_Germ, The_, 97, 221-2. Gettysburg, battle of, 184, 187; Lincoln's speech at, 184. Gilchrist, Anne (Mrs. Alexander), 265, 267, 268, 301, 336; reads _L. of G._, 225; views of _C. of Adam_, 225-7, 284; letters published, 225; goes to Philadelphia, 263; account of, 263-6; W. visits, 266; death of, 303, 320. Gilchrist, Grace, quoted, 268, etc. Gilchrist, Herbert H., 320. Girls, attitude toward, 30. Glendale, W. at, 280, 286. Godiva, Lady, 264. God, W.'s idea of, 75, 76, 101, 243-4, 253-4. God latent in humanity, 100. Goethe, 58, 62, 121, 222, 224, 289, 292. _Good-bye, my Fancy_, described, 338-40; title explained, 340. _Good Gray Poet, The_, by O'Connor, 191, 214, 227, 333. Government, purpose of all, 240. Grant, Gen., 182; takes Vicksburg, 185; at Chattanooga, 187; faith of North in Grant, 188; ends war, _ib._; President, 235; and the West, 272; W.'s belief in, 203; W. appeals to, 209. "Great are the Myths," 104. Great Eastern Steamship, 173. Great men, W. values, 239. Greek, W. a, 279. Greeley, Horace, 39. Guyot, 263. Hafiz, 318. "Halcyon Days," 330. Hale, E. E., 108. Halleck, Fitz-Green, 42. Hamilton, Alex., xxv, 23. "Hand-Mirror, A," 124. Happiness, the purpose of things, 101; of old age, 330. Harlan, James, 219, 223, 227; dismisses W., 213-4. Harleigh Cemetery, 345. Harned, T. B., relations with W., 325, 349. Harper's Ferry, 136. _Harrington_, by W. D. O'Connor, 190. Harrison, President, 38. Hartmann, S., 319-20. Hawthorne, N., 34, 301. Health, a fine art, 241; spiritual basis of, 204, 339; open-air and, 340. Health, W. proud of his, 68-9; W. to irradiate, 101, 338; W.'s, 28; and mystical experience, 69; W.'s in Washington, 193; hurts his hand, 194; careful of his, 196; effect of heat upon, 200; first illness, 202-4; h. seems to be good again, 216; feels extremes of climate, 218; Rossetti thinks health affects W.'s philosophy, 222; partial paralysis, 232; illness, 246; details recounted, 247; relapse, 248; depression accompanies illness, 249; consideration of causes, 252-3; illness, poems in, 253-4; convalescence, 258; help derived from Nature, 260-2; h. improved, 270; ill in St. Louis, 273; in Canada, 275-6; better in Boston, 283; has a sunstroke, 314; increasing uncertainty, 317; paralysis, 326. Hegel, 62, 289, 309; limit of W.'s agreement with, 296-8. Heine, 339. Heretic, W. a, 143. Hero-worship, W.'s, 293. Heyde, Hannah (Whitman), 12, 86, 88, 342; W. visits, 246. Hicks, Elias, 4, 5, 6, 121, 142; account of, 14-5; preaches at Brooklyn, 15-7; his death, 17; effect on W., 16-9; W.'s essay on, 329. "Historian, To a," 153. Hodgson, Robert, an English Quaker, 4.