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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 7: Cambridge in later life (search)
body else, would begin by explaining his right to be there. You see my great-grandmother was a Terry, etc. Some wore old costumes at this reception and all seemed to be enacting their ancestors. I stayed with Miss Kate Foote, the author, on a fine old farm; General Hawley married a Miss Foote and they are a very cultivated family. I saw various remote relatives and brought home an old book with preface by John Higginson, and a delightful old love-letter by Rev. Edward Taylor, 1674. June 9, 1890 I suppose you have heard of Henry Higginson's gift to the college of thirty-five thousand dollars of land across the river for playgrounds--Emery Willard's old farm; and the most amazing thing is that he is to talk to the students about it at Sever Hall to-morrow night, as it is in memory of friends who fell in the war. June 13, 1890 I wish you could have heard Henry Higginson. It was one of the most thoroughly simple and admirable things I ever heard — a reticent man breaking th