INDEX.
The year of graduation at Harvard University is indicated for such of the persons mentioned in this Index as were students there.
ABBY and Almira (Mrs. Miner and
Mrs. Small), 182. Abercrombie, Scotch author, 29. Abolition convention, 307. Absence, from Concord, 58, 79-144,
281 ; in love and friendship, 88,
225. Absorbing employment, 218, 269,
277, 315, 368. "Abuse of the Bible," Mrs. Mott s,
115.
Abuse of Marriage, 240, 249. Academy at Concord, 10, 27, 56. Academy of Design, New York, 85. Acclimation, 86, 92. Accord in Friendship, 66, 177, 242,
308.
Acorns, 426, 427. Action and Being, 191, 196, 215,
253, 266.
Acton, Mass., 410, 420, 423, 424. Actual life, 8, 104, 192, 257, 273. Adams, John, 3. Adams Latin Grammar, 28. Adirondacs, 415, 420. Admetus, king of Thessaly, 44, 51,
52, 269, 410.
Admiration, 184, 258, 392. Ado about things, 8, 215, 236. Adolescentula, E. White, 31, 35. Adoration of Nature, 42, 75. Advice, 28, 29, 78, 137, 144, 160, 172,
214, 224.
.Eolian harp, 239. Aerial effects, 105. Aerial rivers, 67. jEschylus, translated, 70, 121. Africa, 233. Agassiz, Louis, and Thoreau, 149-
157 ; mentioned, 165, 176, 363, 401. Age of achievement, 143-219. Agiocochook, N. H., 44. Agriculturist newspaper, 127. Aims in life, xi, 54, 69, 79, 105, 117,
141, 191, 197, 208, 225, 292, 307, 328.
Alabama, 334.
Alcott, A. Bronson (b. 1799, d. 1888), 58, 60, 70, 72, 73-6, 99, 124, 148, 161, 163, 173, 175, 181, 183-5, 189, 228-9, 287, 299, 332, 338, 357, 364, 388, 396, 402, 414; 436, 438, 441, 460 ; acquaintance with Tho reau, 58, 60, 75, 163, 164, 181, etc. ; at home in Fruitlands, 75, 99 ; in Boston, 285 ; in Walpole, 332 ; in Concord, at Orchard House, 388, 435; builds Emerson s summer- house, 161-163 ; in Concord jail, 60 ; chosen school sup t, 436 ; di ary of, 348 ; holds conversations in Concord, 60, 75, 402 ; in Eagles- wood, N. J., 340; in New York, 333, 348 ; dines with Thoreau, 61 ; visits with Thoreau in New Bed ford, 357 ; in Plymouth, 364 ; in Brooklyn, 349; describes Walt Whitman, 349 ; at Thoreau s fu neral, 76 ; letter from, 460 ; letter to, 332.
Alcott, Mrs. A. B., 333, 436.
Alcott, Louisa May, 333, 377, 436.
Alehouse, in New York, 94.
Alexander the Great, ix.
Alfieri, 352.
Allegash, Maine river, 382.
Allen, Phineas, 10.
All for love, 243.
Almshouse (of Concord), 91,175,400.
Alone in the world, 197.
Alpheus, Grecian river, 109.
America, its commercial spirit, 8, 9 ; its Indians, 13-21, 130, 239, 292, 313, 339, 366, 369, 452 ; mentioned, 321.
Americana, Encyclopedia, 20, 21.
American authors, viii, 20, 27, 51, 57, 59, 61, 68, 76, 80, 94-96, 110,
