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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown 1,857 43 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 250 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 242 6 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 138 2 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 129 1 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 126 0 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 116 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 116 6 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 114 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 89 3 Browse Search
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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VII: the free church (search)
never knew what the love of one's own vegetables might be. I have a great dislike to tomatoes and yet I linger over the great red creatures, and nip off leaves to give them sun and treat them as tenderly as kitty. . . . Close by us . . . is Mr. Brown, a tailor, quite a remarkable person I think, very original and agreeable, and rather the wit of the city; I have ridden, walked, and sailed with him with great satisfaction. In fact I find the merits of the masculine side of human nature rathrvo-lymphatic —quite unlike most of the Woman's Rights women. Lucy Stone is staying in the house with me and more charming than ever. . . . I am willing to have women preach, if they will do it as much better than average men as she [Antoinette Brown] does. As for Lucy Stone, I admire and love her more every day. Of the success of this convention, Mr. Higginson's mother wrote: And altogether you have been decidedly the great gun of the New York meeting. What a singular position for a Hi
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XI: John Brown and the call to arms (search)
John Brown and the call to arms Although John Brown's name was familiar to all who were interesth him was in the winter of 1858. At this time Brown wrote to him saying, I have been told that you Mr. Higginson very impatient, and he wrote to Brown, May 7, I utterly protest against any postponetockholders and tell our veteran to go on. To Brown again, May 18, he wrote, I, for one am willingfor more funds; and May 1, the latter wrote to Brown that he had drawn so largely for similar purpoep was the attempt to provide able counsel for Brown and his fellow-prisoners. A circular was prin of raising funds the plan was abandoned. John Brown wrote a letter of farewell to Mr. Higginson,view with Brown's confederates. Villard's John Brown. The prisoners considered all attempts at reld like this for an epitaph, The only one of John Brown's friends and advisers who was not frighteneis is far higher, not a Puritan courage like John Brown's either, but a sort of highborn chivalrous [27 more...]
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XII: the Black regiment (search)
s bad luck to wake de fus time you are called. Sometimes ghosts do call um, he adds in explanation, which implies the necessity of a wholesome caution. Colonel Higginson compared Uncle York to the hero of Uncle Tom's Cabin. His son, named John Brown, had been killed in the first armed encounter between the Negroes and their former masters, and Uncle York always firmly believed that the celebrated John Brown song related to his son. Another anecdote in the diary about the same old Uncle, whJohn Brown song related to his son. Another anecdote in the diary about the same old Uncle, who became Colonel Higginson's servant when discharged from the regiment for old age, ran thus:— Uncle York was telling, the other day, about a master with whom he had deposited his odd earnings and who died without refunding them, so that they were lost altogether. Uncle York finally officiated in driving to the grave, and as the vehicle jolted over the roots in the woods he says, I did n't care how much I jolt he—I pure tink of my money all de time. This use of the word pure is genuine
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIV: return to Cambridge (search)
e up the Shenandoah hills with Blue Ridge always in sight, amid large farms looking like Pennsylvania and very fertile. We went to Charlestown, eight miles, a flourishing village with nice houses and buildings. Here we saw the jail yard where John Brown was confined, the field where he was executed, the new court house on the site where he was tried, and most interesting of all, the very records of the trial of him and his men—the successive entries alternating with the commonest things. The road we came was that over which they were brought, wounded, from Harper's Ferry. The only memorial of him at the latter place is the little building close by the railroad—the engine house which he held—which has John Brown's Fort painted on it. After this trip, we began housekeeping, and then Colonel Higginson earnestly threw himself into the interests of his native town. In January, 1880, our first little daughter was born and called Louisa for her grandmother Higginson. On the day that<
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XVI: the crowning years (search)
all. He also noted that in seven years he had read four hundred and seventy-nine books. Giving away books was another source of pleasure, those given to different libraries during his life amounting to ten thousand volumes. He also gave to the Gray Herbarium of Harvard College his botanical notebooks which were pronounced by the professor in charge a careful chronicle of a vegetation which for this immediate region has largely disappeared forever. His correspondence with and concerning John Brown was given to the Boston Public Library; also collections of Margaret Fuller Ossoli's and Emily Dickinson's letters. December 1st he recorded, My office of Military and Naval Historian expired, much to my satisfaction, after seven years and four months. An extension of a year's time without compensation was however granted at Colonel Higginson's request, and the History was satisfactorily completed. These fragments from the diary after his recovery show the continued activity:—
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
ntic Monthly, Sept.） Same. (In his Outdoor Papers. 1863.) 1860 (Worcester） A Visit to John Brown's Household in 1859. (In Redpath. Public Life of Captain John Brown.) Def. II. Maroons ofCaptain John Brown.) Def. II. Maroons of Jamaica. (In Atlantic Monthly, Feb.） Same. (In his Travellers and Outlaws. 1889.) Maroons of Surinam. (In Atlantic Monthly, May.) Same. (In his Travellers and Outlaws. 1889.) Theodore P. and enl. Address. (In Reunion of the Free-Soilers of 1848-1852, Boston, June 28.) Pph. John Brown. (In Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography.) English Sources of American Dialect. . Harriet Beecher Stowe. [Preface.] (In Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin. New ed.) [Sketches of] Brown, Cooper, and Thoreau. (In Carpenter, ed. American Prose.) Literary Paris Twenty Years Ago. Maria Child. Helen Jackson (H. H.) John Holmes. Thaddeus William Harris. A Visit to John Brown's Household in 1859. William Lloyd Garrison. Wendell Phillips. Charles Sumner. Dr.<
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
49. Brown, Rev., Antoinette, 134, 135. Brown, John, 204: Higginson first meets, 190; plans posrs, 194; proposed rescue of, 194; A Visit to John Brown's Household, 194, 195, 408; revenge for, 195s slave market, 182-89; first interview with John Brown, 190; approves his plans, 191; disapproves of their postponement, 191-93; aids Brown, 193, 194; hopes to rescue Brown, 194; visits Brown's homeBrown, 194; visits Brown's home, 194, 195; kidnapping plan. 195, 196; warned, 196, 197; plan to rescue Brown's companions, 196-9Brown's home, 194, 195; kidnapping plan. 195, 196; warned, 196, 197; plan to rescue Brown's companions, 196-98; goes to Pennsylvania, 197; writes to Stevens, 198, 199; on the John Brown affair, 199, 200; guarBrown's companions, 196-98; goes to Pennsylvania, 197; writes to Stevens, 198, 199; on the John Brown affair, 199, 200; guards Phillips at Anti-Slavery meetings, 201-03; scheme for safety of Washington, 203-05; goes to Harrwe, Dr., Samuel Gridley, 26,113,193,204; and John Brown's plans, 192. Hugo, Victor, 340, 353. Huginson, 83; influence of, 90, 115; and John Brown's plans, 191. Part of a Man's Life, 426; woigginson, j 100; described, 129; seeks aid for Brown, i 192, 193. Sargent, Dr. D. A., 156. Sarg