Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, J. R. L. votes for, ii. 216; his invitation to J. R. L. through W. D. Howells, to take a foreign embassy, 217; comes to Boston, where J. R. L. meets him, 218; the impression he makes on J. R. L., 219. Hayward, Abraham, abuses Monckton Milnes, ii. 335. Hazlitt, William Carew, as editor, ii. 78. _Heartsease and Rue_, collected, ii. 357; published, 368. Heath, John Francis, aids J. R. L. in the publication of _A Year’s Life_, i. 93. Hemans, Charles, i. 332. Herbert, Auberon, ii. 335. Hereford, ii. 157. Herrick, Mrs. Sophie Bledsoe, characterizes Mrs. F. D. Lowell, i. 404; on composition of _Commemoration Ode_, ii. 65, note; writes an article on J. R. L., 196; and calls out a response, 197; entertains J. R. L. in Baltimore, 214; J. R. L. to, on church-going, 311. Higginson, Thatcher, schoolmate of J. R. L., i. 22. Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, day-scholar with J. R. L. at Mr. Wells’s school, i. 22; his recollection of J. R. L.’s boyhood, 24; his “Old Cambridge” on J. R. L.’s suspension, 47; J. R. L. to, on T. Parker, 290, note; Underwood writes to, about a projected magazine, 354, note; letter to, from J. R. L. on the independence of the _Atlantic_, 426; J. R. L. to, on _Commemoration Ode_, ii. 67, note; his saying on cosmopolitanism, 79; J. R. L. to, on Italy, 270. Hilda, B. V. Sancta, the patroness of Whitby, ii. 381. Hill, Thomas, ii. 135. Hillard, George Stillman, editor of an annual, i. 93; is go-between for J. R. L. and others with Hawthorne, 284. Hitchcock, Rev. Jeduthun, successor to Parson Wilbur, ii. 38. Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood, J. R. L. makes the acquaintance of, i. 50; member of the Adirondack Club, 405; his speech at Stillman’s dinner, 448; J. R. L. dedicates second series of _Biglow Papers_ to, ii. 104; J. R. L.’s last note to, 407. _Hob Gobbling’s Song_, ii. 106. Hogarth, J. R. L.’s pleasure in, ii. 155, 171. Holmes, John, friend of J. R. L. and member with him of whist club, i. 271; his whimsical mode of giving a gift, 311; letter to, from J. R. L., descriptive of life in Florence, 315; letter to, from J. R. L., giving impressions of Rome, 342; a member of the Adirondack Club, 405; on his brother’s musical gifts, 448; hears _Commemoration Ode_, ii. 64; J. R. L. finds him in London, 154; and in Paris, 161; companion to J. R. L. in Paris, 163.