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Worcester (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
gering traces of my army ailment; and added:— I have felt that perhaps I should gradually recur to that blissful mood of life in Nature in which I lived at Worcester just before the War. In the Army I was constantly in the presence of nature, but the weight of responsibility submerged it altogether and I can now only look bact man—P. less showy with black beard-W. coarser looking, with auburn beard and still burnt with powder. Colonel Higginson had been more or less associated in Worcester with Dr. E. E. Hale, who was for a time the only clergyman in that city who was willing to exchange with the pastor of the Free Church. I had such an amusingne thing that makes it hard for me to . . . write anything about those days, though sooner or later I shall do it all . . . . It seemed like a dream to go to Worcester and see how three years had restored my young recruits to their old places in shops &c., and swept away all traces of those stirring days. Yet the Old Guard of
Sweden (Sweden) (search for this): chapter 13
should furnish such a book. To make this plan practicable, Mr. Emerson advanced one thousand dollars to supply the means of livelihood while the task was under way. I am trying to write a History of the United States for young people, reported the new historian after a year's labor, but don't know whether it will be readable after all. While collecting material for the book, he records writing one day ten postal cards in 10 languages—English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Swedish, Latin, Greek, Hebrew. The first draught was considered by Mr. Emerson too juvenile, and it was therefore necessary to rewrite it. The work was finally completed in 1874 and the author wrote:— It is a relief to me at last to have this work done, as it pressed on me a good deal, and especially this month. On the whole I have rather enjoyed it, though so long continued a work . . . . I should not have a doubt [as to its success] were it written by any one else. My luck may turn but
Nebraska (Nebraska, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
, to be even talked about for this position. There is no possibility of my being appointed. .. . Heard from Stephen [his brother] that he had urged me for President of Harvard College! . . . I might add that I am to be President of Harvard University because one zealous relative is pushing me. But I think I had better wait fifty or a hundred years ere announcing so extreme an impracticability as that. At one time he received an invitation to become chancellor of the State University of Nebraska. Such things gratify me, he said, but I should give up my literary life very unwillingly. He was also urged to apply for the collectorship of Newport, which he declined to do. Some of the attentions which he received caused the recipient much amusement. For instance, he wrote in 1877:— I had such an odd letter from a New York pilot who has just built a fine vessel and wished to name it after T. W. Higginson as a Christian, philanthropist and a whole string of epithets which were qui
Brazil, Clay County, Indiana (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
hing as if she had dropped a glove or a handkerchief. I said, Are you looking for anything? and she said, smiling shyly, For a pair of twins! It was even so. Hale, counting up his party on the sidewalk, missed nothing but a pair of twins and sent her back to find them in some corer; which being done, they proceeded to the steamboat. Various foreign notabilities often found their way to Newport. To-day, wrote Colonel Higginson on June 18, 1876, I have been to lunch with Dom Pedro of Brazil and the Empress at Bancroft's—the most bourgeois and good natured of sovereigns, especially the latter, though she is . . . a Bourbon. He looks like a heavy professor of a country college and she like any little stout middle aged lady .. It is pleasant to think, he mused, that summer visitors are always a source of pleasure, if not by their coming, then by their going. In the midst of this pleasant social life Colonel Higginson was still sending monthly articles to the Atlantic, bes
Amesbury (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
He and his father always looked for my articles in the Atlantic and cut those leaves first—the best compliment I ever had. . .. My lecture is on American Society a modification of one on American Aristocracy which I gave at Brattleboro before the war. It goes very well and I get $100 a night and make about $450 by the trip—beside the interest and satisfaction of it, which pays for itself. His lectures nearer home often gave him pleasant glimpses of the life of old friends. At Amesbury, he wrote to his sisters, I staid with Whittier who . . . seems brighter than I expected in his loneliness. . . . He has a singular companion—a wonderful parrot, 30 years old, an African parrot Quaker colored with a scarlet tail. The only sensible and intelligible parrot I ever saw, and we had much conversation. And when he lectured in Concord he wrote:— I staid at Mr. Emerson's and it was very sweet to see him with his grandchildren . . . tending the baby of 7 months on his knee an
Narragansett (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
powder. Colonel Higginson had been more or less associated in Worcester with Dr. E. E. Hale, who was for a time the only clergyman in that city who was willing to exchange with the pastor of the Free Church. I had such an amusing glimpse, he wrote, of Edward Hale and his numerous offspring. I was at the Redwood library [Newport] and heard the tramp of many feet and supposed it an excursion party; then his cheery voice. . . . They had stopped on their way from Block Island to the Narragansett region where they live. I showed them a few things and presently they streamed out again, I bidding them farewell. Going toward the door I met the elder girl returning, and looking for something as if she had dropped a glove or a handkerchief. I said, Are you looking for anything? and she said, smiling shyly, For a pair of twins! It was even so. Hale, counting up his party on the sidewalk, missed nothing but a pair of twins and sent her back to find them in some corer; which being do
Brattleboro (Vermont, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
always readers of the Atlantic so glad to see me. One man, an original subscriber to the Atlantic Monthly, brought his family 20 miles to hear me. This was at Decorah near the Minnesota border and 10 miles from a railway. He also met a young farmer who said:— He and his father always looked for my articles in the Atlantic and cut those leaves first—the best compliment I ever had. . .. My lecture is on American Society a modification of one on American Aristocracy which I gave at Brattleboro before the war. It goes very well and I get $100 a night and make about $450 by the trip—beside the interest and satisfaction of it, which pays for itself. His lectures nearer home often gave him pleasant glimpses of the life of old friends. At Amesbury, he wrote to his sisters, I staid with Whittier who . . . seems brighter than I expected in his loneliness. . . . He has a singular companion—a wonderful parrot, 30 years old, an African parrot Quaker colored with a scarlet tail.
Quaker (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
d and criticized. . . . Mothers now heap their babies on me more than ever, but I can stand it if they can. . . . I have a new admirer, partially insane, like most of mine. The Higginsons made their home in a boardinghouse kept by a gentle Quaker lady, and of their hostess Colonel Higginson wrote:— Dear Mrs. Dame is as lovely as ever, and when she has young kittens to drown, warms the water to save their feelings. And of the Newport Quakers in general:— They seem like a kind o glimpses of the life of old friends. At Amesbury, he wrote to his sisters, I staid with Whittier who . . . seems brighter than I expected in his loneliness. . . . He has a singular companion—a wonderful parrot, 30 years old, an African parrot Quaker colored with a scarlet tail. The only sensible and intelligible parrot I ever saw, and we had much conversation. And when he lectured in Concord he wrote:— I staid at Mr. Emerson's and it was very sweet to see him with his grandchildren .
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 13
of those Harvard boys who have died in the war—it will take me a year almost. I write editorially for the Independent too, as well as the Commonwealth and Atlantic-so you see I have enough on hand. . . . I have been invited to be agent for New England of the Freedmen's Union with a salary of $2500. This proposal Colonel Higginson was obliged to decline. Public speaking had been promptly resumed when his military life ended, and was never again entirely given up. He spoke easily without nNew York pilot who has just built a fine vessel and wished to name it after T. W. Higginson as a Christian, philanthropist and a whole string of epithets which were quite intoxicating till they ended with and one of the most eminent bankers in New England. This not being my strong point I was convinced at last that he had jumbled George H. [the father of Henry Lee Higginson] and me hopelessly together, so I sent the letter to George H.—with the less reluctance as he [the pilot] delicately hint
France (France) (search for this): chapter 13
s a writer. One of the Newport residents whom Colonel Higginson especially enjoyed was La Farge, of whom he wrote:— I ought not to complain of living in a place which has La Farge.. .. He is one of the few men to whom it is delightful to talk—almost the only one with whom I can imagine talking all night for instance as that is not my way. He is so original and cultivated at the same time, and so free from unworthy things. He seems like a foreigner too—it is getting the best part of France to talk with him. How unimportant is physical ugliness in a man! If I were a woman I should fall in love with him, delicate and feeble as he is physically. Of a farewell dinner given for Wilkie Collins in 1874, Colonel Higginson wrote:— There were only eight literary men there and I remember noticing how much brighter were Mr. Whittier's eyes than those of anybody else, though he looks old and thin and sick. On this occasion he first saw Mark Twain who impressed him as something
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