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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VI: in and out of the pulpit (search)
-looking Quakerish body, with the sweetest, modest manners and yet as unshrinking and self-possessed as a loaded cannon. At Plymouth I heard some pretty things. One is about Laura Bridgman—that a lady whom she visited in Duxbury read her the whole of Evangeline on her fingers! Laura enjoyed it excessively and has talked about it a great deal. She wants to be as good as the heroine and wonders whether Evangeline would have kicked a cat—that animal being her aversion. After hearing Kossuth, he wrote:— No such series of speeches was ever delivered in so short a space by one man, since the world began; and when you add the fact of the foreign language, it becomes so astonishing that you cannot remember how astonishing it is. There seems absolutely no limit to the resources of his eloquence, his mastery over language, or his power of meeting the occasion; his career from the moment he landed has been one long intellectual triumph. It seems more like the Chronicle of the <
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85; Higginson's friendship, for, 72, 125-27; portrayed in Malbone, 280. Huxley, T. H., 335, 34o; Higginson meets, 324. Jackson, Rev. A. W., on Higginson and his black regiment, 216-18, 223. Jackson, Helen Hunt, literary success, 258, 259. Johnson, Rev., Samuel, 50, 101; and Higginson, 78, 82; letter to, about resignation, 104, 105. Kansas, troubles in, 166, 167, 180, 181; Higginson in, 169-80; people of, 174-77. Kidner, Rev., Reuben, and Higginson, 358, T 359, 375, 376. Kossuth, described, 97, 98. La Farge, John, described, 259. Lane, Gen., Jim, 172, 174. Larger History of the United States, 417, 427: Higginson at work on, 301. Le Barnes, J. W., on kidnapping project, 106. Leigh ton, Caroline Andrews, letter to, 154. Leighton, Celia, account of, 109. See also Thaxter, Celia. Lind, Jenny, account of, 09, 100. Littlefield, Col., on colored troops, 229. Livermore, Mrs. Mary A., in London, 340. Livingstone, David, 341, 342. Long, Governor