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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 234 234 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 64 64 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 39 39 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 31 31 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 23 23 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 19 19 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 16 16 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 15 15 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 15 15 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 15 15 Browse Search
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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, IV: the young pedagogue (search)
signs and in consequence had just passed the night in the police station. Mr. Perkins, whose three sons were under Wentworth's care, was absent part of the time, leaving the young tutor in charge, and then his duties included tending fires and pumping water. He never objected to manual labor, but wrote, I always love to do any work—digging paths or chopping wood. I think I should always like to do both for myself, and feel thus far at least independent of other's hands. In the spring of 1843, he was urged by his employer to stay another year, at a salary of $250 including board and lodging. In the letter which Mr. Perkins wrote about this project, he praised him highly, and said that his devotion to the boys was only equalled by theirs to him. But the young man could not be induced to remain longer and wrote:— Much as I am interested in the boys. . . and sorry as I shall be to part with them, my removal from the responsibility of their intellectual Education will be a very
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
in 1906, in honor of the author's eighty-third birthday. This list has been revised and brought up to date by Colonel Higginson's private secretary. It does not aim to include all of his writings, but only the more important ones. In the following list the place in parenthesis under the year indicates where Higginson resided during that time. Def. I, II, etc., after a title refers to the volume in the definitive edition (1900) in which that title also appears. Chronological list 1843 (Cambridge) A History. [Poem.] (In Christian Examiner, Nov.) Signed H. Mrs. Child's Letters from New York. (In the Present, Nov. 15.) La Madonna di San Sisto. [Poem.] (In the Present, Dec. 15.) Def. VI. Same. (In Our Book. [A Salem Fair publication.] Sept., 1844.) Same. (In Longfellow. Estray. 1846.) 1845 (Cambridge) Lay of the Humble. [Poem.] (In New York Tribune, Oct. I.) Tyrtaeus. [Poem.] (In Harbinger, Nov. I.) Same. (In Liberator, Nov. 7.) Articles. (In