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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, I: Inheritance (search)
I: Inheritance Thomas Wentworth Higginson came from a race of large-minded, free-handed men. Beginning with the Reverend Francis Higginson, of Puritan fame, and coming down through the line of his descendants, we see a striking repetition of certain traits and habits. Confining ourselves, for instance, to the successive Stephen Higginsons, born in Salem,— Wentworth Higginson's father, grandfather, and great-grandfather,—we find them all upright and fearless, actively interested in the general welfare, leaders in public affairs, and extending a ready and never empty hand to the unfortunate. They were bred to mercantile life, and two of the three met with various reverses in fortune, which never embittered their lives or made them less philanthropic. Stephen, the grandfather, having married at the age of twenty, and finding his income not sufficient for family needs, embarked upon the seas, commanding one of his father's ships at twenty-one. He continued a bold and successful
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VI: in and out of the pulpit (search)
note of Dr. Young's Chronicles that when Francis Higginson, the ancient, became a non-conformist hes editorial column in the Newburyport paper, Higginson undertook to write two articles a week for twith the cooperation of Samuel Longfellow, Mr. Higginson undertook to edit a volume of sea poems caame time that Uncle Tom's Cabin appeared, as Higginson wrote, Thalatta is at a standstill because Mcaptured in Boston and returned to slavery. Higginson was at this time a stockholder in the yacht ed meeting was held in Tremont Temple, where Higginson made a vehement speech urging instant actionngly objected. Apropos of these speeches, Mr. Higginson's sister-in-law, Miss Barbara Channing, wrccount of the attempted rescue, written by Mr. Higginson in 1890, these extracts are taken: At may float me as it pleases. Although Mr. Higginson had fancied his preaching days were over, bued with strong anti-slavery sentiments. Mr. Higginson wrote to a friend:— They want me to st[1 more...]
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VII: the free church (search)
VII: the free church On the eve of Mr. Higginson's departure from Newburyport, this resolution was adopted at a Free Soil caucus in that town:— Resolved, That in the departure of one from this community whose purity of life, earnestness of purpose, restless energy, and remarkable abilities are universally acknowledged, we suffer a severe and an irreparable loss, and that our regret at the removal of the Rev. T. W. Higginson to Worcester is relieved only by the consideration that wherever he may be he will not cease in his efforts for the elevation of mankind. Shortly before removing his household goods the faithful chronicler reported:— Here we are still, wind and water-bound . . . . We are thoroughly packed and living on two or three chairs and a borrowed plate. M. thinks it is like a picnic. But I feel more as if it were a part of a menagerie, waiting to be transported across the country, when the great wagon is ready. We are exhibited in Worcester next.
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIV: return to Cambridge (search)
ly 6. P. M. . . . to Gloucester and bought things for boat, and then rowed over—enjoying it as much as thirty years ago at Pigeon Cove. July 13. Dr. Rogers here, our first meeting for some ten years; enjoyed seeing him, but felt something of that secret pain described in Longfellow's Driftwood Fire. . . . P. M. rowed to Gloucester and back against wind and sea . . . the best pull I have had for years. July 28. Rowed to Gloucester and Ten Pound Island—finding the descendants of Francis Higginson's sweet single rose. In October Margaret went home before her father, and he thus described a day without her:— The day seemed a concentrated solitude and partial death without Margaret and every little starfish and sea urchin she scattered seemed a part of her and too sacred to be touched. It brought home with terrible vividness the possible desolation of a life without her, and by sympathy, more remotely, the blow that it will be to her ardent nature on that day when she m<
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XV: journeys (search)
weet recluse. It may here be added that Colonel Higginson spent his first hours in London by gratiounts of these rambles and declared that Colonel Higginson was protected by his rashness. In hisat his hearers. At another time when Colonel Higginson heard Dean Stanley officiate at Westmins referred to by Mr. Bryce in a letter to Colonel Higginson, dated 1907:— Do you remember beingrapher]. During his stay in London, Colonel Higginson preached for Mr. Conway at South Place C article said some anxiety was felt lest Colonel Higginson, whom he described as gentle in speech ang, The Association desire to express to Colonel Higginson their sense of the services he has rendetwo countries. In the spring of 1878, Colonel Higginson made a second visit to Europe. He wrote children with as much [pride]. Found General Higginson and Henry H. waiting to go to the Guards At the Voltaire Centenary in Paris, Colonel Higginson heard Victor Hugo speak and was much str[7 more...]
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XVI: the crowning years (search)
arious pieces of original work. He wrote in July, 1890:— I am now to correct proof of three books– Epictetus, American Sonnets and Emily Dickinson's poems. And in November:— I was about writing the determination never again to have three books on hand at same time, going through the press, when I found myself entrapped into a promise to give the Centennial Oration of Massachusetts Historical Society, having also to prepare an address for 19th Century Club, and the life of Francis Higginson besides my regular work. Too much again. Yet one day when proofs of several different articles came to him, he said, I am naturally a glutton of such work and rather enjoy it. In the spring of that year he visited the battlefield of Gettysburg in connection with his Military History and wrote home:— At Gettysburg I rose at 6 A. M. and soon after seven set off with fifty people and two buglers in a series of omnibuses and barouches to drive about, over twenty miles of Union a
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
H. Bigelow.) American Sonnets. Preface by Higginson. （Ed. with Mrs. Mabel L. Todd.) Poems, by Emily Dickinson. Preface by Higginson. 1891 Life of Francis Higginson. (In Makers of America.) On the Steps of the Hall (University Hall, Aug. 28, 1837). Privately printed. Leaflet. Poem inscribed to the class of 1841, Harure Life. Introduction. (In Austin's Peter Rugg, the Missing Man.) William J. Rolfe. (In Emerson College Magazine, Nov.） （Ed.) Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson. (Genealogy.) Articles. (In Congregationalist and Christian World, Boston Evening Transcript.) 1911 Dickens in America. (Appeared after Coleter Rugg, the Missing Man.) William J. Rolfe. (In Emerson College Magazine, Nov.） （Ed.) Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson. (Genealogy.) Articles. (In Congregationalist and Christian World, Boston Evening Transcript.) 1911 Dickens in America. (Appeared after Col. Higginson's Death in Outlook,
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
Margaret Higginson, daughter of T. W. H. See Higginson, Margaret Waldo. Barney, Wentworth Higgincal American, 386, 387. Bernhardt, Sarah, Higginson first sees, 342, 343. Besant, Mrs., Annie Bigelow, Mrs. Ella H., edits sonnets with Higginson, 319. Blanc, Louis, 340. Book and Heart,dical Club, 267, 268. Bradlaugh, Charles, Higginson hears, 324; and Besant trial, 330. Bridgmenge for, 195, 196; farewell and death, 196; Higginson on affair of, 199, 200. Brown, Theophilus poem, 273, 340. Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson, 396, 398, 428. Devens, Charles, 254, 428. Galatea Collection founded by Higginson at Boston Public Library, 284. Galton, Francis, and Higginson, 328. Garrison, William Lloyd, favors disunion, 181; estimate of, 202. G, 174; account of, 176. Gladstone, W. E., Higginson meets, 324. Grant, Judge, Robert, poem foCarlyle's Laugh and Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson, 396; interested in Simplified Spe[18 more...]