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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 2: the Worcester period (search)
takes off his outside coat more sturdily than any man living can do it, I presume, and looks so hearty and solid that I should think a jury would come down like Davy Crockett's coon, without waiting for a shot. But my keen, imperturbable little Durant has his greatness also; and it delights me to see him on the right side. May 4, 1860 I saw ... also my classmate Durant [founder of Wellesley College], who always interests me from his remarkable abilities and his perfect aversion to the proDurant [founder of Wellesley College], who always interests me from his remarkable abilities and his perfect aversion to the profession in which he is so distinguished himself. Rufus Choate's life he pronounced a perfect waste, as must be that of any man of superior abilities in the law. As for Choate's having any enthusiasm for it, it was nonsense; he had heard him say so a thousand times: Choate really cared for nothing but literature; there was not enough in the whole science of law to occupy a mind like his for a month. It was a series of fossil injustices or petty manoeuvres — like hare hunting in England, splend
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Index. (search)
ansas, 142-44. Dame, Mrs., and Newport boardinghouse, 235, 246, 264. Dana, Charles, described, 13, 14, 46. Darley, Felix O. C., the artist, 147. Davis, Andrew Jackson, 109, 110. Davis, Jefferson, 205. Devens, Charles, 156, 157; at Manassas, 159; wounded, 168. Dicey, Albert, at Newport, 229. Dickinson, Emily, 268; poems, 331, 332. Dilke, Sir, Charles, 276. Disunion, Worcester Convention, 77-79; Quincy on, 88, 89. Dodge, Mary Mapes, 228. Dunlap, Sergeant, 171. Durant, Henry F., founder of Wellesley, 70, 71. E Earle, Thomas, in Civil War, 166, 167. Emancipation, 164. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, letter to, 33; Channing on, 42; proposed lecture of, 59; described, 93. Everetts, the Sidney, 266. F Fay, Maria, 1, and note. Fayal, 124-37; fascination of, 126-30; storms at, 131-37. Field, Kate, 228, 243; in London, 282. Fields, James T., home of, 102, 103; editor, 111, 112; criticized, 112-14. Fields, Mrs. James T., letter to, 28. First