marriage, 217
    honeymoon, 217, 218
    and father’s church troubles, 223, 229
    children by first wife, 225, 236, 244, 267
    marriage of future mother-in-law, 228
    domesticity, 230, 238, 285, 375, 394, 2, 106, 116, 245
    family at New Haven (1820), 1, 234
    perseverance, 240
    on saying farewell, 254
    and death of wife, on her character, 265-270, 288, 2, 115
    sonnet on Lafayette, 1, 273
    homes for children, 274, 298
    leadership, altruism, 275, 305, 2, 443
    thoughts on second marriage, 1, 285, 418, 2, 115
    and decline and death of father, 1, 286, 287
    on servants, 291, 302
    and decline of mother, 292
    narrow escape (1828), 293-295
    constitution, 304
    temperance, 304
    moulding of character, 304
    and foreign languages, 372
    patriotism, 395, 423, 427-429, 438, 2, 383, 428, 429
    on devotion and emotion of taste, 1, 401
    capacity for friendship, 439, 2, 494
    maintenance of his rights, 1, 439, 2, 2, 518
    necessary qualities of an inventor, 16, 20, 57, 91, 152, 171
    belief in divine ordination of his invention, and divine plan in
      trials and successes, 19, 46-48, 127, 160, 170, 180, 181, 190-193,
      213, 216, 222-224, 229, 230, 233, 234, 266, 267, 271, 284, 403,
      442, 443, 453, 472, 493
    controversies over Catholic Church, 35-37, 330, 336
    self-control, 116, 155
    sense of humor, 116, 155
    horror of debt, 174, 178, 312
    liberality, donations, 269, 298-301, 311, 315, 321, 413, 437
    and Poughkeepsie home, 269, 280, 284, 286, 296, 464, 496
    on being fifty-six, 277
    second marriage and family, 289, 290, 494
    and printing when a boy, 299
    despondency under strain of litigation, 301
    attitude toward rewards for invention, 314
    refuses to endorse notes, 319;
    defence of slavery, 331, 333, 389, 390, 415, 416, 418, 420, 424-426,
      429, 430, 432
    on crinoline, 373
    as hare to brother’s tortoise, 388, 389
    buys house in New York, 409
    monument to father, 421, 422
    on Unitarianism, 430
    exhortation of his children, 433, 434
    on wayward sons, 435, 466
    on enigma of wealth, 436
    trials and afflictions of old age, 459, 481, 482, 498
    on old age, 461, 464
    and death of brothers, 466, 496
    pastor on character, 493
    poem (1827), 495, 496
    versatility, 509, 517
    Prime’s review of character, 516-519
    sensibility, 518
  Art student in England, 1811-15:
    voyage to England with Allston, 1, 32-35
    on English ladies, 36
    journey to London, 36
    on treatment of travelers, tips, impositions, 36-39
    on English laboring class, 36