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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 16 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 13: closing years (search)
it. Nor is it exaggeration to say that no man or woman of that period was so fairly to be classed with her as was the writer of these words. She had before this time passed away, having died in 1880. A speech before the Essex Club by Senator Hoar, a few weeks before Whittier's eightieth birthday, brought forth one of the most striking tributes ever paid to an American author. It consisted of Senator Hoar's speech, followed by the signatures of all the Essex Club, of fifty-nine United Senator Hoar's speech, followed by the signatures of all the Essex Club, of fifty-nine United States Senators, the entire bench of the Supreme Court of the United States,headed by Chief Justice Waite,--of Speaker Carlisle of the House of Representatives, and three hundred and thirty-three Members of the House, coming from every state and territory in the Union. To these were added the names of many private citizens of distinction, such as George Bancroft, Robert C. Winthrop, James G. Blaine, and Frederick Douglass. In that same year (1887) a companion tribute came in more concentrated
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Index. (search)
, 172; academy at, 27, 28, 30, 137; antislavery meeting at, 56, 57. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 35, 36; Whittier's acquaintance with, 111, 112. Hayne, Paul H., his poem about Whittier, 113, 114. Hazlitt, William, his essay On the conversation of authors, quoted, 105. Healy, Joseph, 76. Hemans, Mrs. Felicia D., 166. Henchman, the, 143-145. Hicksite school of Friends, 53; Hicksite principle, 116. Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 126; Whittier's letters to, 44, 45, 87, 96-98. Hoar, Hon. G. F., 181. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 2, 37, 104, 130, 141, 151, 178; his The Autocrat of the breakfast table, mentioned, 150; his The Chambered Nautilus, mentioned, 150,163; Whittier's summary of qualities of, 178, 179. Hotel Brunswick, Boston, dinner at, 176. Houghton, H. O., 177. Howard, John, 33. Howe, Mrs., Julia Ward, 82. D., 178; his Hazard of New Fortunes, mentioned, 86. Hussey, Christopher, 5. Hussey, Mercy, 10, 31. Hutchinson, Mrs., Anne, 84. Hutchinsons, the, 185. I