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that all in it is ours and we are not temporary occupants of the comforts of others only.
In July, 1881, a second little daughter arrived and was named
Margaret Waldo.
These were family names, and, contrary to popular belief, were not borrowed from
Margaret Fuller and
Emerson.
‘Rejoice with us!’
her father wrote to a friend; ‘another little girl, as fine and beautiful as her elder sister!’
After three months he declared, ‘A more blissful possession no one ever owned .. .The darling baby seems to have brought a good omen in every way.’
In reference to his legislative experience,
Higginson wrote:—
I went to the legislature (having both years had the nomination wholly unsought) because it was a thing I had thought I should always like to try . . . . I have never thought for an instant of going into politics' as people say, but simply took it as it came my way knowing it would not last long . . . . I also tried nearly a year ago to get off the staff thinking I had done the Governor all the services I could, but he was unwilling . . . going to Cowpens was a great privilege and opportunity and in a manner a piece of poetic justice. . . . Last summer the Governor wished me to be a trustee of a lunatic hospital which I declined.
This year after resigning my place on staff he wished me to take either a similar trusteeship
