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Index
HDT = H. D. Thoreau; RWE = R. W. Emerson
Abenaki (Indian people), 338, 411
abolitionism and abolitionists, 42, 56, 88, 192, 319–20; “Bleeding Kansas” and John Brown, 446–49; conservative vs. radical wings, 142–43; “First of August” rallies, 176–77, 214; Fugitive Slave Law, 316–17, 345–47; HDT defends Brown, 451–53; HDT’s “Slavery in Mass.,” 346–47, 368; Hoar affair in SC, 184; Lyceum talks about, 142–43, 166; radicals bring Douglass and others to speak, 142–43; Thoreau family abolitionist songbook, Fig. 19; and women, 42, 93, 142. See also Alcott, A. Bronson; Brown, John; Burns, Anthony; Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Garrison, William Lloyd; Hayden, Lewis; Minkins, Shadrach; Parker, Theodore; Phillips, Wendell; Sims, Thomas, arrest and rendition of; Thoreau, Henry David
Acton, MA, 455
“Address on West Indian Emancipation” (RWE), 222
Adirondack Mountains (NY), 432
Aeolian harp, 544n35
Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound, translated by HDT, 144–45; Seven Against Thebes, 158
Agassiz, Louis, 229, 287, 305, 420, 481; aided by HDT, 229, 345; excursion to NY with RWE, 432; HDT met, 287–88; HDT’s friendly argument with, 400; opposed Darwin, 458–59
Aitteon, John (Penobscot governor), 334
Aitteon, Joseph (HDT’s guide), 334–39, 341
Alcott, A. Bronson, 103, 119–20, 147, 182, 281, 320, 354, 458, 475, Fig. 25; in HDT’s final days, 491, 494, 498; organized and attended HDT’s funeral, 499
educator: Conversations with Children, 78, 98; a founder of Temple School, 97–98; offered public “Conversations,” etc., 325–27, 393; served as school superintendent, 461–62
founder of Fruitlands commune, 120, 159
friendship with HDT, 103, 188, 198, 216, 326, 364, 477–78
perennial poverty of, 236, 322, 324; assistance provided by RWE, 234–36, 258, 559n49; move to Boston, 324; move to Concord (Hillside), 103; move to Concord (Orchard House), 424; move to Vermont, 392
social views: conventional view of Indians, 420; sheltered escaped slave, 216; stirred by John Brown, 448, 453, 455; as tax refuser, nonresistant and abolitionist, 139–40, 210–12, 248, 251, 345
writer, 139, 170; involvement with Dial, 111, 115, 132; “Orphic Sayings,” 111, 116
Alcott family, 423–24, 499; Abigail (May) (Mrs. A.), 119–20, 143, 216, 231, 245, 324, 327; Anna (daughter), 103, 233, 499; attended HDT’s funeral, 499; directed antislavery play, 424; drafted Moods, 462; Elizabeth (daughter), died young, 424; impressions of RWE, HDT, 462; Louisa May (daughter), 159, 234, 479; married, 424, 462; “Thoreau’s Flute” (poem), quoted, 462, 552n101
Alcott House (school in England), 139
Allagash River (ME), 406; A. Lakes, 412
“Allegash & East Branch, The” (third book of Maine Woods), 419, 497; as lecture, 440
Allen, Phineas, 57, 102, 517n3; educated a generation, 51–52; founded debating society, 54; Lyceum secretary, 55
Allen, William, 62, 86, 379
Alley, Sen. John B., 421
American Agriculturalist, 160
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 307, 546n72
American Peace Society, 140
“American Scholar, The” (RWE), 82, 97
Amherst, NH, 397
Anacreon, 144
Anderson, Dr. Charles L., 484, 490
animal minds, HDT and, 305
Anthropocene epoch, 8–9
Antioch College (Yellow Springs, OH), 481
antislavery. See abolitionism and abolitionists
apples, wild, 200, 380, 486
Arabian Nights, 145
Aristotle, 66, 461
Armory Hall (Boston), 168
arrowheads, Indian-made, 3–4, 15, 108, 284, 410; symbolic for HDT, 9, 166, 437, 500; at Walden, 16, 204
aspen, 297
“Assabet, The” (HDT), 113
Assabet River, 13, 121, 342, 406
Associationism. See Fourierism (Associationism)
Atlantic magazine, 172, 326, 341; published HDT’s essay “Chesuncook,” 421–23;
published HDT’s lectures (“Autumnal Tints,” “What Shall It Profit?,” “Walking,” “Wild Apples”), 495–96
Atlantic Ocean, 25, 276–79; HDT admired seascape, 152, 279–80, 321
Audubon, John James, 306
Augustine, Saint, 351
“Aulus Persius Flaccus” (HDT), 111, 115
Authors’ Ridge (Sleepy Hollow cemetery), 500
“Autumnal Tints” (HDT), 53, 130, 434; as lecture, 439–40, 448, 476–77
Bachi, Prof. Pietro, 66
Ball, Benjamin West, 159
Ball, Deacon Nehemiah, 85–86
Bangor, ME, 27–28, 32, 95, 217, 225, 334, 340
Bangs, Henry P., 290
Barn Bluff (Red Wing, MN), 489
Barnum, P. T., 366–67
Barrett, Samuel, 184–85
“Bartleby the Scrivener” (Melville), 149
Bartlett, Dr. Josiah, 44, 125, 214, 374, 454; prognosis for dying HDT, 480; son, Edward, 429
Bartlett, George, 211
batteaux (Maine riverboats), 218, 221
Bear Garden Hill (Walden Woods), 44
Beauport (Quebec), 297
Beck, Prof. Charles, 68–69
Bedford, NH, 108
Beecher, Rev. Henry Ward, 393
Beecher, Rev. Lyman, 47
Bellows Falls, NH, 391
Bhagavad Gita, xiii, 230–31, 271, 382
Big Bethel, Battle of, 486
Bigelow Mechanics Institute (Clinton, MA), 281
Billerica, MA, 107
Billerica Dam, 186, 441–43
Billings, Caleb and Nancy (HDT’s aunt), 27, 32
Billings, Rebecca (HDT’s cousin), 217
Black Jack (KS), battle of, 446–47
Blake, H. G. O., 241–42, 386, 387, 425, 453, 480, 498, Fig. 29; attended funeral of HDT, 499; excursions with HDT, 429; HDT’s correspondence with, 278, 294, 360, 402, 423, 429, 439, 474; invited HDT to lecture many times, 262; last visits with HDT, 481, 495; reviewed HDT’s “Walking” lecture, 397; visited ailing HDT, 478
Blake, William, 549n40
Blanding, Thomas, 547n82, 568n90
blasphemy, 263, 264, 271–72, 274, 453; “pride, pretension and infidelity” found in Walden, 359–60. See also Christianity; religion
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