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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 280 280 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 72 72 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 28 28 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 26 26 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 21 21 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 21 21 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 19 19 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 18 18 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 18 18 Browse Search
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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, I: Inheritance (search)
t left the trees to flourish as they might. It was probably during the family's stay in Bolton that their acquaintance was made with Wentworth's future nurse, Rowena Houghton, who left the Higginson service to become the wife of Dexter Pratt, Longfellow's village blacksmith. From the Bolton farmhouse came the old leather fire-bucket which Colonel Higginson purchased and hung in his Cambridge home. It had been painted white, but the removal of the paint brought to light the name Stephen Higginson, Jr., and near the top of the bucket the phrase, In suis non fallitur. 1841. The house which the college built for Stephen Higginson on Kirkland Street, Cambridge, then called Professors' Row, still stands; and here, on one of the shortest days of the year, Thomas Wentworth Storrow Higginson began his eventful life. To use his own words, I was born on the 22nd of December, 1823, and had my proud birthright wrested from me when the change of dates landed the Pilgrims on December 23.
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, III: the boy student (search)
years apart in age. Under date of May 22, 1839, Parker wrote of his young classmate, then a sophomore: I like Wentworth rather, quite well. He is now young but a good scholar—tolerable looking, awkward. There were other members of the class of 1841 who attained distinction in later life. Among them were the Boston physicians, Dr. Edward Clarke and Dr. Francis Minot. Two of the men took high rank as officers in the Union army; and the list of those who made their mark includes Henry F. Duraellaneous reading than most youths of eighteen. In 1906, Colonel Higginson wrote on the fly-leaf of one of his old textbooks (Professor Peirce's Elementary Treatise on Curves, Functions, and Forces):— When I left college at graduation in 1841, a few months short of 18, I was the best mathematician in the class, and Prof. Peirce. . . had me placed at once on the examining committee in that department. We studied this book in sheets as it came unbound from the press and I enjoyed it, a
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
Jan.） Letter Relating to the Cambridge Public Library. (In Cambridge Tribune, March 15.) Richard Henry Dana. (In Cambridge Tribune, Dec. 20.) （Ed. with Mrs. Ellen H. Bigelow.) American Sonnets. Preface by Higginson. （Ed. with Mrs. Mabel L. Todd.) Poems, by Emily Dickinson. Preface by Higginson. 1891 Life of Francis Higginson. (In Makers of America.) On the Steps of the Hall (University Hall, Aug. 28, 1837). Privately printed. Leaflet. Poem inscribed to the class of 1841, Harvard University. Address at the 100th Anniversary, Jan 24. (In Massachusetts Historical Society. Proceedings.) Landmarks of Progress. Address at the 40th Anniversary of the National Woman's Rights Convention. (In Woman's Journal, Feb. 14.) Rabiah's Defence. [Poem.] (In Atlantic Monthly, Sept.) Def. VI. Emily Dickinson's Letters. (In Atlantic Monthly, Oct.） The Two Lessons. [Sonnet.] (In Century Magazine, Dec.) Def. VI. Glimpses of Authors. (In Brains, Oct. 15-
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
Higginson meets, 324. Grant, Judge, Robert, poem for Col. Higginson's birthday, 391. Grant, Gen. U. S., 264. Greeley, Horace, at Syracuse, 133. Greene, Henry Copley, 374. Greene, W. B., influence of, 72. Hale, Edward Everett, 399; and Higginson, 24, 83; account of, 261; festival for, 387. Hamilton, Sir, William, described, 339. Hardy, Thomas, Higginson meets, 352, 353. Harris, Dr., Thaddeus William, 24, 28. Harvard University, Stephen Higginson, steward of, 8; class of 1841, 23, 24; dress regulations, 25; early account of, 29, 30; exhibition at, 33, 34; Higginson represents, at Winchester, Eng., 360-62. Harvard Memorial Biographies, 263, 409, 410; working on, 275. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, at Concord, 51. Hayes, President, and wife visit Newport, 260. Hazlett, Albert, 199, 200; project to rescue, 196-98. Higginson, Anna, sister of T. W. H., 12, 290; death of, 381. Higginson, Rev., Francis, the Puritan, I; as non-conformist, 110. Higginson Franci