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1906 AD (search for this): chapter 16
ty to attend church semi-occasionally, both summer and winter. His family rallied him for sleeping through the sermon, but in such cases it always happened that he had remembered more of the discourse than any of those who criticized him. The 1906 diary records:— Feb. 12. Evening at North End school—very turbulent—Italian boys, but I enjoyed talking to them, until I read from Army Life which was a mistake. Never read before children. Mar. 12. Boston before legislative committce of perhaps 250 in hard storm. June 28. Phi Beta Kappa. At meeting, gave notice of amendment next year in regard to women's admission to dinner. Two grandchildren came to cheer these later days, the first a boy named Wentworth born in 1906, of whom he wrote:— The beautiful and happy baby makes my health or illness a secondary trifle—if I can only pass quietly away without those melancholy intermediate days or weeks when I may be only a burden. And at Ipswich, two years late
November (search for this): chapter 16
ng . . . with the yarns (O! irreverence) she told me about their first books, concealed from her father in the great bush at the door or under the piano cover? Well! what an encyclopaedia of strange gifts she was. During these years of fascinating though strenuous editorial labor, Colonel Higginson was also engaged on various pieces of original work. He wrote in July, 1890:— I am now to correct proof of three books– Epictetus, American Sonnets and Emily Dickinson's poems. And in November:— I was about writing the determination never again to have three books on hand at same time, going through the press, when I found myself entrapped into a promise to give the Centennial Oration of Massachusetts Historical Society, having also to prepare an address for 19th Century Club, and the life of Francis Higginson besides my regular work. Too much again. Yet one day when proofs of several different articles came to him, he said, I am naturally a glutton of such work and rathe<
1905 AD (search for this): chapter 16
it much. Audience fine and cordial. In 1902-03, he gave a second course of Lowell Lectures on American Literature in the Nineteenth Century; and in the winter of 1905 he delivered a third course on English Literature in the Last Half of the Nineteenth Century. At these lectures, he was always greeted with crowded houses. Dspeaking without notes (as I have done so long) and almost as effective; it seemed like beginning a new career and my voice served me well. Of the third course, in 1905, he wrote:— Feb. 28. First Lowell lecture (Wordsworth-shire). A great success—an unexpectedly fine voice. March 7. Second Lowell lecture. Carlyle, Ro harm from it. July 6. First proof from Part of a man's Life. This was in a manner a continuation of Cheerful Yesterdays, although more fragmentary. In 1905, Margaret was married, with her father's cordial approval, to a young Boston physician. The ceremony took place in the village church at Dublin, and Dr. Robert Co
1900 AD (search for this): chapter 16
postulate. But I should have to meet so many people who bore me! was his quick rejoinder. A Cambridge young man who was a checker at the polls in the fall of 1900 at the same booth where Colonel Higginson voted, received a lesson in citizenship at that time which impressed him deeply. The atmosphere of the booth in questionr at the Somerset. After the Military History was off his hands he wrote, Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic, Book and Heart, and Old Cambridge. In 1900, he began a Life of Longfellow for the American Men of Letters series, and in 1902 wrote a biography of Whittier, recording in July, Have worked for ten days on Wh engineer, Who the hopes of youth and maid Brings together, far or near, Drew these closer, till there fell Potent hands that bound her well To Lionel. In 1899-1900 Colonel Higginson gave a course of lectures before the Lowell Institute upon American Orators and Oratory, and recorded the fact in his diary: Nov. 15. My first L
May 4th, 1900 AD (search for this): chapter 16
He had, as he laughingly declared, got into the habit of living, and there were always thoughts to be uttered either about live issues or departed contemporaries. Various lectures and addresses were given during this year. The diaries again furnish the record:— Feb. 18, 1909. Evening—delightful and unexpected singing from a party of colored singers. They came unseen by me and sang on the stairs, Marching throa Georgia! They took me by entire surprise; also bringing flowers. May 4, 1900. To meeting of officers at American House. Drove in alone. Was treated with curious deferential attention and made a speech. May 12. Pleasant and successful memorial meeting for Margaret Fuller Ossoli, 100th birthday. It was held in the house of my birth, the parlors crowded. Perhaps it was my last public meeting. May 17. To Concord, Mass., to funeral of Judge Keyes [a classmate]. This excursion to Concord was violently opposed by his family, for he was obliged to go al
1899 AD (search for this): chapter 16
ay at home, by Josephine P. Peabody）; and these are the first two stanzas:— We have waited, we have longed— We have longed as none can know, While this winter smiled with sun And the spring came in with snow, Waiting till some hour serene, Bridegroom worthy should be seen, For Josephine. Softly has time glided on— Love, that wondrous engineer, Who the hopes of youth and maid Brings together, far or near, Drew these closer, till there fell Potent hands that bound her well To Lionel. In 1899-1900 Colonel Higginson gave a course of lectures before the Lowell Institute upon American Orators and Oratory, and recorded the fact in his diary: Nov. 15. My first Lowell lecture (of course, extempore) and enjoyed it much. Audience fine and cordial. In 1902-03, he gave a second course of Lowell Lectures on American Literature in the Nineteenth Century; and in the winter of 1905 he delivered a third course on English Literature in the Last Half of the Nineteenth Century. At these lectur
March 28th (search for this): chapter 16
ure was considered a great success. All standing room occupied and almost everybody stayed through. I found reading to be far easier than speaking without notes (as I have done so long) and almost as effective; it seemed like beginning a new career and my voice served me well. Of the third course, in 1905, he wrote:— Feb. 28. First Lowell lecture (Wordsworth-shire). A great success—an unexpectedly fine voice. March 7. Second Lowell lecture. Carlyle, Ruskin, Froude, Hunt. March 28. Fifth Lowell lecture. Dickens, Thackeray and reading Tennyson's poems. April 4. Last Lowell lecture. Considered very successful and was pronounced by John Lowell the best he ever heard in that hall. In May, 1903, he spoke at the Concord Emerson celebration:— Meeting good and my address successful. After it, Senator Hoar turned to me and said, grasping my hand, What I have to say is pewter and tinsel compared to that. His position as chairman of the Harvard Visiting <
1902 AD (search for this): chapter 16
of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic, Book and Heart, and Old Cambridge. In 1900, he began a Life of Longfellow for the American Men of Letters series, and in 1902 wrote a biography of Whittier, recording in July, Have worked for ten days on Whittier—averaging 1000 words daily. The French writer, Th. Bentzon (Mme. Blanc), after visiting this country in the nineties, wrote an account of Colonel Higginson which was translated with the inapt title, A Typical American. The 1902 diary says:— Received proof of A Typical American, by Madame Blanc; a London translation into English sent me for revision. I regard this as the greatest honor of my tors and Oratory, and recorded the fact in his diary: Nov. 15. My first Lowell lecture (of course, extempore) and enjoyed it much. Audience fine and cordial. In 1902-03, he gave a second course of Lowell Lectures on American Literature in the Nineteenth Century; and in the winter of 1905 he delivered a third course on English L
October 10th (search for this): chapter 16
evotion to the Gladstonian axe; I am clearing away a good many of the little gray birches which obstruct more valuable trees . . . . I find endless joy in pottering about among trees and shrubs. Aug. 7, With Margaret, watching birds, and she climbing trees. Sept. 29, First gipsying with Margaret for flowers. This referred to an autumnal habit of the happy little couple, as the child called her father and herself, of plundering our friends' flower-beds after their owners had gone. Oct. 10, Felt as I strolled about after breakfast that I should be willing to go to sleep for the winter and wake up to find myself here [Dublin] again. There is still woodchopping to be done and I hate to leave it. Of our neighbors the Abbot Thayers, he said they live outdoors, know all birds and butterflies, and rear the latter from the chrysalis till they flutter in and out of the great sitting-room as if it were their home. One summer we had Mark Twain for a neighbor:— Called on C
1901 AD (search for this): chapter 16
of young life flowing in at the beginning of the college year. He took a perennial interest in the football games, going to Harvard Square to learn the results long after he was obliged to give up attending the contests. He wrote in his diary of 1901: Nov. 22. Football game-very exciting. Harvard 22; O. When a young man attempts to kick a goal in such a game as to-day's, he has 36,000 pairs of eyes fastened with interest upon him. Is there any other such opportunity in life? The studentslived several lives, he seldom unless urged spoke of past events in which he had had a share. His athletic training served him well, and until long after seventy he bounded upstairs like a boy, two or three steps at a time. In 1895 and again in 1901, he gave a course of lectures at Western Reserve University, and in one week he records speaking every day. Overwork finally brought its penalty, and in the autumn of 1895 he was sentenced to confinement in his room and a milk diet. This trying i
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