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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 6 0 Browse Search
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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, X: a ride through Kansas (search)
or I am sure that the disease is too deep for cure without amputation. I left here on Sept. 9th for six weeks; reached Nebraska City through Iowa in ten days, a weary stage journey. Staid nine days in and near Nebraska City, organizing and directing for a train of 150 emigrants, and then travelled with them to Topeka in six days, camping at night; since then I have been in Topeka, Lecompton, Lenora and Leavenworth. . . . Tell Sam I had an Allen's Rifle with me which is an improvement on Sharp's, but had no occasion to shoot anything with it except a superb hawk, whose wings I carry home as a Kansas trophy. Never have I been in any special danger, except that they talked of lynching me in Leavenworth, whither I went to witness an election; I was the only person in town who knew my name or person; but I was a minister that had been preaching politics; . . . as however I gave no information, two of them shot each other instead, just as our boat left the wharf. It is not strange
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIV: return to Cambridge (search)
bunch of violets at the neck and one pink cypripedium; the sister, Vinnie, put in two heliotropes by her hand to take to Judge Lord [an old family friend]. I read a poem by Emily Bronte. How large a portion of the people who have most interested me have passed away. But the sad entries in his journal were infrequent and presently he recorded:— One of these days on which, as Emerson says, every hour brings book or starlight scroll. At breakfast got letters from England, one from W. Sharp about sonnets of mine for his book of American sonnets—another from——asking about my literary methods for his pupils. Then came the copies of Italian version of my history and finally (next day) Mrs. Hood's news that she had The open Garden ready—her name for illustrations of Outdoor Papers. There has always been a confusion in the public mind between Colonel Wentworth Higginson and his cousin, Major Henry Higginson, and musicians sometimes applied to the former for a position in th
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
Mo., slave-market in, 182-89. Saints and their Bodies, 156, 407. Sanborn, F. B., 190; and T. W. Higginson, j 100; described, 129; seeks aid for Brown, i 192, 193. Sargent, Dr. D. A., 156. Sargent, J. T., Radical Club meets at home of, 267. Saxton, Gen., Rufus, offers command of black regiment to Higginson, 214; offer accepted, 215; and Higginson, 217, 248; and battle of Olustee, 241. Scott, Sir, Walter, 339. Search for the Pleiades, A, 296, 415. Sewall, S. E., 193. Sharp, Professor, account of, 338, 339. Shaw, Robert Gould, Higginson writes verse about monument to, 388. Sims, Thomas, 142; the fugitive slave, 112– 15. Sixty and Six, a poem, 301. Smith, Joseph Lindon, 372; his outdoor theatre, 374. Smith College, influence of Higginson's writings on, 156, 157. Somerset, Lady, Henry, account of, 315. Soule, Silas, gains admission to prison, 198. Spenser, Herbert, account of, 335, 336. Spofford, Harriet Prescott. See Prescott, Harriet. Sp