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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