-- Jesse (W.'s grandfather), xxv, 5, 6, 8. -- Jesse (W.'s brother), 11, 65, 86, 256. -- Jessie, 342. -- Joseph, 5. -- Lieutenant, 5. -- Louisa (van Velsor), 4, 65, 103, 112; described, 6-7; and W., 12-3; illness, 19-20; and _L. of G._, 88; letters of W. to, 202, 233, 247, etc.; age and failing health, 210; a link with W.'s youth, 233; goes to Camden, 246; death, 248; effect on W., 249, 250, 252, 258; her tomb, 341. -- Louisa (Mrs. George W.), 250, 269. -- Mahala, 280. -- Martha, 248. -- Mary, 11, 86. -- Walt, Dutch element in, 3; born, 6; at West Hills, 7-9; at Brooklyn, 10-3; hears Hicks, 15-8; amusements and education, 19; as a lad, 19-20; sees Booth, 22; and politics, 22, 33; at seventeen, 28; as a teacher, 28-33; games, 30; his idleness, 20, 30-1; and _Long Islander_, 31-2; wholesomeness, 32; a journalist, 33-7; _Franklin Evans_, 35; an editor, 37; political views, 39, 40, 44; love of society, 40; and of New York, 20, 41-2; the _Eagle_, 42-4; public work, 43; goes to New Orleans, 46, 49-53; returns _via_ St. Louis, 54; his idea of America, 55; becomes a carpenter, 56; his reading, 57-61; attitude to American writers, 59-60; and to science, etc., 60-2; passion for America, 63; inner development, 65, 69-78; W. at 35, 66-8, 83; in N.Y., 82-6; hears Alboni, 86; indifference to money, 87; begins _L. of G._, 87; publishes it, 88; daily habits, 65, 88; holidays, 86, 89; power of joy, 91; compared with Emerson, 94; view of the poet, 95-7; describes his childhood, 103-4; religious quality of W., 105-6; relation to Emerson, Rousseau, Shelley, 106-8; reviews _L. of G._, 109; visit from Conway, 110-2; appearance in '55, 111; visit from Alcott and Thoreau, 112-5; love of city-life, 114; publishes second edition _L. of G._, 116; symbolism of W., 117-22; W. as the American poet, 123; W. and evil, 124-5; and women, 126-7; in danger of prosecution, 127; publishes Emerson's letter, 127-8; his letter to E., 128; idea of lecturing, 129-31; and of political life, 131-2; need for comrades, 132-3; becomes a Republican, 134; W. and J. Brown, 136; W.'s N.Y. friends, 137; in N.Y., 138-40; appearance in 1860, 140; rarely laughs, 142; at Boston, 142-3; with Emerson, 143-7; his optimism, 151; humility, 154; mystic experience, 155; pride, 156; evil qualities, 156; attitude toward sex, 159-62; his temperance, 160; as Adam, 162; on comradeship, 163; W. and Jesus, 167-8; and death, 169; W. in N.Y., 172; and P. of Wales, 173; sees Lincoln, 175-6; W. and the outbreak of war, 178-81; goes to front, 183-4; home-troubles, 185-6, 193;