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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XV: journeys (search)
ound almost all my books and even pamphlets there. The trip of 1897 included many delightful visits at English country-houses. One of these was at General Sir George Higginson's summer home on the Thames, where we saw the Henley regatta. In his description of this house, the American visitor said, The high hall was lined win the field of Inkerman, where Sir George, then a lieutenant, was engaged. The hospitality of English houses was fully appreciated, but the formalities made Colonel Higginson a little impatient. He amused his family by reporting after a London luncheon that he had been swamped in Lords and Ladies. From Oxford he wrote:— Grd vicar, each of them claiming him as an old acquaintance!!! An annoying incident happened on our way to Stratford in the loss of luggage which prevented Colonel Higginson from attending a dinner given near London by the Omar Khayyam Club. Thereupon an amusing squib appeared in the Morning Post in which incidents connected wit