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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 7: Cambridge in later life (search)
him, and he was so simple, and unconcerned about that, it made it seem the only fit way for a man to speak — looking round occasionally at the prompter and saying quietly, What next? Some of the best things were inserted offhand and were not in the printed notes; e.g., his saying, Remember that this is our university; it was John Harvard's, but now it is what we make it. There was a poetic and ideal atmosphere about it which I feel keenly and I was very proud of being Henry's cousin. Dublin, N. H., June 20, 1890 We . . . are right among the pine trees with the pretty lake in sight and mountains farther off .... Then close behind us are the children of Thayer, the New York artist, wild, very picturesque little creatures . ... There is a perpetual Pumpelly circus [children of Raphael Pumpelly]. .. . They keep seven ponies and are always riding about the country, bare-backed and astride, boys and girls alike. One boy, Raphael, ... is always galloping about with long curls over hi
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Index. (search)
Worcester for, 154, 155; Bull Run, 156; Manassas, 157; Fort Donelson, 165, 166; Union sentiment at South, 166; anxiety, 166; effects of, 322, 323. Clarke, James Freeman, 162. Clemens, Samuel L., 234, 235; at home of, 270; fame of, 300; at Dublin, N. H., 330. Cleveland, Grover, political campaign, 324, 325. Colfax, Schuyler, Speaker, 250, 253. Collyer, Robert, 329. Conway, Moncure D., 279, 280, 286, 287. Cox, Hannah, 76. Crosby, Prof., Alpheus, 40, 41. Curson, Mrs., 6. Curtis, Geol, 316-18; in English Lake region, 319, 320; returns to Cambridge to live, 321; effects of Civil War, 322, 323; and Matthew Arnold, 323, 324; and Cleveland campaign, 324, 325; at home of ancestors, 326, 327; and Henry Higginson, 327, 328; at Dublin, N. H., 328-30; and Stedman, 333-36; his Monarch of Dreams, 335, 336; account of a New Hampshire summer, 336-45; on Southern educational trip, 345, 346; musings of, 347-51; on literary fame, 351. Higginson sisters, letters to, 151, 221 ff., 225 f
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XV: journeys (search)
te that he had not yet learned in Welsh the request that should have followed—to put it in again —so that it is not quite clear whether the good woman is not still standing with that useful member protruded. This was a confusion of tongues indeed; and since the tongue is clearly the banner of health it may be the very disaster which Gray's bard predicted. Such are the anxieties of the wanderer; and when I think how many opportunities I have missed of attending a prescribed worship in Dublin, N. H., I feel that I may have erred in wandering too far and must next year confine my sober wishes to Dublin. Ever faithfully, in any one dialect, Your Warden. A London letter written in August reports:— The Colonel and Margaret had a delightful afternoon with Swinburne. The house where he and Watts-Dunton live is full of Rossetti's pictures. Swinburne devoted himself to Margaret and showed her many treasures. The rest of our time was spent in the south of England. From We<
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XVI: the crowning years (search)
round face and no teeth and a common towel, very clean, pinned round her head and under her chin; and when we came back there she was, all ready to receive us, and saying, Got back all safe? Bress de Lord! And when we got into our carriages again, a lot of little black boys and girls ran along beside us, shouting whenever the bugler played. After this visit he noted in the journal: Began anew on history with fresh interest for visiting localities. The summer of 1890 was spent in Dublin, New Hampshire, which became henceforth a permanent summer home. The little daughter wrote her aunt in Brattleboro:— Papa wishes you to know that the castle in the air has a place on earth. He has just bought an acre of ground beautifully situated above the lake. We begin building this autumn. These bits of Dublin life are from the diaries:— June 12, 1891. Began thoroughly to enjoy the primitive forest feeling. Felt that conscious happiness which Thoreau describes—every little pin<
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
at Oxford, 351; at Stratford, 351, 352; at Salisbury, 352, 353; at Paris, 353; in Switzerland, 353; journey to Europe (1901), 353-62; impressions of Granada, 353; at Castellamare, 353, 354; illness of his daughter, 354; at Capri, 355; at Florence, 355-57; in England, 357-59; in London, 359, 360; at the Winchester celebration, 360-62; revisits the South (1878), 362-64; another visit to the South (1904), 364-66; and colored people at Boston, 366-67; visits Gettysburg, 370, 371; summers in Dublin, N. H., 371-76; and Mark Twain, 373, 374; verses for Smith outdoor theatre, 374; and Dublin village life, 374, 375; desires to be Harvard's oldest graduate, 376, 398; interest in students, 376, 377; receives degrees, 377, 378; kindliness of, 378, 379; at polls, 380; death of sister, 381; at Columbus celebration, 381; seventieth birthday, 381; lectures at Western Reserve, 382; illness, 382-84; gives away books, 384, 385; renewed activity, 385, 386, 392; book about, 386, 387; Cheerful Yesterdays,
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 33: (search)
erved as a volunteer in the war between Russia and Turkey, finding that his regiment was intended for America, renounced the profession which he loved, as the only means of escaping the obligation of fighting against the cause of freedom. This resignation Chap. Xxxiii} 1775. June. gave offence to the court, and was a severe rebuke to the officers who did not share his scruple; but at London the Common Hall, in June, thanked him publicly as a true Englishman; and the guild of merchants in Dublin addressed him in the strongest terms of approbation. On the twenty-fourth of June, the citizens of Lon- June <*>4. don, agreeing fully with the letter received from New York, voted an address to the king, desiring him to consider the situation of the English people, who had nothing to expect from America but gazettes of blood, and mutual lists of their slaughtered fellowsubjects. And again they prayed for the dissolution of parliament, and a dismission for ever of the present ministers.
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 9., Matthew Cradock. (search)
s of Harvard College. Cradock's adventures were not all in foreign parts. In the seventeenth century, or more particularly in 1641, there was a scheme to furnish an army, to suppress rebellion in Ireland, by private adventurers, to be ultimately paid by the lands of the rebels. Matthew Cradock seems to have embarked in this enterprise, which was mainly composed of London merchants, and the lands awarded him are described on Roll XXXIX, membrane 82, in the Record Office in Four Courts, Dublin. Mr. Cushing credits Matthew Cradock with a military career, stating he was enrolled among the cuirassiers of Pycehill Hundred, Staffordshire. In this I think he is in error, the Matthew referred to being one of the Staffordshire family, which continued in that section. Under the date of February 27, 1639, Cradock writes to Winthrop: The Writts for a parlaiment are nowe abroad. I heare there hath beene great adoe at Westminster theise 2 dayes about there burgesses, & not yeet agreed
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 10., chapter 11 (search)
d be expedient to build wooden piers to protect the channel, one to extend from the northwest point of Coatue to the southwest corner of the black flats, the other to begin about one-third of the distance from the end of Brant Point to the Cliff and to extend to the northeast corner of Cliff Shoal, both upon straight lines. A report was made to the Federal government, 28 October, 1803, but the scheme was not accomplished. Of the family of Lemuel Cox, we know that William, who married in Dublin, died in Savannah. Lemuel, who also visited Ireland, became a sailor. On a voyage to the Pacific he, with two others, while exploring a river, was deserted by his vessel and never heard of afterward. He left a widow and two children. Lemuel Cox, wheelwright, of Charlestown, was administrator of the estate of Lemuel Cox of Boston, mariner, 30 July, 1799, and it was, therefore, previous to that date the son disappeared. John Sale Hickling Cox married, 16 June, 1803, at the Hollis stre