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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, I: Inheritance (search)
being commonly known as Aunt Nancy. Wentworth Higginson always spoke of her affectionately as the aunt who brought me up. On her seventieth birthday, he wrote her, You seem to me no older than when I used to play with blocks upon the floor of our common chamber, or when you assisted me to insert myself for the first time in nankeen inexpressibles. Professor Charles Eliot Norton, in a letter to Colonel Higginson in 1904, says of these sisters: They [your friendly words] bring to mind my Mother's affection for your Mother, and for Aunt Nancy, who was as dear an Aunt to us children at Shady Hill as she was to you and your brothers and sisters. What dear and admirable women! What simple, happy lives they led! In their days of prosperity, the Higginsons exercised a lavish hospitality. Mrs. Higginson adapted herself readily, however, to changed fortunes, and in the companionship of her children, a large circle of friends, and many books, she passed a serene and contented life. S
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, II: an old-fashioned home (search)
e also read Miss Burney's Cecelia. To his mother he thus recounted his doings:— I will now tell you of our May party. We met on the 30th of April at 5 A. M. just down by Thornton's to choose a queen ... Afterwards we went to Mount Auburn and walked and played until 10 o'clock when we came home. ... I forgot to say that as [we] were going to Mount Auburn we stopped a little while at Mrs. Foster's and she gave us some cake. We found no flowers except half blown anemones. Dearly-Beloved Mother, The miniature tigresses' (that is Aunt Nancy, and Mrs.—) being absent, I sit down, away from the discord of feminine voices, which there usually is when I write! What do you think of that? ... Aunt Nancy will hardly ever show me any of your letters, for she says you always write sentiment to her, and sublunary things to the rest of us. I had a splendid time on the fourth of July. I went into Boston . . . for the sake of seeing the fireworks in the evening. I walked in with
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
Independent, Jan. 30.) Edmund Clarence Stedman. (In Atlantic Monthly, March.) Edward Everett Hale. (In Book News Monthly, Aug.） Republican Aristocracy. (In Harper's Monthly, July.) First Steps in Literature. (In New England Magazine, Oct.） Emerson's Footnote Person [Alcott]. (In Putnam's Monthly and The Reader, Oct.） Charles Eliot Norton. (In Outlook, Oct. 31.) 1909 Carlyle's Laugh, and Other Surprises. Most of the sketches previously printed. Preface to A Mother's List of Books for Children, by Gertrude Wild Arnold. Old Newport Days. (In Outlook, Apr. 17.) The Future Life. (In Harper's Bazar, May.) Afterwards, 1910, in a book (with others) as In After Days. Edward Everett Hale. (In Outlook, June 19.) （Ed.) White Slaves in Africa. (In North American Review, July.) Preface. （Ed.) A Poem of the Olden Time, by his Aunt Nancy. Note by Higginson. Articles. (In Boston Evening Transcript.) 1910 （With others.) In After Days: