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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, II: an old-fashioned home (search)
here, the latter being one of the older pupils. There is an amusing letter from Lowell to Thacher Higginson which Colonel Higginson later framed and hung in his library. My dear thach,— In thColonel Higginson later framed and hung in his library. My dear thach,— In the course of human events when the mind becomes indued with active spirit, with powerful imagination, with extensive enterprise, with noble designty—Then, my boy, Then! is the time to return to you tmon interest. The old habit of preserving family correspondence was never abandoned by Colonel Higginson. These little letters were written between the boy's tenth and thirteenth years in a rounAunt N. thinks this is very well for him. The last paragraph is explained by a sentence in Higginson's Old Cambridge which says, Cambridge boys were still sent to sea as a cure for naughtiness. At about this time, in 1834, Wentworth's father died. Two years later Mrs. Higginson sold the Kirkland Street house and removed to a smaller one on Garden Street, which had been built by her son F<
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
rom, 280; housekeeping, 288, 289; death, 290, 291. Higginson, Stephen, Ist (great-grandfather of T. W. H.), account of, I. Higginson, Stephen, 2d (grandfather of T. W. H.), career, 1, 2. Higginson, Stephen, Life and Times of, 427; begun, 392. Higginson, Stephen, 3d, father of T. W. H., account of. 1, 2, 5; called Man of Ross, 2; marriage, 5; hospitality, 6; death, 7, 19; and Harvard College, 8, 9; son's verses about, 8. Higginson, Stephen, brother of T. W. H., 11, 18. Higginson, Thacher, 14, fatal voyage of, 6, 38; J. R. Lowell's letter to, 14. Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, ancestry, 1-4; name, 5; and his Aunt Nancy, 5, 6, 10, 16-18, 57, 77, 87, 122, 129, 146, 147; tribute to mother, 7, 56; his father, 7, 8; and Phi Beta Kappa, 8, 34, 35; childhood, 10-20; his home, 12; school, 12, 14, 15; his mother about, 12, 13, 15, 16, 56; methodical habits, 14, 25, 26; and J. R. Lowell, 14, 15, 66; early letters of, 16-20, 32, 37; earliest interest in negroes, 17, 38; Old Cambr
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Index. (search)
. Griswold, Rufus W., 54, 105, 208, 210. Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 104. Hamlet, 243, 272, 279. Hancock, John, 48. Harper's magazine, 132. Harte, Bret, 172, 236, 245, 246, 253, 273. Hartford wits, 38. Harvard College, 125, 140, 147, 202. Hathorne, John, 267. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 90, 118, 139, 177, 182-191, 207. Hay, John, 264. Hayne, Paul Hamilton, 204, 205, 206. Hazlitt, William, 251. Henry, Patrick, 43. Hiawatha, Longfellow's, 142, 144, 264. Higginson, Stephen, 49. Higginson, Thacher, 160. Hildreth, Richard, 117. Historians, New England, 116-119. History of the Jews, 241. History of the United States, Bancroft's, 143. Hoffman, Charles Fenno, 105. Holland, J. G., 124. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 10, 133, 135, 137, 143, 146, 152-160, 161, 162-164, 197, 242, 264. Hooper, Mrs., 264. Hopkinson, Francis, 54, 55. House of the seven Gables, Hawthorne's, 185. Howe, Mrs., Julia Ward, 264. Howells, W. D., 3, 236, 248-252. Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain's, 248.