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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 89 25 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge 7 3 Browse Search
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill) 6 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2 2 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 10: Craigie House (search)
e best known residence in the United States, with the exception of Mt. Vernon, with which it has some analogy both in position and in aspect. It overlooks the Charles River as the other overlooks the Potomac, though the latter view is of course far more imposing, and the Craige House wants the picturesque semicircle of outbuildings so characteristic of Mt. Vernon, while it is far finer in respect to rooms, especially in the upper stories. It was built, in all probability, in 1759 by Colonel John Vassall, whose family owned the still older house across the way now called the Batchelder House; and there is a tradition of a subterranean passage between the two houses, although this has hitherto been sought in vain. Both these dwellings belonged to a series of large houses on Brattle Street, called Tory Row, whose proprietors were almost all kinsfolk, owned West India estates and slaves, entertained company in great affluence, according to the descriptions of the Baroness Riedesel, and
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Index (search)
87; elective system tried by, 178. Token, the, 72-74. Tolstoi, Count, 197. Tours, 48. Treadwell, Prof., Daniel, 214. Tripoli, 14. Trumbull, John, 23. Turgenieff, Ivan S., resembled Longfellow in looks, 282. Tyrol, the, 113. Uhland, Johann L., 161, 219; his Das Gluck von Edenhall, mentioned, 149. United States, 116, 240, 250, 251, 255; Sumner elected to Senate of, 186. University Hall, Cambridge, 176. Upsala, University of, 97. Van Winkle, C. S., 69. Vassall, Col., John, 116. Venice, 223, 286. Vere, Aubrey de, 141. Vere, Schele de, 204. Vevey, 241. Victoria, Queen, 118, 221. Virgil, 54,194. Virginia, 81, 271. Vogelwied, Walter von der, 238,287. Voices of the Night, 138, 177, 213, 228, 260; commenced, 137; success of, 141; publication of, 145. Voltaire, Francis M. A. de, 112,120, 121. Wadsworth, Christopher, 12. Wadsworth, Elizabeth B., 12. Wadsworth, Henry, 14. Wadsworth, Miss, Lucia, 97, 99; Mary S. P. Longfellow's letter t