New England: 
    families, 2, 3, 5;
    Peter Bulkeley’s coming, 6;
    clerical virtues, 9;
    Church, 14;
    literary sky, 33;
    domestic service, 34, 35;
    two centres, 52;
    an ideal town, 70, 71;
    the Delphi, 72;
    Carlyle invited, 83;
    anniversaries, 84;
    town records, 85;
    Genesis, 102;
    effect of Nature, 106;
    boys and girls, 163;
    Massachusetts, Connecticut River, 172;
    lyceums, 192;
    melancholy, 216;
    New Englanders and Old, 220;
    meaning of a word, 296, 297;
    eyes, 325;
    life, 325, 335;
    birthright, 364;
    a thorough New Englander, 406;
    Puritan, 409;
    theologians, 410;
    Jesus wandering in, 419. 
    (See America, England, etc.)

  Newspapers: 
    defaming the noble, 145;
    in Shakespeare’s day, 204.

  Newton, Mass.: 
    its minister, 15;
    Episcopal Church, 68. 
    (See Rice.)

  Newton, Sir Isaac, times quoted, 382.

  Newton, Stuart, sketches, 130.

  New World, gospel, 371. (See America.)

  New York: 
    Brevoort House, 246;
    Genealogical Society, 413.

  Niagara, visit, 263.

  Nidiver, George, ballad, 259.

  Nightingale, Florence, 220.

  Nithsdale, Eng., mountains, 78.

  Non-Resistance, 141.

  North American Review: 
    its predecessor, 28, 29, 33;
    the writers, 34;
    Emerson’s contributions, 73;
    Ethics, 294, 295;
    Bryant’s article, 328.

  Northampton, Mass., Emerson’s preaching, 53.

  Norton, Andrews: 
    literary rank, 34;
    professorship, 52.

  Norton, Charles Eliot: 
    editor of Correspondence, 82;
    on Emerson’s genius, 373.

  Old Manse, The: 
    allusion, 70;
    fire, 271-279. 
    (See Concord.)

  Oliver, Daniel, in Dartmouth College, 132.

  Optimism: 
    in philosophy, 136;
    “innocent luxuriance,” 211;
    wanted by the young, 373.

  Oriental: 
    genius, 120;
    spirit in Emerson, 179.

  Orpheus, allusion, 319.

  Paine, R.T., JR., quoted, 31.

  Palfrey, John Gorham: 
    literary rank, 34;
    professorship, 52.

  Pan, the deity, 140.

  Pantheism: 
    in Wordsworth and Nature, 103;
    dreaded, 141;
    Emerson’s, 410, 411.

  Paris, Trance: 
    as a residence, 78;
    allusion, 167;
    salons, 184;
    visit, 196, 308.

  Parker, Theodore: 
    a right arm of freedom, 127;
    at a party, 149;
    The Dial, 159, 160;
    editorship, 193;
    death, 228;
    essence of Christianity, 306;
    biography, 368;
    on Emerson’s position, 411.