rginia, University of, 299.

Volcano, illustration, 113.

Voltaire, 409.

Voting, done reluctantly, 152, 153.

Wachusett, Mount, 70.

Walden Pond:
allusion, 22, 70, 72;
cabin, 142, 143.
(See _Concord_.)

War:
outgrown, 88, 89;
ennobling, 298.

Ware, Henry, professorship, 52.
(See _Harvard University_.)

Ware, Henry, Jr.:
Boston ministry, 55;
correspondence, 124-127.
(See _Unitarianism_, etc.)

Warren, John Collins, Transcendentalism and Temperance, 149.

Warren, Judge, of New Bedford, 67.

Warwick Castle, fire, 275.

Washington City, addresses, 307.
(See _Anti-Slavery_, etc.)

Waterville College, Adelphi Society, 135-142.

Webster, Daniel:
E.B. Emerson's association with, 19;
on Tudor, 28, 29;
literary rank, 33;
Seventh-of-March Speech, 303;
times mentioned, 382.

Weiss, John, Parker biography, 368.

Wellington, Lord, seen by Emerson, 63, 64.

Wesley, John, praise of, 306.
(See _Methodism_.)

Western Messenger, poems in, 128.

West India Islands, Edward B. Emerson's death, 89.

Westminster Abbey, Emerson's visit, 63, 64.
(See _Emerson's Books_,--English Traits,--_England_, etc.)

Westminster Catechism, 298.
(See _Calvinism, Religion_, etc.)

Whipple, Edwin Percy:
literary rank, 33;
club, 223;
on heredity, 389.

White of Selborne, 228.

Whitman, Walt:
his enumerations, 325, 326;
journal, 344, 346.

Wilberforce, William, funeral, 64.

Will:
inspiration of, 289;
power of, 290.

Windermere, Lake, 70.
(See _England_.)

Winthrop, Francis William, in college, 45.

Wolfe, Charles, Burial of Moore, 416.

Woman:
her position, 212, 213, 251;
crossing a street, 364.

Woman's Club, 16.

Words, Emerson's favorite, 404, 405.
(See _Emerson's Poems_,--Days.)

Wordsworth, William:
Emerson's account, 63;
early reception, Excursion, 92, 95;
quoted, 96, 97;
Tintern Abbey, 103;
influence, 148, 150;
poetic rank, 281, 321;
on Immortality, 293, 392;
popularity, 316;
serenity, 335;
study of nature, 337;
times mentioned, 382;
We are Seven, 393;
prejudice against science, 401.

Wotton, Sir Henry, quoted, 259.

Yankee:
a spouting, 136;
_improve_, 176;
whittling, 364.
(See _America, New England_, etc.)

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