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Death, H. B. S. within sight of the River of, 513.
Debatable land between this world and the next, 464.
Declaration of Independence, H. B. S.'s feeling about, 11; death-knell to slavery, 141.
Degan, Miss, 32, 41, 46.
Democracy and American novelists, Lowell on, 329.
De Profundis, motive of Mrs. Browning's, 357.
De Stael, Mme., and Corinne, 67.
Dickens, first sight of, 226; J. R. Lowell on, 328.
“Dog's mission, a,” date of, 491.
Domestic service, H. B. S.'s trouble with, 200.
Doubters and disbelievers may find comfort in spiritualism, 487.
Doubts, religious, after death of eldest son, 321.
Douglass, Frederick, 254; letters from H. B. S. to, on slavery, 149.
Drake, Dr., family physician, 63; one of founders of “College of teachers,” 79.
“Dred,” 266; Sumner's letter on, 268; Georgiana May on, 268; English edition of, 270; presented to Queen Victoria, 271; her interest in, 277, 285; demand for, in Glasgow, 273; Duchess of Sutherland's copy, 276; Low's sales of, 278, 279; London times, on, 278; English reviews on, severe, 279; “Revue des Deux Mondes” on, 290; Miss Martineau on, 309; Prescott on, 311; Lowell on, 334; now Nina Gordon, publication of, 490.
Dudevant, Madame. See Sand, George.
Dufferin, Lord and Lady, their love of American literature, 284, 285.
Dundee, meeting at, 222.
Dunrobin Castle, visit to, 276.
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E—, letter from H. B. S. to, on breakfast at the Trevelyans', 234.Earthly care a Heavenly discipline, 131.
East Hampton, L. I., birthplace of Catherine Beecher, 23.
Eastman, Mrs., writes a Southern reply to Uncle Tom's Cabin, 163.
Edgeworth, Maria, 247.
Edinburgh, H. B. S. in, 216; return to, 222.
Edmonson slave family; efforts to save, 179; Mrs. Stowe educates and supports daughters, 179; raises money to free mother and two slave children, 180.
Edmonson, death of Mary, 238.
Education, H. B. S.'s interest in, 72, 73.
Edwards, Jonathan, the power of, 406; his treatise on The will, refuted by Catherine Beecher, 26.
Eliot, George, 419; a good Christian, 420; on psychical problems, 421; on Oldtown folks, 443; her despondency in “writing life” and longing for sympathy, 460; on power of fine books, 461; on religion, 462; desires to keep an open mind on all subjects, 467; on impostures of spiritualism, 467; lack of “jollitude” in “Middlemarch,” 471; invited to visit America, 471; sympathy with H. B. S. in Beecher trial, 472; proud of Stowes' interest in her “spiritual children,” 482; on death of Mr. Lewes and gratitude for sympathy of H. B. S., 483; a “woman worth loving,” H. B. S.'s love for greater than her admiration, 475; letters from H. B. S. to, on spiritualism, 463; describes Florida nature and home, 468; reply to letter of sympathy giving facts in the Beecher case, 473; from Professor Stowe on spiritualism, 419; letter to H. B. S. from, 421; with sympathy on abuse called out by the Byron affair, 458; on effect of letter of H. B. S. to Mrs. Follen
