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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, V: the call to preach (search)
V: the call to preach Wentworth Higginson wrote to his mother, August 25, 1843:— If fortune offers nothing better I mean to do this: Go to Cambridge. Take a proctorship. Live with the strictest economy. I can place my minimum at $300—$100 to be got by my proctorship and the rest by literary labors—. . . So I may regard it as from this day settled! That I need not study a Profession. No Law! Hurrah! And this is his estimate of necessary expenses:— Board, not over$120 Clothes75 Washing25 Incidentals30 ——-- $250! Continuing his meditations upon the proposed Cambridge move he again wrote to his mother:— I don't want to keep up the dignity I must there as proctor—I want to be a boy as long as I can. . . . This brings another Evil as regards dress. Could I, in proctorial dignity, figure round in blouses and bobtailed frocks? If not it would affect my finances much. . . . To be elegant, or even genteel in dress always, I will not und