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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 6: marriage and life at Brunswick (search)
ind and heart are also thus represented in this younger generation. She had never learned Latin or Greek, her father disapproving of those studies for girls, but he had encouraged her in the love of mathematics, and there is among her papers a calculation of an eclipse. She had been mainly educated at the school, then celebrated, of Miss Cushing in Hingham. My first impression of her, wrote in later years the venerable professor, Alpheus Packard,—who was professor of Latin and Greek at Bowdoin at the time of her marriage,—is of an attractive person, blooming in health and beauty, the graceful bride of a very attractive and elegant young man. Some books from her girlish library now lie before me, dingy and time-worn, with her name in varying handwriting from the early Mary S. Potter to the later Mary S. P. Longfellow. They show many marked passages and here and there a quotation. The collection begins with Miss Edgeworth's Harry and Lucy; then follow somewhat abruptly Sabbath
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Index (search)
father about his profession, 38-40, 41, 43; father's reply, 40, 41; first visit to Europe to prepare for Bowdoin professorship, 45; writes to his mother, 46, 47; enjoyment of France, 48-50; begins his studies in Germany, 51, 52; beginning of Outre-Mer, 55; Hyperion, 55; returns home, 56; becomes professor of modern languages at Bowdoin College, 56; prepares his own text-books, 57; contributes to the North American Review, 58; publishes translations, 60; marries Mary S. Potter, 60; salary at Bowdoin, 64; life at Brunswick, 65, 66; writes to G. W. Greene, 67; publishes sketches in New England Magazine, 67; early sketches, 68; comparison of the Sketch Book and Outre-Mer, 69-71; a puzzle about his writings, 72-74; his Defence of Poetry, 75-80; project of taking the Round Hill School, 81, 82; position in regard to temperance, 83; his wife's letter about Outre-Mer, 83; letter inviting him to become a professor at Harvard, 84, 85; his reply, 85-87; his first book, 87; second visit to Europe,