Writes a political paper for the _Atlantic_ jointly with Mr. Godwin, ii. 4; does not reprint it, 5; the qualities of the paper, 13; writes a paper on _American Tract Society_, 13; and two on Choate and Cushing, 14; his main contention in these papers, 16; identifies himself with Republican party, 17; prefers Seward to Lincoln, 18; his first characterization of Lincoln, 19; his uncertainty as to results, 20; writes on _The Question of the Hour_, 20; and on secession, 23; disappointed in Lincoln’s public utterances, 25; writes on the English attitude, 27; his private views on Lincoln, 29; is anxious for his nephews, 30; cannot write _Biglows_, 32; writes _The Washers of the Shroud_, 33; his refreshment in nature, 34; writes the first of the second series of _Biglow Papers_, 34; the ease with which he assumes the Yankee dialect, 35; his greater firmness in his second series, 36; the earnestness of his tone, 37; his playing at old age, 38; writes _Mason and Slidell_, 40; and _Sunthin’ in the Pastoral Line_, 41; writes his ode to the memory of Shaw, 42; his passion for freedom, 41; undertakes with Mr. Norton the editorship of the _North American Review_, 45; is whimsically indignant over the announcement, 47; writes to Mr. Motley for an article, 48; stirred to action by Mr. Norton, 49; writes on _The President’s Policy_, 50; confesses his earlier doubt about Lincoln, 50; his greater confidence in him, 51; criticises McClellan, 52; reexamines the causes of the war, 53; compares the candidates for the presidency, 55; exults in the promise of success, 57; finds expression in verso and prose, 58; forecasts reconstruction, 59; rejoices over the end of the war, 60; attacks the problem of reconstruction, 61; writes of Lincoln’s death, 62; called on to write his _Commemoration Ode_, 63; is wasted by the work, 64; comments on the structure of the ode, 66; delivers it, 69; his conception in it of Lincoln, 71; his recognition finally of Lincoln’s greatness, 72; finds in him the new American, 73; his familiar letters, 74; comments on “Miles Standish,” 75; studies Spanish, 76; makes his editing and teaching help each other, 77; edits a volume of Old Dramatists, 78, note; his loyalty to New England and America, 79; his characterization of his ancestors, 81; dines with Trollope, 82; meets with the Dante Club, 84; his relations to the whole field of intellectual life, 85; his discourses on literature, 87; his originality, 88; his personality in criticism, 89; reflex judgment on Carlyle, 89; criticises poetry in Swinburne, 92; his treatment of President Johnson, 93; his poetry carries farther than his prose, 94; entertains Cranch, 95; writes on the weather, 96; reflects on his personality, 99; makes new arrangements with the college, 100; edits Dryden, 101; considers a biography of Hawthorne, 102;