escape (1828), 293-295
constitution, 304
temperance, 304
moulding of character, 304
and foreign languages, 372
patriotism, 395, 423, 427-429, 438, ~2~, 383, 428, 429
on devotion and emotion of taste, ~1~, 401
capacity for friendship, 439, ~2~, 494
maintenance of his rights, ~1~, 439, ~2~, 2, 518
necessary qualities of an inventor, 16, 20, 57, 91, 152, 171
belief in divine ordination of his invention, and divine plan in
trials and successes, 19, 46-48, 127, 160, 170, 180, 181, 190-193,
213, 216, 222-224, 229, 230, 233, 234, 266, 267, 271, 284, 403,
442, 443, 453, 472, 493
controversies over Catholic Church, 35-37, 330, 336
self-control, 116, 155
sense of humor, 116, 155
horror of debt, 174, 178, 312
liberality, donations, 269, 298-301, 311, 315, 321, 413, 437
and Poughkeepsie home, 269, 280, 284, 286, 296, 464, 496
on being fifty-six, 277
second marriage and family, 289, 290, 494
and printing when a boy, 299
despondency under strain of litigation, 301
attitude toward rewards for invention, 314
refuses to endorse notes, 319;
defence of slavery, 331, 333, 389, 390, 415, 416, 418, 420, 424-426,
429, 430, 432
on crinoline, 373
as hare to brother's tortoise, 388, 389
buys house in New York, 409
monument to father, 421, 422
on Unitarianism, 430
exhortation of his children, 433, 434
on wayward sons, 435, 466
on enigma of wealth, 436
trials and afflictions of old age, 459, 481, 482, 498
on old age, 461, 464
and death of brothers, 466, 496
pastor on character, 493
poem (1827), 495, 496
versatility, 509, 517
Prime's review of character, 516-519
sensibility, 518
_Art student in England, 1811-15:_
voyage to England with Allston, ~1~, 32-35
on English ladies, 36
journey to London, 36
on treatment of travelers, tips, impositions, 36-39
on English laboring class, 36
on England and embargo, 39
on Dr. Lettsom, 40
on English dining hour, 40
on a ghost, 41
West's interest in, 42, 44, 47, 62, 73, 85, 102, 103, 114, 179, 199
anecdote of West and George III., 42, 43
preparation to enter Royal Academy, 43, 46, 55
on West as artist and man, 44, 63, 68, 69, 102
on female artists, 45
on attitude toward art in England and America, 46, 122, 123
on Copley in old age, 47
on Elgin M