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Henry David Thoreau

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by Laura Dassow Walls


  Fields, James (publisher), 495, 498; attended HDT’s funeral, 499. See also Ticknor and Company (Ticknor and Fields)

  Fink, Steven, 526n17

  fire, 11, 335–36, 431; caused by railroad engines, 171, 236; controlled, set by Indians, 172; and forest succession, 171–73; HDT recommended volunteer brigades, 171; “oak openings,” 485; Walden wildfire, caused by HDT and friend, 171–74

  Fire Island, NY, 290–93

  “First of August” antislavery rally (1844), 176–77

  First Parish Church (Concord), 28, 47, 126, 141, 166, Fig. 9; linked to Harvard, 58; HDT withdrew from, 118; refused antislavery meeting, 176; silenced radical abolitionists, 142; site of HDT’s funeral, 499. See also Frost, Rev. Barzillai; Ripley, Rev. Ezra

  fishing, 170–71, 223, 353–54; HDT conflicted about, 204; HDT dreams of, 223

  Fitchburg, MA, 319, 397

  Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog), 553n23

  Flannery, Michael and family, 329, 549n41; helped capture runaway pig, 391

  Flint’s Pond (Walden Woods), 9, 16; HDT sought to settle at, 183

  Foord, Sophia, 233–34

  Forbes, Franklin, 543n17

  forest history, 384, 470, 474, 485; counting tree rings, 372, 383, 432; deforestation in Concord, 236–37, 286, 443–44, 538n16; deforestation in Concord (Inches Woods), 474; forest succession, 384–86, 474; preservation, 341, 470–71; reforestation, 370–71, 403, 439, 457, 472, 554n32, Fig. 43. See also ecology, in HDT’s thinking; environmental ethics; fire; plant succession, hypothesized by HDT; “Succession of Forest Trees” (HDT)

  Fort Ridgely, MN, 487

  Fort Snelling, MN, 484, 489

  Foster, Rev. Daniel: as antislavery protester, 316–17; death as Union captain, 365; as friend of HDT, 364–65; as Kansas insurrectionist, 365, 448

  Fourierism (Associationism), 154, 161, 162; criticized by HDT, 168; supported by Greeley, 155

  Fowler, Thomas, 221, 225

  foxfire, 410

  Franconia, NH, 109

  freedom, 75, 81–82, 211; arc of liberation history, 450–51; disappearance of, 435–36; freedom of speech, 435

  Freeman, Brister, 205, 535n50; and wife Fenda, 200

  Freemasons, 29, 33

  Frémont, John C., 447

  French language, 66, 296–98, 362

  “Friendship” (HDT), 112, 117, 122

  Frost, Charles C., 391

  Frost, Elmira (Mrs. Barzillai Frost), 324

  Frost, Rev. Barzillai, 105, 141, 266; condemned Disunionists, 176; death and last will, 436; eulogized John Thoreau, Jr., 126; opposed W. Phillips, 185; and Samuel Hoar, 184

  Fruitlands, 120; founding of, 159; HDT declined to join, 159

  Fugitive Slave Act, 313–15

  Fugitive Slave Act (Law), 315–17, 347

  fugitive slaves. See slaves, self-emancipated (“fugitive”)

  Fuller, Arthur (Margaret’s brother), 292

  Fuller, Ellen (Margaret’s sister and Mrs. E. Channing), 138, 174, 292, 324, 389–90

  Fuller, Margaret, 58–59, 104, 138, 147–48, 164, 321, Fig. 26; bore son of Italian lover, 290; criticized HDT’s submissions, 117–18; and Dial, 111, 115–16, 131, 143–44, 147–48; died in shipwreck, 290–91; “The Great Lawsuit,” 170, 290; HDT searched for remains, 292–93; as inspiration for HDT’s A Week, 255; involved in Italian revolutions, 238, 290; joined Transcendentalists, 88; married Italian lover, 290; remembered by E. Channing and HDT, 294–95; restarted career in Illinois, 480; set a challenge for HDT, 118, 120, 122, 400; Summer on the Lakes. . . , 266; sympathy for HDT, 121–22, 183; Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 170

  Fuller, Randall, 564n3, 564n6

  Fuller, Richard (Margaret Fuller’s brother), 122, 138, 146, 150; hiked with HDT, 135, 156

  Furness, Rev. William Henry (Philadelphia minister), 366

  Furness, W. H. (Philadelphia publisher), 256

  Galbraith, Thomas, 487

  “Galway whiskers,” 426; grown by HDT against “consumption,” 375

  Ganges River, and Walden water, 230–31

  Gardiner, Capt. Edward W., 370, 403; tree plantations of, 371, 403

  Garrison, Jack, 30, 200. See also Robbins, Susan (Mrs. Jack Garrison), and family

  Garrison, John (Jack’s son), 134

  Garrison, William Lloyd, 42, 93, 327, 368; burned Constitution at Burns rally, 346; founded New England Non-Resistance Society, 139; published HDT, 185; spoke in Concord, 143. See also Liberator, The

  gastric fever (typhoid), 160, 520n60

  genius, 272, 331, 341

  Gerard, John, Herball, 461

  Gessner, Conrad, 461

  Gibraltar, 290

  Glen House (hotel, Pinkham Notch, NH), 430

  Gloucester, MA, 261–62, 433

  Goat Island (Niagara Falls, NY), 482

  God, 88; dwells within humans, 88; is everywhere (HDT’s pantheism), 302–3

  Goderich (Ontario), 490

  gold rush in California, 208; as destructive force, 208

  Gosnold, Capt. Bartholomew, 280

  government, civil, 248; and state-sponsored violence, 184, 250, 445, 447, 449–50; withholding allegiance to, 250–51

  Gower, John, 123

  Graham’s Magazine, 244

  Grand Lake Matagamon (north Maine woods), 416

  graphite, 37–40, 438; graphite dust in Thoreau home, 284; uses of, 37–38, 283. See also John Thoreau & Company

  Gray, Asa, 287, 308, 439, 481, 484; introduced Darwin’s theory to HDT, 458

  “Great Lawsuit, The” (M. Fuller), 170, 290, 539n22

  Great Meadows (Concord, MA), 107; flooding of, due to damming, 443–44

  Great Western (transatlantic ship), 153–54

  Greeley, Horace, 141, 155, 265, 292, 327, 354; advertised Walden, 344; befriended and published HDT, 155, 244–45, 246–47, 257, 301–2, 332, 472; feted HDT in NYC, 366–67; generated publicity, 262, 344, 348–49, 472; HDT declined tutoring job offer, 386–87, 393; placed HDT articles, lent money, 333; quarreled over HDT’s “defiant Pantheism,” 302; radical reform sympathies, 155

  Greene, Calvin, 382, 386, 388, 480

  Greenville, ME, 339

  Greylock, Mount. See Saddleback Mountain (Mount Greylock, Adams, MA)

  Griffith, Mattie, quoted, 453, 563n129

  Grimes, Jonathan, 486

  Grimké, Angelina and Sarah, 93

  Gross, Robert A., 49, 515n42, 515n43, 549n39

  Gustafson, Sandra M., 519n45

  Hale, Horatio, 61, 67, 72, 536n91

  Hamilton boardinghouse (Minneapolis, MN), 485

  Hammond, James Henry (governor of SC), 184

  Harding, Walter, xviii, 512n9, 539n26

  Harmony Grove (Framingham, MA), 347

  Harper, James and John (publishers), 157, 256

  Harris, Thaddeus W. (Harvard naturalist and librarian), 68, 78, 281, 307, 343, 373; a founder of Natural History Society (Harvard), 68, 310; love of nature, 68, 132

  Harrison, William Henry, 114–15

  Harvard College, 57–74, 76–81; admission to, 57–58; as “bastion of Unitarianism,” 58; costly tuition of, 59, 77; curriculum at, 61, 65, 66–67; discipline at, 63; Dunkin Rebellion (1834), 64, 72; Great Rebellion (student riot, 1823), 63; Harvard Library, 61–62, 321; HDT as scholarship boy, 59; HDT “barely got in,” 57; HDT returns to, 77; HDT’s friendships with classmates, 59–60, 62–63, 77; HDT’s graduation from, 80–81; HDT took time off to teach, 73–74; Institute of 1770, 62, 72–73, 519n47; and liberal Congregationalism, 58; Natural History Society, 68; “nearly ruined” HDT as writer, 70; strict ranking system, 63–65; students’ routine at, 60, 65

  Harvard Committee for Examination in Natural History, HDT’s role in, 439, 561n96

  Harvardiana, 519n42

  Hawthorne, Julian (Nathaniel’s son), 325, 463

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 119, 139, 164, 424, 467; and antislavery meeting, 176; at Brook Farm, 119; “Celestial Railroad,” 529n75; and E. Channing, 138–39; with family, attended HDT’s funeral, 499
; friendship with HDT, 133–35, 137, 150, 261, 263, 325; impressions of HDT, 133, 134, 149, 150, 191, 256; Marble Faun and “Septimius Felton,” modeled on HDT, 462–63; at Old Manse (Concord), 133–34, 138; opinion of Walden, 360, 552n4; purchased HDT’s boat, 134; and RWE, 133, 134, 138, 144; in Salem, 260, 324–25; Scarlet Letter, House of the Seven Gables, Blithedale Romance, 325; twice returned to “Wayside” (Concord), 325, 462; Twice Told Tales, 266

  Hawthorne, Sophia (Peabody) (Mrs. Nathaniel), 119, 134, 176, 261, 481, 494; on her grief for HDT, 499–500

  Hayden, Lewis, 214–15, 315, 447

  Hayward, Charles, Jr., 520n60; quoted, 80

  Hecker, Isaac, 74, 241; became Catholic, invited HDT to travel, 177

  Hedge, Rev. Frederic Henry, 78, 115; founded Transcendental Club, 78

  Herald of Freedom, 169

  heresy, 263, 264, 271–72, 302–3

  Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 324, 326, 327, 359, 440, 519n38, 552n2; antislavery actions, 345, 368, 465; one of “Secret Six,” 447, 562n114

  higher law, 317–18, 449–50; “Higher Laws” chapter in Walden, 334, 353; invoked by HDT at Burns rally, 346

  Highland Light (Cape Cod lighthouse), 279–80, 406; HDT boarded at (1855), 376, 405

  Hildreth, Samuel Tenney, 62, 72, 77

  Hinkley and Drury’s (Boston Locomotive Works), 288

  Hinton, J. R., 565n21

  Hoar, Caroline (Brooks) (Mrs. Ebenezer), 342

  Hoar, Edward (Samuel’s son), 170–71, 558n10; excursion with HDT to Mt. Washington, 430; with HDT, caused fire in Walden Woods, 171; on HDT’s “affectionate” nature, 494; later excursions with HDT to Maine and NH, 406–25, 430–31; later life of, 461; steady friendship of, 423

  Hoar, Elizabeth (Samuel’s daughter), 88, 93, 134, 148, 213, 442, 542n94; assisted Sophia T. with editing, 496, 568n90; friendship with HDT, 106, 130, 150, 342, 362; harassed in SC, 184

  Hoar, George Frisbie (Samuel’s son), 57–58, 67, 99, 101

  Hoar, Hon. Ebenezer Rockwood (Samuel’s son), 54, 141, 391, 465, 493; brought flowers to dying HDT, 498

  Hoar, John (ancestor of Samuel), 5

  Hoar, Samuel (“patriarch” of Concord), 5, 79, 96, 210, 517n2; harassed in SC, 184; opposed W. Phillips and abolitionism, 166; paid Alcott’s tax, 248; paid damages in Walden fire, 172

  Hodder, Alan D., 537n115, 549n42

  Holbrook, Josiah, 54–55

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 82

  Homer, 66; Iliad, 69

  “Homer, Ossian, Chaucer” (HDT), cited, 166

  Hooksett Pinnacle (NH), 108–9

  Horsford, Prof. Eben Norton, 287

  Hosmer, Edmund, 198, 354, 378, 442; final visit to HDT, 498; and sons, 188

  Hosmer, Horace, 388; of Ellen and Ellery Channing, 324; on pencil-making, 38; recollections of HDT’s parents and brother, 31, 35, 41–43, 45; of Thoreau school, 98–99, 100–101, 115, 118; of Walden Pond, 193

  Hosmer, Joseph, 202, 385; and brother Ben, 44–45

  Hosmer, Thomas, 100; quoted, 101

  Howe, Samuel Gridley, 447

  Howells, William Dean, 452, 467

  Hubbard, Cyrus, 259

  Hubbard, Ebenezer, 385

  “Huckleberries” (HDT), 477

  huckleberries, gathering, 107, 210, 253, 390, 432; “captain of a huckleberry party,” 308

  Hudson’s Bay (Canada), 297

  Huger, Joseph, 64

  Huguenots, 152, 154; ancestors of Thoreau family, 23–24

  “Human Culture” (RWE), 87, 88

  “Humane House” on Cape Cod beach, 404

  Humboldt, Alexander von, 289, 308, 470, 544–45n36

  Hurd, Isaac, Jr., 27, 514n16

  Hurd, Joseph, 27

  Huron, Lake, 490

  Hutchinson, Peter, 204; and family, 200

  Hyannis, MA, 371

  ice harvesting, at Walden, 230

  Inches Woods (Boxborough, MA), 474

  Indian (word), xix–xx

  “Indian Books” (HDT research notes), 280, 282, 301, 305, 543n14

  Indian Island (ME), Penobscot reservation, 218, 340; HDT’s negative reaction to, 218; positive reaction to, 340

  Indians. See Native Americans (Indians)

  indigenous peoples. See Native Americans (Indians)

  Ingraham, Cato, 199

  Institute of 1770 (at Harvard), 62, 72; HDT borrowed books from, 73

  institutions, 211, 219

  I Puritani (Vincenzo Bellini), 367

  Irish immigrants: in Concord, 163–64, 182, 187, 230, 328–29; drowned at Cape Cod, 276–78. See also Field, John and family

  Irving, Washington, 457

  Italian revolutions of 1848, 238

  Jack, John, 18

  Jackson, Charles T., 141, 165, 218, 310, 327, 536n93; expedition to Michigan, 230

  Jacksonian politics, 80

  James, Henry, and Henry, Jr., 153–54

  James, William, 153–54, 230

  “John” (escaped slave), 216

  Johnson, Linck, 542n88, 551n92

  John Thoreau & Company, 38–40, 77, 93–94, 258, 427, 438, Fig. 15, Fig. 16; awards and testimonials, 165–66; HDT improved graphite processes, 164–66, 438; influenced HDT as writer, 40; new use for graphite (electrotyping), 283–84; quality of pencils, 39–40

  Jones, Anna, 92; interviewed by HDT at deathbed, 92–93

  Jones, Elisha (HDT’s great-grandfather), 28

  Jones, Josiah, 29, 514n20

  Jones, Simeon, 514n20

  Jones, Stephen, 28

  Journal (HDT), 86, 204, 469–70, 474; became HDT’s primary work, 303–4; final entry in, 493; HDT began to keep, 87; HDT destroyed pages of, 122, 160, 282; sense of power in, 308

  journal-keeping, 100; as common practice, 87

  Kaaterskill Falls (in Catskill Mountains, NY), 175; miller’s house at, 175, 189

  Kalendar (HDT charts), 435, 565n26; as instruments of vision, 468; as symphony or poem, 435

  Katahdin, Mount, 217, 221, 278, 417, Fig. 38; HDT’s dream of, 429; HDT’s experience of, 223–28. See also “Ktaadn” (HDT)

  Keitt, Laurence, 445

  Keyes, Hon. John Shepard, 46, 62–63, 79, 96, 193, 385; and John Brown, 454; mocked HDT, 211; opposed KS and MO proslavery violence, 446; opposed W. Phillips, 184–85; and Sanborn affair, 465; smitten with Ellen Sewall, 105–6

  Keyes, John, opposed W. Phillips and abolitionism, 143, 166

  kindergarten, as “radical European idea,” 98

  Kineo, Mount (ME), 409–10; in Penobscot creation story, 409–10

  King Philip (Metacomet, Wampanoag warrior), 327

  Kirkland, John Thornton (Harvard president), 63

  Knickerbocker, 157

  “Ktaadn” (HDT): as lecture, 246; published by Greeley in Union Magazine (1848), 246, 260

  Kucich, John, 558n18

  Ladies’ Companion, 157

  Lafayette, Marquis de, 46

  Lafayette, Mount (NH), 431–32

  “Landlord, The” (HDT), 156, 195

  Lane, Charles, 139, 140–41, 147, 183, 210, 532n130, 533n9; arrested for tax refusal, 140; defended conscientious action, 140–41; and Fruitlands, 159, 162

  La Prairie (Quebec), 296

  “Last Days of John Brown” (HDT), 466

  “laughing gas” (nitrous oxide), students’ experiment with, 77

  Lawrence, KS, sacking of (1856), 445

  Laws (or Institutes) of Menu, 145, 274

  Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 170, 394, 395, 401

  Lebeaux, Richard M., quoted, xviii

  Lee’s Cliff (Walden Woods), 403

  Lemire, Elise, 535n50

  “Lesson for Young Poets, A” (HDT), published across the country, 247

  Leutze, Emanuel, 153

  Leyden Hall (Plymouth, MA), 327

  Liberator, The, 42, 140–41, 167, 176, 213

  Liberty and Anti-Slavery Songbook (Thoreau family), Fig. 19

  Liberty Party, 222

  Library of American Books, 256

  “Life witho
ut Principle” (HDT). See “What Shall It Profit?” (HDT lecture, retitled “Life without Principle”)

  Lincoln, Abraham, 466, 478–79, 489

  Lincoln, ME, 218–19

  Lincoln, NH, 109

  Literary World, 256

  Little Crow (Dakota leader), 488; defeated in Dakota War, later murdered, 489

  Locke, John, 70

  lockjaw. See tetanus

  logging and loggers in Maine, 217–21, 337

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 66, 149, 261, 484

  Loomis, Eben, 406, 553n8

  Loring, Judge Edward G., 345

  Lovejoy, Elijah, 139

  Lowell, Charles, 219

  Lowell, James Russell, 61, 63, 149, 495; mocked HDT, 90; mocked HDT, RWE, and Alcott in “A Fable for Critics,” 260–61; published “Chesuncook” in Atlantic (1858), 421–23

  Lowell, MA, 476

  Lowell Lectures, 229, 287

  lumber industry, 330, 391; in Maine, 217–18

  lyceum movement, 54–56. See also Concord Lyceum

  Lyell, Charles: influence on HDT, 274–75, 477, 542n4; vision of deep time in Principles of Geology, 274

  Mackinaw Island, MI, 490

  Madison, WI, 489

  Maine, 6, 95; HDT’s first excursion to (1846), 217–28; inhuman “titanic” nature in, 224–27; second excursion to (1854), 340; “stern, gentle wildness” of, 222; third excursion to (1856), 407. See also Katahdin, Mount; moose and moose-hunting; Polis, Joseph

  Manchester, MA, 433

  Manchester, NH, 108

  “Manifest Destiny,” 14, 167–68, 207–8, 282, 334, 414, 424, 531n109

  Mann, Horace, Jr. (Mary’s son), 463, Fig. 40; accompanied HDT on journey to MN, 480–81, 486–91; death of, 491

  Mann, Mary (Peabody), 462–63, 465, 479; widow of Horace M., 463

  Manomet (Cape Cod, MA), 404

  Marblehead, MA, 433

  martial law, in Milwaukee (WI), (1861), 490

  “Martyrdom of John Brown” (HDT), 455

  Masonic Temple (Boston), 89

  Masons. See Freemasons

  Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, 319

  Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, 165

  Massachusetts Quarterly Review, 246–47

  Matagamon, Grand Lake (north Maine woods), 416

  Mather, Rev. William, 266

  Maungwudaus (George Henry, Ojibwe spokesman and performer), 427–28

  Maxham, Benjamin D., took daguerreotypes of HDT, 387–88

  May, Joseph, 487

  May, Samuel, 143

 

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