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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XV: journeys (search)
tional dance) in honor of their father. Removed to the bracing air of Capri, the record continued:— Found a very pleasant circle of English and American men. I enjoyed also meeting Wm. Wordsworth, grandson of the poet and himself a minor poet,—a most distinguished looking man, a handsome likeness of his grandpapa. And later:— To tea at William Wordsworth's, returning on donkeys. W. W. is the favorite grandson of the poet. The next extract is from a Florence letter:— May 23. To-day I lunched with the Marchesa Peruzzi de Medici. She is the daughter of Story the sculptor. She lives in a narrow street. You come up a fine stairway into a series of dark high rooms, with some quaint old furniture, frescoed walls and many traces of Story's sculpture work. Out of one parlor opens a small private chapel. I waited a while and heard a door open softly and in glided a little elderly woman, quiet as possible, and putting out a shy soft hand to me. I was quite bewilde
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
American Literature in the Nineteenth Century, given by Higginson at the Lowell Institute, Boston, 1903. They were reported in part in the Boston Evening Transcript under the following titles and dates: American Literature, Jan. 6; The Philadelphia Period, Jan. 9; Irving and Cooper, Jan. 13; Boston Takes the Lead, Jan. 16; Concord Litterateurs, Jan. 20; Influence of the South, Jan. 23; Writers from the West, Jan. 27; Our Literary Obstacles, Jan. 30. Personality of Emerson. (In Outlook, May 23.) Address. (In Centenary of the Birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Concord, May 25.) （Tr.) Fifteen Sonnets of Petrarch. The introduction is based essentially upon Sunshine and Petrarch (1867), which originally included most of the sonnets in this volume. This edition consists of 430 numbered copies. Articles. (In Christian Endeavor World, Independent, Outlook, Success.) 1904 Address on Decoration Day in Sanders Theatre [Cambridge], May 30. Pph. The Sunny Side of the Transcend