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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIV: return to Cambridge (search)
you, ) I shall probably be protected. She requires me to go to bed early. . . . I am quite free from extra engagements and cares and shall keep so for the history's sake. While engaged on this complicated undertaking, which continued for seven years, Colonel Higginson was very active in civic service. For fourteen years he was one of the hard-working trustees of the Cambridge Public Library, and as a representative member of the Citizens' Committee was in frequent communication with Governor Russell and Mr. F. H. Rindge, of California, in reference to the public gifts of the latter to the city of Cambridge (1888). Mr. Richard H. Dana has called attention to the fact that when petitions or documents relating to public movements were brought to Colonel Higginson to endorse, he always carefully considered them and asked searching questions before giving the influence of his name. This scrutiny often resulted, not only in important changes in the text of such papers, but in an entirel
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
th Mrs. Mary T. Higginson.) Such as They Are: Poems. （With Edward Channing.) English History for American Readers. Speech on the Turning-Point in the History of the Parliament of Religions. (In World's Parliament of Religions, vol. I.) Articles. (In Boston Evening Transcript, Nation, Public Opinion.) 1894 Cambridge Public Library Report. Pph. Note [to] Books and Reading, by Sir John Lubbock. (In Woman's Book, vol. 2.) Introduction. (In Speeches and Addresses of William E. Russell.) How to Use a Public Library. (In Golden Rule, Sept. 27.) The Prospect Union and the Public Library. (In Prospect Union Review, Oct. 24). How to Read Magazines. (In Golden Rule, Nov. 15.) 1895 Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the War of 1861-65. Vol. 2. The Fairy Coursers. [Poem.] (In Cambridge Sketches, by Cambridge authors.) The Woman who Most Influenced Me. (In Ladies' Home Journal, Oct.） A Young Girl's Library. (In Ladies' Home Journal, Nov.） <