Howe, Samuel Gridley (the author’s father), and Parker’s request, 4; founder and builder of the Perkins Institution for the Blind, 5; his children, 6; author’s first memory of, 6; teaching author to tell the time, 7; idea of discipline, 7; good judge of character, 8; education of Laura Bridgman, 10; of restless temperament, 11; and Fourth of July, 12-14; friends and associates, 14-21; and John Brown, 15-16; intimacy with Sumner, 17; and John A. Andrew, 17; letters to Governor Andrew, 19, 20; services under Andrew, 19-20; one of the founders of the Sanitary Commission, 19-20; and the death of Lincoln, 21; life at Green Peace, 32; a fine horseman, 32, 54; letter describing his children, 34; and McClellan, 58; activities, 61; his _sobriquet_ of “Chevalier”, 61; reading aloud, 62; an errand of mercy to Greece, 78-80; chairman of Board of State Charities, 82-83; commissioner for annexation of Santo Domingo, 84; conflicting invitations to dinner, 85; on domestic economy, 88; letters to author, 89-90; failure of annexation a disappointment to, 91; revisits Santo Domingo, 91-99; in Cuba, 101-104; close companionship with author, 106; and Grant’s reëlection, 108-109; life at Portsmouth, 109-110; sells Lawton’s Valley, 117; purchase of Oak Glen, 117; home in Mt. Vernon Street, 127; his death and its influence on the author, 134; memory cherished in Greece, 190, 191; greatest achievement the education of Laura Bridgman, 228; his daughter Laura’s memoir of, 330; thoughts of a memorial to, 330 Howe, Samuel Gridley, Junior (the author’s brother), 5; author’s first memory of, 6-7; born at Green Peace, 33; early death of, 33 Howells, William Dean, 226 Hubbard, Miss, in charge of Miss Wilby’s School, 58 Hubbard, Wilfranc, 325, 326 “Huggermuggers and Kobbletozo, The”, 29 “Humor and Philosophy of Woman Suffrage in England”, lecture by Samuels, 381 Hunker, Lieutenant John J., 188 “Hunkers”, 57 Hunt, Richard, 115, 116, 367, 368 Hunt, William M., 6; studio of, 23; author’s recollections of, 118-119; home at Readville, 118; frescoes in the Capitol at Albany, 119; feeling toward Boston, 120; studio first home of Art Association of Newport, 367-368; studio acquired by John Elliott, 388-389 Huntress, Miss, 355 Hurlburt, William Henry, 266, 268 Hutchinson, Dr. Woods, 365 Iddings, Mr. and Mrs., 302 Ignazio, gardener at Palazzo Rusticucci, 320-321 “Imagination in Business”, Deland, 203 “In Darkest England”, Booth, 242 Indiana Place Chapel, first home of the Church of the Disciples, 47 International Peace Conference, Mrs. Howe’s appeal for an, 85 “Iron Chest, The”, first tragedy seen by author, 39 “Iron Woman, The”, Deland, 202 Irving, Sir Henry, preferred in melodrama and farce by author, 151; 237 Irving, Washington, and the Alhambra, 254 Irwin, Robert, 178