# Thoreau: His Home, Friends and Books/Index

Index
"A Fable for Critics," 239. "A Winter Walk," quoted, 190. Abbott, Dr. Charles C., 137, 287, 299. Abbotsford, 5. Abolition, 160, 162, 165, 334. Academy Lane, 49. Acton, 37, 225. Adams, John, 34. Addison, Joseph, 249. Agassiz, Louis, 69, 282, 283, 285. Agellum, Walden, 136. "Agricultural Survey in Massachusetts," 241. Albee, John, 92. Alcott, Bronson, 4, 5, 6, 15, 17, 32, 94, 109, 110, 117, 119, 129, 131, 149, 152, 161, 166, 176, 179, 194, 201, 236, 249, 257, 302, 306, 308. Alcott, Mrs. Bronson, 19, 20, 112. Alcott, Louisa, 17, 20, 111, 237, 315. Allen, Irving, 41. Allen, Phineas, 59. Altruism, 197, 199, 222, 334. American Anthology, 97, 209, 316. Amiel, Henri, 303. Anacreon, 276. Angler, 8. Antæus, 125. Anti-slavery, 16, 39, 164, 196, 228. "Apollo serving Admetus," 98, 157. Arcadian life, 11, 289. Aristotle, 217, 284. Arnica mollis, 173. Art and Nature, 288. Art of living, 183, 204. Assabet river, 7. Atheneum, 15. Atlantic Monthly, 153, 155, 208, 285, 307. Attic philosophy, 32. Augustine, Saint, 303. "Autumn," 154, 213, 225, 256, 270, 330, 332. "Autumnal Tints," 153, 307.
"Balaustion," quoted, 98. Balzac, 320. Bancroft, George, 18, 70. "Barnum, Yankee," 32. Barrett's Mill, 271.
Bartlett, George E., 319. Bartol, Cyrus A., 109. Bateman's Pond, 8. "Beans," 124, 152. Bentham, Jeremy, 73. Bible, The, 321, 331. Biography, Modern, 103. Blake, Francis, 254. Blake, Harrison Gray Otis, 151, 172, 209, 253–257, 276, 304, 310, 312, 323. Boscawen, N. H., 41. Boston, Mass., 11, 34, 36, 37, 56, 108, 149, 164, 167, 168, 169, 199, 246, 254, 282. Boston Miscellany, 96. Boston Transcript, 34. Bradford, George, 44. Brantwood, 5. Brisbane, Albert, 110.
Blister's Hill, 10. Brook Farm, 44, 72, 109, 241, 289. Brown, Charles Brockden, 301. Brown, John, 1.4, 15, 56, 166–168, 174, 199, 225, 325. Brown, Mrs. Lucy, 47, 94, 234, 235. Brown, Theophilus, 151, 254. Browning, Robert, quoted, 98, 143, 209. Brownson, Orestes, 72, 73, 109, 194. Bryant, William Cullen, 300. Buddhism, 312. Bulkeley, Peter, 13. Burns, Anthony, 166. Burns, Jane, 34. Burroughs, John, 86, 166, 212, 286, 287, 298, 299, 322. Buttrick, Major, 14.
Cabot, J. Elliot, 146, 282. Cagliostro, 32. Cairn, 4, 10. Canada, 148, 225, 280, 322. Canton, Mass., 72. "Cape Cod," 148, 280, 311, 320–323, 332, 335. Capitoline Hill, 335. Carlisle Road, 9, 136. Carlyle, Thomas, 70, 71, 93, 105, 106, 144, 148, 195, 201, 210, 227, 229, 307, 308, 313, 324, 332. Cato, 44, 242. "Ceresco settlement," 110. Channing, Edward, 67, 70. Channing, Ellery William, 20, 57, 60, 97, 114, 115, 127, 131, 133, 137, 147, 173, 179, 194, 200, 219, 223, 238–240, 242, 252, 261, 312. Channing, Rev. William Ellery, 105, 239. Chapman, Frank M., 287. Chelmsford, 37, 56. Chesuncock, 208. Cholmondeley, Thomas, 251. Christian Examiner The, 74. "Civil Disobedience," 161, 162. Clarke, James F., 109. Class-book, 59, 324, 325. Clintonia borealis, 276. Clough, Arthur Hugh, 251. Coleridge, S. T., 105, 108, 194, 303. Collins family, 320. Communism, 112, 113. College education, 65, 66. Concord, Mass., 3–27, 55, 164, 165, 168, 228, 280, 289. Concord Academy, 49, 59, 81, 91. Concord Antiquarian Hall, 120. Concord Junction, 37. Concord Lyceum, 148, 149. Concord Public Library, 25, 37. Concord newspapers, 49, 58, 282. Concord River, 3, 4, 7, 147, 242, 313. "Concord sage," 47. Congress, Provincial, 14. Conway, Moncure D., 282. Cooper, James F., 299. Copse Hill, 123. "Cornwallis Days," 56. Crab, Roger, 104. Crimean War, 251. "Crow, The" 279. Curtis, George W., 119, 241, 252, 328.
Dana, Richard Henry, 73. Darwin, Charles, 328. Davis, Rebecca H., 230. Deist, 208. Democratic Review, 307. De Quincey, Thomas, 212, 328. Dial, The, 86, 93, 94, 110, 144, 241, 243, 246, 277, 307, 313, 316. Dickens, Charles, 328. Diogenes, 32, 103, 123. Donatello, 223. Donne, John, 70. Dred Scott case, 164. Dunbar, Charles, 41.
Dunbar, David, 41. Dunbar family, 40, 58, 130, 172. Dunbar, Louisa, 41.
Eagleswood, 149. "Early Spring in Mass.," 221, 255. Easterbrook Country, 9. "Echoes from Harper's Ferry," 168. Elective system, 192. Elliott, Rev. Walter, 44. Emancipation song, 17. Emerson, Edward, 94, 124, 233. Emerson, Madam, 19, 201. Emerson, Mary, 21, 22. Emerson, Mrs. Lidian, 19, 112, 231, 232. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 4, 15, 16-18, 25, 47, 48, 67, 70, 75, 86, 93, 97, 106, 109, 112, 116, 129, 131, 145, 149, 150, 160. 164, 167, 168, 172, 179, 186, 194, 195, 199, 201, 206, 223–230, 236, 239, 241, 246, 251, 253, 254, 257, 271, 277, 281, 283, 297, 299, 300, 302, 308, 312, 313, 314, 319, 328, 332. Emerson, Waldo, 48, 93, 95. Emerson, William, 95. Emersonian Maxim, 5. Emerson's "Threnody," 48. Essays, 307. Essenes, 104. Euripides, 98. Everett, Edward, 18. Excursions, 147, 148, 173, 311.
Fairhaven, 9, 47, 51. "Familiar Letters," 13, 39, 46, 146, 218, 231, 233, 235, 245, 253, 282, 317. Field, John, 320. Fields, James T., 307. Fire Island, 247. Fitchburg, Mass., 149. Flint's Pond, 8, 114, 125. Fourierian settlements, 108, 110. Foster, Mrs. Abigail, 149. Framingham, Mass., 11. Freneau, Philip, 301. Friendship, Essay on, 195. Froude, James A., 317. "Fruitlands," 111. Fugitive Slave Law, 166. Fuller, Ellen, (Mrs. Ellery Channing), 20; Margaret, 20, 109, 110, 114, 230, 246; Richard, 247.
Garrison, William L., 18, 149, 164. Gerard, John, 268, 284. Gibson, William Hamilton, 287. Godwin, William, 73, 108. Goethe, 70, 309. Goose Pond, 8. Gower, John, 70. Graham's Magazine, 144, 245, 307. Greeley, Horace, 96, 108, 147, 245, 307. Greene, Calvin, 178, 222, 252.
Hale, Edward E., 67, 68, 69. Harvard College, 23, 59, 65–69, 254, 279, 283, 324. Harvard Magazine, 190. Harvardiana, 69. Haskins, David, 224. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 4, 5, 6, 17, 57, 96, 109, 165, 223, 241–243, 299, 300, 302. Hawthorne, Sophia, 20. Hayne, Paul H., 123. Heber, Bishop, 251. Hecker, Isaac, 44. Hedge, Frederick H., 109. Hegel, Georg, 108. Herr Driesbach, 19. Hibiscus moscheutos, 84, 273, 282. Higginson, S. S., 189, 190. Higginson, Thomas W., 132, 149. Highland Lighthouse, 202. Hillside, The, 117. Hindoo literature, 251. Hoar, Edward, 173, 175, 244, 245. Hoar, Elizabeth, 20, 244.
Hoar, George F., 18, 81, 118. Hoar, Judge Samuel, 149, 302. Hollowell Farm, 115. Homer, 331. Hopedale, 110. Hopewell, 14. Hosmer, Edmund, 20, 119, 129, 241, 242. Hosmer, Jane, 129. Hosmer, Joseph, 56, 133, 188. Hotham, Edmund S., 137. Hutchinsons, The, 17. Hyperbole, 323, 324.
"Idylls of the King," quoted, 273. Igdrasil, 130. Imagery, 332. "In Memoriam," 95. Independent, The, 42. Indian lore, 14, 50, 57, 117, 147, 171, 175, 312, 329. Individualism, 195–198, 211, 229, 309. loins, 324. Irving, Washington, 5, 299.
James, Henry, Sr., 96, 230. Japp, A. H., 104, 223. Jarvis, Dr. Edward, 79. Jefferies, Richard, 202, 285. Jersey, Isle of, 33, 34. Jethro's Oak, 13. Joe Polis, 329. John the Baptist, 104. Jones family, 41. Jones, Dr. S. A., 253, 306, 317. Journals, quoted, 22, 34, 43, 78, 156, 226, 275, 279, 301–306.
Kane, Elisha K, 274. Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 164. Kant, Emanuel, 105, 108, 194. Kempis, Thomas à, 303. Kettell, Rebecca, 35. "Knights of the Umbrella and the Bundle," 148. "Ktaadn and the Maine Woods," 147.
Landor, Walter S., 328. Lane, Charles, 110, 111, 161, 194. Lanier, Sidney, 271. Lassalle, Ferdinand, 108. Laurel Glen, 9. "Leaves of Grass," 251, 311. Ledum latifolium, 263. Lincoln, Abraham, 212. Lincoln, Mass., 9, 71, 114. Linnaeus, Carolus, 284. Longfellow, Henry W., 67, 328. Loring's Lead Works, 37, 38. Lovejoy, abolitionist, 167. Lowell, James R., 67, 68, 125, 135, 150, 157, 172, 208, 223, 239, 299, 307, 308, 312, 323, 332, 333. "Lowell and his Friends," 67. Lowell, Mass., 11. Lowell Road, 13. Luther, Martin, 303. Lyceum, 15, 16, 148, 149.
Mabie, Hamilton W., 287. "Maine Woods," 147, 173, 208, 265, 269, 275, 307, 311, 329, 334. Mann, Horace, Jr., 175. "Margaret," 318. "Margaret Sidney," 7. Marlborough Road, 9. Mass. Natural History Society, 285. Massachusetts Quarterly, 157, 312. Meander, 276. Merriinack River, 242. Mexican War, 160. Milford, N. H., 254. Miller, Olive Thome, 287. Milton, John, 70, 331. Minnesota, 175. Minott, Jonas, 40. Missouri Compromise, 196. Monadnock, 8, 174. Montaigne, 303. More, Paul E., 291. Morris, William, 200. Muuroe, William, 37. Music, 314.
Musketaquid, 7, 8, 57, 278. "My Study Windows," 208, 223, 332, 333.
Nantucket, 247. Nature, 26, 188, 189, 288, 289, 292, 330. Nauset woman, 321. Nawshawtuck, 8. "Near Home," 240. "Nemesis of Faith," 317. New Bedford, 149, 175, 189, 247, 248. New England, 24, 105, 118, 164, 289. "New England Boyhood, A," 67. New England Magazine, 111. New Zealand, 251. Nine Acre Corner, 9, 115. North Bridge, 14. Northampton, Mass., 110. Norton, Sr., Prof., 254. "Nollifier of civilization," 193.
Old Manse, The, 6, 21, 240, 242. Oneida Community, 108. Orchard House, The, 4, 6. Orchis, 274. Oriel College, 251. Orpheus, 13. Orreck, Sarah, 35. Ossoli, Margaret Fuller, 246. Outlook, The, 43, 54. Owen, Robert, 73, 108.
Pan, 270, 315. Pantheist, 208, 269. Parker, Theodore, 164. Parkman House, 49, 78, 80. Patmore, Coventry, 328. Pencil-manufacture, 37, 38, 157. Perth Amboy, 149. Phillips, Wendell, 17, 18, 42, 164, 168. Pillsbury, Parker, 176. Puns, 323. Platonic philosophy, 236. Pliny, 284, 331. Plumbago, 37, 38, 54, 156. Plymouth, Mass., 148, 234. Poe, Edgar Allan, 212. Poet-naturalist, 25, 98, 261. Polygonum, 274. Ponkawtasset, 240. "Poor Richard," 303. Pratt, Minott, 273, Providence, R. I., 149. Provincial Congress, 14. Puritan traits, 55. Putnam's Magazine, 148, 245, 307.
Quaker Traits, 34, 35, 38, 55. Quincy, President Josiah, 59, 67, 75, 79.
"Rabbi Ben Ezra," 143. Raleigh, Walter, 169, 331. "Recent Rambles," 137. Redpath, James, 168. Ricardo, David, 72. Richardson, James, 76. Ricketson, Daniel, 39, 42, 174, 175, 187, 189, 247–250, 252. Ricketson, Walton, 175, 247. Ridge Path, 4. Ripley, Rev. Ezra, 6, 56, 107. Robinson, Rowland, 286. Rochester, Michigan, 252. Rousseau, J. J., 194. Roxbury, Mass., 45, 46, 49, 53. Russell, Prof. E. Harlow IV, 156 240, 256. Russell, Mary, 89. Ruskin, John, 5, 107, 191, 200, 202, 204, 325, 328. Rydal Mount, 5.
Saint Francis, 262. Saint George's Guild, 107, 289. Saint Heliers, 33, 34. "Saint Vitus's Dance," 200. Salem, Mass., 149. Salem Mechanics Fair, 37. Salt, Henry III., 138, 193, 269, 270, 290, 307. Sanborn, F. B., 13, 15, 22, 39, 40, 45, 75, 166, 231, 245, 290. Sartain's Magazine, 147.
"Saunterer's Apple," 156. Say, Jean, 72. Scandinavian myths, 33, 130. Schelling, Friedrich, 108. Schiller, Friedrich, 169. Scientists, Modern, 283, 284. Scotch ancestry, 38, 55, 185. Scott, Walter, 5. Scribner's Magazine, 230. Self-Reliance, Essay on, 195. Seton-Thompson, Ernest, 284. "Sesame and Lilies," quoted, 204. "Sic Vita," 179, 235, 313. Shaw, Robert, 168. Simms, the slave, 166. "Simplifier of civilization," 193, 203, 204, 205. Simeon Stylites, 32. Slavery, 14, 164. Sleepy Hollow, 48. Smith, Adam, 72. "Smoke, "316. Snakes, Incident of, 271, 272. "Social Circle," 18. Southey, Robert, 108. Sparks. Jared, 70. Spectator, The, 39. Spencer, Mass., 84. Spenser, Edmund, 70. Spring, Marcus, 149. Staples, Samuel, 161. State tax, 160. Staten Island, 95, 110, 144, 232, 243, 244, 280. Stedman, Edmund C., 97, 209, 316. Stevenson, Robert L., 196, 210. Stowe, Harriet B., 198. "Summer," 255, 306. Sumner, Charles, 164. Sunnyside, 5. Swift, Lindsay, 72, 110, 241. "Sympathy," poem, 86.
Tacitus, 169. Tahattawan, 13. Taunton, Mass., 45. Tax-episode, 160, 163, 228. Tennyson, Alfred, 70, 169, 273, 312, 328. Teüfelsdröckh, 326. Texas House, 98, 99, 156. "The Angel in the House," 328. "The Blue Heron," 286. "The Convert," 73. "The Departure, "234. "The Fisher's Boy," 97. "The Raven," 212. "The Respectable Folks," 289, 290. "The Soul's Errand," 169. "The Sun-Bath," 266. "The Wanderer," 133, 137, 174, 240. "The Yankee in Canada," 307, 322, 323. Thompson, Maurice, 286. Thor, Thorer, 33, 130. Thoreau, Helen. 45–49, 156, 225, 234, 265, 301. Thoreau, Henry D., birth and early life, 3, 4, 55–61; college life, 65-76; romance, 85–90; years of mature life and influence, 143–170; as author, 146, 147, 192, 312–317, 321–329, 331, 332; as naturalist, 10, 26, 147, 261–287; as philosopher and reformer, 160–166, 171, 192, 198, 214, 287–289; as teacher and lecturer, 78, 148, 157–159, 254; at Walden, 103–120, 136, 143, 188, 193, 195, 264, 310, 312. 318, 334; years of illness, 171, 175, 178, 179, 220. Thoreau, John I, 33, 34. Thoreau, John II (father of Henry), 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 156, 252. Thoreau, John III (brother of Henry), 45. 48, 52, 82, 87, 94, 236, 239, 261, 272. Thoreau, Maria, 35, 38, 161. Thoreau. Mrs. John (mother of Henry). 21, 22, 40–44, 82, 177. Thoreau, Peter, 34.
Thoreau, Sophia, 42, 46, 52–55, 226, 247. Thoreau's character, 31, 32, 185-190, 193, 195, 201, 202, 206–209, 211, 218, 220, 227, 229, 231–233, 327, 334, 335. Thoreau's critics, 31, 32. "Thoreau's Dance," 189. "Thoreau's Flute," 315. Thoreau's Friends, 217–257. "Thoughts" from Thoreau, 256. Ticknor, George, 67, 70. "To the Maiden in the East," 89, 90, 312, 313. Torrey, Bradford, 262, 287. Transcendental Club, 109. Transcendentalism, 15, 32, 72, 89, 105, 106, 122, 188, 194, 220, 284, 290. Treat, Samuel, 74. Tristram, 104. Tuckerman's Ravine, 173. Tusser, Thomas, 284.
"Ulalume," 212. "Ultima Thule," 251. Underground railway, 15, 132. Unitarian Church, 14. Unitarianism, 15, 105. "Unpublished Letters of Henry and Sophia Thoreau," 317. University, 23.
Varro, 242. Virginia Road, 55, 56. Vose, Henry, 74, 79.
Wachusett, Mount, 8, 96. Walden, 4, 10, 47, 89, 116, 117, 271 323. Walden lodge, 52, 119, 184. 201, 203, 240, 241. "Walden," the volume, 11, 12, 23, 24, 71, 113, 115, 119, 128, 132, 138, 158, 159, 161, 200, 206, 209, 237. 240, 247, 253, 261, 311, 312, 318–320, 326. Walden, the experiment, 103–120, 138, 143, 188, 193, 195, 196, 264, 310, 312, 318, 324. Waldstein, Charles, 191. "Walking," essay and lecture, 153, 270, 285, 314. Waller, Edmund, 249. Walton, Izaak, 278, 284. Ward, Prudence, 84. Washington, George, 186. Watson, Mrs. Marston, 89, 149. Webster, Daniel, 18, 20. "Week, A, on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers," 50, 83, 84, 89, 127, 157, 201, 217, 264, 266, 297, 309, 311–317. Weiss, John, 74, 75, 109. Wellfleet Oysterman, 321. Wendell, Barrett, 298, 327. "Western correspondent," 252. Whelan, Hugh, 136. Wheeler, Charles Stearns, 71, 74, 114. White, Gilbert, 278. White Mountains, 173, 280. White Pond, 8. Whitman, Walt, 252, 266, 310. Whittier, John G., 19, 209. "Wild Apples," essay and lecture, 155, 285, 307. Wildness, 264, 265. "Winter Walk, A," quoted, 190. Woden, 130. "Woodnotes." 281. Worcester, Mass., 151, 152, 169, 170, 254, 256. Worcester, Ægis, 152. Worcester Spy, 170. World-books, 329. World-scriptures, 329. Wordsworth, William, 5, 121, 169, 328.
Yellow House, The, 6, 156. Young, Edward, 206.
Zenda, 118. Zilpha, 118.