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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XV: journeys (search)
I went on by train to Winkel—Bettine's regular summer home . . . . I staid long on the shore [of the Rhine] and the nearly 70 years since 1809 seemed nothing—the two girls were still young to me. I think I found the place where Guinderode died . . . . I walked back through the long villages again. It was very hot. I had an hour at the station and lay down on a bench and slept as Bettine would have done . . . . It is such a delight to have an ideal object, especially in travelling alone. Aug. 9. Frankfort. Here still was Bettine, but lost in the greater stream of Goethe. The Goethe house was my chief interest . . . . Below were his magnificent mother's rooms . . . portraits of her . . . in the very room where she used to sit and chat with Bettine and they were (as the latter says) the only two people alive in Frankfort or anywhere else. At Nuremberg he saw Albert Durer's house, scene of The Artist's Married Life, which interested him profoundly; and at Dresden he penetrated