The Life of Francis Thompson

by Everard Meynell

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Index

Absent-mindedness, Francis Thompson's, [9], [26] n., [31], [276]
Academy, The, [71] n., [329];
articles by F. T. in, [42], [163-4], [255], [257], [259-64], [267-70], [316], [321], [332-3];
poems by F. T. in, [255], [259], [337];
F. T.'s connexion with, [245], [253-64], [334-5]
Accent, [176]
Acerbity, F. T.'s assumed, [89]
Aeschylus, [58], [90]
"After her Going," [183]
"After Woman, The," [195], [228-9]
Aloofness, F. T.'s, [8], [24], [35-6], [279-80]
Alphonsus, Father, [181]
"Amelia Applejohn," [247]
American Ecclesiastical Review, [143]
"Amphicypellon" (Sister-Songs), [105-106], [294]
Ann (De Quincey's), [63], [83]
Ann (Francis Thompson's), [63], [81-4], [92]
Anger, F. T.'s incapacity for, [54], [141-2]
Anselm, Fr. (now Archbishop of Simla), [174], [180-1], [183], [189-90];
letters to F. T., [344-5]
"Anthem of Earth, An," [37], [47], [177], [201], [241];
alluded to, [157]
Aquinas, St. Thomas, [218]
Archer, Mr. William, [144], [152-3], [337];
quoted, [241];
letter to F. T., [242]
Arnold, Matthew, F. T. on, [170]
Arnold, Sir Edwin, [233]
Ashbourne, Lord, [183]
Ashton-under-Lyne, [5], [39], [71]
Asquith, Mr., [160]
"Assumpta Maria," [173-4]
Astrology, [330]
"Astronomer, A Dead," [124], [126]
Athenæum, The, poem by F. T. in, [235];
reviews of F. T. in, [144-6], [241];
F. T.'s connexion with, [243], [326], [336]
Augustine, St., quoted, [147], [165];
F. T. on, [172]
Austin, Mr. Alfred, [332]
Ave Maria (Notre Dame, Indiana), [137] n.
Ballantyne, R. M., [16]
Barry, Rev. Canon, [171]
Beacock, Mr., Concordance to F. T., [154], [165], [167]
Beardsley, Aubrey, [323-4]
Bearne, Fr. David, [185]
Beauty, female, [10], [12]
Bennett, Mr. Arnold, [149-50]
Berlioz, [55], [348]
Bernard, St., [172], [191], [288]
Beuno's, St., College, [185]
Bible, the, its diction, [158], [171];
symbolism in, [191], [194], [196];
F. T.'s reading of, [172-3];
Apocalypse, [172-3];
Canticles, [223];
Ecclesiastes, [173], [193], [238];
Genesis, [227];
Pentateuch, [223];
the Prophets, [196], [264];
Psalms, [194], [196], [209];
St. John, [189], [225]
Blackburn, Mrs., [126], [143], [252]
Blackburn, Vernon, [21], [95], [126-7], [138-9], [152]
Blackfriars, [64], [278]
Blake, [331];
quoted, [223];
F. T.'s reading of, [58], [90];
Mr. E. J. Ellis on, [219]
Blunt, Mr. W. Scawen, [85] n., [137], [245], [347-8];
quoted, [131] n.;
F. T. on, [256];
F. T.'s reading of, [165]
Bookman, The, review of New Poems, [241];
Mr. Garvin's article in, on F. T., [167], [243]
Bootblack, F. T. as a, [65]
Booth, Mr. Bramwell, [107]
Booth, "General," [79]-80, [106]
Bootmaker's assistant, F. T. as a, [71-5]
Boys and boyhood, [17-19], [21]
Breviary, the, [171-3], [182]
Bridges, Mr. Robert, [136]
"Brin," [118]
British Review, [240]
Broads, the Norfolk, [118], [173]
Brondesbury, [45], [274]
Brontë, Charlotte, [76-7], [127], [328]
"Broom-branch at Twilight, A," [304]
Browne, Sir Thomas, quoted, [84], [95-6];
F. T.'s reading of, [95], [165];
his diction, [47], [155-6]
Browning, E. B., [124], [127]
Browning, R., Browning on F. T., [120-2], [124], [137] n.;
William Sharp's Life of, reviewed by F. T., [121], [124];
his obscurity, [146];
his diction, [154-5];
his observation, [275]
Bryan, Maggie, [230]
Bunyan, [225]
"Bunyan in the Light of Modern Criticism," [92], [267]
Burns, Robert, F. T. compared with, [140];
F. T. on, [168], [263-4]
Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, [188]
Butler, Samuel (Hudibras), [196], [270]
"By Reason of thy Law," [174]
Campion, [152]
Cancelled passages, [107-8]
Canon Law in Her Portrait, [174]
"Captain of Song, A," [235]
Capuchins, [128], [140], [180-1]
Cardan, [196]
Cardinal points, symbolism of the, [192-6]
Carlisle Place, [108]
Carmen, [102]
"Carmen Genesis," [285]-6, [309-10]
Carmina Mariana, [173]
Carroll, Dr., late Bishop of Shrewsbury, [24], [107] n., [117], [144];
letters to, [97], [123]
Casartelli, Dr., Bishop of Salford, [15]
Catholic Encyclopædia, [335]
Catholic World (N.Y.), [137] n.
Catholicism, F. T. on, [59-60], [224]
"Catholics in Darkest England," [106]
Cawein, Mr. Madison, [268-9]
Chambers, Mr. E. K., [154]
Chancery Lane, [253-4]
Chapman, [175]
Charing Cross, [61];
post office, [86-8]
Charles Borromeo, St., [208-9]
Chatterton, [61]
Chelsea, [4], [82]
Chesterfield, Lord, [272]
Chesterton, Mr. G. K., [165], [208], [331]
Child set in the midst by Modern Poets, The, [123]
Child who will never grow old, The, [250]
Children and Childhood. F. T.'s childhood, [5-14], [24], [98];
his child-likeness, [247], [249];
his ways with children, [74], [104], [114-17], [119], [251];
on the children of London, [79-82]
Chisholm, Mr. Hugh, [140]
Church, the, [202], [226], [322]
Church Court (or Passage), Chancery Lane, [5], [68]
"Clarendon" Reading Room, [68]
Clarke, Fr. R. F., [85], [193]
Clement, St., [222-3]
Cobbe, Frances Power, [260-1]
Cock, Mr. Albert, [201]
Coleridge, F. T.'s early reading of, [10], [96], [161-2], [241];
affinities and analogies with F. T., [3], [47], [49], [56], [71] n., [94-5], [163], [241], [325], [340], [343-4];
and opium, [53];
as a poet, [127], [163-4];
quoted, [166], [179], [205]
"Collecting" books, [62]
Collins, [87]
Colwyn Bay, [12-13], [44]
Constable & Co., Messrs., [277]
"Contemplation," [222]
Contemporary Review, [136]
Conversation, F. T.'s, [47], [62], [111], [253], [311-12], [314], [342], [349]
Cooper, T. Fenimore, [16]
Corbishly, Monsignor, [26]
Corporal Punishment, [19-20]
"Corymbus for Autumn, A," [137] n., [167]
Courage, F. T.'s lack of active, [55], [62]
Covent Garden, [76-7], [91], [273], [278]
Cowley, [170];
F. T. compared to, [146-7];
diction, [155];
F. T.'s reading of, [165-7];
quoted, [173]
Crashaw, F. T. and, [144], [146-7], [164], [166-7], [179], [257], [267-8], [288]
Crawley, [112], [181], [189], [344-6]
Cricket, [13], [39-45], [326], [328]
Critic, The (N.Y.), [137], [240]
Cross, the, [6], [95] n., [193] n., [211-13]
Crosskell, Canon Charles, Procurator of Ushaw, [26]
Crowley, Mr. Aleister, [268]
Cuthbert, Fr., [189]
Daily Chronicle, reviews of F. T., [135], [145], [170], [240], [241];
review of Mrs. Meynell, [149];
paragraph by A. M., [159];
odes by F. T. in, [321], [333]
Daily Mail, verse by F. T. in, [227];
F. T.'s reading of, [314-15], [328]
Daily News, [241]
"Daisy," [104], [118], [123], [140], [160], [167]
Daniel, Samuel, [270]
Dante, [14], [87], [170], [172], [200]
Darwinism, [244]
"Daughter of Lebanon" (De Quincey's), [84], [164]
David, Mr. and Mrs., [347]
Davidson, John, [136], [140-1], [176], [311]
"Dead Cardinal of Westminster, To the," [107-8] (cancelled stanzas), [129], [167], [226]
de Bary, Mr. Richard, [182]
Dedications to Poems and New Poems, [128], [236-7]
Denbigh, Lady, [186]
Depression, F. T.'s fits of, [27], [47], [96], [185]
De Quincey, affinities and analogies with F. T., [46-7], [50-2], [62-3], [76], [83-84], [95], [168], [329], [343];
F. T.'s reading of, [46-7], [50], [53-4], [98], [164-5], [267-8];
and opium, [48-9], [51-3], [95];
otherwise quoted, [133] n.
Despairs and panics, [117-8], [316-7], [335]
De Vere, Aubrey, [269]
Diction, F. T.'s, [132-3], [148], [152-60], [193]
Dimbovitza, The Bard of the, [264]
Dolls, [9-10]
"Domus Tua," [130], [148]
Donne, [148], [155], [165], [173-4], [212] n., [213]
Doubleday, Mr. and Mrs., [242], [247-8];
letter to Mr. Doubleday, [306] n.
Douglas, Lord Alfred, [269]
Dowling, Mr. Richard, [267]
Dowson, Ernest, [160], [323-4]
Drayton, Michael, [154-5], [165], [270]
"Dread of Height, The," [220], [222], [225]
"Dream Tryst," [13]-14, [92], [102], [124], [167]
"Dress" (verses in Daily Mail), [227]
Driffield, Fr., [101]
Drummond of Hawthornden, [208]
Drury Lane, [89]
Dryden, [101], [146], [155], [175], [307]
Dublin Review, [94], [96-7], [100], [201]
Dumas, [259]
Early verse, [27-30]
Ecclesiastical Ballads, [169], [195] n., [283]
Eckhart, Meister, [165]
Edgbaston, [248]
Edgware Road, [65], [275], [287]
Edinburgh Review, [150-1], [171], [185], [241], [246]
Egoism, the poets', [308]
Egyptian religion, [193-4], [196], [222-3]
Elgin Avenue, [273-4], [280], [339]
Eliot, George, [127]
Elision, [132]
Elizabethans, the, [177], [256], [270], [334]
Embankment, Thames, [24], [278]
Emerson, [321], [342]
Encyclopædia, an, [56]
Enlistment, [56-7], [163]
"Erotic" poet(!), F. T. as an, [3], [14] n., [124]
Esotericism, [191-6], [223-4]
Eternal punishment, [226]
Etymologies, [159-60]
Eve, the New, [194-5]
Exercise-books, [32], [34], [104]
Extinct animals, [37], [157]
Failures, F. T.'s successive, [32-4],

[54-6], [57]
Fairy Tales, [14], [103], [116]
"Fallen Yew, The," [108], [109], [132]
Fancy and imagination, [191]
Feilding, Everard, [186-8]
Fiona Macleod, [260]
Fisher, Mr., [334]
Fletcher, Fr. Philip, [124]
"Form and Formalism," [215]
Formby, Mr., [127]
Fortnightly Review, [126], [139], [146-9]
Francis, St., of Assisi, [60], quoted, [181-2], [283], [295];
F. T. on, [181], [295-6]
Francis, St., of Sales, [127], [270]
Franciscan Days of Vigil (De Bary's) quoted, [182]
Franciscans, the, [110] n., [180-3]
Freemasonry, [193] n.
Friston, Suffolk, [118-19], [340-1]
"From the night of Forebeing," [166], [184]
F. S., [25]
Gale, Mr. Norman, [136], [140], [249]
Gardner, Mr. Edmund, [211] n.
Garvin, Mr. James, [122]
Garvin, Mr. Louis, [122-3], [145], [167], [243];
letters to F. T., [332-3]
Gentleness, F. T.'s extreme, [20], [119]
Gerrard, Fr. T. J., [348]
Ghosh, Mr. S. K., [211-12] n., [317]
Ghost, a, [186-7], [188]
Gibbon, [26]
Gillow, Canon Henry, [15], [26]
Glasgow, [55-6]
Gloom, [133], [227]
Golden Halfpennies, the, [67]
Gosse, Mr. Edmund, [152]
Granville Place, [45], [314]
Greco, El, [327]
Guardian, The, [240]
Guildhall Library, London, [63], [91]
Hardy, Mr. Thomas, [265-6], [268]
Harrow Road, [190], [281]
Head, Dr. Henry, [186-8]
Hawthorne, quoted, [24], [293]
Hayes, Mr. Alfred, [248-9]
Health and Holiness, [288-90], [348]
"Heard on the Mountain," [175], [306]
Hearn, Lafcadio, [15], [20], [21-3]
Henley, W. E., F. T. on, [136], [177-8], [256], [263], [266-7];
on F. T., [149], [262-4];
meeting with, [264-6]
Herbert, George, [166-7], [283], [305]
"Her Portrait," [127], [141], [174]
Hind, C. Lewis, [253], [263-5], [321];
letters from F. T. to, [256-64];
letter to F. T. from, [264]
Hinkson, Mrs., see Tynan, Katharine
Holyhead, [13]
Homer, [74], [105]
Hospital, F. T. in, [94], [349-50]
Hospital of St. John and St. Elizabeth, [349-50]
"Hound of Heaven, The," [84], [122], [137] n., [144], [164-5], [176], [205-6], [211], [300], [319]
Housman, Mr. Laurence, [135]
Hügel, Baron von, [201]
Hugo, Victor, [98], [175], [306] n.
Humility, F. T.'s, [187], [237]
Humorous verse, [13], [27-8], [111-12], [331]
Hunt, Leigh, [191]
Huxley, [74]
Hyde, Mr. William, [277], [281];
letter from F. T. to, [277]
"Idylls of the King," F. T. on the, [101]
Ignatius Loyola, Life of St., [336]
Illness and ill-health, [46], [94], [104], [125], [129], [257], [260], [272-3], [339], [349]
Imagery, F. T.'s, [13], [91], [187], [207], [216];
F. T. on his own imagery, [97-8], [158];
F. T.'s imagery criticised, [148];
A. M. on imagery, [216-17];
F. T. on imagery in general, [151], [215-17], [219]
Imagination, [191], [215-16]
Imperial and Colonial Magazine, [335]
Indifference to comfort, F. T.'s, [287], [288]
Individualism, F. T. on, [108-10]
Individuality, [108]
Inexpertness, F. T.'s, [8], [75]
Inobservance, F. T.'s, [274], [276]
Irish Monthly, [185]
Jacobs, Mr. W. W., [266], [271], [350]
Jacopone da Todi, [309], [323]
James, Henry, [329]
Jerome, St., [171]
Joan of Arc, [199]
John, St., [225]. See also [Bible]
John, St., and St. Elizabeth, Hospital of, [283], [349-50]
John of the Cross, St., [146], [224]
Johnson, Dr., [325];
quoted, [348]
Johnson, Lionel, [85], [323];
quoted, [152], [282]
Josephus, [74]
Joubert, quoted, [200] ([222])
Journalism, [93], [111], [316], [334]
"Judgment in Heaven, A," [59], [136], [137], [144], [167]
Keats, [92], [150], [152], [164], [193], [243], [307], [318]
Kelsall, an actor, [64]
Kempis, Thomas à, [225-6], [243], [283]
Kensall Green, St. Mary's Cemetery, [351]
Kensington Gardens, [104], [114-15]
Kent, W. H., [174]
Kent's Bank, near Alverstone, [13]
Kilburn, [268], [274]
King, Miss Katharine Douglas, [250-1];
letters to F. T., [250-1]
King, Mrs. Hamilton, letters to F. T., [132], [250]
Kingsford, Anna, [174]
Kipling, Mr. Rudyard, [126], [170], [175], [262], [268], [270]
L., Miss, [60]
Laburnum, [29], [273]
Ladysmith, siege of, [9]
Lamb, Charles, [20], [61], [321]
Landor, [260]
Landladies, [274], [279-80], [317]
Lane, Mr. John, [129], [135-6], [145], [184]
Lang, Mr. Andrew, [136-7], [139], [165]
Latin, [171]
Latinisms, [33], [155-7]
Laureateship, the, [233-4]
Lecky, Mr. Walter, [137]
Le Gallienne, Mr. Richard, [135-6], [141], [145], [149]
Leo XIII., [283]
Leonard Square, [250]
Leslie, Mr. Shane, [91]
Libraries, F. T. as a haunter of, [10], [16], [25], [27], [37], [47], [63]
Light, [190], [238] n.
Light-heartedness, F. T.'s, [27-8], [77]
Lilly, W. S., Century of Revolution, [124]
"Lily of the King, The," [283]
Literary World, [240]
Liturgy, the, [30-31], [33], [156], [171-4]
Lockyer, Sir Norman, [238]
Lodge, [160]
Lodging-houses, [64-5]
"Lodi, Storming of the Bridge, at," [26]
Log-rolling, [138], [140-143]
London, F. T. on, [77], [79], [277-9];
F. T. in, [46], [54], [61-93], [104], [236]
Lord's, [44-5]
Love and love-affairs, [11], [14], [38], [73-4], [230-2]
"Love declared," [230]
Lower-worldliness, F. T.'s, [64-7]
Lucas, Mr. E. V., [41], [45], [253], [264]
Lucas, Winifrid (Mrs. H. Le Bailly), [250]
Lytton-Bulwer, [74], [157], [265]
Lytton, Hon. Neville, [337]
Macaulay, [10], [26], [169], [260]
Maeterlinck, [198-9]
"Magic, Varia on," [188], [193]
"Making of Viola, The," [59], [93], [122], [158], [179]
"Man Proposes, Woman Disposes," [227], [337] n.
Manchester, F. T. in, [35-6], [46-9], [51], [55], [58], [61], [75], [84], [274]
Manchester Guardian, [145], [332]
Mangan, [168]
Mann, Rev. Horace K., [15-16], [19], [24], [26]
Manning, Cardinal, [79], [85] n., [107-8], [111], [290]
Marianus, Fr., [180]
Maries, Mrs., [274], [318]
Marlowe, [168], [244]
Marryat, Captain, [16]
Martin, Miss Agnes, [3], [4]
"Martyrs, To the English," [275]
Marvell, [165]
Mary, the Blessed Virgin, [46] n., [172-3], [227], [228]
Mary Ignatius, Sister (F. T.'s aunt), [5]
Mary of St. J. F. de Chantal, Sister (F. T.'s aunt), [5]
Mary of the Angels, St., Bayswater, [281], [341]
Mary's, St., Cemetery, Kensal Green, [351]
Massingham, Mr. H. W., letters to F. T., [332], [336-7]
May, Mr. (F. T.'s cousin), [46]
McMaster, Mr., [70-76]
Medal, a consecrated, [13], [73]
Medical student, F. T. as, [35-56]
Melpomene, the Vatican, [37-8]
Mercure de France, [319]
Meredith, George, F. T.'s reading of, [150], [165], [266];
on A. M., [233];
F. T.'s meetings with, [245-7];
on F. T., [246-7], [351]
Merry England, [85], [110], [113], [121], [193], [250];
poems by F. T. in, [87-8], [92], [95], [102], [107], [120], [122], [124], [126], [130-31], [137] n., [138], [304];
prose articles by F. T. in, [85], [92], [96], [106], [179]
Metaphor and simile, [151]
Metre, [151], [158-9], [175-9], [220]
Meynell, Alice, on F. T., [94-5], [107], [126], [155], [157], [179], [216-17], [226-7], [320], [331];
F. T. on, [86], [113], [126-8], [133] n., [136], [146], [148-9], [216];
other references, [95], [120-1], [137], [183], [194], [224], [234], [238], [245-7], [250], [256], [336];
letters from F. T. to, [130-1], [133] n., [159], [177], [183], [188-9], [226], [297], [312], [313];
letters to F. T., [129], [139], [158]
Meynell family, F. T. and the, [114], [116-7], [160], [184], [247], [268]
Meynell, Mr. Wilfrid, F. T. and, [87], [89-92], [95], [97], [107], [111], [137], [143], [194], [247], [250], [262], [284] n., [303], [317], [327], [336], [349];
F. T. on, [86];
on F. T., [98-100], [123], [124-5], [320-2];
letters from F. T. to, [85], [88], [100], [103-4], [110] n., [114-17], [129], [135], [145-6], [180], [183], [234-5], [238], [242], [250], [316-18], [335], [337], [339];
other letters to, [58], [107] n., [120], [140], [183], [186-8], [247-8]
Michael, Sister, [350]
Mills, Mr. J. Saxon, [39], [60]
Milton, [140], [155-6], [159], [196], [281], [307]
Miracles, [67], [348]
"Mistress of Vision, The," [165], [222], [237], [240-1]
Monica Mary (Saleeby, née Meynell), [113-14], [118-19], [148], [340-1];
letters to, [340-1]
"Monica thought dying, To," [132], [145]
"Monica, To, after nine years,"

[119]
Moore, Mr. Sturge, [269], [315]
Morning Post, [152], [240]
Morris, Sir Lewis, [190]
Moulton, Mrs. Louise Chandler, [252]
Murderer, a ("D. I."), [64], [78]
Music, F. T.'s love of, [55]
Mysticism, true and false, [148], [198-9], [221], [223], [237]
Mythologies, [196]
Napoleon Judges, [337] n.
Nares' Glossary, [154]
"Narrow Vessel, A," [229-32]
Nation, The, [155], [157], [179], [216], [320], [336]
National Observer, [138]
National Review, [233]
Nature, F. T. on, [30], [131-2], [205-7], [211]
Nerses, St., the Armenian, [173-4]
New Brighton, [13]
New Poems (1897), [187];
its reception, [136], [150], [239-43], [253], [308];
a cancelled preface, [158], [175-6], [185], [220], [237-8];
mysticism in, [201], [214], [238];
F. T. on, [236], [238-9], [301], [306];
dedication, [236-7]
New York Post, [137]
Newbolt, Mr. Henry, [139], [269]
Newcastle Daily Chronicle, [122]
"Nocturn," [186]
Notebooks, F. T.'s, [27], [227];
quoted, [8], [12], [13], [18], [64], [78], [142], [175], [178], [188], [208], [228], [276-7], [283], [303-4]
Nowlan, Fr., [26] n.
Noyes, Mr. Alfred, [269]
Nuns of the Cross and Passion, [6]
Nyren, [43]
Odes, occasional, [321], [332-4]
Ode to the Setting Sun, [95], [95] n., [124-5], [127], [137] n., [176], [201], [211-12]
"Old Fogey, An," (Andrew Lang, soi-disant), [136]
Old Trafford cricket-ground, [39], [43]
Opera, the, [46]
Opium, F. T. and, [3], [46], [48-9], [51-3], [56-8], [63], [83], [87], [94-6], [104], [123], [163], [254-5], [321]
"Orient Ode," [192], [201], [201] n., [210], [222], [238]
Origen, [223]
Orpen, Mr., [327]
Ostade, [254]
O'Sullivan, Mr. Vincent, [136], [252]
Outcasts, [63-4], [74], [81-4]
Owens College, Manchester, [35-6], [46], [54]
Oxford Street, [61], [70], [274]
Paddington, [65], [274]
Paganism, [125], [205], [228]
"Paganism, Old and New," [85-7], [92], [125], [268]
Pain, [69], [129], [294], [295]
Palace Court, Kensington, F. T. at, [24], [68], [104], [117], [123], [271], [274], [284] n.
Pall Mall Gazette, [138], [146], [241]
Pan, [29-30], [124]
Pantasaph, F. T. at, [24], [128-9], [131-2], [143-6], [148-9], [177], [180-97], [230], [233-236], [238-9]
Pantheism, [205]
Panton Street, [62], [71], [74-5]
"Passion of Mary, The," [46] n., [87], [88], [92], [124]
Passion, The, [6], [288]
Parodies, [154], [331]
Patmore, Coventry, [130], [143], [275], [282], [328];
F. T.'s friendship with, [146], [148-9], [189-90], [224], [233-6], [250], [312];
F. T.'s affinities with, [144-5], [174], [192-3], [220-1], [223], [267];
"irregular" metre of, [176-8], [193], [220];
quoted, [83-4], [139], [146-8], [164], [190-1], [198], [200], [201], [209], [220], [222], [266], [306] n., [312], [317];
The Poetry of Pathos and Delight, [234];
Religio Poetæ, [189], [191-2];
Rod, Root and Flower, [149], [192], [201], [220], [227];
translation of St. Bernard, [191];
The Unknown Eros, [181], [191], [222], [238];
letters to, [191-3], [195], [233], [236], [238];
letters from, [149], [194], [197], [221], [233]
Patmore, Henry, [21]
Paul, St., [220], [223]
Perry, Fr. Stephen, [124], [126]
Phillips, Fr. G. E., [16]
Phillips, Mr. Stephen, [175]
Pickpocket Hall, [187]
Pico della Mirandola, [204]
Pile, Mr., [274-5]
Plagiarism, [168]
Plevna, siege of, [9]
Poe, [178]
Poems (1893), [122], [129], [135-48], [158], [170], [238], [243], [341]
"Poet breaking Silence, To a," [126], [133]
"Poets as Prose Writers," [255], [316]
Politics, [335], [339]
Pope, [229], [272]
"Poppy, The," [118], [341]
Portiuncula, the, [185]
Poverty, fair and foul, [77-8] n., [181], [284-5]
Prayer, [73], [84], [104], [280], [286], [287] n.
Premonstratensians, [95]
Preston, [1], [5]
Priesthood, F. T. and the, [5], [31-2], [33], [73]
Prison, [64], [258]
Probyn, Miss May, [85], [116]
Prose, F. T.'s, [97-8], [135], [149], [177], [206], [267], [310], [312]
Puns, [13], [326]
Quantity, [176]
Quiller-Couch, Sir A. T., [153], [241]
Rabelais, [64]
Railton, Sergeant, [19]
Raleigh, Sir Walter, [48], [156], [256]
Ranjitsinhji, Prince, [42]
Realm, The, [141], [146]
Reformation, the, [12]
Refuges, [65]
Religion, [30], [31], [33], [34]. See [Catholicism], and [Mysticism]
Rendall, Mr. Vernon, letters to F. T., [336]
"Renegade Poet on the Poet, A," [302]
Reserve, F. T.'s, [7], [18], [32], [35], [74], [90], [297]
"Retrospect" ("Sight and Insight"), [184], [214]
Review of Reviews, [106]
Reviews by F. T., [121], [124], [156-7], [168], [171], [175], [253-5], [260], [269]
"Rhodes, Cecil, Ode on," [255-6], [335]
Rhyl, [185]
Richardson, Fr., [46] n.
Richardson, Mrs. Margaret, née Thompson (the poet's sister), [1], [128], [341]
Roger Bacon Society, The, [181], [183]
Rook, Mr. Clarence, [253]
Rossetti, Christina, [209], [224]
Rossetti, D. G., quoted, [65] n., [82], [87];
F. T.'s reading of, [161], [165], [268];
other references, [127], [136], [154], [156], [164], [224], [239], [318]
Rothschild, [67-8]
Rowton House Rhymes, [93]
Ruskin, [127]
S., F., [25]
St. Beuno's College, [185]
St. James's Gazette, [135], [140], [145], [170]
St. John's Wood, [45]
Saturday Review, [146], [154], [233], [239]
Salle, Blessed J. B. de la, [80]
"Saul," an unfinished drama, [338]
Scholarship, F. T.'s, [26] n., [27], [35]
Science, [36], [196], [237-8]
Scots Observer, [126], [262]
Scott, [10], [11]
Sea, the, [12-13]
Seaman, Mr. Owen, [269]
Seeley's (Mr. H. C.), Dragons of the Air, [157]
Selected Poems (1908), [247]
Self-appraisements, F. T.'s, [98], [131], [136], [158], [187], [306]
Self-revelation in F. T.'s poetry, [103], [148]
Selous, F. C., illustrations to Shakespeare, [11], [38]
Seneca, [300]
"Sere of the Leaf, The," [102-3], [302]
Serendipity Shop, the, [286], [329]
Set-worship, [194], [196]
Seventeenth Century, [165]
Shakespeare, [271];
F. T.'s early reading of, [6], [10-12], [38];
his metre, [177];
his diction, [154-5];
quotations from, or other allusions to, by F. T., [85], [112-13], [117], [133], [175], [196], [238];
F. T. compared with, [138], [143], [150], [168], [244]
Sharp, William, [121], [124]
"She, the unknown," [73], [84]
Sheehan, Canon Patrick, [143]
Sheffield Daily Telegraph, [240]
Shelley, F. T's reading of, [87], [92], [96], [161], [164];
F. T. on, [206], [260];
Essay on, [96-100];
Essay on Shelley, quoted, [5-6], [17-18], [98], [217], [219];
F. T.'s "Shelley" poem, [126], [128];
his "Shelley" selection, [100] n.;
F. T. compared with, [143], [150], [165], [167], [243], [262]
Shelters, [65]
Shore, Mr. W. Teignmouth, [335]
Shore, Miss, [261]
Shorter, Mrs. Dora Sigerson, [269]
"Sight and Insight," [184], [198]
Silence ("my familiar"), [7], [35], [58], [297]
Simile and metaphor, [151]
Simplicity, F. T.'s personal, [185], [187]
"Sir Francis," [119]
Sister Songs, its writing, [104-6], [152];
its reception, [136], [141], [145], [154], [243-244];
Meredith's epithet, [247];
Wilde's appreciation, [252];
F. T.'s feeling for it, [304];
its actuality, [273];
autobiographical, [81], [148], [168]
Skating, [114]
Smithfield Market, [117]
Snead-Cox, Mr. J. G., [85], [120]
Snowdon, [185]
Socialism, [110] n.
Socrates, [223]
Solomon, Simeon, [323]
"Song of the Hours," [95] n., [125]
Sonnets, [73], [126]
South African War, [9]
South Kensington Museum, [105]
Southampton Row, [71], [74]
Southwater, [159], [349]
Southwell, [167]
Speaker, The, [140], [153], [240], [241]
Spenser, [155], [163]
Stalybridge, [39], [144]
Standard Book of British Poetry, [74]
Star, The, [145]
Stead, W. T., [106-7]
Stephanon, Lamente forre, [28-9]
Stevenson, R. L., [165], [170], [297], [302]
Storrington, [95-6], [111]
Strand, the, [24], [71] n., [163], [278]
Suckling, [165]
Sun, the, and sun-worship, [210-12], [229], [238], [272-3]
Sunrises and Sunsets, [131], [161], [290]

Sussex, [346]
Sutherland, the Duchess of, [252]
Swedenborg, [206-7], [271]
Swinburne, F. T's reading of, [97], [265], [268];
F. T. on, [126], [178-9], [266]
"Sylvia," [8], [148], [151], [349]
Symons, Arthur, [144-6], [198-9], [269]
Symbolism, [193-6], [211], [215], [218]
Tablet, The, [99], [125], [126], [137] n., [138]
"Tancred, Francis" (pseudonym of F. T.), [106]
Tate, Dr., President of Ushaw, [26], [32]
Taylor, Jeremy, [156]
Tennyson, [101], [120], [179] n., [230], [260]
Terence, [299]
Texts as stimulants, [32], [68], [325-6]
Thames Embankment, [24], [64], [192], [278]
Theresa, St., [146]
Thomas à Kempis, [225-6], [243], [283]
Thomas, Mr. Edward, [198]
Thomas of Celano, [181]
Thompson, Dr. Charles (F. T.'s father), [1], [2], [4], [36], [54-60], [71], [107] n., [127], [144], [185-6]
Thompson, Edward Healy (F. T.'s uncle), [2], [3], [14] n., [46] n., [58-9], [61], [68], [85] n., [124]
Thompson family, the, [1-5]
Thompson, Francis Joseph, birth, pedigree, parentage, [1-4];
his paternal uncles, [2], [3];
other relatives, [4], [5];
childhood, [6] seq.;
home-life, [7-14], [35], [54-5], [57-60], [74-5];
early reading, [6], [10-12];
at the seaside, [12], [13];
cricket, [13], [39-45];
at Ushaw, [15-21], [24-32];
intention of the priesthood abandoned, [32-4];
a medical student at Owens College, Manchester, [35-46];
visits to London (1879 and 1882), [46], [54];
illness, [46];
reading de Quincey, [46];
taking opium, [48-53], [56];
fails in his exams., [54-6];
love of music, [55];
enlists, [56-7];
flight from home, [57],
to Manchester, [58],
to London, [58], [61];
odd jobs, [62-3];
an outcast, [63-4];
lodging-houses and refuges, [64-5];
pieces of good-luck, [67-8];
roofless nights, [69-70];
with Mr. McMaster (the bootmaker), [70-75];
a Christmas at home, [74-5];
"in darkest London," [76-80];
his "brave, sad, lovingest, tender thing," [81-4], [92];
a meeting with the editor of Merry England, [85-90];
the Meynell household, [90-2];
contributes to Merry England, [92], [120-6];
sent to a private hospital, [94];
renunciation of opium, [94-5];
at Storrington, [95];
writing poetry, [95];
the essay on Shelley, [96-100];
return to London, [104];
"The Hound of Heaven" and "Sister Songs," [104];
article on General Booth's In Darkest England, [106-7];
interview with Cardinal Manning, [107-8];
journalism, [111-12], [117], [253-70];
visits to Crawley, [112-13], [344-6];
in Kensington Gardens, [114-15];
at Friston, in Suffolk, [118-19];
at Pantasaph, [128-33], [140], [143-48], [177], [180-97], [230-39];
Poems (1893), [128-48];
Sister Songs (1895), [141], [145], [149-50];
friendship with Coventry Patmore, [139], [146-9], [189-97], [220-4], [233-4];
his critics, [152-61];
his congeners, [161-70], [174];
his father's death, [185-186];
his mysticism, [191-232];
his attitude to Nature, [205-8];
his religion, [224-7];
his attitude to women, [227-32];
a love-affair, [230];
death of Patmore, [234-7];
New Poems, [198], [201], [203], [236-43];
return to London, [245];
meeting with Meredith, [245-7];
other friends, [247-52];
writes for The Academy, [253-70], [334-6];
criticisms on and meeting with W. E. Henley, [262-7];
his catholic appreciation of modern literature, [265-6], [268-9];
but preference for the older writers, [270-271];
as a Londoner, [272-81], [284], [288];
his poverty, [284-7];
his loneliness, [291];
bereft of song, [301-4], [306-7];
was he happy or unhappy? 304-5, [329-33];
his personal appearance, [327-8];
writes for The Athenæum, [336];
a return to opium, [342];
visits to Sussex, [344-49];
returns to London, and goes into hospital, [349];
death, [350]
Thompson, Francis Joseph, letters from, to Mother Austin (his sister Mary), [333];
to Dr. Carroll, [97], [123];
to Mr. Doubleday, [306] n.;
to Mr. C. L. Hind, [256-61];
to Mr. William Hyde, [277];
to Mrs. Meynell, [130], [132-3], [159], [177], [183], [188-9], [226], [297], [312-13];
to Everard Meynell, [44], [159], [328-31], [345];
to Wilfrid Meynell, [85], [88], [100], [103-5], [110] n., [112], [114-17], [129], [135], [145], [180], [183], [234-5], [238], [242], [250], [316-18], [334-5], [337-8];
to Coventry Patmore, [191-3], [195], [233-4], [236], [238];
to Mrs. Patmore, [234];
to Mrs. Saleeby (née Monica Meynell), [340-341];
to Miss Agnes Tobin, [252]
—— Letters to, from Father Anselm, [344-5];
from Mr. W. Archer, [242];
from Mother Austen (his sister Mary), [334];
from Mr. J. L. Garvin, [332-3];
from Mr. C. L. Hind, [264];
from Mrs. Hamilton King, [132], [250];
from Miss K. Douglas King, [250];
from Mr. H. W. Massingham, [332], [336];
from Mrs. Meynell, [129], [158];
from Coventry Patmore, [149], [194], [197], [221], [233];
from Mrs. Patmore, [237];
from Mr. Vernon Rendall, [336];
from W. T. Stead, [106];
from Mrs. Tynan Hinkson, [102]
Thompson, Helen (F. T. s sister), [1] n.
Thompson, John Costall (F. T.'s uncle), [2], [3]
Thompson, Margaret (F. T.'s sister), [1], [128]
Thompson, Mary (F. T.'s sister), "Mother Austin," a nun, [1] n., [7], [8], [12-14], [39-4], [57], [59], [75], [127], [186], [287] n., [341];
letter to, [333];
letter from, [334]
Thompson, Mary Turner, née Morton (F. T.'s mother), [1], [4], [7], [10], [46], [48-9]
Thorp, Mr., [259]
Times, The, [240], [319], [320]
Timidity, F. T.'s, [13], [15], [32], [265]
"To my Godchild," [123], [137], [162], [273]
Tobin, Miss Agnes, [252]
Tolstoy, [109]
"Tommy," [15], [19], [27]
"Tom o' Bedlam, [65], [207]
Toys, F. T.'s, [8], [98]
Traherne, [74], [285], [288]
Traill, Mr. H. D., [144-5], [149]
Tregunter Road, Fulham, [46]
"Twopenny Damn, The," [139]
Tyburn, [275]
Tynan, Katharine (Mrs. Hinkson), [85] n., [102], [122], [137] n., [209], [302];
letters to F. T., [102]
"Ultima," [306]
University Press, Notre Dame, Ind., [318-9]
Unpublished fragments of verse, [65], [81], [161], [188], [208], [213], [236], [270], [276-7], [280], [291-3], [295]
Unpublished poems, [73-4], [77-8], [292-3], [296-7]
Unpunctuality, F. T.'s, [9], [33], [72], [257], [264-5], [327]
Unworldliness, F. T.'s, [5], [249], [287-8]
Ushaw, F. T. at, [14], [34], [127]
Vaughan, Henry, [198], [209], [288]
Vaughan, Cardinal, [33], [99], [283]
Verlaine, [320], [322]
"Veteran of Heaven, The," [169], [195] n.
Vienna Café, The, [280], [303]
Vulgate, the, [171]
Wales, F. T. in, [24], [128-32], [143-9], [177-97], [230-9]
War, fears of a general, [193] n., [339-40]
Wardour Street, [70]
Watson, Mr. William, [136], [145], [259]
Watts, Mr. Augustine, [21]
Watts-Dunton, Mr. Theodore, [165]
Waugh, Mr. Arthur, [258]
Weekly Register, The, [111], [113], [124], [127], [135], [137]
Weekly Sun, [141]
Wells, Mr. H. G., [258]
Westbourne Grove, [266], [284], [286]
"Westminster Drolleries," [64]
Westminster Gazette, [137], [154]
Whiteing, Mr. Richard, [112], [241]
Whiteside, Dr., Archbishop of Liverpool, [27]
Whitten, Mr. Wilfred, [71] n., [257], [337];
his reminiscences of F. T., [253-4], [280-1], [303], [307]
Wilde, Oscar, [127], [252]
Wilkinson, Fr. Adam, [20], [24]
Winefride's Well, St., [185]
Wiseman, Cardinal, [23], [99], [100]
Woman, F. T. on, [227-9], [231]
Woman on F. T., [149]
Wordsworth, quoted, [311];
quoted by F. T., [87], [159];
points of contact with F. T., [160], [167], [183], [325];
points of opposition, [205-6];
F. T.'s article on, [260]
Wormwood Scrubbs, [44]
Wyndham, Mr. George, [100], [160], [256]

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] Their first child, a son, lived only one day, and of the three daughters whose births followed Francis's, one, Helen, died in infancy. Of the other two, the elder, Mary, is a nun in Manchester, the other, Margaret Richardson, wife and mother in Canada.