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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 7: Cambridge in later life (search)
t in to the Twentieth Century Club dinner, which went off finely. I sat next to the President of Mount Holyoke College who made a capital speech and told some wholly new stories with immense success — as this: a little boy watching a balloon go straight up very, very high, and when it was smallest asking wistfully, Mother, is God expecting those gentlemen to-day? or this: she saw at an English seaside place a series of iron chains along the beach with the motto, Given to the town of by Thomas Jones. The sea is his and he made it. Also some one spoke of an Irishman who saw the winged Victory of Samothrace and said, Begorra, it's meself would like to see the other lady that was in the scratch The letters to Mrs. Mabel Loomis Todd were written while she and Colonel Higginson were editing the poems of Emily Dickinson. November 12, 1890 Dear Mrs. Todd: I am distressed exceedingly to find that among E. D.'s countless letters there are poems as good as any we printed--one on the