Longfellow, Alice M., [117] note, [209].
Longfellow, Fanny, [201].
Longfellow, Frances A., Longfellow’s engagement to, [171], [172];
appearance, [173];
assists her husband, [173];
her letter to Eliza Potter, [174], [175];
death, [211].
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, birth of, [11];
youth, [14]–[18];
first poem on American subject, [17];
college life, [18]–[20];
shows American feeling in his Commencement oration, [21];
early writings, [22];
offers poems anonymously, [23];
selections appear in Miscellaneous Poems, [23];
his early poems compared with Bryant’s, [24]–[26];
one of his poems attributed to Bryant, [27];
involuntary imitation of Bryant, [27];
contributes articles in Irving’s style, [27];
letter to, from Jared Sparks, declining article, [29], [30];
his “Our Native Writers,” [30]–[36];
graduates from Bowdoin, [37];
literature his definite purpose, [37];
writes to his father about his profession, [38]–[40], [41], [43];
father’s reply, [40], [41];
first visit to Europe to prepare for Bowdoin professorship, [45];
writes to his mother, [46], [47];
enjoyment of France, [48]–[50];
begins his studies in Germany, [51], [52];
beginning of “Outre-Mer,” [55];
“Hyperion,” [55];
returns home, [56];
becomes professor of modern languages at Bowdoin College, [56];
prepares his own text-books, [57];
contributes to the “North American Review,” [58];
publishes translations, [60];
marries Mary S. Potter, [60];
salary at Bowdoin, [64];
life at Brunswick, [65], [66];
writes to G. W. Greene, [67];
publishes sketches in New England Magazine, [67];
early sketches, [68];
comparison of the “Sketch Book” and “Outre-Mer,” [69]–[71];
a puzzle about his writings, [72]–[74];
his “Defence of Poetry,” [75]–[80];
project of taking the Round Hill School, [81], [82];
position in regard to temperance, [83];
his wife’s letter about “Outre-Mer,” [83];
letter inviting him to become a professor at Harvard, [84], [85];
his reply, [85]–[87];
his first book, [87];
second visit to Europe, [87]–[106];
letter to his mother, [97], [98];
his wife’s illness and death, [107]–[111];
buries himself in studies, [112];
returns home, [113];
his letter about his wife, [113]–[115];
settles in Craigie House, [116];
description of Mrs. Craigie, [118]–[120];
interest in Craigie estate, [122], [123];
his “Hyperion,” [124]–[134];
his letter to his wife’s sister, [129], [130];
on “Twice-Told Tales,” [130]–[132];
his desire for a national literature, [133];
his best piece of prose, [135], [136];
literary projects, [137];
letter about “Hyperion,” [139], [140];
criticisms of, [141]–[143];
his relation with Bryant, [145], [146];
social side, [146], 338 [147];
costume of, [147];
suggestions for poems, [149], [150];
college duties, [150]–[155];
asks for leave of absence, [155], [156];
sails for Europe, [157];
asks for further leave of absence, [157], [158];
the “Spanish Student,” [162];
returns home, [162];
anti-slavery poems, [163]–[165];
abolitionists on, [166];
Irish abolitionist on, [167];
intimacy with Lowell, [169];
announces his engagement and marriage to Frances Appleton, [171], [172];
aided in “Poets and Poetry of Europe,” [173];
in the class room, [176]–[179];
letters about college work, [179]–[183];
letter about elective system, [182], [183];
finds college work monotonous, [186], [187];
writes about his “Spanish Student,” [188], [189];
his “Poets and Poetry of Europe,” [189]–[191];
his fame, [192];
“Evangeline,” [194], [195];
compared with Scandinavian poets, [196], [197];
“Kavanagh,” [198]–[200];
resigns professorship, [202]–[207];
begins “Hiawatha,” [208];
writes “The Courtship of Miles Standish,” [210];
death of his wife, [211];
shorter poems, [213]–[218];
sails for Europe, [219];
speech by, [219], [220];
receives honorary degree at Cambridge, Eng., [220], [221];
English praise for, [221]–[223];
receives honorary degree at Oxford, [223];
arrives home, [223];
works on Dante translation, [225];
friendly criticism, [226], [227];
comparison of early with late translations, [229]–[231];
comparison with Norton’s translation, [231], [232];
“Christus,” [236]–[238], [242], [243];
“New England Tragedies,” [239];
requests for autographs, [240], [275], [276];
“The Divine Tragedy,” [244];
criticisms of “The Divine Tragedy,” [245], [246];
commemorated in Westminster Abbey, [248]–[257];
his works essentially American, [258]–[260];
interested in local affairs, [260];
dislikes English criticism of our literature, [263], [264];
manner in which his poems came to him, [264], [265];
his alterations, [266], [267];
compared with Browning, [270];
relations with Whittier and Emerson, [271], [272];
on Browning, [272], [273];
on Tennyson, [273];
his table-talk, [273]–[275];
unpublished poems, [276];
descriptions of, [278], [279];
his works popular, [280];
Cardinal Wiseman on, [281];
resembles Turgenieff, [282];
home life, [282]–[285];
member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Spanish Academy, [288];
removal of “spreading chestnut-tree” and armchair made, [289], [290];
his speech at Cambridge anniversary, [290], [291];
his study, [291], [292];
as a man, [292], [293];
sickness, [293];
death, [294].
Longfellow, Mary S. P., [172];
schoolmate of Longfellow, [60];
becomes Longfellow’s wife, [60];
description of, [61];
her books, [62]–[64];
begins housekeeping, [66];
her letter about the Round Hill School, [81], [82];
her letter about Longfellow’s “Outre-Mer,” [83];
her letters about their European trip, [88]–[106];
her illness and death, [107]–[111];
H. W. Longfellow’s letter about, [113]–[115];
her journals destroyed, [170].
Longfellow, Rev. Samuel, [71], [91], [92], [106];
his memoir of his brother, cited, [30] note, [85] note, [99] note, [189] note, [191] note, [199] note, [207] note, [224] note;
quoted, [37], [38], [41]–[43], [48]–[52], [113], [124], [126], [141], [145], [147], [148], [165], [168], [191], [192], [202], [203], [219]–[222], [226], [242], [245], [246], [257], [263], [264], [266], [276].
Longfellow, Stephen, [11], [13], [14], [17], [97];
spelling of name, [11];
letters to, from H. W. L. about his profession, [38]–[43];
his reply, [40], [41];
Mary S. P. Longfellow’s letter to, [98], [99].
Longfellow, Judge Stephen, appearance of, [13].
Longfellow, William, [12].
Longfellow, Zilpah (Wadsworth), [11], [87], [99];
description of, [15];
Longfellow writes to, [46], [47];
Mary S. P. Longfellow’s letter to, about European trip, [88]–[97];
H. W. L.’s letter to, [97], [98].