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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIII: Oldport Days (search)
y all came here and I saw Mrs. Hayes and liked her quite as much . . . .She has nature's good manners, making society manners quite superfluous—just such manners as a Republican presidentess should have. She clapped her hands like a girl when she saw the ocean (for the first time in her life) and repined a good deal in being carried off to tea in a fine house, saying that she could take tea at any time but might never see the ocean again. He also records May 30:— Talked with Admirals Farragut, Porter and Capt. Worden. . . . He [Farragut] is a good looking well-knit man—P. less showy with black beard-W. coarser looking, with auburn beard and still burnt with powder. Colonel Higginson had been more or less associated in Worcester with Dr. E. E. Hale, who was for a time the only clergyman in that city who was willing to exchange with the pastor of the Free Church. I had such an amusing glimpse, he wrote, of Edward Hale and his numerous offspring. I was at the Redwood<
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
, 275, 410; Higginson's estimate of, 276. Durant, Henry F., founder of Wellesley, 24. Ellis, Charles Mayo, 112, 113. Emerson, George B., asks Higginson to write youthful history of United States, 284, 285; success of history, 286-88. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 68, 129, 193; anecdote about, 87; described, 96, 130; at Anti-Slavery meeting, 201; visit to, 266; influence of, 270; Concord celebration for, 390. Epictetus, 263, 329, 365, 369, 409. Faneuil Hall. meetings at, 144. Farragut, Admiral, 260, 261. Fayal and the Portuguese, 164, 408. Fields, James T., 229, 275, 280; letter to, 277. Forbes, Hugh, threatens Brown's plans, 191, 200. Francis, Dr., 78. Free Religious Association, 398; Higginson's address at, 164; his activity in, 268; similar English organization, 336, 337. Free Soil Party, 89-91, 115. Frothingham, O. B., 78; on Higginson's style, 156. Froude, J. A., 323. Fugitive Slave Law, 111, 114, 144, 148. Future Life, The, in In After Days, 254