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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 7: Cambridge in later life (search)
re labelled with the year they were built and often with the names of the earlier residents; so that it was like stepping back two hundred and fifty years. I went to a large reception, where everybody, on being introduced to everybody else, would begin by explaining his right to be there. You see my great-grandmother was a Terry, etc. Some wore old costumes at this reception and all seemed to be enacting their ancestors. I stayed with Miss Kate Foote, the author, on a fine old farm; General Hawley married a Miss Foote and they are a very cultivated family. I saw various remote relatives and brought home an old book with preface by John Higginson, and a delightful old love-letter by Rev. Edward Taylor, 1674. June 9, 1890 I suppose you have heard of Henry Higginson's gift to the college of thirty-five thousand dollars of land across the river for playgrounds--Emery Willard's old farm; and the most amazing thing is that he is to talk to the students about it at Sever Hall to-mor