Letters of James Russell Lowell

Norris which I see announced. I never read so many before, I think, in my life, and they come to me as fresh as the fairy tales of my boyhood.

...

All your friends here are well, and each doing good in his several way.

Always affectionately yours,

J. R. LOWELL.

INDEX

Titles of Mr. Lowell's poems and other writings referred to in his Letters are entered
in italics in the following index.

Abolition of slavery, an Ohio aboli-

tionist's argument, i. 75.
Abolitionists, the writer's sympathy
with, i. 35; ii. 334; he desires to
be identified with, i. 112; their
adherents not to be extravagantly
lauded, 113; their theories, 125;
their position destructive, 142;
ridiculed in his Class-poem, ii. 302.
See also Slavery.
Absence, i. 139.

Absent friends, ii. 129.
"Accommodation" omnibus, i. 270.
Accounts, ii. III.

Adams, C. F., Sr., ii. 26, 172; can-
didate for governor, 177.

Adams, C. F., Jr., his "Dana," ii. 431.
Adams, Henry, ii. 80.

Adams, John, death of, ii. 173.
Adams, J. Q., i. 94.

Address to the Muse, i. 171.
Adee, Mr., ii. 200.

Adirondacks, i. 279.

Advertisements in German newspa-
pers, i. 251.

Advertiser, Boston, i. 37, 189.
Eschylus, ii. 50, 404.

Affection, no statute of limitations
for, i. 196. See also Love.
Affliction, i. 176, 327. See also Con-
solation; Death.

After the Burial, i. 176; ii. 11, 142.
Agassiz, Elegy on, ii. 114, 115, 121,

122, 124, 139.

Age, advancing, ii. 64, 74, 97, 110,
120, 144, 163, 215, 241, 273, 284,
294, 328, 393, 403, 424; forty

years, 419.

'Alabama," str., i. 337; the negotia-
tions, ii. 43, 70. See also United
States; Politics.

Aladdin's lamp, i. 200.
Alarcón, his "Semejante á si mis-
mo," ii. 231.

Alcestis, Story's statue of, ii. 118.
Alcott, A. Bronson, i. 172; anecdote
of, ii. 92; the second of Studies for
Two Heads, 349.
Aldrich, T. B., his "Story of a Bad
Boy," ii. 47.

Letters to, 1869, ii. 47;-
1873, 98-1882, 267;-1886, 322;
-1888, 350.
Alexandria, ii. 142.
Alexandrine verse,
ii. 84.

Alfonso XII., king of Spain, his
marriage, ii. 205.

Allston, Washington, i. 37; his gal-
lery, 40.

Almanac-making, i. 387.

Alpha Delta Phi Society, i. 35.
Ambition, i. 72.

American Academy, i. 271.
American Civil War, in 1862, i. 322;
in July, 1864, 336; the war ended,
344; the author's losses by, ii. 141,
444.

American Eagle, her message to the
British Lion, i. 363.

American idea, expressed in poetry,
i. 148.

American literature, its dangers, i.
35I.

American poetry, article on, i. 125.
American school of classical studies
at Athens, ii. 325.

American seamen, ii. 41.

American society, dulness of, from
lack of leisure, ii. 112.

Americanism, ii. 196.

Aristophanes, "The Birds," given
at Cambridge, England, ii. 274.
Arles, ii. 405.

Arnold, Matthew, ii. 276, 311, 347.

Americanisms, i. 148, 299, 307; ii. Art, i. 231; ii. 226, 264. See also

Painting.

55, 66.
Americans, their worship of great-Arts and Crafts Society, ii. 359.
ness, i. 94; fondness for geneal-Ashfield, i. 348; ii. 309.
ogy, ii. 41; feeling towards, in Ashridge, ii. 270.
Europe, 158; Westerners, 169, Aspirations of youth, i. 139.
248; too self-conscious, 240, 244; Asses, the lack of an eselpest, i. 361;
English influence, 244; Americans those conscious of their character,
abroad, 248.
ii. 179.

Among my Books, ii. 151, 154, 155,
167, 288.

Anarchists, hanging of the, ii. 394.
Anderson, Major, i. 309.

Andrew, Gov., i. 309; his charac-
ter, 397.
Anecdotes, an Ohio abolitionist on
the Bangor boat, i. 75; the au-
thor's inclinations towards Gra-
hamism, 87; Irishwoman in a
Brooklyn omnibus, 88; careless
driver compared to a last year's
jackass, 225; Mrs. Leigh Hunt's
remark on Byron's portrait, 237:
Thackeray at a little dinner in
London, 238; Dr. Reichenbach
at a court-ball, 254; a landlord
and his Irish friends, 275; sheep-
shearing in Hull, 291; Franklin
Pierce at a dinner in Boston, 303;
Hawthorne and Franklin Pierce,
303; poem by Wendell Holmes
at a dinner to Prince Jerome Na-
poleon, 316; Bronson Alcott, ii.
92.

Anne, Queen, her "pocket-melons,"
ii. 25.

Anti-rent war, ii. 60.
Antislavery Society, the executive
committee, i. 145, 155, 159, 161;
Lowell's relations with, 181. See
also "Standard."

Appledore, Pictures from, i. 217,
219, 220, 221.
Appleton, T. G., i. 232, 268.
Applicants for positions, i. 268.
April, i. 362. See also Spring.
Architecture, Gothic, i. 132; future
of architecture, 133.
Arcturus, i. 62, 64, 65.
Arethusa, the fountain, i. 214.
Aristocrats, ii. 289.

Associations, i. 269; ii. 115.
Asturias, Princess of, ii. 202.
Athens, visit to, in 1878, ii. 218;
recollections of, 326.
Atlantic Almanac, i. 386.
Atlantic Monthly, i. 267, 281, 286,
287, 289, 298, 334, 362, 377; ii.
13, 49, 121, 139, 240, 268, 292,
301; Fields's editorship, i. 310.
Atlas, his burden of real estate, ii. 72.
Auckland, Lord, ii. 238.
Augsburg, i. 263.
August, i. 270. See also Summer.
Augustine, St., quoted, i. 96.
Aumale, Duc d', ii. 89, 103.
Aurora, ii. 46.

Authority, decay of the principle
of, ii. 242.
Authors, great, i. 243; those who
become aristocrats, ii. 289.
Author's pay, i. 36, 62, 70, 83, 84,
86, 108, 125, 146, 153, 184, 328,
343, 352; ii. 4, 262, 330, 384.
Authorship, i. 127, 141; to write
only when the spirit moves, 114;
the advantage of popularity, 210,
See also Composition, Literary life.
Autograph-books, ii. 348.
Autograph-hunters, ii. 300, 369.
Autographs, essay on, i. 354..
Autumn, trees and sights of, i. 315.
Autumn weather, i. 273; ii. 46, 74,
284.

Baby-tending, i. 103.
Bachelors, i. 374.
Backwoodsmen, i. 358.
Balfour, A. J., ii. 418, 434.
Ballad-singers, ii. 82.
Balzac, and Bernard, ii. 429.
Bancroft, George, i. 360; his Ger-
man, ii. 365.

Bandits, ii. 119.

Bangor, trip to, in 1843, i. 75.
Banks, N. P., ii. 158.
Bartlett, John, i. 148; "Dictionary
of Americanisms," i. 299.
Bartol, C. A., ordination, i. 14.
"Bat, bat, come into my hat," i. 321.
Bayard, T. F., ii. 298, 364.
Beaconsfield, Earl of, ii. 136, 222;
his policy, 234.

Bear, the author compares his con-
dition in 1850 to the life of a,
185.

Beattie, his " Minstrel," i. 18.
Beauty, i. 172; ii. 264.
Beaver Brook, i. 149.

Beds, German, i. 241.

Beecher, H. W., ii. 159.
Beggars, ii. 82.

Beliefs, ii. 125; hereditary,
See also Religious belief.
Bendemann, i. 246.

443

Birds, i. 18, 164; ii. 132, 195, 331,
335, 336, 403, 410, 415, 448.
Birds' nests, article on, i. 320.
Bismarck, ii. 400.

Blaine, J. G., ii. 170; defeat at
Cincinnati in 1876, 171, 174;
defeat in 1884, 287.

Blanc, his ་་ Vocabolario" and com-
ment on Dante, i. 395.

Bliss, Edward P., Letter to, 1876, ii.
160.

Bobolinks, i. 158, 202, 289.
Boccaccio, the founder of modern
prose, i. 339.

Bologna University, Lowell repre-
sents Harvard at, ii. 354.
Bonheur, Rosa, i. 246.
Book-buying, ii. 86, 87.
Books, ii. 428.

152. Bores, i. 16, 311.
Borrowing, i. 152.

Benevolence, various kinds of, i. 160.
Bentley, on Milton, i. 396.
Benton, Joel, on Lowell's political
verse, ii. 155.

Letter to, 1876, ii. 155.
Béranger, ii. 84.

Bernard, Charles de, ii. 429.
Bernard, Prof. M., of Oxford, ii. 103.
Bernhardt, Sara, ii. 310, 426.
Beverly, summer in, i. 212; the
country described, 214.
Bible, its inspiration, i. 47; its meas-
ured prose unmatched, 396; also
ii. 58, 168.

Biglow Papers, English appreciation
of, i. 295, 297; circumstances of
their original composition, 295;
the English edition, 297, 300;
F. T.'s criticism in "Cornhill," ii.
331; also 63, 282; first series, i.
115, 119, 121, 128, 129, 136, 138,
141, 142, 143, 151, 381; ii. 41,
338; Gay's notice of, i. 145; pi-
rated edition of 1856, 275; sec-
ond series, 267, 308, 318, 319,
320, 322, 342, 351, 362, 367, 371,
376; ii. 138.
Biography, i. 91; ii. 316.
Bird, Joe, i. 68.

Bird songs, i. 202, 232, 241, 278,
280, 289, 370, 384; ii. 25, 98,
128, 132, 144, 219, 262, 273, 277,
284, 337, 338, 352, 381, 384.

Boston, architecture in, i. 133.
Boston Advertiser, i. 37, 189.
Boston audiences, ii. 54.
Boston Book, The, i. 166, n.
Boston harbor, sailing in, i. 292.
Boston hospitality, ii. 163.
Boston Miscellany, i. 63, 64, 65, 66,
70, 166, n.

Boston Post, i. 36, 61.
Boutwell, George S., ii. 158.
Boyle, Miss Mary, publication of
Landor's letters to, ii. 311.
Boys, letters of, ii. 340.
Bramwell, Sir Frederick, his speech
at Peterhouse, ii. 291.
Brass, i. 240.

Brattleborough water-cure, i. 95.
Breeding, ii, 89.

Bremer, Frederika, visit expected,
i. 168; character, 174.
Briggs, Charles F., i. 54; described
in the Fable for Critics, 55; his
humorous vein, 118; connection
with the Fable for Critics, ii. 334.

Letters to, 1843, i. 72;-
1844, 76, 78, 81;-1845, 83, 85,
86, 92, 99;-1846, 102, 104;-
1347, 117, 120;-1848, 122, 124,
130, 137, 138, 142, 148;-1849,
167;-1850, 170-1852, 194;—
1853, 198, 199, 202, 203, 205;
-1854, 209, 210;-1856, 274;-
1861, 310.

Bright, John, i. 293; ii. 251.

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