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,
268, 270;
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.
Cotton, John, 103, 104.
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,
217, 221, 227, 228.
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,
193, 196, 202.
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,
209;
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;
remarks quoted, 69, 129;
lectures in London, 105;
at Dartmouth College, 108;
in Boston, 59, 67, 110;
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;
author, 69, 152;
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,
170, 193, 194;
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
affairs, 208, 225.
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,”
41, 43–47;
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;
life at, 15–26, 36;
library, 16, 68, 271;
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,
270.
Inglis, Fanny. See Calderon de la Barca, Madam.
Irish-Americans not satisfied with J.R. L. as minister to England,
238.
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;
bright sayings, 106, 107.
“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.
Laud, Bishop, 103, 104.
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.
Liberator, The, 56, 174.
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,
41, 128, 130;
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;
boyhood, 1, 3–5, 11–14;
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,
35, 82–86;
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,
97, 98, 173, 175;
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;
death of, 125, 163.
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,
161, 162.
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.