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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 2: the Worcester period (search)
seldorf and learned how to make everything picturesque except herself. February, 1854 We have just been reading a nice letter from Barbara [Mrs. Higginson's sister]. ... She is having a superb time with St. Peter, Martin Van Buren, Mrs. Browning, and other Roman notabilities. She and Sully walk on the Campagna as if it were the Cambridge Common; little Lizzy plays with young Brownings and Crawfords; and Bab [Barbara] lends my Woman and her wishes to Fanny Kemble and Harriet Hosmer. May 11, 1854 Mary groans in spirit over Bab's dashing and vehement mode of life. She herself, like Lowell's charming picture of President Kirkland, belongs to a past age of quiet and finds no home here; she would enjoy the repose of the native Romans, who deal with time as if they were as old as their city and had as many years to look forward to. But the rapidity with which Yankees live at Rome makes her shudder, while it is B.'s element. I know how Barbara does it, Mary says. She will rush up