James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol 2/2
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453; ii. 19, 33, 40, 44, 48, 65, 67, 116, 139, 140, 176, 193, 202, 204, 218, 219, 227, 262, 356. Letter to, from J. R. L. on village music, i. 25; letter to, from J. R. L. on Jefferson, 218, note; on change in title-page of _A Fable for Critics_, 249, note; entertains Clough and others, 346; edits Donne’s poems, 365; letter of J. R. L. to, on his life on the North Shore, 366; letter of J. R. L. to, inviting him to hear him lecture, 370; on Chartres, 380; on his life in Dresden, 382; meets J. R. L. at Orvieto, 384; J. R. L. to, on his love of the country, 385; his “New Life” of Dante, given by J. R. L. to his class, 393; letters to, from J. R. L. concerning Miss Dunlap, 401, 402; on editorial worries, 429; on his desire for relief, 443, 444; on the sale of the _Atlantic_, 451.
Associated with J. R. L. in editorship of the _North American_, ii. 45; J. R. L. writes a rhymed letter to, on the announcement, 47; and of his own delinquency, 49; and in doubt of Lincoln, 55; and in exultation, 60; J. R. L. writes to, on college work, 76; gives an account of the Dante Club meetings, 84; J. R. L. writes to, of Cranch and the weather and his own personality, 95; edits Donne with Mrs. Burnett, 102, note; J. R. L. writes to, of his own likeness to Lessing, 110; writes, with J. R. L., a review of Longfellow’s “Dante,” 113; J. R. L. to, on _Voyage to Vinland_, 120; letters to, from J. R. L. during third journey in Europe, 154-164, 168, 170, 173-180; in Paris, where J. R. L. joins him, 158; leaves for London, 159; sends the Emersons to J. R. L., 161; returns to America, 168; criticizes _Agassiz_, 177; J. R. L. to, on leaving America for Spain, 220; presides at dinner of tavern Club, 387.
Norton, Miss Grace, J. R. L. to, on Chester, ii. 153; on Hayes, 219.
Norton, Miss Jane, letter of J. R. L. to, on Beverly woods, i. 365; on lecturing in the West, 378; on letter-writing, 445; J. R. L. writes a palsied-hand letter to, ii. 38; J. R. L. writes to, on _Commemoration Ode_, 63; also on “Miles Standish,” 75; and on his collegiate work, 76; and on the museum at Naples, 180.
Nürnberg, ii. 170.
_Ode for the Fourth of July, 1876, An_, ii. 190.
_Ode read at Cambridge on the Hundredth Anniversary of Washington’s Taking Command of the American Army_, ii. 189.
_Ode read at the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Fight at Concord Bridge_, ii. 189.
_Ode to France_, i. 204.
_Ode to Happiness_, i. 368, 434.
“Old Cambridge,” by T. W. Higginson, referred to on J. R. L.’s suspension, i. 47; on Underwood’s magazine, 354, note.
Old Dramatists, J. R. L.’s first studies in the, i. 98; subject of, treated in lectures in 1887, 133; treated of in _Conversations_, 134; and in articles in _Atlantic_ and _North American_, ii. 77; a volume of, edited by J. R. L., 78, note; lectures on, by J. R. L. in 1887, 352.
Old Road in Cambridge, i. 2.
Oliver, Thomas, lieutenant-governor of the Province, builds the Elmwood house, i. 4; hastily leaves it, 5.
_On my twenty-fourth birthday_, i. 125.
_On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves near Washington_, i. 174; ii. 137, note.
_Origin of Didactic Poetry, The_, i. 418.
_Oriole’s Nest, The_; see _Nest, The_.
Orkney Islands, ancestral home of J. R. L.’s mother, i. 11.
O’Sullivan, John, editor of _Democratic Review_, i. 111; J. R. L. writes to, about Hawthorne, 283.
Otis, Harrison Gray, action of, gives rise to two of J. R. L.’s poems, i. 258-260.
_Our Literature_, J. R. L. on, ii. 390.
_Our Own_, published in _Putnam’s Monthly_, i. 351; its failure, 352; parts of, saved, 353.
“Our Whispering Gallery,” ii. 149.
_Our Young Folks_, J. R. L. writes for, ii. 105.
Owens, John, publishes _Conversations_, i. 132; reports success of the book, 158; wishes to suppress one of J. R. L.’s anti-slavery poems, 134.
Oxford, J. R. L. goes to, for his degree, ii. 169, 170; professorship at, proposed for J. R. L., 318.
Page, William, J. R. L. meets, i. 78; paints M. W.’s portrait, 79; J. R. L.’s affection for, 116; likened to Haydon, 117; paints J. R. L.’s portrait, 117; is shown a bit of _A Fable for Critics_, 240; proposed as a beneficiary of the book, 241; has faith in the book, 242; paints Bryant’s portrait, 246, note; with Briggs and Willis discusses J. R. L. and Poe, 282; meets J. R. L. in Florence, 314; dines with him there, 315; meets him at Orvieto, 384.
Palfrey, John Gorham, his “History of New England” reviewed by J. R. L., ii. 79.
Palmer, George Herbert, ii. 340.
_Parable, A_, i. 228.
Parker, Captain Montgomery, letter to, in China from J. R. L., i. 438.
Parker, Friend, with whom the Whites and Lowells stayed in Philadelphia, i. 151, 152.
Parker, Theodore, editor of _Massachusetts Quarterly_, i. 287; letter of J. R. L. to, 288; characterized by J. R. L., 290, note.
Parkman, Francis, J. R. L. writes on, ii. 398.
Parnell, Charles Stewart, prosecution of, ii. 278; his extraordinary characterization of Irish-Americans, 281.
Parsons, Thomas William, contributor to the _Pioneer_, i. 105; J. R. L. to, on _A June Idyll_, ii. 117.
Peabody, Andrew Preston, editor of the _North American_, ii. 45.
Peirce, Benjamin, professor of mathematics at Harvard in J. R. L.’s youth, i. 27.
Pellico, Silvio, i. 341.
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, exhibition of, noticed by J. R. L., i. 160, 161.
_Pennsylvania Freeman_, J. R. L. engaged to write for, i. 152, 154; his contributions to the paper, 169-173; _Letter from Boston_ sent to, 181.
Pepperell, Massachusetts, i. 274.
Perceval, Hugh, a nom de plume of J. R. L., i. 92, 161.
Percival, James Gates, J. R. L. on, ii. 109.
Perry, Mrs. Lilla Cabot, J. R. L. to, on Spenser, ii. 188.
Peterboro, ii. 156.
Petrarch and Michelangelo compared, ii. 111.
Phillips, Moses Dresser, i. 409; won over to the scheme of a magazine, 410; gives a little dinner, 410; interests Mrs. Stowe, 412; dies, 449.
Phillips, Wendell, contributor to the _Standard_, i. 193; his eloquence contrasted with that of the Charleston batteries, ii. 26.
Phillips & Sampson undertake the _Atlantic Monthly_, i. 408; character of the house, 420; J. R. L.’s duty toward, 426; failure of, 450.
_Phœbe_, ii. 295.
_Pickens-and-Stealins’ Rebellion, The_, ii. 25.
_Pictures from Appledore_, ii. 302, 367.
_Pioneer, The_, projected by J. R. L. and R. Carter, i. 99; prospectus of, 99, 100; its purpose, 101; introduction to, 103-105; its contributors, 105; its contents, 105; carried on in absence of J. R. L., 106; suspended, 107; how it looked in New York, 109; J. R. L.’s concern for, 110-113; J. R. L.’s formal bow in, ii. 390.
Pipe, the, as a weather-sign, ii. 358.
“Pirate, The,” i. 11.
_Place of the Independent in Politics, The_; see _Independent in Politics_.
_Plays of Thomas Middleton, The_, extract from, on poets, i. 149.
_Pocket Celebration of the Fourth, The_, ii. 14, note.
Poe, Edgar Allan, contributor to _The Pioneer_, i. 105; rate of payment to, by _Broadway Journal_, 158; sketched by J. R. L. in _Graham’s Magazine_, 162; his criticism of J. R. L., 163; his allusions to Longfellow’s family, 164; J. R. L.’s judgment of, 165-167; the correspondence with J. R. L., 165, note; his relation with J. R. L. discussed by Briggs, Willis, and Page, 382.
_Poems_, J. R. L. preparing the volume of, i. 239.
_Poems_, second series by J. R. L. issued, i. 277; analyzed, 277-280.
Poetry, J. R. L.’s enquiry into, in _Conversations_, i. 137; his lectures on, at Lowell Institute, 373-375.
“Poet’s Yorkshire Haunts, A,” quoted, ii. 356.
_Political Essays_, articles not included by J. R. L. in his, ii. 5; published, 372.
Pontine marshes, the, i. 344.
Pope, the, J. R. L. sees, i. 324; hears him celebrate mass, 325; likens him to an American statesman, 326.
Pope, Alexander, criticised by J. R. L., i. 290; treated at length in lectures on poetry, 374.
Portsmouth, early visited by J. R. L., i. 19, 20.
Postmaster at Stockbridge, account of, by J. R. L., i. 272.
_Power of Sound, The_, quoted, i. 20.
Prescott, Harriet Elizabeth, J. R. L. meets at dinner, i. 449.
Prescott, William Hickling, his “Conquest of Mexico,” i. 274; importance of, to the _Atlantic_, 420.
Presepio on Christmas eve in Rome, i. 324, 325.
_President on the Stump, The_, ii. 93.
“President’s Message, The,” by Parke Godwin, ii. 3.
Proctor, Mrs. Bryan Waller, ii. 335.
Professorship at Oxford proposed for J. R. L., ii. 318.
_Prometheus_, i. 115; at work on, 119; its character, 121; compared with Keats’s “Hyperion,” 122; Briggs and J. R. L. on, 123.
Proof-reading, J. R. L. on, i. 444.
Provincial Newspaper Society, J. R. L. before, ii. 306.
_Punch_ on J. R. L. as an alien, ii. 300.
Puritanism in New England, ii. 82.
Putnam, George, J. R. L. to, ii. 182, 296.
Putnam, George Palmer, to publish _A Fable for Critics_, i. 242; does not notice the rhymed title-page, 249, note; his character as a publisher, 349.
Putnam, Mrs. S. R., _see_ Lowell, Mary Traill Spence.
Putnam, William Lowell, killed at Ball’s Bluff, ii. 30.
_Putnam’s Monthly_, established, i. 348; prospectus of, 349; its decline, 350.
Puttenham’s “Art of English Poesie,” i. 67.
_Question of the Hour, The_, ii. 20.
Quincy, Edmund, writes the life of his father, Josiah Quincy, i. 27; one of the editors of the _Standard_, 192; a contributor to the same, 193; corresponding editor of, 202; the quality of his work, 211; valued by J. R. L., 230, 231; “correspondence” with J. R. L., 235; writes for _Atlantic_, ii. 2.
Quincy, Josiah, president of Harvard, i. 27; portrayed by J. R. L., 27, 28.
_Rebellion, The; its Causes and Consequences_, ii. 53.
_Rebellion Record, The_, reviewed by J. R. L., ii. 61.
_Reconstruction_, ii. 57.
Reed, Dwight, secretary of J. R. L. at Madrid, ii. 251; his constant service, 252.
Religion, J. R. L. on, ii. 310.
Reviewing, evolution of, i. 430; disliked by J. R. L., 433.
Rheims, ii. 170.
Rhett, Robert, ii. 24.
_Rhæcus_, i. 120.
Riaño, Don Juan and Doña Emilia de, faithful friends of Mrs. Lowell in her sickness, ii. 252.
Riedesel, Baroness, a resident of Cambridge, quoted on Tory Row, i. 3.
“Rimini and other Poems, by Leigh Hunt,” i. 250.
Ripon, ii. 154, 156.
Riverside Press, The, i. 421; J. R. L.’s walk to, 444.
Rogers, Samuel, J. R. L. indebted to, ii. 177.
Rölker, Bernard, sings a song, i. 379.
Rome, J. R. L.’s entrance into, i. 318; life at, 320; early impressions of, 321; Christmas at, 323; art in, 327; people in, 328; revision of judgment concerning, 330; social life in, 331; illumination of St. Peter’s at, 339; final impressions of, 342.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, i. 375.
“Round Table, The,” i. 431.
Rousseau, article on, compared with lecture on, ii. 111; suggests the subject of the Jews to J. R. L., 301.
Rowfant Club, the, prints J. R. L.’s lectures on poetry, i. 373.
Rowse, Samuel W., hears _Commemoration Ode_, ii. 64; a guest of J. R. L., 82; missed by J. R. L., 157, 161.
Royce, Josiah, ii. 67, note.
Ruskin, John, J. R. L. advises workingmen to read his books, ii. 86; praises _The Cathedral_, 140; on Turner’s “Old Téméraire,” 369.
_Sacred Parasol, The_, i. 209.
St. Andrews, J. R. L. proposed for the rectorship of, ii. 299; students of, addressed by J. R. L., 301.
St. Angelo, bridge of, i. 319; J. R. L. sees illumination from, 340.
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, sends the _Atlantic_ a paper on Béranger, ii. 77.
St. Ives, a resort for J. R. L., ii. 356.
St. Peter’s in Rome, J. R. L. comments on size of, i. 321; the Pope celebrates mass at, 325; illumination of, 339.
Sales, Francis, instructor in French and Spanish at Harvard in J. R. L.’s youth, i. 27.
_Sample of Consistency, A_, ii. 14, note.
Sampson, Charles, i. 409.
San Luigi dei Francesi, midnight mass at the church of, i. 323, 325.
Santa Maria Maggiore, illumination at church of, i. 323, 324.
Saturday Club, The, i. 447.
Sawin, Birdofredom, character of, i. 265.
Scates, Charles Woodman, i. 45, 53.
Schooling, J. R. L.’s early, i. 21.
_Scotch the Snake, or kill it?_, ii. 61.
Scotland, relations of, with England, ii. 276.
Scott, Sir Walter, early read by J. R. L., i. 24; Lockhart’s Life of, read by J. R. L., 46; his diary read by J. R. L. in the last days, ii. 407.
Sedgwick, Catherine, the tales of, i. 88.
_Self-possession vs. Prepossession_, ii. 27.
Seminoles, J. R. L.’s early interest in, i. 37.
Service for the Dead, J. R. L. repeats the, i. 362.
Sewall, Jonathan, i. 3.
Seward, William Henry, preferred by J. R. L. for the presidency, ii. 18.
_Seward-Johnson Reaction, The_, ii. 107.
Shackford, William Henry, a college friend of J. R. L., i. 33; goes to teach at Phillips Exeter Academy, 33; his relation to J. R. L., 34; letters of J. R. L. to, 34-38.
Shady Hill, home of the Norton family, i. 446.
Shakespeare, an early acquaintance of J. R. L., i. 15; read by him in college, 37; White’s edition of, reviewed by J. R. L., 432, 433; lectured on and written about by J. R. L., ii. 77.
_Shakespeare Once More_, quoted, i. 388; ii. 87.
_Shakespeare’s Richard III._, ii. 351.
Shaw, Frank, i. 314.
Shaw, Robert Gould, J. R. L. commemorates in a poem, ii. 42; honors in a letter to his mother, 43.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, J. R. L. introduced to the writings of, i. 32; his genius likened to St. Elmo’s fire, 138; the shell of, 375.
_Shepherd of King Admetus, The_, i. 147.
Sicily, J. R. L. visits and characterizes, i. 384.
Sidney’s “Defense of Poesie,” i. 67.
“Simple Cobbler of Agawam,” ii. 367.
_Sirens, The_, i. 85.
“Sir Galahad” suggests _Sir Launfal_, i. 268.
“Skipper Ireson’s Ride,” by Whittier, J. R. L. on, i. 417, 418.
“Slave Mother, The,” verses by M. W. L., i. 180.
Sleeplessness, J. R. L.’s cure for, ii. 383.
Slick, Sam, i. 261.
Smalley, George W., on J. R. L.’s Americanism, ii. 262.
Smith Professorship, Longfellow resigns, i. 375; and it is given to J. R. L., 376; afterwards emeritus, ii. 322.
Smith, Sydney, on Daniel Webster, i. 221; his scornful question, ii. 363.
Socialism, ii. 315, 349.
“Solitude and Society” by Emerson, J. R. L. on, i. 416.
_Song sung at an Anti-Slavery Picnic_, J. Owen wishes to suppress, i. 184.
Sonnet, J. R. L. on the, as seen in Longfellow’s writing, ii. 306.
Sophocles, the Philoctetes of, ii. 404.
Southborough, ii. 322.
“Southern History of the War” reviewed by J. R. L., ii. 53.
_Southern Literary Messenger_, a vehicle for J. R. L.’s work, i. 92.
_Sower, The_, i. 228.
Spanish, J. R. L. studies, ii. 76; a familiar tongue to him when he went to Madrid, 221; how J. R. L. worked at it, 241, 242.
_Spectator_, London, on J. R. L. and Lord Granville, ii. 291.
Spence, Keith, maternal grandfather of J. R. L., i. 11.
Spence, Mary Traill, J. R. L.’s loyalist grandmother, i. 11, note.
Spens, Sir Patrick, a poetic forbear of J. R. L., i. 11.
Spenser, Edmund, earliest of J. R. L.’s poets, i. 14, and note; imitated by J. R. L., 351; essay on, by J. R. L., ii. 188.
Squirrels, J. R. L.’s care for, ii. 407.
Stanley, Henry Morton, ii. 296.
Stedman, Edmund Clarence, J. R. L. to, on modern antiques, ii. 93.
Stephen, Leslie, J. R. L. to, on Carlyle, ii. 89; his description of J. R. L. quoted, 115; J. R. L. comments on his “Are we Christians?” 165; and his “Essays on Free Thinking and Plain Speaking,” 175, 176; J. R. L. to, on politics, 202; resorts to St. Ives, 356; visits Elmwood, 398.
Stewart, Dugald, a teacher of Charles Lowell, i. 7.
Stillman, William James, starts _The Crayon_, i. 367; inspirits J. R. L., 367; J. R. L. sends a poem to his paper, 378; J. R. L. to, on the drying up of the poetic fount, 400; his estimate of Miss Dunlap, 402; forms the Adirondack Club, 404; characterizes J. R. L. in the woods, 405; and in his married life, 406; dinner given to, 448; on J. R. L.’s care of his squirrels, ii. 407.
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, visited by J. R. L. and family, i. 272.
Stone, Thomas Treadwell, contributor to the _Standard_, i. 193.
Story, William Wetmore, an early friend and playmate of J. R. L., i. 22; contributor to the _Pioneer_, 105; J. R. L. meets him in Rome, 320; hunts for a lion’s skin, 333; goes with J. R. L to Subiaco, 343; hears _Commemoration Ode_ read, ii. 64; J. R. L. on his works, 86; at Crosby Lodge on Eden, 154; visited by J. R. L., 156; entertains J. R. L. in Rome, 179; J. R. L. on his statues, 179; J. R. L. to, on Mrs. Lowell’s death, 320.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, relied on to float a magazine, i. 354; her books published by Phillips & Sampson, 409; interested in the _Atlantic_ by Mr. Phillips, 412; her importance, 420; her “Minister’s Wooing” criticised by J. R. L., 430; and reviewed by him, 449.
Stubbs, Charles William, Canon, later Dean, on J. R. L.’s cure for sleeplessness, ii. 382.
Sumner, Charles, characterises J. R. L.’s lecture on Milton, i. 373.
_Sunthin’ in the Pastoral Line_, i. 269; ii. 41.
Swift, Jonathan, J. R. L. writes on, ii. 198.
Swinburne’s Tragedies, reviewed by J. R. L., i. 374; ii. 92.
“Tales of a Grandfather,” one of J. R. L.’s first books, i. 25.
“Tancred” reviewed by J. R. L., i. 290.
Tarifa, Spanish town of, i. 313.
Tavern Club gives J. R. L. a dinner on his seventieth birthday, ii. 387.
Taylor, Jeremy, on the Countess of Carbery, i. 361.
Taylor, Zachary, nominated for the presidency, i. 220.
_Tempora Mutantur_, ii. 191.
Tennant, Miss Dorothy, ii. 296.
Tennyson, Alfred, J. R. L.’s early interest in the poems of, i. 94, 96; Arthurian legends of, compared with _Sir Launfal_, 268; influence of, on J. R. L., ii. 88; J. R. L. lunches with, 261.
Terracina, J. R. L. at, i. 343.
Texas, debate on, i. 167; verses on, by J. R. L., 168.
Thackeray, William Makepeace, J. R. L. comments on, i. 297; J. R. L. makes the acquaintance of, 346.
Thaxter, Levi Lincoln, on J. R. L.’s letter to M. W., i. 89, note.
Thayer, James Bradley, J. R. L. to, on _The Nooning_, i. 302; J. R. L. to, on the measure of his odes, ii. 44, note; and on the _Commemoration Ode_, 65, 67.
Theatricals, private, in Rome, J. R. L. takes part in, i. 331; writes prologues for, 332-334.
Thoreau, Henry David, reviewed by J. R. L. in _Massachusetts Quarterly_, i. 292; wanted by J. R. L. as contributor to the _Atlantic_, 415, 417.
Ticknor, William, D., character of, as publisher, i. 451.
Ticknor & Fields buy the _Atlantic_, i. 451.
Tilden, Samuel Jones, J. R. L. urged to vote for, ii. 216.
_Times, London_, quoted, ii. 318.
Titian, the “Sacred and Profane Love” of, i. 327, 328, note; poem suggested by, ii. 371.
_Token, The_, i. 146.
Toombs, Robert, ii. 24.
Tory Row, Cambridge, i. 2; the houses on it, 2-4.
_To the Muse_, i. 406.
Tours, Mrs. Lowell plans to stay at, ii. 249.
Traill, Robert, great-grandfather of J. R. L., i. 11.
Trattoria, a, in Florence, i. 315.
_Tribune, The New York_, on J. R. L. in 1843, i. 117; in 1882, ii. 289.
“Tritemius,” by Whittier, J. R. L. on, i. 418.
Troil, Minna, of “The Pirate,” literary forbear of J. R. L., i. 11.
Trollope, Anthony, J. R. L. dines with, ii. 82.
Trowbridge, John Townsend, on Emerson’s “Brahma,” i. 415.
“Trueman, Matthew, Letter to,” i. 158, 159.
“Two Angels, The,” Longfellow’s poem, i. 362.
_Turner’s Old Téméraire_, ii. 368, 369.
_Two Scenes from the Life of Blondel_, ii. 43.
_Uncle Cobus’s Story_, ii. 106.
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” published by J. P. Jewett, success of, suggests a magazine, i. 354; declined by Phillips & Sampson when offered to them, 409.
_Under the Old Elm_, ii. 189.
_Under the Willows_, i. 268; title chosen for volume, ii. 119; brings congratulatory letters, 125.
Underwood, Francis Henry, projects a magazine, i. 354; receives for it a poem from J. R. L., 354; letter to, from J. R. L. on failure of magazine, 355; proposes the _Atlantic_ 408; secures the aid of J. R. L. and others, 409; wins over Phillips & Sampson, 410; dines with publisher, editor and chief contributors, 411; goes to England for the magazine, 412; is J. R. L.’s right-hand man, 414; attends to correspondence, 428.
Union League Club in Chicago, ii. 352.
Valedictories, J. R. L.’s, ii. 373.
Van Buren, Martin, nominated for the presidency, i. 224.
“Vanity Fair,” J. R. L. on, i. 297.
Vassall, Henry, i. 2.
Vassall, Colonel John, his house in Cambridge the headquarters of Washington and home of Longfellow, i. 3.
Vaughan, Henry, quoted, ii. 99.
Venice, J. R. L.’s delight in, ii. 171; his return thither, 272.
Very, Jones, contributor to the _Pioneer_, i. 105.
“Virginian in New England, Thirty-five Years ago, A,” ii. 136.
_Vision of Sir Launfal, The_, i. 266; the brook in, 267; compared with Tennyson’s romances, 268; June in, 268.
_Voyage to Vinland_, called also _Leif’s Voyage_, i. 301; J. R. L. on, ii. 120.
Wales, Henry Ware, J. R. L.’s tribute to, ii. 403-406.
Walker, James, president of Harvard College, i. 376; urges J. R. L. to attend Faculty meetings, 395.
Walton, Isaak, J. R. L. on, ii. 389.
“Wanderer,” yacht, i. 440.
Ward, Nathaniel, ii. 367.
_Washers of the Shroud, The_, ii. 33.
Washington, early visit of J. R. L. to, i. 19.
Washington, George, takes command of American army, i. 2; his headquarters, 3.
Watertown, Massachusetts, the home of the Whites, i. 76; temperance celebration at, 88.
Watts-Dunton, Theodore, on J. R. L.’s characteristics, ii. 293.
Waverley Oaks, J. R. L.’s early rambles to, i. 19.
Webster, Daniel, J. R. L. hears him plead, i. 67; attitude toward, on part of anti-slavery men, 201; article on, by J. R. L., and poem on, by Whittier, 201; J. R. L. treats elaborately, 220-227; characterized by Sydney Smith, 221; as a writer, ii. 365.
Webster, John, J. R. L. on, ii. 354.
“Wedgwood’s Dictionary” reviewed by J. R. L., i. 433.
“Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, A,” reviewed by J. R. L., i. 292.
Weimar, J. R. L. visits, ii. 271.
Weiss, John, contributor to the _Standard_, i. 193.
Wells, William, J. R. L.’s schoolmaster living in Fayerweather house, i. 3; carries forward the traditions of English scholarship, 22, 23.
Wells, Mrs. William, J. R. L. recalls the kindness of, i. 23.
Welsh, James, ii. 332, note.
Wendell, Barrett, on Lowell as a teacher, i. 392, 394, 395.
_What will Mr. Webster do?_, i. 220.
“Where will it End?” by Edmund Quincy, ii. 2.
Whipple, Edwin Percy, i. 411.
Whist Club, i. 271; holds its last meeting, ii. 407.
Whitby, J. R. L.’s fondness for, ii. 356.
White, Abijah, father of M. W., i. 76; characterized by J. R. L., 76; death of, 177; his estate, 177; which proves less than expected, 182.
White, Maria, J. R. L. makes the acquaintance of, i. 76; his first impressions of her, 77; her portrait by Page, 79; appears in a vision to J. R. L., 80; and at commencement, 80; her confession of love, 82; embodied in _A Year’s Life_, 82-86; the type to which she belonged, 87; “Queen of the May” at a temperance festival, 88; a member of the Band, 89; a poet, 90; encourages J. R. L. to print, 93; her attitude towards the _Pioneer_, 108; characterized by C. F. Briggs, 120; her influence over J. R. L., 121; veiled under poetic names in poems, 126; her transcendentalism, 129; letter of, to C. F. Briggs, 129-132; criticises title of Briggs’s journal, 130; her views on the marriage rite, 131, 132; makes a cover design for _Conversations_, 132; is married to J. R. L., 150. _See_ Lowell, Maria White.
White, Richard Grant, goes to hear J. R. L. lecture, i. 373; letter to, from J. R. L. on policy of the _Atlantic_, 423; from same on American literary criticism, 431; his Shakespeare reviewed by J. R. L., 432; letter to, from J. R. L. on the worries of editing, 442; on the delights of Elmwood, 453; asks for another _Biglow_, ii. 32; J. R. L. writes to, about his own work on Shakespeare, 77; dedicates a book to J. R. L., 146.
White, Thomas W., editor of _Southern Literary Messenger_, i. 92.
White, William Abijah, brother of M. W., i. 76; an active reformer, 87; prompts Rölker, 379.
Whitman, Walt, his poem “My Captain,” ii. 70.
Whittier, John Greenleaf, characterized by J. R. L. in the _Pioneer_, i. 105; compared with J. R. L., 139; editor of _Pennsylvania Freeman_, 152; his “Ichabod” and “The Lost Occasion,” 201; his poetry reviewed by J. R. L., 229; censured by Gay, 229; in _A Fable for Critics_, 254; his indebtedness to the _Atlantic_, 417; J. R. L. to him on “Skipper Ireson’s Ride,” 417, 418; his rhymes criticized by J. R. L., ii. 103; his title conflicts with one by J. R. L., 118; J. R. L. writes a sonnet on his birthday, 296; his “Captain’s Well,” 400.
_Widow’s Mite, The_, ii. 206.
Wilbur, Parson, proposes to educate Hosea Biglow, i. 268; another Jedediah Cleishbotham, 262; faintly hints at J. R. L.’s father, 263; in the flesh, 263, note; as seen in second series, ii. 36; his voice and J. R. L.’s, 37; his death and table-talk, 38; his views on the war, 39.
Wild, Hamilton, ii. 181.
Wilkinson, William Cleaver, criticism of, on J. R. L., ii. 197 and note.
Williams, Frank Beverly, prepares notes to the _Biglow Papers_, i. 256.
Willis, Nathaniel Parker, J. R. L. makes the acquaintance of, i. 111; his kindness to J. R. L., 112; in _A Fable for Critics_, 243, 245; comments on J. R. L.’s kindness to Mrs. Clemm, 282.
_Windharp, The_, i. 368.
Women, J. R. L.’s dependence on, ii. 324.
Wood, Shakespeare, i. 332.
Woodberry, George Edward, his “Edgar Allen Poe” referred to, i. 160; edits J. R. L.’s letters to Poe, 165, note.
Woodman, Horatio, i. 405.
“Words and their Uses,” by R. G. White, ii. 146.
Wordsworth, William, politics and poetry of, i. 236; address on, by J. R. L., ii. 308.
_World’s Fair, The_, 191; copied, 192 J. R. L.’s comments on, 193.
“World’s Progress, The,” J. R. L. writes an introduction to, ii. 344.
“Wuthering Heights” commented on by J. R. L., i. 297.
Wyman, Jeffries, i. 405.
Wyman, Dr. Morrill, ii. 402.
_Year’s Life, A_, a poetic record of J. R. L.’s experience, i. 82.
“Yesterdays with Authors,” ii. 149, note.
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[1] “Take up arms against a sea of troubles.”
[2] “The Pocket Celebration of the Fourth,” in the _Atlantic_ for August, 1858, and “A Sample of Consistency,” in the same for November, 1858.
[3] _Letters_, i. 307-309.
[4] James Jackson Lowell.
[5] William Lowell Putnam.
[6] It was very likely after reading this poem that Emerson wrote in his diary, 17 January, 1862: “We will not again disparage America now that we have seen what men it will bear. What a certificate of good elements in the soil, climate, and institutions is Lowell, whose admirable verses I have just read! Such a creature more accredits the land than all the fops of Carolina discredit it.”
[7] See _Letters_, i. 318.
[8] Eight years later, when writing in his happiest mood the paper “A Good Word for Winter,” the memory of these boys came back with the suggestion of snow-forts, and tears trembled in the passage which slipped from his pen.
[9] _Letters_, i. 343.
[10] In an interesting letter to J. B. Thayer (_Letters_, ii. 191), Lowell says, comparing his odes with those of Gray and Coleridge: “All these were written for the closet--and mine for recitation. I chose my measures with my ears open. So I did in writing the poem on Rob Shaw. That _is_ regular because meant only to be read, and because also I thought it should have in the form of its stanza something of the formality of an epitaph.”
[11] “In the Half-way House.”
[12] See _Correspondence of J. L. Motley_, ii. 167. Copied in _Letters_, i. 334.
[13] In a letter written to Mr. R. W. Gilder, 7 February, 1887, Lowell says: “I spent the night with my friend Norton last Wednesday. There I found a pile of the N. A. R.... By the way the January, ’64, number was ‘second edition.’ I fancy the old lady making her best curtsey at being thus called out before the footlights. The article was reprinted as a political tract and largely circulated. Lincoln wrote a letter to the publishers which I forgot to look for.”
[14] The fairy story was “Gold-Egg: a Dream Fantasy,” which appeared in the _Atlantic_ for May, 1865.
[15] _Letters of James Russell Lowell_, i. 345, 346. Copyrighted 1893, by Harper & Brothers. Mrs. S. B. Herrick, whose friendship with Lowell will be referred to later, writes: “I was speaking to Mrs. Lowell of my strong admiration for its fire and eloquence, and she told me that after Mr. Lowell had agreed to deliver the poem on that occasion, he had tried in vain to write it. The last evening before the date fixed, he said to her: ‘I must write this poem to-night. Go to bed and do not let me feel that I am keeping you up, and I shall be more at ease.’ He began it at ten o’clock. At four in the morning he came to her door and said: ‘It is done and I am going to sleep now.’ She opened her eyes to see him standing haggard, actually wasted by the stress of labor and the excitement which had carried him through a poem full of passion and fire, of 523 lines in the space of six hours.”
[16] Lowell writes again of this and makes proposed changes and additions in a letter to Col. T. W. Higginson, 28 March, 1867. See _Letters_, i. 379.
[17] There was a curious psychical incident connected with the delivery of the Ode which came to light afterward but apparently was not recorded till several years later. The incident is fully set forth in two letters to Dr. William James, which were published in the _Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research_, March, 1889, where Dr. Royce printed a “Report of the Committee on Phantasms and Presentiments.” The first letter is from the gentleman in whose experience the incident occurred:--
MY DEAR MR. JAMES,--I passed the night before commemoration day on a lounge in Hollis 21, the room of my college chum H., who had been tutor since our graduation, three years before. I woke (somewhat early, I should say) saying to myself these words: “And what they dare to dream of dare to die for.” I was enough awake to notice the appropriateness of the words to the occasion, but was sleepy enough to wonder whether they really expressed a lofty thought, or were lofty only in sound. Before I had made up my mind I dropped to sleep again.
In the afternoon I was in about the middle of the tent. Mr. Lowell stood under Hollis at nearly the same table. I heard very distinctly as he read “Those love her best.” I felt that something was coming which was familiar, and as he ended the line I felt that I could repeat the next one, and I did so, ahead of him. But as we proceeded I was confounded with the fact that apparently my line would not rhyme with his. As I said “die for,” he said “do.” I spent some minutes in trying to determine whether I liked his sentiment or mine the most.
That is all. After twenty-one years, details are dim. Some years ago, just before Mr. Lowell sailed for England, I sent him a statement, more detailed probably than this; but no doubt it became carbonic acid and water before he left the house.
The second letter is from Lowell, to whom Mr. W.’s letter had been sent by Dr. James:--
17th Feb., 1888.
DEAR DR. JAMES,--My Commemoration Ode was very rapidly written, and came to me unexpectedly, for I had told Child, who was one of the committee (I suppose), that he must look for nothing from me. I sat up all the night before the ceremony, writing and copying out what I had written during the day. I think most of it was composed on that last day. I have no doubt the verse quoted by Mr. W. came to me in a flash, but whether during that last night or not I cannot say. Perhaps my MS. would show, if I had kept it, or if anybody else has. Child will remember my taking him apart under an elm, between Massachusetts and the Law School, that morning, that I might read him a part of the Ode, to see if it would do, for ’twas so fresh that I knew not, having probably not even had time to read it over. It was such a new thing in more senses than one.
I recollect Mr. W.’s letter, and think it was substantially like that to you. I did not burn it, I am sure, and ’twill, no doubt, turn up somewhere in my hay-stack of letters when I am “up back of the meetin’-house,” as Yankees used to say while there were any Yankees left....
There is one painful suggestion in the fact of Mr. W.’s anticipation, which I hardly venture to speak of. Was the verse already _do_? Did I steal it? Not to my knowledge; but perhaps it might be well to set a literary detective on my trail.
I return the letter. Faithfully yours, J. R. LOWELL.
[18] Quoted by A. V. G. Allen in his _Life and Letters of Phillips Brooks_, i. 552.
[19] An interesting venture was made by Little, Brown & Co. in the summer of 1864, which unfortunately proved too uncertain to be carried through. Lowell was to have edited a series of volumes illustrative of the Old Dramatists, from Marlowe down. He prepared one volume, which was put into type but never published. A set of proofs is in the library of Harvard University.
[20] “James Russell Lowell,” in the _Atlantic Monthly_, January, 1892.
[21] “Shakespeare Once More,” iii. 33.
[22] “Chaucer,” iii. 292.
[23] “Thoreau,” i. 361.
[24] This was no doubt Cranch’s _Kobboltozo_.
[25] “To J. B. on sending me a seven-pound trout,” _Atlantic Monthly_, July, 1866.
[26] The lost copy of Donne turned up, and after Lowell’s death his daughter and Mr. Norton used it for the production of a special edition by the Grolier Club in 1895.
[27] See _supra_, i. 300-302.
[28] What Lowell thought of the impeachment business may be inferred from a passage in a letter written to Mr. Godkin, 20 December, 1867: “I was sorry to see you [in the _Nation_] relaxing a little about impeachment. For myself, I have seen no sufficient reason to change my old opinion of its folly. They remind me of the boy’s playing at hanging, who finds he has done it all right,--only forgotten to cut himself down. We _might_ be able to stand it, we are a wonderful people, of course, but the other lesson of standing A. J. to the end of his tether is worth ten of this. The South is as mad now as it ever will be.”
[29] With a single exception, for which see _infra_, p. 122.
[30] _Letters_, i. 349.
[31] “Rousseau,” in _Literary Essays_, ii. 256.
[32] _Letters_, i. 408.
[33] After all Whittier changed his mind and gave his book the title “Among the Hills.”
[34] The bookbinder who wanted the lettering for the volume.
[35] Originally designed to make part of _The Nooning_.
[36] George Eliot’s _The Spanish Gipsy_.
[37] It was Gobright’s _Recollections_.
[38] Lowell amplified this thought in his paper on Chaucer, _Literary Essays_, iii. 299, 300.
[39] _Letters_, ii. 5. There was a reciprocity of feeling, if we may judge from the striking fact that on the right, within the gate which leads to the impressive common tomb of the Army of Tennessee, in New Orleans, is an inscription taken from Lowell’s poem, “On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves near Washington.”
“Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.”
[40] Perhaps it was on this journey that she told Mrs. Fields she never thought of her father as a poet, but just her father.
[41] _Letters_, ii. 52.
[42] _Letters_, ii. 35.
[43] _Letters_, ii. 38.
[44] See _Letters_, ii. 64-67. Also the Cambridge edition of Lowell’s poems, p. 479.
[45] On Goodwin’s _Plutarch’s Morals_.
[46] _Yesterdays with Authors_, published first in the _Atlantic_, where Lowell also read it, as “Our Whispering Gallery.”
[47] The first volume of Forster’s _Dickens_ was published in advance of the others.
[48] _Letters_, ii. pp. 81-128.
[49] Mr. Norton with his family was at St. Germain, near Paris.
[50] The difficulty has since been obviated by the system of sabbatical years at Harvard, with half salary.
[51] After three weeks spent with Mr. Norton and his family at their hotel in Paris, Mr. and Mrs. Lowell moved across the river, upon the departure of their friends to London. As will be seen later, this little hotel became their familiar home whenever they were in Paris. They endeared themselves to their host and hostess, and long after there hung, perhaps still hangs, in the office, a large photograph of Lowell.
[52] A well known second-hand bookseller in Boston.
[53] Mrs. Burnett’s first child had lately been born.
[54] _Letters_, ii. 125.
[55] See _Letters_, ii. 115.
[56] “While the wise nose’s firm-built aquiline.”
[57] One clause of his will reads: “I give to the corporation of Harvard College, the Library thereof, my copy of Webster on Witchcraft, formerly belonging to Increase Mather, President of the College; and also any books from my library of which the College Library does not already possess copies, or of which the copies or editions in my library are for any reason whatever preferable to those possessed by the College Library.” He had at the time of his death about seven thousand books in his library.
[58] He was wont to assemble on the fly-leaf of a volume notable words that had struck him when reading the text, and it is worth noting that the careful index to the Riverside edition of Lowell’s writings contains under the heading “Words and Phrases” some seven score examples.
[59] The verse in “Agassiz” which cut deepest was that containing the lines
“And all the unwholesomeness The Land of Broken Promise serves of late To teach the Old World how to wait.”
When he reprinted in the poem in _Heartsease and Rue_, Lowell made some verbal changes, and in this passage substituted “the Land of Honest Abraham” for the “Land of Broken Promise.” One may ponder over the change and settle it with himself which stings more, irony or sarcasm.
[60] The letter was also printed by Mr. Norton in _Letters_, with a few of the omitted passages filled in.
[61] The reference is to a volume by Mr. William Cleaver Wilkinson, entitled _A Free Lance in the Field of Life and Letters_, published in 1874, which contained three papers on “Mr. Lowell’s Poetry,” “Mr. Lowell’s ‘Cathedral,’” and “Mr. Lowell’s Prose.” In a letter to Mrs. Clifford (_Letters_, ii. 290) Lowell refers to this book apparently when he says: “You will be glad to hear that a man once devoted an entire volume to the exposure of my _solecisms_, or whatever he chose to call them. I never read it--lest it should spoil my style by making it conscious.” The papers on Lowell constitute, however, less than a third of Mr. Wilkinson’s book.
[62] See, for further detail, Mr. E. P. Bliss’s statement in _Letters_, ii. 160, 161, footnote.
[63] Mr. Blaine.
[64] _Letters_, ii. 171.
[65] _Letters_, ii. 173-178.
[66] _Literary Friends and Acquaintances_, pp. 237, 238.
[67] Elmwood, 5 June, 1877. _Letters_, ii. 104.
[68] To Miss Grace Norton. _Letters_, ii. 195, 196.
[69] _Letters_, ii. 200-202.
[70] Copied in _Impressions of Spain_, pp. 53-72.
[71] Señor Cánovas del Castillo.
[72] See, for the larger part, _Impressions of Spain_, pp. 23-42.
[73] “Bare is back without a brother behind it.”
_Norse Proverb._
[74] _Letters_, i 343.
[75] _New York Tribune_, 16 August, 1891.
[76] _Auld Lang Syne_, p. 179.
[77] The succession of Mr. Arthur to the presidency naturally set flying all sorts of rumors about a fresh deal in high offices.
[78] The old inn at which he and the Fields had formerly stayed.
[79] “E Pluribus Unum,” _Political Essays_, pp. 67, 68. Printed first in the _Atlantic Monthly_, February, 1861.
[80] Despatch No. 132, dated 26 February, 1881.
[81] _Foreign Relations_, 1881, p. 543.
[82] The title of the act, called sometimes the “coercion” sometimes the “protection” act, was “An act for the better protection of person and property in Ireland.”
[83] Mr. Frelinghuysen had succeeded Mr. Blaine as Secretary of State.
[84] _The New York Tribune_, 5, 6 April, 1882.
[85] _The Spectator_, 1 August, 1891.
[86] _Letters_, ii. 293, 294.
[87] _The Athenæum_, 22 August, 1891.
[88] January, 1897. “Conversations with Mr. Lowell.”
[89] _Literary Essays_, iv.
[90] “The Place of the Independent in Politics,” in _Literary and Political Addresses_.
[91] 13 August, 1891.
[92] Report No. 1188, 49th Congress, 1st session, p. 28.
[93] All these remarks were stenographically reported and subjected probably to little revision, certainly to none by the speaker.
[94] Mr. James Welsh, representing the Typographical Union.
[95] See _supra_, vol. i. p. 293.
[96] “I went also,” he says, after hunting up the magazine in the Athenæum, “to see Whittier, who was in town. He was very cordial. There is a wrinkled freshness about him as of a russet apple in April, but I fear we shan’t have him much longer.”
[97] A month before Mr. Gilder had asked for a poem, and Lowell had put him off thus: “Rhymes for Gilder indeed! He doesn’t need ’em for he can make ’em. But I have a pocketful. I give you one at a time:--
“Love to Mrs. Gilder _And_ to all the childer.”
After that, in a series of brief notes called out by the Landor article, there was a peppering of these lines, each note ending in a couplet, as--
“Give my love to Mrs. Gilder, Hope this weather hasn’t chill’d her.”
“Love to Mrs. Gilder, Glad that it thrilled her.”
“Love to Mrs. Gilder: At her birth kind fairies filled her (to be continued in my next).”
“(Continued)
Cup with all sweet gifts and trilled her (to be continued)”
but in his next he is obliged to write: “I have lost my cue in the epic poem to Mrs. Gilder’s address. I thought I could carry it in my memory, but find that her pocket has holes in it.”
[98] That is, by parting with more of his land in Cambridge.
[99] _Letters_, ii. 337.
[100] See “A Poet’s Yorkshire Haunts,” in the _Atlantic Monthly_, August, 1895.
[101] Chickering Hall, New York, 28 November, 1887.
[102] In one of the verses of this poem Lowell had used the picturesque phrase:--
“Let the bull-fronted surges glide Caressingly along thy side, Like glad hounds leaping by the huntsman’s knees.”
In answer to a criticism from a friend, he wrote: “There is no mixed metaphor. I don’t compare the waves to bulls, but merely say they are bull-fronted,--and so they are, with the foam curling over between their horns as in the bulls which I have often interviewed in the pastures here--with a stout stone wall between us _viersteht sich_. That I afterward say they leap like hounds implies no confusion of images. My dog Vixen has a bull-front, if ever there was one, and is always leaping about my knees, as my trousers can testify.---- saw the waves and heard ’em butt against the prow. Ask her. I always see what I describe while I am thinking of it. I see the waves now, as if I were in mid ocean on board the good barque Sultana in ’51.” To the same friend he wrote a month later: “I am glad you found something in the Téméraire for all that,--or try to be glad. But when I saw it in print, it saddened me.”
[103] Dr. Mitchell likewise received an honorary degree in medicine from the University of Bologna on this occasion.
[104] In a note to me at the same time he wrote: “I begin to examine my cards curiously, expecting to find that of Old Age overlooked in some corner.”
[105] _The Westminster Gazette_, 21 August, 1893.
[106] The poem was by Mr. Bliss Carman.
[107] “Small-Beer Chronicle,” in _Roundabout Papers_.
[108] An examination made after Lowell’s death showed that the bleeding with which the sickness began eighteen months or more previously was the first step in the course of the growth of a cancer of the kidney. The disease had extended to the liver, and at the last to the lungs.
[109] See an interesting note by W. J. Stillman in the _Spectator_, 1 July, 1899.
[110] For these details I am indebted to statements made by Mrs. Mary Lowell Putnam and to _The Historic Genealogy of the Lowells of America from 1639 to 1899_. Compiled and edited by Delmar R. Lowell.
[111] As Mrs. Lowell’s paternal ancestry went back but two generations on this side of the Atlantic, it has been thought well to trace her grandmother’s descent from Robert Cutt [the name later becoming Cutts], who was in the same generation with John Lowell, the son of the first Perceval Lowell. I am indebted for most of this material to _Genealogy of the Cutts family in America_, compiled by Cecil Hampden Cutts Howard. Albany: Joel Munsell’s Sons. 1892.
[112] Abbreviated afterward in this record as “Standard.”