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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 1: Cambridge and Newburyport (search)
wayward and perhaps useless, but aspiring and stainless. ... Levi writes a funny account of the quiet little Kittery Point minister, Reverend Seth Somebody, his survival of the voyage more easily than of Jonas's witticisms, Jonas [Thaxter] the joker, on whose every wink and word the Reverend Seth hung in ecstasy; then his palpitations at the explosion of champagne corks and the feats of his moustached colleague (little Weiss). There were present all the Appledore Islanders, including Captain Fabius Becker from Smutty Nose; all the Weisses (the baby's cradle being kept in the room adjoining), and Jonas and Lucy Thaxter. We had a merry time, closes Levi in his letter, and then I took my dear wife home in the beautiful night, bright and clear with stars and a growing moon. A letter about the Thaxters was written much later to Mrs. J. T. Fields: Cambridge, January, 1898 Dear Mrs. Fields: I have been reading your paper on Celia Thaxter with such pleasure that I wish to expres