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Kansas Nebraska Bill, 255; urgency of question, 265.“Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin” projected, 174; written, 188; contains facts, 203; read by Pollock, 226; by Argyll, 239; sickness caused by, 252; sale, 253; facts woven into “Dred,” 266; date of in chronological list, 490.
Kingsley, Charles, upon effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 196; visit to, 286; letters to H. B. S. from, on Uncle Tom's Cabin, 196, 218.
Kossuth, on freedom, 195; Mrs. Stowe calls upon, 237.
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Labouchere, Lady, Mary, visit to, 283.Lady Byron Vindicated, 454; date , 490.
Letters, circular, writing of, a custom in the Beecher family, 99; H. B. S.'s love of, 62, 63; H. B. S.'s peculiar emotions on re-reading old, 507.
Lewes, G. H., George Eliot's letter after death of, 483.
Lewes, Mrs. G. H. See Eliot, George, 325.
“ Library of Famous Fiction,” date of, 491.
“Liberator,” The, 261; and Bible, 263; suspended after the close of civil war, 396.
Lincoln and slavery, 380; death of, 398.
Lind, Jenny, liberality of, 181; H. B. S. attends concert by, 182; letter to H. B. S. from, on her delight in Uncle Tom's Cabin, 183; letters from H. B. S. to, with appeal for slaves, 183, 184.
Litchfield, birthplace of H. B. S., 1; end of her child-life in, 21; home at broken up, 35.
Literary labors, early, 15-21 ; prize story, 68; club essays, 69-71; contributor to Western monthly magazine, 81; school geography, 65; described in letter to a friend, 94; price for, 103; fatigue caused by, 489; length of time passed in, with list of books written, 490.
Literary work versus domestic duties, 94 et seq., 139; short stories--New year's story for “N. Y. Evangelist,” 146; “A scholar's adventures in the country” for “Era,” 146.
Literature, opinion of, 44.
Little pussy Willow, date of, 491.
Liverpool, warm reception of H. B. S. at, 207.
London poor and Southern slaves, 175.
London, first visit to, 225; second visit to, 281.
Longfellow, H. W., congratulations of, on Uncle Tom's Cabin, 161; letter on, 187; Lord Granville's likeness to, 233; letters to H. B. S. from, onUncle Tom's Cabin, 161.
Love, the impulse of life, 51, 52.
Lovejoy, J. P., murdered, 143, 145; aided by Beechers, 152.
Low, Sampson, on success of Uncle Tom's Cabin abroad, 189.
Low, Sampson & Co. publish “Dred,” 269; their sales, 279.
Lowell, J. R., Duchess of Sutherland's interesti n, 277; less known in England than he should be, 285; on Uncle Tom, 327; on Dickens and Thackeray, 327, 334; on The minister's Wooing, 330, 333; on idealism, 334; letter to H. B. S. from, on The minister's Wooing, 333.
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Macaulay, 233, 234.McClellan, Gen., his disobedience to the President's commands, 367.
“Magnalia,” Cotton Mather's, a mine of wealth to H. B. S., 10; Prof. Stowe's interest in, 427.
Maine law, curiosity about in England, 229.
Mandarin, Mrs. Stowe at, 403; like Sorrento, 463;
