Personality, Carpenter's account of W.'s, 268, 306; the source of power, 169; W.'s doctrine of, 239-40; W. retains sense of own, 74; W.'s, influence of, 30. Pessimism, Tolstoi's, 295-6; Morris and Ruskin's, 296. Pfaff's Restaurant, N.Y., 138-40. Philadelphia, W. in, 251, 331-5. See Camden. Phillips, Wendell, on Lincoln, 191. Philosophy, W.'s interest in, 60-62. Phrenological estimate of W.'s character, 67-8. Pierce, President, 80, 103, 135. "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" 205. Pittsburg, W. at, 271. Plato, 58, 121, 126, 239, 240, 282; and W., 224, 291-2. Plotinus, 121. Poe, E. A., 37, 59, 258, 320; W. meets, 42. Poet, W. describes his ideal, 95-7, 103, 117-8, 123-4; need of the poet for expression, 89-90; alone realises unity of all, 243; W. as a, 328-9. Poets, two orders of, 328-9. "Poets to Come," 154. Poetry, W.'s view of, 59-61, 109; W. reads by the sea, 60; changes in modern English, 289-290. Polk, President, 40, 43. Poor, a menace to Democracy, the very, 240, 310-1. Pope, A., W. compared with, 151, 289. Population of America, xxv, 176, 308. Portraits of W. in 36th year, 66-7; _L. of G._ portrait, 110; "gentle shepherd," 218; others, 140-1, 148, 230, 257, 331, 338. See list of illustrations. Pose, W.'s, 338. Potter, Dr. J., on W., 229-30. Prairies, W. and the, 271. Praise, W.'s love of, 303, 335. Prayer, W. and, 76. "Prayer of Columbus," 253; described, 254-5. Pre-existence, W.'s doctrine of, 101. _Preface_ of 1855 used for poems, 116; omitted, 129; in selections, 223. _Preface_ to 1871 ed., 243. _Preface_ to 2nd Annex, 339. Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 97. Price, Mrs. Abby, 139, 219-20. Price, Miss, qu., 219-20. Pride, W.'s, 156, 317. Printer, W. as a, 19-20, 56. Prisons of the South, 187; W. visits prisons, 111-2. Property, W. and private, 240; rights of, 311. Prosecution of W. proposed in 1856, 127; in 1882, 284-5. "Prostitute, To a Common," 168. Proudhon, 309. Publisher, W. as his own, 219, 258, 259, 285, 305. Punishment, method of, 30. "Pupil, To a," 169. Puritanism, W. free from, 19. _Putnam's Monthly_, 108. Quaker traits in W., 112; W.'s story of a, 334-5. Quakeresses in hospitals, 195. Quakers, 121; on L. I., 4-5; a crisis among American, 14, 15; attitude to war, W. and the, 206; doctrine of Inner Light, 16, 17; doctrine of revelation, 55; essential character of their faith, 18; W.'s relation to, 75-6, 180, 206, 298-9, 301-2; Williams family and the, 347-8. Quebec, W. at, 276. _Radical, The_ (Boston), publishes Mrs. Gilchrist's letters, 225. "Rain, The voice of the," 330. Ramsay, A., 290. Rand and Avery, 283. Realisation, W.'s power of, 99. Reality, evil necessary to, 212. Recitations, W.'s in hospitals, 197. Redpath, James, 198.