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Scotland, H. B. S.'s first visit to, 209.
Scott, Walter, Lyman Beecher's opinion of, when discussing novel-reading, 25; monument in Edinburgh, 217.
Sea, H. B. S.'s nervous horror of, 307.
Sea-voyages, H. B. S. on, 205.
Semi-Colon Club, H. B. S. becomes a member of, 68.
Shaftesbury, Earl of, letter of, to Mrs. Stowe, 170.
Shaftesbury, Lord, to H. B. S., letter from, 170; letter from H. B. S. to, 170; America and, 369.
Skinner, Dr., 57.
Slave, aiding a fugitive, 93.
Slave-holding States on English address, 378; intensity of conflict in, 379.
Slavery, H. B. S.'s first notice of, 71; anti-slavery agitation, 81; deathknell of, 141; Jefferson, Washington, Hamilton, and Patrick Henry on, 141; growth of, 142; resume of its history, 143; responsibility of church for, 151; Lord Carlisle's opinion on, 164; moral effect of, 165; sacrilege of, 193; its past and future, 194; its injustice, 255; its death-blow; 370; English women's appeal against, 375; J. Q. Adams' crusade against, 509; gone forever, 506.
Slaves, H. B. S.'s work for and sympathy with, 152; family sorrows of, 318.
Smith, Anna, helper to Mrs. S., 115; note, 200.
Soul, immortality of, H. B. S.'s essay written at age of twelve: first literary production, 15-21; Addison's remarks upon, 18; Greek and Roman idea of immortality, 20; light given by Gospel, 20, 21; Christ on, 109.
South, England's sympathy with the, 370, 386.
South Framingham, good audience at reading in, 495.
“Souvenir, the,” 105.
Spiritualism, Mrs. Stowe on, 350, 351, 464; Mrs. Browning on, 356; Holmes, O. W., on, 411; La Mystique and Gorres on, 412,474; Professor Stowe's strange experiences in, 420, 423; George Eliot on psychical problems of, 421; on “Charlatanerie” connected with, 467; Robert Dale Owen on, 464; Goethe on, 465; H. B. S.'s letter to George Eliot on, 466; her mature views on, 485; a comfort to doubters and disbelievers, 487; from Christian standpoint, 487.
Stafford House meeting, 233.
Stephens, A. H., on object of Confederacy, 381.
Storrs, Dr. R. S., 181.
Stowe, Calvin E., 56; death of first wife, 75; his engagement to Harriet E. Beecher, 76; their marriage, 76, 77; his work in Lane Seminary, 79; sent by the Seminary to Europe on educational matters, 80; returns, 88; his Educational Report presented, 89; aids a fugitive slave, 93; strongly encourages his wife in her literary aspirations, 102, 105; care of the sick students in Lane Seminary, 107; is “house-father” during his wife's illness and absence, 113; goes to water cure after his wife's return from the same, 119; absent from Cincinnati home at death of youngest child, 124; accepts the Collins Professorship at Bowdoin, 125; gives his mother his reasons for leaving Cincinnati, 128; remains behind to finish college work, while wife and three children leave for Brunswick, Me., 129; resigns his professorship at Bowdoin, and accepts a call to Andover, 184; accompanies his wife to Europe, 205; his second trip with wife
