Society, [235].
Ostend, conference at, [217].
Oxford Dictionary. See [Murray’s Dictionary].
Paine, John Knowles, [189].
Palfrey, John Gorham, member of Harvard divinity faculty, editor of
the North American Review, [59]–61;
reads Carlyle’s French Revolution, [61];
remark quoted, [68];
devotes himself to historical work, [69].
Palmerston, Lord, [249].
Parker, Theodore, lectures in Boston
and elsewhere, [101], [103], [104], [106].
Parkman, Francis, [202].
Parsons, T.W., [57].
Payne, John Howard, diplomatic correspondence concerning final
disposition of his remains, [245]–247.
Peabody, Andrew Preston, acting president of Harvard, [196].
Peabody, Elizabeth, [58], [84].
Peirce, Benjamin, professor at Harvard, [24], [41], [128], [134].
Peirce, James Mills, professor at Harvard, [170], [202].
Perkins, Colonel, [264].
Perry, Horatio, secretary of American Legation at Madrid, [219].
Perseus and the dragon, [211].
Phi Beta Kappa dinners at Harvard, [40], [117], [203].
Phi Beta Kappa fraternity, [27];
J.R. L., president of Cambridge chapter, [117];
Dr. Hedge’s address, [128].
Philippines, the, [159].
Philistinism, [211].
Phillips, Moses Dresser, publisher. See [Phillips & Sampson].
Phillips, Wendell, [57];
as a lecturer, [101], [103], [104], [106], [108].
Phillips & Sampson, publishers, [64], [150]–159.
Philological Society undertakes a dictionary, [254].
Photography, invention of, [31];
first photograph taken in New England, [31].
Pickens-and-Stealin’s Rebellion, The, [171].
Pickering correspondence, [217].
Pierce, Franklin, administration of, [180], [218].
Pierce, John, of Brookline, [10].
Pierpont, John, [174].
Pietas et Gratulatio, [7].
Pillsbury, Parker, [103].
Pioneer, The, established by Lowell and Robert Carter, [86]–91, [95],
Portfolio, The, [82].
Power of Music, The, [13].
Power of Sound, The, [121]–123.
Prescott, William Hickling, [69], [152], [159];
contributor to the Atlantic, [165], [166];
member of the Saturday Club, [202].
Present Crisis, The, [150].
President’s Policy, The, [171].
Prose and poetry, Lowell’s use of, [274].
Publishing houses in Boston, [152]–157.
Putnam, Mary Lowell, sister of J.R. L., [4], [5], [11], [12], [266].
Putnam, William Lowell, nephew of J.R. L., killed during the Civil
War, [180], [181], [184], [185].
Quarter-Millennial celebration at Harvard, [198], [268].
Question of the Hour, The, [171].
Quincy, Edmund, [176].
Quincy, Josiah, president of Harvard, [15], [17], [18], [40], [41], [125], [133],
belief in guidance of a “Daimon,” [18].
Randolph, John, defied by Josiah Quincy, [18].
Rebellion, The, its Causes and Consequences, [171].
Reconstruction, [171].
Reno, General, [181].
Renouf, Edward Augustus, classmate of J.R. L., [32].
Riano, Don Juan, archæologist, [236].
Riverside Press, [165].
Rogers, Nathaniel P., editor of the National Anti-Slavery Standard,
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, [46].
“Row up,” [47].
Rowfant Club, Cleveland, issues limited edition of Lowell’s first
course of Lowell Institute lectures, [114].
Royal Library at Madrid, [127].
Russell, Francis Lowell Dutton, [180].
Russell, James, great-grandfather of J.R. L., [7], [277].
Russell, Lord John, [249].
Russell, Warren Dutton, [180].
Sagasta, Spanish premier, [222], [223].
St. John in Patmos, [44].
Salamanca, General, [227].
Salignac’s drill corps, [184].
Sampson, Charles, publisher, [153], [154].
Santiago de Cuba, [225].
Saturday Club; first dinner-party, [156], [157];
history and membership, [201], [202], [266].
Sawyer, Warren, [67].
Saxton, General, [187].
Scates, Charles Woodman, at Harvard, [27], [29], [30], [35], [36];
lawyer in Carolina, [29];
friend of J.R. L., [33], [50].
Schmitt, Captain, [183].
Scotch the Snake or Kill it?, [171].
Second-sight possessed by J.R. L., [3], [4], [277].
Sedgwick, Mrs. T., [186].
Shelley’s poems published in Philadelphia, [23].
Shepherd of King Admetus, The, [85].
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, [9].
Silliman, Benjamin, [57].
Sixth Massachusetts Regiment in Baltimore, [181].
Skillygolee, [37].
Slattery, John, Irish suspect, [244].
Slaves freed in Massachusetts, [6].
Smalley, George W., on J.R. L. as minister to England, [252], [260],
Smith, Abiel, benefactor of Harvard, [125], [126].
Smith, Adam, [126].
Smith professorship at Harvard, [19], [20], [126], [127], [130].
Societies at Harvard, [16], [26]–29.
Somerset case. See [Mansfield, Lord], [6].
Sonnet to Keats, [85].
Sophocles, Professor, [170].
Soulé, Pierre, minister to Spain, [217], [218].
South, Dr., [282].
Southborough, J.R. L.’s residence in, [265], [276].
Southern Literary Magazine, [82].
Spain, American relations with, [208], [215]–221, [225]–228.
Spanish people, [222], [230], [231].
Sparks, Jared, president of Harvard, [41], [69], [129], [130], [133], [152], [193].
Spectator, The, quoted, [260].
Spence family, J.R. L.’s maternal ancestors, [3], [276].
Star Chamber, [104].
Stearns, Elijah Wyman, [50].
Stearns, Edward, [67].
Stedman, Edmund C., [169].
Stephen, Leslie, [180], [181].
Sterling, John, [106].
Story, Judge Joseph, professor of law at Harvard, [32], [81].
Story, William Wetmore, classmate of Lowell and Dr. Hale, [23];
visits West Point, [23];
assists Nathan Hale in the Boston Miscellany, [35];
contributes to Harvardiana, [36];
member of “The Band,” [70], [74], [76];
legal work, [79];
with Lowell in Rome, [163], [209];
work as a sculptor, [209];
later meeting with Lowell, [253];
separation, [266].
Stowe, Calvin Ellis, anecdote of, [187].
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, [83].
Strauss’s Leben Jesu, [59].
Summer Shower, poem by Longfellow, [20].
Sumner, Charles, his classical scholarship. [14];
trained in English by E.T. Channing, [19];
contributor to North American Review, [61];
lectures in Boston, [67];
member of the Saturday Club, [202].
Supreme Court of Mass, frees slaves, [6].
Taylor, Jeremy, [282].
Tacitus, Wells’s edition of, printed in Cambridge, [13].
Talbot, William H. Fox, inventor of photography, [31].
Tempora Mutantur, occasion of its composition, [210].
Tennyson’s poems at Harvard, [21].
Texas, annexation of, [96].
Thayer, J.B., [40].
Thiers, President, Lowell’s judgment of, [206].
Thomas, Isaiah, publisher of the first American Bible, [154].
Thoreau, Henry D., at Harvard, [25];
Thorndike, Israel, benefactor of Harvard, [68].
“Three Thousand New England Clergymen,” memorial addressed to, [101].
Thursday lecture, [103].
Ticknor, George, first “Smith professor” at Harvard, [20], [126], [127].
Ticknor & Fields, booksellers, [65], [154], [155].
Tilden, Samuel J., [212], [213].
Times, The London, [209], [210].
To Lamartine, [177].
To Perdita Singing, [85].
Tory refugees, [1].
Traill, Mary, grandmother of J.R. L., [3].
Traill, Robert, of Orkney, great-grandfather of J.R. L., [3].
Traill family, ancestors of J.R. L., [3], [276].
Transcendentalists, [202], [203].
Treadwell, Daniel, instructor in science at Harvard, [23].
Trench, Dean, [254].
Tribune. See [New York Tribune].
Trimmers, Miss, [11].
Troil, Minna, [3].
Tuckerman. Jane Frances, [72].
Tuckerman. John Francis, [72], [74].
Tupper, Martin, [281].
Turgot, Soulé’s duel with, [217].
Two, The, [85].
Tyler, John, President of the U.S., his position on the annexation
of Texas, [96];
his third veto, [111].
Ultra-Americanism of Lowell, [275].
Uncle Tom’s Cabin translated into German, [138].
Undergraduates’ attitude toward instructors, [140], [141].
Underwood, F.H., [157], [159].
University Hall, Harvard College, on title-page of Harvardiana, [37].
University of Cincinnati, foundation of, [32].
Ursuline Convent, Charlestown, [78].
Useful Knowledge Society, [105].
Vallandigham, Clement Laird, [162].
Virginius massacre, [208], [225].
Virtuoso’s Collection, A., [84].
Vision of Sir Launfal, The, [163].
“Voluntaries” at Harvard, [15].
Walker, James, president of Harvard, [57], [133], [134], [170], [193], [200].
Walpole, Horace, [63].
Ware, Henry, lectures in Boston, [106].
War Songs for Freemen, [185].
Warren, George, [67].
Washburn, Edward A., classmate of J.R. L., [32];
contributor to Harvardiana, [36].
Washington in Cambridge, [3];
visits Boston in 1792, [18];
visits Governor Shirley in Boston in 1756, [65].
Webster, Daniel, [57], [59], [67].
Webster’s Dictionary, motto of, [272], [273].
Weekly Pasquil, [176].
Wells, William, teacher of J.R. L., [13].
Welsh, John, minister to England, [239].
Wendell, Barrett, his paper on Lowell, [139], [140].
West Church, Boston, [9], [11].
West Indies in the Civil War, [218]–220.
West Point, visit to, [23].
What is there in the Midnight Breeze? hitherto unpublished poem
Wheeler, Charles Stearns, one of the editors of Harvardiana, [25]–27.
Whipple, Edwin P., [67], [158], [202].
Whitby, a favorite resort of J.R. L., [240], [279]–281, [283].
White, Maria. See [Lowell, Maria White].
White, William Abijah, brother of Maria White Lowell, [70], [74], [78], [79].
White, William Orne, his classical scholarship, [14].
Whitman, Walt, [84].
Whittier, John G., [202].
Wilberforce, William, [9].
Williams, Henry, [27].
Willis, N.P., his criticism of Lowell as an editor, [88], [148];
as a poet, [90].
Winthrop, John, [160].
Winthrop, Robert C., [67].
Winthrop, Theodore, killed near Hampton, [161];
a contributor to The Atlantic Monthly, [161].
World’s Fair, The (poem), [210].
Worthington, Governor, of Ohio, [31].
“Yankee Plato,” [203].
Year’s Life, A, [12], [74], [93]–95.
Young, Edward, [281].
The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE . MASSACHUSETTS
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[1]. That copy is still preserved,—among the treasures of Mr. Emerson’s library in Concord,—beautifully bound, for such was his habit with books which he specially loved.
[2]. Margaret Fuller was nine years older than Lowell. A good deal of her early life was spent in Cambridge; and his banter in the Fable for Critics, which was really too sharp, belongs, not to his manhood’s serious views, but to a boy’s humor.
[3]. In the preface Bancroft says that he has formed the design of writing our history “to the present time.” “The work will extend to four, perhaps five, volumes.” In fact, four volumes carried him to 1776. When he died he had published twelve, which brought him to 1789. One volume of this series, which advances the history only one year, followed its predecessor after two years.
[4]. I have that little volume now, enriched with James’s marks and annotations, and full of pleasant memories.
[5]. The Serenade.
[6]. The oldest form of this song is—
“The siege of Belle Isle,
I was there all the while.”
This carries it back as far as 1761.
[7]. Seeing that Miss Barrett herself recognized the fact that these American magazine publishers were among the first people who ever paid her any money, it is sufficiently English that in the same volume of her correspondence which contains her acknowledgment there is talk about “American piracy.” One would like to know whether Mrs. Browning did not receive in the long run more money from American than from English publishers.
[8]. Alas, to be eclipsed again!
[9]. This anecdote arrested attention when it was first published, and I received more than one note explaining to me that it could not be true.
All the same it is true. And I took care to verify the dates of the several steps of the story.
[10]. Copyright, 1890, by Robert Bonner’s Sons.