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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VII: the free church (search)
Hall [Horticultural] is nearly or quite as large as the Universalist Church in Newburyport and is always well filled in the morning and crowded in the evening; everything prospers in the Free Church and I like it very much. The people are a very wide-awake set; and we have a neighboring parishioner in Bloomer dress who sends us squash pies and alarms Mrs. H. continually . . . . Indeed the recognized respectabilities of the town are quite willing to honor us occasionally in the evening. Sept. 23. To-day is cattle-show. I have always wished to live in a town where this happened and have been wandering about this morning and enjoying the country people. . . . More country people than I knew existed, enough to farm the whole solar system, I should think! The new minister preached his own installation sermon and wrote to his mother in reference to it:— The 1300 copies have been scattered far and wide, and met with favor [here] and elsewhere among various people. . . . The B
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIV: return to Cambridge (search)
a far paler green than we are used to and Pike's Peak, though it seems to hang directly above the town and is still snow-clad, is far less picturesque and companionable than our New England mountains. It was impossible not to be drawn into politics and, in the fall of 1888, Colonel Higginson was nominated as Representative to Congress by the Democrats of the Fifth Congressional District. The question whether to accept this nomination required much deliberation. He wrote in his diary September 23:— Thinking all day about Congressional proposal and decided to decline it . . . . Wrote accordingly in evening. Sept. 24. Felt so dissatisfied and troubled at my decision that I decided to revoke it . . . and substituted another letter. I hope I have at last done right, but it is a risk. I hope some one else will be nominated. Colonel Higginson was required to do more or less stump-speaking in this campaign and wrote:— Nov. 6. Election Day . . . . Globe reporter surpri