...e who had been to the Azores were astonished that I could make so much out of them! These notes on distinguished contemporaries were written when Mr. Higginson was thirty-four years old: Mr. Emerson is bounteous and gracious, but thin, dry, angular, in intercourse as in person. Garrison is the only solid moral reality I have ever seen incarnate, the only man who would do to tie to, as they say...