Hillard, George Stillman: 
    in college, 24, 25;
    his literary place, 33;
    aid, 276.

  Hindoo Scriptures, 199, 200. (See Bible, India, etc.)

  History, how it should be written, 168.

  Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood: 
    reference to, 223;
    on the Burns speech, 225;
    kindness, 273, 274, 276-279;
    at Emerson’s death-bed, 349;
    funeral address, 351-353.

  Hoar, Samuel: 
    statesman, 72;
    tribute, 213, 214.

  Holland, description of the Dutch, 217.

  Holley, Horace, prayer, 267.

  Holmes, John, a pupil of Emerson, 50.

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell: 
    memories of Dr. Ripley, 15;
    of C.C.  Emerson, 20, 21;
    familiarity with Cambridge and its college, 45;
    erroneous quotation from, 251, 252;
    jest erroneously attributed to, 400, 401.

  Holy Ghost, “a new born bard of the,” 123. (See Christ, God,
    Religion, etc.)

  Homer: 
    poetic rank, 202, 320;
    plagiarism, 205;
    Iliad, 253;
    allusion, 315;
    tin pans, 325;
    times quoted, 382. (See Greek, etc.)

  Homer, Jonathan, minister of Newton, 15.

  Hooper, Mrs. Ellen, The Dial, 159, 160.

  Hope: 
    lacking in America, 143;
    in every essay, 284.

  Horace: 
    allusion, 22;
    Ars Poetica, 316.

  Horses, Flora Temple’s time, 388.

  Howard University, speech, 263.

  Howe, Samuel Gridley, the philanthropist, 223.

  Hunt, Leigh, meeting Emerson, 195.

  Hunt, William, the painter, 223.

  Idealism, 98-100, 146, 150.

  Idealists: 
    Ark full, 191;
    Platonic sense, 391.

  Imagination: 
    the faculty, 141;
    defined, 237, 238;
    essay, 283;
    coloring life, 324.

  Imbecility, 231.

  Immortality, 262. (See God, Religion, etc.)

  Incompleteness, in poetry, 339.

  India: 
    poetic models, 338;
    idea of preexistence, 391;
    Brahmanism, 397. (See Emerson’s Poems,—­Brahma.)

  Indians: 
    in history of Concord, 71;
    Algonquins, 72.

  Inebriation, subject in Monthly Anthology, 30.

  Insects, defended, 190.

  Inspiration: 
    of Nature, 22, 96, 141;
    urged, 146.

  Instinct, from God or Devil, 393.

  Intellect, confidence in, 134.

  Intuition, 394.

  Ipswich, Mass., 3, 4, 8.

  Ireland, Alexander: 
    glimpses of Emerson, 44, 64, 65: 
    reception, 193,194;
    on Carlyle, 196;
    letter from Miss Peabody, 317;
    quoting Whitman, 344;
    quoted, 350.

  Irving, Washington, 33.