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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 10 0 Browse Search
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career. 6 0 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.) 6 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 6 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 6 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 6 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 4 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 4 0 Browse Search
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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VI: in and out of the pulpit (search)
re what garments they wear,— Bob my principal crony, at the Mills, has rather nondescript ones at present, but will probably come to pantaloons in time. . . . Did I tell you of seeing them (the Whittiers) at the Mills with Miss Grace Greenwood the poetess &c. whom I had the privilege of rowing on the Artichoke? While in Newburyport, he renewed his intimacy, begun in college days with Levi Thaxter. The latter had announced that he was looking for some lonely place where he could, like Demosthenes, declaim to the waves. I have suggested, said Mr. Higginson, the Isles of Shoals. They are peopled by a queer race of fishermen. Neither of the friends could have foreseen that the result of this suggestion would be the discovery of Thaxter's future wife. Later Wentworth wrote to his mother:— We had a nice visit from Levi, he brought the loveliest seaweed and gave a glowing account of Appledore. But Mrs. Higginson's version of the visit was somewhat different, for she decla