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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1856. (search)
my life,—who would believe it? Yet it would be the most commonplace truth. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, September 18, 1835. His father was Stephen Higginson Perkins, a well-known Boston merchant and a man of varied culture, whose life has been devoted in great measure to the study, and latterly to the practice, of art. Stephen's mother was Sarah (Sullivan) Perkins, daughter of the Hon. Richard Sullivan of Boston, and one of a family of sisters well remembered in that city for their charms of person and of mind. When Stephen was seven years old, I took charge of him and his two brothers, as their private tutor, residing in the family in Brookh were his later characteristics; and everybody admitted it to be a good hit, when in the distribution of mock parts for an imaginary exhibition, that assigned to Perkins was a Dissertation on Icebergs. After his graduation he travelled in Europe, returning in 1857; spent a year in the Law School at Cambridge; but afterwards le