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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 7: Cambridge in later life (search)
sermon in his familiar way on the importance of being our individual selves in the future life. Animals he thought might live forever on earth, for they had no individuality to go on developing, apparently; but human beings needed spheres for constant development. The angel life as commonly described too vague; the angels never had fathers and mothers, never fell in love. He quoted a man who said he preferred hell to annihilation. Told us several good stories; as of seeing picture of Matthew Henry whose commentaries were so severe, and finding that he would turn the scales at three hundred pounds, and reading afterwards that he postponed finishing his work on The Evidences until fly-fishing should be over; and of a Reverend Doctor who was dying and asked physician if he could not be kept alive till the season of strawberries was passed. Dublin, July 31, 1905 Evening. Dined . . . with Mr. and Miss Clemens. . . An interesting talk . .. after dinner. Clemens lent three thous
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Index. (search)
fferson Davis, 205. Hurlbut, William Henry, his:foreign experiences, 29-33. J Jacksonville, Fla., 185-91, 194-97. Johnson, Robert U., 235. Johnson, Samuel, letters to, 14-17, 51. Jowett, Master, of Balliol, visit to, 286. K Kane, Dr. Elisha K., Arctic explorer, 90-92. Kansas, emigrants and money sent to, 137-39; Higginson's trip to, 139-44. Kemble, Mrs., Fanny, 35-37, 218. Kensett, John F., the artist, 147. Kimball, Capt., 177. King, Clarence, 274. Koven, Rev. Henry de, 261. L La Farge, John, the artist, 226, 227. Lander, Mrs. F. W., 205, 206; sketch of, 201, 202. Lane, Gen. James H., of Kansas, 143, 144. Lazarus, Emma, 266. Lewis, Dio, 249. Lincoln, Abraham, 164; and Fremont, 160; anecdote of, 202; death, 236. Lincoln, Mrs., Abraham, 165; described, 164; about the President's death, 236. Lind, Jenny, marriage of, 39, 40. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 8; accounts of, 11, 12, 321; portrait of children of, 107. Longfellow, Sa