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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 257 257 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.) 34 34 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 27 27 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 23 23 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 12 12 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 10 10 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 8 8 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 7 7 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 7 7 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 7 7 Browse Search
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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIV: return to Cambridge (search)
onel Higginson to endorse, he always carefully considered them and asked searching questions before giving the influence of his name. This scrutiny often resulted, not only in important changes in the text of such papers, but in an entirely different way of presenting the scheme. When Margaret was eight years old, we spent the summer at East Gloucester. Here Colonel Higginson bought a fisherman's dory and taught the little girl to row. These notes are taken from his diary of that summer (1889):— July 6. P. M. . . . to Gloucester and bought things for boat, and then rowed over—enjoying it as much as thirty years ago at Pigeon Cove. July 13. Dr. Rogers here, our first meeting for some ten years; enjoyed seeing him, but felt something of that secret pain described in Longfellow's Driftwood Fire. . . . P. M. rowed to Gloucester and back against wind and sea . . . the best pull I have had for years. July 28. Rowed to Gloucester and Ten Pound Island—finding the descendant<
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XVI: the crowning years (search)
XVI: the crowning years In 1889, Colonel Higginson began what proved to be a four years task of editing, with Mrs. Mabel Loomis Todd of Amherst, Emily Dickinson's poems and letters. Of this work he wrote Mrs. Todd:— I can't tell you how much I am enjoying the poems. There are many new to me which take my breath away. A year later he wrote to her:— You are the only person who can feel as I do about this extraordinary thing we have done in recording this rare genius. I feel as if we had climbed to a cloud, pulled it away, and revealed a new star behind it . . . . Such things as I find in her letters! The Madonnas I see are those that pass the House to their work, carrying Saviours with them. Is not that one of the take-your-breath-away thoughts? There is much that I never could print, as where she writes, Of our greatest acts we are ignorant. You were not aware that you saved my life. What a unique existence was hers! Four years later, he wrote:— I f<
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
.] (In Liberty Bell.) Same. (In his Afternoon Landscape. 1889.) 1852 (Newburyport—Worcester) Things New and Old: Any Magazine, April.) December. (In his Afternoon Landscape. 1889.) Moral Results of Slavery. (In Hunt's Merchants' Magaztic Monthly, Feb.） Same. (In his Travellers and Outlaws. 1889.) Maroons of Surinam. (In Atlantic Monthly, May.) Same. (In his Travellers and Outlaws. 1889.) Theodore Parker. (In Atlantic Monthly, Oct.) Def. II. Fayal and the Portugic Monthly, June.) Same. (In his Travellers and Outlaws. 1889.) Ordeal by Battle. (In Atlantic Monthly, July.) Nattic Monthly, Aug.） Same. (In his Travellers and Outlaws. 1889.) My Outdoor Study. (In Atlantic Monthly, Sept.） Samic Monthly, Sept.） Same. (In his Travellers and Outlaws. 1889.) Life of Birds. (In Atlantic Monthly, Sept.) Def. VI. y Magazine, Sept.） Same. (In his Travellers and Outlaws. 1889.) E. P. Whipple. (In Atlantic Monthly, Sept.）