Chapter 8

"Abram Morrison,"86."Adrian,"152.Agamenticus,86,89.Aldrich, T. B.,75.Allinson, Francis Greenleaf,39.Allinson, W. J.,39.American Manufacturer,69,71,102,136.Amesbury,3,42,55-89.Amesbury public library,95.Ancient desk,20.Andover,5.Anecdotes as told by Whittier:Aunt Mercy's vision,22,23;Country Bridge ghost,15;conscience stirred by thunderstorm,27;Elizabeth's practical joke,28;the "tipsy wife,"31,32;cold drives to Amesbury,33;"Old Butler,"36;the Morse boys,36;Garrison's first visit,37;a Quaker swaps cows,37;"the power of figures,"40-42;instance of guidance of spirit,82,83;legend of Po Hill,85,86;Chase characterizes Lincoln's stories,98;Hiram Collins and Emerson,98,99.Anecdotes related of Whittier:Last visit to birthplace,24-38;the fire on the hearth,26;attempt at levitation,28;visits site of "In School Days,"32;cherry-tree incident,34;story of Evelina Bray,68-72;receives lightning stroke,73;taking notes at Quaker meeting,82;sees mirage at Salisbury Beach,91;Miss Phelps describes first meeting,102;thirteen at table,93,94;clock strikes mysteriously,95;the May Quarterly Meeting,96;saving money for funeral expenses,96;the pet parrot,97,98;husking at West Ossipee,111-114;an evening at Bearcamp,114-118;Alice Freeman Palmer's story,118,119;contract of perpetual bachelorhood,119;his English Quaker guest,122;escapes dedication of Bartlett statue,122.Anti-Masonic poem,141.Appledore,92.Artichoke River,57,58."A Sea Dream,"69."A Song of Praises,"153,154.Ayer, Capt. Edmund,29,30.Ayer, Lydia,26,30.Ayer, Lydia Amanda (Mrs. Evans),30.Ayer, Mrs.,117.Bagley, Valentine,84.Bailey, Mary,116.Bailey's Hill,83.Bancroft, George,64.Barnard, Mary,96.Bartlett, Josiah,84,122-125.Bearcamp House,110-117.Beecher, Catherine,70.Beecher, Henry Ward,76.Birchy Meadow,44.Birthplace of Whittier,8,9-40.Blaine, James G.,64,77,78.Boar's Head,86,89.Bonny Beag,86.Boon Island,86.Boston "Statesman,"102.Boutelle, Thomas E.,99.Boyd, Rev. P. S.,4.Boynton, E. Moody,122-124.Bradbury, Judge, and wife,56.Bradford,3.Bradstreet, Anne,5.Bray, Evelina,68,71.Brown's Hill,84.Burnham, Thomas E.,38.Burroughs, George,101.Butler, Benjamin F.,36.Butler, Philip,76.Butters, Charles,38.Byron, Lord,134-136.Caldwell, Adelaide,112,113,117.Caldwell, Louis,113.Caldwell, Mary (Whittier),25,74.Cape Ann,86.Captain's Well, The,83,84.Carleton, James H.,38.Cartland, Gertrude (Whittier),20,104,113.Cartland house, Newburyport,20,101.Cartland, Joseph,82,85,92,104,113.Catalogue of father's library,24,25.Cate, George W.,101.Centre Harbor, N. H.,99,110,113.Chain Bridge,59,60.Chamber in which Whittier died,94."Changeling, The,"92.Chase, Aaron,30,32.Chase, Mrs. Moses,32.Chase, Salmon P.,98.Child, Lydia Maria,75.Chocorua,110-115.Churchill, J. W.,123.Claflin, William,102,118.Clarkson, Thomas,25.Clay, Henry,77,141."Cobbler Keezar's Vision,"86.Coffin, Joshua,26,30,31,103,104.Coggswell, William,64.Collier, Rev. William R.,102.Collins, Hiram,124."Common Question, The,"97.Corliss Hill,30-32."Countess, The,"47,51.Country Bridge,14,15,46.Country Brook,14-17,104.Crane Neck,86.Currier, Horace,117.Curson's Mill,57,58.Cushing, Caleb,5.Dana, Charles A.,149.Danvers,86.Daughters of the Revolution,84.Davis, Robert T.,122.Deer Island,5,58-60.Dickens, Charles,108."Division, The,"109.Douglass, Frederick,64.Downey, Evelina (Bray),71.Downey, W. S.,70.Duncan, Sarah M. F.,38.Dustin, Hannah,40.East Haverhill,3.East Haverhill church,51.Ela, Amelia,19."Eleanor,"46.Ellwood's "Drab-Skirted Muse,"25.Emerson, Nehemiah,66.Emerson, Ralph Waldo,65,99.Emmons, "Ginger-Pop,"124.Essex Club,64."Eternal Goodness, The,"63,107."Eternity,"137,138."Exiles, The,"84.Fernside Brook,9,11,12,16,17.Ferry, the,75.Fields, Annie,102.Fields, James T.,46,102.Fletcher, Rev. J. C.,58,89,92.Ford, Miss,112,116."Fountain, The,"87.Fox, George,25,47."Fragment, A,"136.Frankle, Annie W.,38.Fremont, J. C.,149.Friend Street,58.Friends' meeting-house,33,80,81.Frietchie, Barbara,65.Frinksborough,138."Gail Hamilton's Wedding,"120-122.Garden at birthplace,18.Garden room, Amesbury,32,62-71.Garrison, William Lloyd,37,76,103,104.Garrison's birthplace,103.Golden Hill,8.Goodspeed, C. E.,51note.(TR: nowFootnote 3)"Goody" Martin,56,57,84.Gordon, "Chinese,"65.Gove, Sarah Abby,92,93."Grave of Morgan, The,"142,143.Green, Ruth,29.Greene, Nathaniel,102.Greenleaf, Sarah,20,22,29,103.Grimké, Angelina,119.Group at Sturtevant's,113.Groveland,3."Hamilton, Gail,"108,120-122.Hampton Beach,86,88.Hampton Falls,92,93.Hampton marshes,92.Hampton River,88.Haskell, George,40."Haunted Bridge of Country Brook,"15.Haverhill,3,7.Haverhill Academy,6,129."Haverhill Gazette,"24,48,136,143,152.Hawkswood,58.Hay, John,75.Higginson, Thomas Wentworth,78.Hines, Peter,117.Hoar, George F.,64.Holmes, Oliver Wendell,108."Homecoming of the Bride, The,"15,104.How, George C.,38."How they climbed Chocorua,"111.Howe, Julia Ward,75.Hume, Isabel,116.Huntington, Jacob R.,84,122.Hussey, Mercy Evans,22,26,61,62,85.Ichneumon, the living,138."In School Days,"26,30,32.Ipswich,86.Ireson, Capt. Benjamin,72.Isles of Shoals,86,89,91,117."I would not lose that Romance Wild,"130.Jackson, Andrew,141.Job's Hill,9,12,17,36.Johnson, Caroline,101.Johnson, Mary,101."June on the Merrimac,"58."Justice and Expediency,"22.Kansas,150,151.Kearsarge,86.Kelley, Clarence E.,38.Kimball's Pond,95.Kitchen at birthplace,17,19,21,23Knox brothers,110-115.Ladd, "Squire,"32.Lake Kenoza,8,10.Lansing, Miss,111,116.Larcom, Lucy,111,114,116."Last Walk in Autumn, The,"56."Last Will of Man in Bear-Trap, The,"116-118."Laurels, The,"58.Lee, N. H.,100.Little Boar's Head,86.Livermore, Harriet,39,101.Lloyd, Elizabeth,34.Longfellow, Henry W.,65,108.Lowell, James Russell,108."Mabel Martin,"56,84.Macy house,84.Macy, Thomas,84."Maids of Attitash, The,"95.Map of Whittier-Land,xii.Marlboro Hotel,102."Memorial, A,"98."Memories,"66.Menahga,46.Merrimac, town,3,44,82.Merrimac River,3,4,44,56,58,60.Millvale,15,46,104.Minot, Harriet (Mrs. Pitman),138."Miriam,"86.Mitford, Mary Russell,75."Moll Pitcher,"66note(TR: nowFootnote 4),131.Monadnock,33,86.Morgan, William,141.Morrill, Jettie,116.Morse, "Goody,"104.Mother's room,22,23.Moulton house, Hampton,92.Moulton's Hill,58.Mount Washington,86.Mundy Hill,84,87."My Double,"123-125."My Namesake,"39."My Playmate,"44,46,67."Name, A,"74."National Era,"76,150.Newbury,3,14,32,44,56,58,86,103.Newburyport,3,86."New England,"131-134."New England Review,"43,76,131,137.New York "Tribune,"149."New Wife and the Old, The,"92.Niagara Falls,141.Nicholson, Elizabeth,34."Northern Lights, The,"146,147.Nottingham, N. H.,96.Oak Knoll, Danvers,99,101,122,123.Ode for dedication of Academy,7."Old Burying Ground, The,"51."Old Oaken Bucket, The,"147.Old South meeting-house, Newburyport,103,104."One of the Signers,"122.Ordway, Alfred A.,17-19,35,38,46.Ossipee range,86."Our River,"58."Ours,"79,80.Palmer, Alice Freeman,118,119.Passaconaway,86.Pawtuckaway range,95.Peaslee house, "Old Garrison,"46,47,55.Peaslee, Joseph,47.Peaslee, Mary,29,46."Pennsylvania Freeman,"61,70,76.


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