rest in self-culture and questions of public thought,
29, 30;
her desire for intellectual improvement the outgrowth of personal rather
than religious motives, 30, 31;
her religious beliefs, 32-38;
anecdote relating her many doubts and trials in the matter of religion,
35-38;
her first acquaintance with Ralph Waldo Emerson, 40;
satirical proclivities of, as mentioned by Mr. Emerson, 41;
her beneficent influence upon friends and intimates, 42, 43;
an enthusiastic and appreciative student of art, 44-47;
notes on the Athenaeum Gallery of Sculpture by, 45;
self-esteem one of her most prominent and valuable qualities, 47-49;
removal from Cambridge to Groton, 49;
the literary activity of, in the seclusion of her Groton home, 50, 59;
extract from her correspondence while at Groton, 51-54;
her meeting with, and sincere friendship for, Harriet Martineau, 54, 55;
her very serious illness, 55, 56;
her grief at the death of her father, 56;
the straitened circumstances of, attendant on her father's death, 56, 57;
finds prayer a constant source of relief and support, 57;
her devotion to her family, 57-59;
her removal to Boston, 60, 61;
a teacher in Mr. Alcott's school, 61;
brief sketch of her labors while in Boston, 62-65;
her connection with Greene Street School, Providence, R. I., 65;
brief account of her life and acquaintances in Providence, 66, 67;
extract from her farewell address to her pupils at Providence, 68, 69;
her criticism of Harriet Martineau's book on America, 69, 70;
accepts the editorship of the "Dial," 70;
extract from her contributions to the "Dial," 74-77;
her estimate of Washington Allston's pictures, 76, 79-83;
her friendship with Mr. Emerson the outgrowth of mutual esteem rather
than of personal sympathy, 84, 85;
her relations with William Henry Channing, 86-90;
her relation to the Transcendental movement in New England, 92-99;
her visit to the Brook Farm Community, 97, 98;
her love for little children, 100;
her visit to Concord after the death of Ralph Waldo Emerson's son, 101;
extracts from her journal, 101-103;
her conversations in Boston, 104-115;
the extraordinary success of her undertaking, 108;
the second series of her conversations, 111, 114;
variety of topics discussed in her conversations, 114;
her summer on the Lakes, 115;
extracts from her record of the journey, 115-125;
her visit to, and impressions