“Bleeding Kansas,” 447
Bliss, Daniel, 18
Blood, Horatio P., 219
Blood, Perez, 287
“Bluebirds, The” (HDT), 104
Bokum, Hermann, 66
Bond, Prof. William Cranch, 287
Border Ruffians (proslavery border raiders), 446
Boston Atheneum, 376
Boston Miscellany, 137, 150
Boston Morning Post, 111
Boston Society of Natural History, 311; HDT’s membership in, 306–7, 321
Boston Vigilance Committee, 315, 316
botany and botanizing, 68, 287, 330, 391, 469, 482, 490, 543–44n23. See also forest history; Russell, John Lewis
Boutwell, George S., 471
Bowen, Francis, 76–77
Boxborough, MA, 474
Brace, Rev. Charles Loring, 458
Bradford, George P., 162, 177, 423
Brady, Kate, 402
Brattleboro, VT, 391
Brisbane, Albert, 154
Brister’s Hill (Walden Woods), 461
Bristol, NH, 37
bronchitis, 119, 153
Brook Farm, 118–19; HDT’s visit to, 161–62; RWE and HDT declined to join, 74; turmoil at, 161–62; turned to Fourierism, 162
Brooks, Mary (Merrick), 143, 542n83; denounced Keyes, 143; helped rescue Sanborn, 464
Brooks, Nathan, 96, 125
Brooks, Preston, 445
“Brother where dost thou dwell?” (HDT), 128–29
Brown, John: daughters Annie and Sarah schooled by Sanborn, 463–64; execution of, and memorial services, 453–55, 563n133; failed raid on Harpers Ferry (1859), 449; fundraising speech at Concord, 446–47; met HDT and RWE, 446; as a singular historic figure, 450; and violence, 445, 446
Brown, Lucy (Jackson), 83–84, 86, 114, 129–30, 147, 182, 233, 310; resided at Thoreaus’, 83, 90
Brown, Rev. Addison and family, 391
Brown, Simon, 442, 446, 454–55
Brown, Theophilus (Theo), 242, 368, 387; attended funeral, 499; visited ailing HDT, 478, 495, 497
Brown Dunton, Mary, 391, 429
Brownson, Orestes A.: and Dial, 111; evolving philosophy of, 74–75; and HDT, 73–76, 94, 102, 141, 161; New Views and Transcendentalism, 75, 78; published Boston Quarterly Review, 95
“Brute Neighbors” chapter in Walden, 353–54
Bryant, William Cullen, 149, Fig. 41
Buchanan, James, 447–48
Buddha and Buddhism, 145–46; influence on HDT, 146, 347, 551n90
Buell, Lawrence, 538n16, 552n99
Bulkeley, Peter, 14
Bull, Ephraim, 141, 385
Bull Run, Battle of (1861), 491
Burlington, VT, 296, 318
Burns, Anthony, 345, 551n84; arrest and rendition of, 345–46; HDT protested with “Slavery in Massachusetts,” 345–46
Burr, William, “Seven-Mile Panorama,” 295
Butternuts, NY, 86
Cabot, James Eliot, 229–30, 246; introduced Bhagavad Gita, 230
Cabot, Samuel, 306
Calhoun, Lake (Minneapolis, MN), 484
Calvinism, 58
Cameron, Sharon, 546n65
Canada: HDT’s excursion to, 295–303; held special elections in wartime (1861), 490
Canby, Henry Seidel, xvii, 70
Canton, MA, 73–74
Cape Ann, MA, 433
Cape Cod, MA, HDT’s three excursions to, 276–80, 376–77, 404
Carlyle, Thomas, 78; influence on HDT, 243–44; RWE praised HDT to, 104, 120–21
Cartier, Jacques, 299
Case, Kristen, 565n26
Catskill Mountains (NY), 175
“Cattle Show” (annual farm fair), 424; HDT spoke at (1860), 471
Cavell, Stanley, 195, 537n115
Chamberlain Lake (ME), 412–14
Chambers, Robert, HDT on Vestiges of the Creation, 565–66n38
Champlain, Lake, 296
Channing, Ellery (William Ellery Channing II), 96, 115, 134–35, 166, 183, 188, 285, 327–28, 354, 404, 434, 483, Fig. 27
close friendship with HDT, 138–39, 174–75, 477–78; assisted in surveying, 442; care during HDT’s final days, 477, 494, 497–99; excursions with HDT, 43–44, 174–75, 292, 295–96, 304–5, 323, 342, 375–76, 433; visited Walden house, 190, 197–98, 236
difficult personality, 138, 324, 389; problematic guest at Ricketsons’, 389–90
discordant marriage with Ellen Fuller, 138, 324, 387, 389–90
friendship with RWE, 137, 182, 257–59; RWE preferred his poetry over HDT’s, 137–38
writer, 115; journalist at New Bedford Mercury, 389–90; of Monadnock hike with HDT, 565n29; published in Dial, 137–38, 144, 148; wrote hymn for HDT’s funeral, 499; wrote remembrance of Margaret Fuller, 294
Channing, Prof. Edward Tyrell, 70–72, 78, 100; influence of, on HDT and American literature, 71–72; and journal-keeping, 87
Channing, Rev. William Ellery, 47, 74, 88, 90, 137
Channing, Rev. William Henry, 154, 214; and HDT, 154–55, 168, 292
character, moral, 207, 252, 267
“charity house” on Cape Cod beach, 279
Charleston, SC, 184
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 123
Chaudière, Falls of (Quebec), 299
Chelmsford, MA, 35–36, 107
Cheney, John M., 185
Cherokee Removals, 250, 522n25
Chesuncook (lake and village in Maine), 219, 337
“Chesuncook” (second book of Maine Woods), 341, 353, 421–23, 427
Chicago, IL, 482–83; financial crisis in (1861), 482
Child, Lydia Maria, 147
Chippeway (Indian people), 123, 427
Cholmondeley, Thomas, 363–65, 379, 561n80; fulsome correspondence with HDT, 400; presented HDT with 44-volume library of Hindu scriptures, 381–82; visited Ricketson with HDT, 434
Christianity, 93; and Brownson’s religious quest, 74; Catholicism, 74, 296, 298; Congregationalism and Unitarianism, 58; HDT’s Huguenot ancestry, 23–24; HDT’s unpopular view of, 147, 149, 264, 271–72, 296, 302, 393; hypocrisy of, 317; and Indians’ conversion, 16; schism in Concord, 47–48; and Transcendentalists, 116. See also blasphemy; religion
Christian Register, review of Walden, 360
Christmas, celebrated in Concord (1853), 342
Chura, Patrick, 535n63, 544n26
Church, Frederic, “Andes of Ecuador,” 376, 382
church schism in Concord, 47–49; Cynthia Thoreau caught up in, 48–49; disestablishment in Mass., 48; Trinitarians vs. Unitarians, 47
civil disobedience. See resistance
“Civil Disobedience” (HDT), 75, 209, 248–54
Civil War, American, 62, 208, 478–80, 486, 490; HDT on, 478–80, 491
Clarke, James Freeman, 147
Clarke, William Hull (James F.’s brother), 483
Clark’s Island (Plymouth, MA), 310, 404
classical education, value of, for HDT, 66
Clinton, MA, 281; HDT toured cotton mills at, 281, 288
Collet, Sophia Dobson, 540n43
Collins, James, 187–88
Collyer, Rev. Robert, 483
commerce, 13–14, 52, 79–80, 230–31, 236; commodification, introduced by colonists, 14–15; HDT repelled by evils of commercialization, 432, 438
commonplace books, HDT’s, 62, 300–301
Common Sense philosophy, 70
communitarianism, 74, 118–19, 155
Compromise Act of 1850, 317
Concord, MA, 88, 176, Fig. 9, Fig. 10; Belknap Street (surveyed by HDT), 259; Center Grammar School, 84–86; church schism in, 48; class divisions in, 46–47; as commercial center, 53; courthouse, 46; Depot, 181; elite class in, 46; Great Country Road, 200; Great Field, 30, 200; Great Meadows, 107, 443–44; Middlesex County Jail, 29, 210; Middlesex Hotel, 46, 209, Fig. 9; Middle Street, 260; Mill Dam (Milldam), 39, 44–46, 53; Monument Street, 79; New Bedford Road, 260; New Burying Ground, 379, 383, 499; Old Hill Burying Ground, 18, Fig. 9; Old Ma
nse, 18, 47, 79, 134, 176, 498; Old Marlborough Road, 384; Old North Bridge, 47, 79, 107, 115; private schooling in, 51–53, 373, 463; public school in, 50–51, 84–86; Punkatasset Hill, 10, 183; redevelopment of (1825–43), 53; and Revolution, 17, 47; Sleepy Hollow, 48, 99, 115, 333, 500; Sudbury Road, 464; urbanization of (1844), 181; Virginia Road, 28, 30; Walden Road, 200. See also Concord Academy; Concord Lyceum; First Parish Church (Concord); and other specific locations
Concord, NH, 109
Concord Academic Debating Society, 54
Concord Academy, 51–53, 61, 206, 517n2; closed, 119; hired HDT, 96; operated as private school by John and HDT, 96; part of “New Humanist” movement, 69
Concord Athenaeum, 141, 149
Concord Farmers’ Club, 384–85, 398; commissioned HDT to survey entire Concord River, 441–43; discussions at, 385, 470; HDT as expert consultant, 385; HDT spoke at, on forest tree succession, 471; implemented HDT’s public park idea, 444; lawsuit against canal company, 442
Concord Female Anti-Slavery Society, 42, 93, 167, 177, 213
Concord Lyceum, 54–56; and HDT, 56, 118; HDT elected secretary and/or curator, 102, 141, 185; public debates and lectures at, 56, 166; radicals’ “coup” at, 185; women speakers at, 320, 440
Concord River, 3, 9, 13, 107, 110, 186, 285, 342; extensively surveyed by HDT, 441–43; from Fairhaven Hill, Fig. 1; severe flood damage and farmers’ lawsuit, 442–43; two names of, and meanings for HDT, 269, 392, 396
“Concord River,” (HDT lecture), 186
Concord Steam Mill Company, 258
Confederacy, secession of, 479
Confucius, 145
Connecticut River, HDT botanized at, 391
Conrad, Randall, 536n83, 543n21
conscience, 49, 63, 86, 186, 314; conscientious objection, 140–41; and tax payment, 250, 252. See also resistance
consumption. See tuberculosis
Conversations with Children on the Gospels (Alcott), 98
Conway, Moncure, 319, 346, 491
Copway, George (Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bowh), 420
corporal punishment, in schools, 51, 52, 56, 85
Cosmos, 289, 314, 355, 392; Whitman and “Kosmos,” 399
Covey, Edward, 251
Coyle, Hugh, 199, 534n47
Craft, William and Ellen, 315
Crane, Stephen, 406
Crawford House, NH, 109
Cromwell’s Falls, NH, 108
Croton Waterworks, NY, 153
culture, 88–89; as education, 97; self-culture, 86–88; as transformative, 88
Curtis, George, 188; astonished at HDT’s realistic view of Indians, 420; bowdlerized and discontinued HDT’s Canada series, 302; and brother Burrill, 188; discontinued Cape Cod, 375–77
Daily Bee (Boston), review of Walden, 360
Dakota (“Sioux,” Indian people), 486–89; Dakota War (1861–62), 488–89; mistreatment of, 488
Dall, Caroline Healey, 61; at Concord Lyceum, 440; opinion of HDT, 440; reaction to HDT’s “Plea for John Brown,” 452
Dall, Charles, 61
Dana, Prof. James Freeman, 38
Dana, Richard Henry, 61
Dana, Sebattis (Penobscot hunter), 338, 550n63
Darwin, Charles, 308, 472; HDT et al. discuss Origin of Species, 458–59; radical influence of, on HDT, 565n38; radical influence of, on HDT, “constant new creation,” 472–74; theory of natural selection, 458–60, 474
Davis, Josiah, 31, 33, 284, 517n2
Dawes, William, 18
Dean, Bradley P., 533n20, 534n30, 565n34, 568n87
“deep cut” (railroad embankment through Walden), 164, 328; symbolism of, 355, 498
de Gérando, J.-M., 97
Democratic Review, 149, 249, Fig. 18; published HDT essays, 155–56. See also O’Sullivan, John
Denniston, Dr. Edward E., 493
de Stael, Mme. Germaine, 91
Detroit, MI, 482
Diadem (children’s magazine), 237
Dial, the, 110–11, 116; first issue of, 115–16; and HDT, 111, 131–33, 143–44, 158; last issue of, 169–70; published “Ethnical Scriptures” (ancient religious wisdom), 145, 271; and RWE, 110–11, 115, 131, 148, 170
Dimock, Wai Chee, 537n115
disestablishment, in Massachusetts, 48
dispersion of seeds, and animal migration, 384, 458, 460, 473
dissenters, as heroes and redeemers, 253
disunionism (abolitionist movement), 176
“Divinity School Address” (RWE), 113, 142, 242
Doland, Margaret, 328
Donahue, Brian, quoted, 7, 513n9, 562n106
d’Ossoli. See Ossoli, Giovanni, Marquis d’
Douglas, Gawin, 123
Douglass, Frederick, 42, 186, 447; autobiography of, 143, 185; offered resistance, 251; spoke in Concord, 143, 176, 350
Dred Scott decision (1857), 447
Dunbar, Asa (HDT’s grandfather), 28–29, 57
Dunbar, Charles (HDT’s uncle), 33, 37, 56; death of, 383–84; discovered graphite, 37–38; narcolepsy of, 157
Dunbar, Louisa (HDT’s aunt), 33, 56, 498
Dunbar, Mary Jones (HDT’s grandmother), 28–30, 32–33, 56; aided her Tory brothers, 28–29, 514n20; children of, 514–15n22
Dunkin, Christopher, 64
Dunkin Rebellion, 63–65, 72
Dunshee, Edward S. (photographer), last portrait of HDT, 492
Durand, Asher, 153
Durant, Eliza Jane, 85
Duyckinck, Evert, 256
dwarf trees, very old, found in White Mountains, 432
Eagleswood Colony (Perth Amboy, NJ), 392–93
East India Marine Hall (Salem, MA), 433
eating animals, ethics of, 204
ecology, in HDT’s thinking, 171–72, 205, 354, 386, 430, 459–60, 511n4, 555n73. See also environmental ethics
Eddy, Rebecca (Darling), 531n123
education, 50–73, 76–81, 88; and culture, 97; HDT on, 94–95, 102; John, Jr., and HDT’s teaching methods, 98–100, 101
electrotyping, as new print process, 283; Thoreau graphite and, 283–84
Eliot, George, review of Walden, 360
Eliot, Rev. John, 16, 339
Elizabeth, sailing ship, 290; death of Margaret Fuller aboard, 291; demolished in shipwreck, 290
Emerson, Bulkeley (RWE’s brother), 439
Emerson, Charles (RWE’s brother), 175
Emerson, Edith (RWE’s daughter), 146–47, 233, 341–42, 429
Emerson, Edward Waldo (RWE’s son), 40–41, 62, 193, 341–42, Fig. 8; HDT’s advice to, 500, 569n102
Emerson, Ellen (RWE’s daughter), 120, 133, 147, 233, 342, 429, 481
Emerson, Lidian (Jackson) (Mrs. RWE), 88–89, 114, 125–26, 146, 238, 310, Fig. 8; attended HDT’s funeral, 499; and HDT, 142, 147, 231, 233, 521n17; HDT’s love for, 239; hosted Transcendentalists, 147; ill from jaundice, 237
Emerson, Mary Moody (RWE’s aunt), 93; admired by HDT, 321; RWE praised HDT to, 104
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO, 18, 36, 41, 141, 154, 184, 188, 327, 354, 368, 420, 456, Fig. 7; aided Alcott, 235–36; friendship with E. Channing, 137, 182, 257, 258, 323; invited Sanborn to open a school, 372; lionized in England, 238; praised Leaves of Grass, 394; on reading, 71; Ricketson’s impression of, 388; and Walden property, 182–83, 201, 234, 236
antislavery: became opponent with “Address on . . . Emancipation . . . in the British West Indies” (1844), 176–77, 221–22; initial ambivalence about, 176; opposed Fugitive Slave Law and proslavery forces, 317, 446; on W. Phillips, 185; spoke at Brown memorial and “indignation” rally, 455, 465; spoke at 1846 “1st of August,” 214
Dial, 110–11, 115, 131, 148
grief at death of son Waldo, Jr., 127–28, 130
reform: against slavery (see Emerson, Ralph Waldo: antislavery); RWE and Brook Farm, 74; on traditional education, 110
relations with HDT: changing views about HDT, 178, 191, 307–8; and death of HDT’s brother, 126–27; dispatched HDT to Fire Island shipwreck, 291–92; eulogized HD
T at funeral, 499–500; and HDT’s poetry, 104–5, 115, 117, 144; invited HDT to join household, 119, 231; lifelong influence on HDT, 87; mentored and aided HDT, 4, 79, 86–90, 95, 137, 183, 237, 256; reaction to HDT’s jailing, 212–13; up-and-down friendship with HDT, 258, 267, 322, 387, 399, 400; and A Week, 263, 265, 267; worried by HDT’s illness, 374, 481
Transcendentalist: “American Scholar” address, 82–83; a founder of Saturday Club, 326 (see also Atlantic magazine); on nature as symbol, 276; RWE and the Dial, 110–11, 115, 131, 148
works: antislavery speeches, 176–77, 221–22, 317; “Concord Hymn,” 18, 79; Conduct of Life, 477; “Divinity School Address,” 113, 142, 242; Essays, 120, 170, 182; “Experience,” 127; Nature, 18, 73, 78, 83, 276; Representative Men, 258
See also titles of RWE’s particular works
Emerson, Rev. William (RWE’s grandfather), 18
Emerson, Susan (Haven) (Mrs. William), 150–51
Emerson, Waldo, Jr. (RWE’s son), 120; death of, 127
Emerson, William (RWE’s brother), 127, 148, 153, 160, 238
Emerson, Willie (RWE’s nephew), 148, 153; brothers Charles and Haven, 151; tutored by HDT, 150–51
Emerson’s Cliff (Walden Woods), 10, 182, 234, 344, 402
environmental ethics, xiv–xvii, 204, 253–54, 341, 385, 470–71; HDT proposes local and national parks, 422, 444
eroticism: in HDT, 539n26; in Whitman, 395
Essays, Second Series, (RWE), 170, 182
ethics, 204, 206–7, 250–51, 253–54, 272, 347–48, 466. See also environmental ethics
“Ethnical Scriptures,” 145, 271
Etzler, J. A., Paradise Within the Reach . . . , 155–56, 168; disparaged by HDT, 155–56
Everett, Edward (Harvard president), 58, 61, 81
“Experience” (RWE), 127
“Fable for Critics, A” (J. R. Lowell), 260–61
Fairhaven (hill and bay, Walden Woods), 43, 44, 99, 173, 342, 371, 403, 475; huckleberry party on, 210
“famine ships” (from Ireland), 277
“Farewell” (HDT), 267
Farley, Frank, 119
Farmer, Jacob, 385, 442
farms and farmers, 118, 331–32; annual “Cattle Show” (fair), 424, 471; Concord Farmers’ Club, 384; decline of subsistence farms, 118–19; HDT’s “two farms at once,” 441
Farquhar, William Henry, 319
fear, basis of obedience, 251, 253
Felton, Prof. Cornelius C. (later Harvard president), 68–69, 471–72
Field, John and family, 198–99; as bogger, 198, 203; as HDT’s metaphor, 352–53
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