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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 16 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson 7 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative 7 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 6 2 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 2 0 Browse Search
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 1 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 1: Cambridge and Newburyport (search)
Miss Sarah, at the age of seventy-five, took morning spins around Fresh Pond on her tricycle. Fifteen years later, in April, 1861, Mr. Higginson wrote his mother of the Misses Palfrey's father, who was then postmaster of Boston: Why have Dr. Palfrey's previous pursuits especially prepared him to be a postmaster? Because he has always been a Man of Letters;--Mr. Haven, the Antiquarian Librarian, who said this, says that Dr. Palfrey complains much of poverty, and that his history, which heDr. Palfrey complains much of poverty, and that his history, which he hoped to make profitable, had not paid its expenses. But he was always rather querulous, I believe. This Cambridge is a pretty pleasant place to live in, after all. I continue to be a sort of pariah, an outcast of the world; but then I bear it patiently and humbly, and when I meet a freshman with his black coat on, I look up respectfully, as much as to say, I know it, my dear sir, I know it; I have not so good a right as you to walk about and look as if I were a member of society — but I
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Index. (search)
orton, Jane, 2. O O'Connell, Monsignor, 312, 313. Ogden, Robert, Southern educational trip, 345, 346. Ossoli, Margaret Fuller, account of, 29, 30, 32. Ossoli, Count, 30. Oxford, England, Commemoration Day at, 291, 292. P Palfrey, Dr. J. G., 3. Palfrey sisters, description of, 1-3. Parker, Theodore, at graduation exercises, 4; compared with H. W. Beecher, 46, 47; eloquence of, 53; Higginson and, 53. 54; described, 94; fire at home of, 269. Peabody, Elizabeth, founPalfrey sisters, description of, 1-3. Parker, Theodore, at graduation exercises, 4; compared with H. W. Beecher, 46, 47; eloquence of, 53; Higginson and, 53. 54; described, 94; fire at home of, 269. Peabody, Elizabeth, founder of the kindergarten, 240, 241. Pennsylvania, rural, and Quakers, 72-76. Perkins, Stephen, in Civil War, 167, 168. Perry, Nora, 264. Petersons, the, of Philadelphia, 250. Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 272. Phillips, Wendell, 82, 93; and Whittier, 9, 11; fire at home of, 269, 270. Phillips, Mrs., Wendell, 268, 269. Pierrepont, Edward, 291, 292. Pigeon Cove, Mass., described, 146-51. Pollock, Sir Frederick and Lady, 282, 283. Princeton, Mass., summer at, 144-46. Pumpel