[528] 207; delight in Scotland, 209; public reception and teaparty at Glasgow, 212; warm welcome from Scotch people, 214; touched by the “penny offering” of the poor for the slaves, 219; Edinburgh soir4e, 219; meets English celebrities at Lord Mayor's dinner in London, 226; meets English nobility, 229; Stafford House, 232; breakfast at Lord Trevelyan's, 234; Windsor, 235; presentation of bracelet, 233; of inkstand, 240; Paris, first visit to, 241 ; en route for Switzerland, 243; Geneva and Chillon, 244; Grindelwald to Meyringen, 245; London, en route for America, 247; work for slaves in America, 250; correspondence with Garrison, 261, et. seq.; “Dred,” 266; second visit to Europe, 268; meeting with Queen Victoria, 270; visits Inverary Castle, 271; Dunrobin Castle, 275 ; Oxford and London, 280; visits the Laboucheres, 283; Paris, 289; en route to Rome, 294; Naples and Vesuvius, 301; Venice and Milan, 305; homeward journey and return, 306, 314; death of oldest son, 315; visits Dartmouth, 319; receives advice from Lowell on The Pearl of Orr's Island, 327; The minister's Wooing, 327, 330, 334; third trip to Europe, 342; Duchess of Sutherland's warm welcome, 346; Switzerland, 348; Florence, 349; Italian journey, 352; return to America, 353; letters from Ruskin, Mrs. Browning, Holmes, 353, 362; bids farewell to her son, 364; at Washington, 366; her son wounded at Gettysburg, 372; his disappearance, 373; the Stowes remove to Hartford, 373; Address to women of England on slavery, 374; winter home in Florida, 401; joins the Episcopal Church,402; erects schoolhouse and church in Florida, 404; Palmetto leaves, 405; Poganuc people, 413; warm reception at South, 415; last winter in Florida, 417; writes Oldtown folks, 404; her interest in husband's strange spiritual experiences, 438; H. B. S. justifies her action in Byron Controversy, 445; her love and faith in Lady Byron, 449; reads Byron letters, 450; counsels silence and patience to Lady Byron, 451; writes True story of Lady Byron's life, 447, 453; publishes Lady Byron Vindicated, “454; History of the Byron Controversy,” 455; her purity of motive in this painful matter, 455; George Eliot's sympathy with her in Byron matter, 458; her friendship, with George Eliot dates from letter shown by Mrs. Follen, 459, 460; describes Florida life and peace to George Eliot, 463; her interest in Mr. Owen and spiritualism, 464; love of Florida life and nature, 468; history of Florida home, 469; impressions of “Middlemarch,” 471; invites George Eliot to come to America, 472; words of sympathy on Beecher trial from George Eliot, and Mrs. Stowe's reply, 473; her defense of her brother's purity of life, 475; Beecher trial drawn on her heart's blood, 480; her mature views on spiritualism, 484; her doubts of ordinary manifestations, 486; soulcravings after dead friends satisfied by Christ's promises, 486; chronological list of her books, 490; accepts offer from N. E. Lecture Bureau to give readings from her works, 491; gives readings in New England, 491, et seq.; warm welcome in Maine, 493; sympathetic audiences in Massachusetts, 495; fatigue of traveling and reading at New London, 496; Western reading tour, 497; “fearful distances and wretched trains,” 498; seventieth
