Henry D. Thoreau - F. B. Sanborn

"Northward he turneth through a little door,
And scarce three steps, ere Music's golden tongue,
Flattered to tears this aged man and poor;
But no—already had his death-bell rung,
The joys of all his life were said and sung."

He died on the 6th of May, 1862, and had a public funeral from the parish church a few days later. On his coffin his friend Channing placed several inscriptions, among them this, "Hail to thee, O man! who hast come from the transitory place to the imperishable." This sentiment may stand as faintly marking Thoreau's deep, vital conviction of immortality, of which he never had entertained a doubt in his life. There was in his view of the world and its Maker no room for doubt; so that when he was once asked, superfluously, what he thought of a future world and its compensations, he replied, "Those were voluntaries I did not take,"—having confined himself to the foreordained course of things. He is buried in the village cemetery, quaintly named "Sleepy Hollow," with his family and friends about him; one of whom, surviving him for a few years, said, as she looked upon his low head-stone on the hillside, "Concord is Henry's monument, covered with suitable inscriptions by his own hand."

[INDEX.]

Academy, Concord, [46].
Acton, originally a part of Concord, [32].
Adams, John Quincy, [78].
Adams, Samuel, [100].
African Slaves in Concord, [203]-[205].
Agassiz, Louis, [115], [243], [245].
Agricola at Marseilles, [64].
Alcott, A. Bronson, sonnet on Thoreau, [v].;
born in Connecticut, [63];
at Concord Lyceum, [49];
visits Dr. Ripley, [80];
in old age, [81];
goes to live in Concord, [117];
helps "raise" Thoreau's hut, [118];
his School of Philosophy, [121];
an early Transcendentalist, [124];
his Paradise at Fruitlands, [134]-[140];
a friend of John Brown, [148];
plan of living in Concord woods, [155];
builds a summer-house for Emerson, [194];
his friendship with Thoreau, [186];
his conversations, [187], [188], [190], [199];
from his diary, [192], [195], [304];
peddler in Virginia, [187], [260];
visits Horace Greeley, [188];
harbors a fugitive slave, [195];
lends Thoreau his axe, [209];
goes to the opera with Greeley, [241];
with Thoreau in New Bedford, [267];
his opinion of Thoreau, [306].
Alcott, Louisa, [63], [91].
Allston, Washington, visits Concord, [111].
American literature, Thoreau's view of, [160].
American Slavery, Thoreau's opposition to, [195], [199], [292];
John Brown's attack upon, [292], [303].
Assabet River, [15], [33], [114], [202].
Ball, B. W., [135].
Bangor, [1], [5], [245].
Barnes, Lucy, [109], [110].
Barrett, Humphrey, a Concord farmer, [89], [98], [103], [107].
Barrett, Joseph, [114]-[117].
Bartlett, Dr. Josiah, [43], [44].
Bartlett, Robert, [190].
Bedford (the town), [9], [12].
Bedford road, [12], [270].
Betsey (Thoreau), [3], [4].
Bigelow, Dr. H. J., [62].
Blake, Harrison, [141], [301], [305], [307].
Bliss, Rev. Daniel, [74], [75], [99], [100].
Bliss, Daniel, the Tory, [100], [204].
Bliss, Phebe, [75], [205].
Boston, the home of John Thoreau, the Jerseyman, [2], [6];
of Henry Thoreau, [27];
birth-place of Emerson, [63].
Boston Miscellany, [220].
Bowen, Prof. Francis, [62].
Bradford, George P., [46].
Bradford, Gershom, [105].
Bremer, Frederika, [141].
Brisbane, Albert, [133], [134].
Brister's Hill, [202].
Brister, a freedman, [203], [205], [208].
Brook Farm, [134], [141].
Brooks, Nathan, [42], [46], [77], [105], [112].
Brooks, Mrs. Nathan, [68].
Brown, John, of Osawatomie, [146], [185], [199], [242], [292], [293], [295], [303].
Brown, Mrs., of Plymouth, [60].
Brownson, Orestes A., [53].
Bruno, Giordano, quoted, [208].
Bulkley family in Concord, [33], [39], [98].
Burke, Edmund, quoted, [299].
Buttrick, Major, [102].
Cambridge, Thoreau's residence in, [51];
letters from, [56], [61];
Thoreau's visit to, [196].
Campbell, Sir Archibald, [68].
Canada, Thoreau's excursion to, [233], [235].
Cape Cod, [236], [264].
Carlyle, Thomas, [124], [125], [193], [233];
Thoreau's essay on, [218]-[224].
Channing, Rev. Dr., [80], [82], [144].
Channing, Ellery (the poet), [11], [41], [49]-[51], [63], [70], [135], [136], [177]-[189];
his lines on Emerson, [69];
on Thoreau, [185], [214];
quoted, [49]-[51];
his friendship for Thoreau, [178]-[185];
his verses on Hawthorne, [188];
his house, [198];
his letters to Thoreau, [209], [218];
calls Thoreau Idolon, [252];
and Rudolpho, [253];
visits Monadnoc, [255];
describes Thoreau, [262], [267], [291], [315];
his biography of Thoreau, [11], [49], [301].
Channing, Rev. W. H., [140], [141], [174], [216].
Chapman, Dr., [193].
Chappaqua, [241].
Cheney, Mrs., of Concord, [18], [93].
Cohasset, [91], [175].
Columella, [132].
Concord (town of) described, [32]-[40];
celebrities, [41]-[48], [63]-[96];
farmers, [97]-[123];
Lyceum, [47], [48], [168];
as a transcendental capital, [135], [143], [146];
the home of Channing and Thoreau, [178];
localities, [201]-[204];
freedmen, [204];
jail, [207];
the monument to Thoreau, [317].
Concord Fight, [76], [86], [99], [102], [109].
Concord grape, [34].
Concord River, [33], [140], [154], [167], [176], [178], [183], [188], [199], [202], [208].
Concord Village, [189], [201];
trade in, [35];
customs of, [40], [46], [48], [64], [72], [76], [87], [116], [122].
Connecticut, [73], [82], [127], [186].
Corner, Nine-Acre, [70], [84], [208].
Davenant, Sir William, [127], [164].
"Departure, The," [282], [305].
Dial, The, [127], [135], [163], [168], [171], [173], [212], [217], [248].
Diana, Ascription to, [260].
Dunbar, Rev. Asa, [8], [9], [20].
Dunbar, Charles, uncle of Thoreau, [21]-[24], [92], [93].
Dunbar, Cynthia (mother of Thoreau), [8], [18], [19], [21], [24]-[28], [50], [57], [92], [96], [312].
Dunbar, Louisa, [13]-[17], [21].
Edwards, Jonathan, quoted, [128].
"Egomites," [80].
Emerson, Charles, [46].
Emerson, Miss Mary, [19], [20], [75].
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, born in Boston, [63];
a descendant of Concord ministers, [39];
quoted, [37];
began to lecture in Concord, [48];
begins acquaintance with Thoreau, [59];
goes to live in Concord, [69];
draws people there, [71];
describes Dr. Ripley, [77]-[84];
describes the "Concord Fight," [103];
on Captain Hardy, [121], [123];
goes to Europe, [281];
his "Forester," [251];
his proposition for an international magazine, [193];
on Thoreau's acquaintance with Nature, [251], [252];
on Thoreau's patience in observation, [250];
his relations with Thoreau, [189];
his summer-house, [194], [278];
tries to work in the woods, [278];
praises Thoreau's "Smoke," [287];
gives his funeral eulogy, [313].
Emerson, William, [190].
Endymion of Concord, [260].
Essays of Thoreau, in college, [150]-[163];
"Effect of Story Telling," [158];
"L'Allegro and Il Penseroso," [156];
"National Characteristics," [160];
"Paley's Common Reasons," [161];
"Punishment," [158];
"Source of our feeling for the Sublime," [159];
"Simplicity of Style," [156].
Everett, Edward, [88].
Fairhaven Cliffs, [153].
Fenda, the fortune teller, [204].
Fields, James T., [300], [306].
Forbes, Mrs. W. H., recollections of Thoreau, [270]-[273].
"Forester, The," verse by Emerson, [257].
"Fruitlands," in Harvard, [135]-[137].
Fugitive Slave, in Concord, [195].
Fuller, Margaret, in Concord, [70];
criticises Thoreau's poems, [169]-[172];
rejects a prose article by him, [173];
her character, [174];
in Cambridge, [191];
at a conversation, [190];
visit to Europe, marriage, and death, [230];
writes for the "Tribune," and lives with H. Greeley, [217].
Gardiner, Dr., [79], [80].
Garfield, his ancestors, [204].
Gilman, Rev. Nicholas, [128]-[130].
Goodwin, Rev. H. B., [83].
Graham, George R., [222], [224].
Graham's Magazine, [213], [224].
Graveyard in Lincoln, [204].
Greeley, Horace, as Mæcenas, [217];
editor of the "Tribune," [216];
described by Margaret Fuller, [217];
his correspondence with Thoreau, [219]-[229], [231]-[240];
invites Thoreau to Chappaqua, satirized by W. E. Channing, [218].
Griswold, R. W., [220], [222].
Hafiz, quoted, [166].
Hamilton, Alexander, [113].
Hampden, John, [107].
Hardy, Captain, [120]-[122].
Harvard Magazine, [196].
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, moves and removes to Concord, [70];
quoted, [71];
Channing's verses on, [188];
Emerson's influence on, [148];
his "Scarlet Letter," [277];
invites Thoreau to lecture in Salem, [276];
returns to Concord, [278];
returns thither from Europe, [189].
Herald's Office, London, [108].
Heywood, Dr. Abiel, [38], [40]-[42].
Heywood, George, [39].
Hildreth, S. T., [57].
Hoar, E. R., [90], [312].
Hoar, Edward, [254].
Hoar, Miss Elizabeth, [239].
Hoar, Mrs. Samuel, [96].
Hoar, Samuel, [46], [72], [90], [95], [112].
Hollowell Farm, [172], note, [208].
Hosmer Cottage, [117].
Hosmer, Cyrus, [111].
Hosmer, Edmund, [118]-[120].
Hosmer, James, [98].
Hosmer, Joseph (the Major), [98], [99], [100], [109], [111], [112], [113].
Hosmer, Lucy, [110].
Hurd, Dr. Isaac, [42].
Icarus, [202].
Indians, (American), [240], [242], [248].
Ingraham, Cato, a slave, [203].
Ingraham, Duncan, [66]-[68].
Jack, John, a negro, [204];
epitaph on, [205].
Jackson, Dr. C. T., [246], [247].
James, Henry, [305].
Jarvis, Deacon Francis, [76], [77].
Jarvis, Dr. Edward, [76].
Jersey, Isle of, [1]-[4].
Journal of Thoreau, [2], [150], [154], [167].
Ktaadn, and Thoreau's visit there, [226], [227], [228], [245].
Keene, N. H., [18].
Kosta, Martin, [67].
Lane, Charles, [135]-[141].
Lee family, [114];
their farm and hill, [115].
Letters from Maria Thoreau, [5];
from D. Webster, [15];
from Josiah Quincy, [53], [61];
from Dr. Ripley, [57], [81];
from Dr. Channing to Dr. Ripley, [82];
from Charles Lane, to Thoreau, [137]-[140];
from A. G. Peabody, [55], [56];
from R. W. Emerson, [155], [193];
from F. B. Sanborn, [197];
from Henry Thoreau, [92], [181], [209], [210], [216], [307], [308], [314];
from Horace Greeley, [219], [222]-[231], [233]-[240];
from Margaret Fuller, [169]-[173];
from Dr. Ripley, [144]-[146];
from Sophia Thoreau, [176], [268], [306], [310], [314];
letter to Sophia Thoreau, [189], [216], [281].
Levet, Robert, [43].
Lowell, James Russell, [112], [246].
Mæcenas, Greeley as, [216]-[241].
Manse, Old, built in 1766, [75];
occupied by Hawthorne [85];
Channing's verses on, [188];
farmers at, [86]-[88];
"Mosses from," [183];
first mistress of, [205].
Marlboro road, [109].
Marryatt, Captain, [67].
Marvell, Andrew, [42].
Massey, Gerald, [240].
Merrick, Tilly, [67], [108].
Milton, John, [156], [157].
Minott, George, [22], [24], [92], [274].
Minott, Mrs., the grandmother of Thoreau, [9]-[11].
Minute-Man, statue of, [86].
Monadnoc, [115], [254]-[257].
Moore, Abel ("Captain Hardy"), [120], [121].
Morton, Edwin, [197].
Munroe of Lexington and Concord, [66];
William, [37], [152].
Musketaquid, [33].
Nature, "born and brought up in Concord," [96];
Thoreau's observation of, [252], [285].
Orrok, David, [2].
Orrok, Sarah, [2].
Out-door life of Thoreau, at Walden, [209], [211];
in general, [242], [243], [249]-[252], [264]-[267];
by night, [304].
Parker, Theodore, [69];
school candidate, [88].
"Past and Present," by Carlyle, notice of, [217].
Peabody, A. G., letter from, [54].
Peabody, Elizabeth P., [70], [168].
Penobscot River, [245].
Pepperell, Sir William, [129].
Perry, Joseph, [67].
Phalanstery, [140], [141], [216].
Phillips, Wendell, at Concord, [49].
Pierpont, Sarah, [128].
Pillsbury, Parker, [314].
Poems, quoted from Tennyson, [31];
from Ellery Channing, [24], [69], [119], [176], [184], [185], [215], [252], [255];
Emerson's "Saadi", [119];
"Maine Woods," [246], [247];
Milton, [181];
Thoreau's "Love," [167];
"Sympathy," [164];
"The Maiden in the East," [165];
to his brother John, [176];
The Departure, [282];
"The Pilgrims," [285];
"Smoke" (a fragment), [287];
from T. P. Sanborn, [260];
from Keats, [316].
Poet, the character of, [284].
Ponkawtassett Hill, [86], [182].
Putnam's Magazine, [236], [237].
Quarterly, Massachusetts, [230].
Quincy, Josiah, [52];
letter from, [53], [61];
certificate in favor of Thoreau, [61].
Ralston, Mrs. Laura Dunbar, [19].
Ricketson, Daniel, [176], [188], [263];
description of Thoreau's actual appearance, [266];
disappointment in imagined personal appearance of Thoreau, [264];
on Thoreau's domestic character, [267];
describes Thoreau's dance, [268];
Letters from Thoreau to, [308], [309];
Letter from Sophia Thoreau to, [310].
Ripley, Dr. (pastor at Concord), petition to Grand Lodge of Masons, [1]-[9];
letter from, [25];
certificate in favor of Thoreau's father, [26];
schism in parish of, [28], [85];
Thoreau baptized by, [45];
letter from Edward Everett to, [47];
letter introducing Thoreau as a teacher, [57];
anecdotes of, [73]-[80], [86], [87];
letter to Dr. Channing, [81];
reply, [82];
his prayers, [83], [84];
letter on the Transcendental movement, [144], [146].
Ripley, Rev. Samuel, [74].
Ripley, Mrs. Sarah, [85].
Robbins, Cæsar, a negro, [104], [203].
Sanborn, F. B., acquaintance with Thoreau, [196];
extract from diary, [198], [199];
introduces John Brown to Thoreau, [199];
letter to Thoreau, [197].
Sanborn, T. P., his "Endymion" quoted, [260].
Sartain, John, [232].
"Service, The," [172].
Sewall, Ellen, [163].
"Shay," a one-horse, [131]-[133].
Slave, fugitive, [195].
Staten Island, [89], [92], [305].
Sunday prospect, [152].
Sunday walkers, [85].
Tacitus, quoted, [64].
Teufelsdröckh, [210].
Thoreau family, [4], [5], [27]-[31].
Thoreau, Helen, [59]-[61].
Thoreau, Henry, his ancestry, [1]-[10];
born in Concord, [12];
his mother, [8], [24];
his father, [25];
as a pencil-maker, [37];
first dwelling-place, [45];
at the Concord Academy, [46];
enters Harvard College, [46];
at Chelmsford, [49];
his childish stoicism, [50];
his graduation, [51];
as school teacher, [52];
a beneficiary of Harvard College, [53], [54];
his certificate from Dr. Ripley, [57], [58];
from Emerson, [59];
beginning of acquaintance with Emerson, [59];
his "Sic Vita," [60];
Quincy's certificate, [61];
a Transcendentalist, [124];
first essays in authorship, [149], [153];
description of a visit to Fairhaven Cliffs, [153], [154];
his early poems, [164]-[167];
his first lecture, [168];
his "Walk to Wachusett," [169];
his earliest companion, [175];
his friendship with Ellery Channing, [178]-[183];
his praise of Alcott, [186];
goes to Alcott's conversations, [187];
visits Chappaqua and Walt Whitman, [188];
his burial place, [189];
his relation with Emerson, [189], [190];
reads his "Week" to Alcott, [192];
designs a lodge for Emerson, [194];
his acquaintance with Sanborn, [195];
at Walden, [201];
his reasons for going to Walden, [212];
edits "The Week," [212];
talks with W. H. Channing and Greeley, [216];
his essay on Carlyle, [218]-[225];
his paper on "Ktaadn" and the "Maine Woods," [225];
his "Week," [230];
asks Greeley for a loan, [235];
his "Canada," and "Cape Cod," [235], [236];
Greeley asks him to become a tutor, [241];
his out-door life, [242];
collects specimens for Agassiz, [243], [245];
his visits to Maine, [245], [248];
as a naturalist, [249]-[252];
a night on Mount Washington, [254];
his Monadnoc trip, [256]-[257];
his description of a Concord heifer, [258], [259];
his apostrophe to the "Queen of Night," [259];
his face, [199], [261], [266];
described by Channing, [262];
by Ricketson, [263]-[266];
travels on Cape Cod, [264];
domestic character, [267];
dances, [268];
sings "Tom Bowline," [269];
his social traits, [270]-[273];
as author and lecturer, [274]-[277];
his manual labor, [278];
fashion of his garments, [279];
income from authorship, [280];
lives in Emerson's household, [281];
his parable, [285];
his habit of versification, [286];
his reading, [286];
as naturalist, [288]-[291];
his theory of labor and leisure, [288];
his political philosophy, [292];
eras in his life, [297];
his aim in writing, [298];
his religion, [299];
his business in life, [300];
his method in writing, [304];
his sunset walks, [307];
his aversion to society, [307];
his decline and death, [313]-[316];
his funeral, [317].
Thoreau, John, the father, [25], [27].
Thoreau, John, the brother, [175], [178].
Thoreau, John, the Jerseyman; [1], [5]-[7], [37].
Thoreau, Maria, [1]-[8].
Thoreau, Sophia, [29], [38], [44], [265], [282], [301], [305], [310], [315];
letter from, [176], [268], [306], [310]-[314];
letters to, [189], [216], [281].
"Tom Bowline," sung by Thoreau, [268], [269], [272].
Transcendentalism, [124], [126], [133], [142], [247], [279];
in New England, [124]-[126];
in politics, [292]-[296];
social and unsocial, [141]-[145];
at Brook Farm, [134];
at Fruitlands, [137].
Transcendentalists of Concord, [63], [70], [76], [80], [119], [134]-[137], [143], [146], [148], [288], [307].
Transcendental Period, [124]-[147].
"Tribune," New York, [217], [230], [238].
Very, Jones, [51], [190].
Wachusett, [115], [138], [169], [220].
Walden (the book), [196], [211], [214], [239], [240].
Walden Hermitage, [201]-[215].
Walden woods, [11], [155], [202], [209], [212], [214].
Watson, Marston, [188], [197].
Webster, Daniel, a lover of Louisa Dunbar, [13], [14];
describes his native place, [15]-[17];
his friendship for Louisa Dunbar, [17], [93];
at the "Wyman Trial," [90];
his "rose-cold," [91];
visits in Concord, [93];
letter to Mrs. Cheney, [94];
described by Carlyle, [293];
by Thoreau, [294];
contrasted with Thoreau, [296].
Webster, Prof. J. W., [56].
"Week," The, (Thoreau's first book), [183], [196], [213], [230], [240], [299], [304].
Weiss, Rev. John, [57].
"Westminster Review," [240].
Wharton, Thomas, [298].
Whig Review, [238].
Whitefield, G., letter to, [129].
Whiting, Colonel, [36], [46].
Whiting, Rev. John, [65].
Whitman, Walt, [186], [188].
Whittier, J. G., quoted, [131].
Wigglesworth, Michael, [131].
Willard, Major, [32], [98].
Woolman, John, [127], [130].
Zilpha, the Walden Circe, [203].

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