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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson 58 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 1: Cambridge and Newburyport (search)
Maria Fay was one of the Cambridge belles in Higginson's youth and lived in the fine old mansion noe. Fifteen years later, in April, 1861, Mr. Higginson wrote his mother of the Misses Palfrey's f He looks like a Banished Lord. In 1847 Higginson made sundry visits at Newburyport preparatort to stand aloof and call it neutrality. Higginson alluded to these dissensions in his life of ority, and there is a general opinion that Mr. Higginson ought to know the state of affairs. No onith mist. About his friend, Levi Thaxter, Higginson wrote his mother: Levi popped in, on his sland. A little more than a year later, Higginson wrote to his mother of Levi Thaxter's marriaivinity School. In letters to his mother, Mr. Higginson reported some of Hurlbut's experiences abr, who was then conducting the Bach Choir. Mr. Higginson, in a letter dated February, 1852, tells h are from the journal of 1852 and refer to Mr. Higginson's interest in the temperance movement. Ma[2 more...]
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 2: the Worcester period (search)
Chapter 2: the Worcester period Mr. Higginson lived and preached in Worcester for about ten years before the Civil War called him away. Extracts from journals and letters of this period are apt to be undated and fragmentary and are often arranged according to subject rather than date. They are not chronicles of Worcester lit are called advantages. Girls talk folly enough to young men, but nothing to what they talk to each other. Joyfully I turn to Harriet Hosmer the sculptor. Mr. Higginson often got a good deal of entertainment as well as discomfort out of his lecture or preaching trips. Brooklyn, N. Y., November, 1852 We reached Norwich at ninite amusement of W. H. C.'s anxiously warning him not to underrate certain theological doctrines-a Channing warning a Beecher! Of a later trip to Brooklyn, Higginson wrote: I stayed with Sam Longfellow from Thursday night to Monday night. The former night was stormy, and I was invited to repeat the lecture, which I did
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter army life and camp drill (search)
t first; but tout arrive en France. A corporal of cavalry with whom I was riding the other day told me a story of Henry Higginson. ... Once there was an advance beyond this ferry a year ago to fire a bridge, and the Massachusetts cavalry went alos no enthusiasm felt here over the failure at Charleston and the evacuation of Jacksonville. In another letter Colonel Higginson says that the above regiment, the One Hundredth New York, was the only one which ever planted anything around its tays laugh because we all have a feeling that the rebels must have the worst of it. The following extract, which Colonel Higginson said could only be appreciated by one who knew the first lessons in drill, is taken from the journal of 1863: nd a sweeter resting-place for a discarded body. Montgomery was then making some capital raids near Georgia and Colonel Higginson wrote of him: Advanced Picket, June 5 Montgomery's raid was a most brilliant success, though I don't believe i
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 7: Cambridge in later life (search)
igginson, 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 ll to-morrow night, as it is in memory of friends who fell in the war. June 13, 1890 I wish you could have heard Henry Higginson. It was one of the most thoroughly simple and admirable things I ever heard — a reticent man breaking the habit ofto see the other lady that was in the scratch The letters to Mrs. Mabel Loomis Todd were written while she and Colonel Higginson were editing the poems of Emily Dickinson. November 12, 1890 Dear Mrs. Todd: I am distressed exceedingly to finness; do find time to enjoy yourself! He replied, with his inimitable smile, Rely upon me! and so I rely on you. Colonel Higginson constantly corresponded with his kinsman, Edmund Clarence Stedman, and Miss Stedman has kindly allowed the use of
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Index. (search)
f Prussia, 346, 347. Higginson, Charles, 148. Higginson, George, 155. Higginson, Henry, 284, anecdote of, 193; and Soldiers' Field, 327, 328. Higginson, Rev.,324; and Cleveland campaign, 324, 325; at home of ancestors, 326, 327; and Henry Higginson, 327, 328; at Dublin, N. H., 328-30; and Stedman, 333-36; his Monarch of Dern educational trip, 345, 346; musings of, 347-51; on literary fame, 351. Higginson sisters, letters to, 151, 221 ff., 225 ff., 252, 264, 266, 321 ff. Hoar, Ga K., Arctic explorer, 90-92. Kansas, emigrants and money sent to, 137-39; Higginson's trip to, 139-44. Kemble, Mrs., Fanny, 35-37, 218. Kensett, John F., theon exercises, 4; compared with H. W. Beecher, 46, 47; eloquence of, 53; Higginson and, 53. 54; described, 94; fire at home of, 269. Peabody, Elizabeth, foun Smalleys, the, 277, 294, 295. South, the, Union sentiment, 165, 166, 264; Higginson's accounts of, 183-92, 217. Sparks, Jared, 267. Spofford, Harriet Prescot
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIV: return to Cambridge (search)
her, as the Scotch proverb says. Yet Colonel Higginson had a great love of music, and a good, tanimation. Many organizations secured Colonel Higginson's services as president, for longer or szed through the efforts of Mrs. Howe and Colonel Higginson, they bearing to it during the former's r Vice. One of the members called this club Higginson's last plaything. Among the annual public into politics and, in the fall of 1888, Colonel Higginson was nominated as Representative to CongrI hope some one else will be nominated. Colonel Higginson was required to do more or less stump-spune, 1889, to appear at the State House, Colonel Higginson supposed that the interview would relatetaking, which continued for seven years, Colonel Higginson was very active in civic service. For fting to public movements were brought to Colonel Higginson to endorse, he always carefully considerent the summer at East Gloucester. Here Colonel Higginson bought a fisherman's dory and taught the[1 more...]
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Corrigenda and Addenda (search)
a pew in Dr. Channing's church, Mrs. Chapman's memory was clearly at fault. The incident, however, really occurred, as the following letter (which has been placed in our hands since Vol. 2 was published) shows: Boston, May 17, 1836. dear Sir: Mrs. Higginson requests me to say that she will soon want the whole of her pew for some friends and relatives recently come to town. Will you be good enough to accommodate yourself elsewhere as soon as may be convenient?—Yours very truly, Henry Higginson. Henry Chapman, jr., Esqre. The writer was a brother of the late Mr. Stephen Higginson. The letter is endorsed in Mrs. Chapman's handwriting: The Sabbath preceding this date [May 15], Garrison and May sat in our pew. The discourse alluded to by Mr. Garrison on page 98 was given two months before this. Page 103, lines 10, 11. Teste Dr. H. I. Bowditch, Mr. Ward lived in Salem (not in Danvers). Page 142, line 6 from bottom. For 1832 read 1831. Pages 236, 237. Both letters