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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 2: the Worcester period (search)
ng a sort of luncheon before our dinner; viz., Holmes and Longfellow in half length and very admirabn dressing-room, and I found in another parlor Holmes, Lowell, Longfellow, Whipple, Edmund Quincy, Pncy by Harriet, at his request, she being on Dr. Holmes's right — the Autocrat's right, think of theathe was to place me there, which he did. On Dr. Holmes's left was Whittier, next, Professor Stowe,she having once perused Consuelo ! Little Dr. Holmes came down upon her instantly with her laurelerybody contributed something. The best thing Holmes said was in discoursing on his favorite theoryind this allusion to the Stowe dinner: Dr. Holmes--whom you evidently did not fancy, though yo but really it was hardly worth it, except for Holmes, who was really very agreeable and even delighe, though he always had that tendency; whereas Holmes was very genial and sweet and allowed Lowell tical side and Lowell rather the conservative. Holmes said some things that were as eloquent as anyt[4 more...]
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 3: Journeys (search)
akes with no sign of human life. In despair you discharge your rifle, and suddenly a boat comes out from a wooded point, and receives you as guests in fairyland. Stillman is the presiding spirit; he stays there all summer and paints while the other artists and savants who make up the Adirondack Club (or Amperzanders as the boatmen call them) come and go. This summer there have been James Lowell, Estes Howe, Judge Hoar, Horace Gray; and Emerson and Longfellow and others are now coming. John Holmes came, carried in an armchair through the forest by four men; they said it was hard, but he was so funny. They are just buying the pond and its whole surroundings, to keep them sacred from lumbering and injury, and have taken this out-of-the-way place to avoid company and disturbance; besides, it is by far the most beautiful lake we saw, the mountains coming closer and steeper round it than in any other place we saw, and they are laying out rude paths to all the points of interest in the
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter army life and camp drill (search)
Devens was United States Marshal at the time of the Sims case, and although his sympathies were with the fugitive slave, he felt obliged to obey the law. But he afterwards made a great effort financially and otherwise to procure freedom for Sims, and his brave career in the Civil War has been fitly recognized by naming for him the recent great soldiers' training camp at Ayer. August 2 Dearest Mother: We take things more quietly here. The war has never cost us a minute's sleep, which Dr. Holmes thinks enviable at such a time. You and Anna croon over your Springfield Republican till you get altogether too anxious. Our people are too excitable and felt the Manassas repulse far more than was needful. So far as the military aspects of the matter are concerned, everything looks much better to me, since that, than before, both by land and sea. As for foreign countries, it is galling that they should say such things of us, but they will unsay them when disproved. I do not think th
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 7: Cambridge in later life (search)
Chapter 7: Cambridge in later life These letters, when not otherwise specified, were written to Mr. Higginson's sister. The first one refers to the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Cambridge when a reception was given to Longfellow by grammar-school children. December 31, 1880 ... The morning celebration was a charming scene; the way the eleven hundred children received Holmes and Longfellow was delightful, and L. looked infinitely picturesque in a richly furred wrapper, with his long white hair and beard. October 30, 1881 ... I had called on the Freemans at Tremont House; he is an ordinary-looking little squat Englishman with bushy beard; she is cheery and jolly. The thing that strikes them as strange in America is to see black women in the streets; they had hardly seen even black men before. She yearns to see a black baby, but they go soon to a son married in Virginia and will see plenty. I heard a good answer at Sunday-School from a litt
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Index. (search)
nd Matthew Arnold, 323, 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 Dreams, 335, 336; account of a New Hampshire summer, 336-45; on Southern 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, George, on Woman's Suffrage, 263. Holden, Mass., tavern at, 56-58. Holmes, John, 124. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, at Atlantic dinners, 106-12. Honey, Rev. C. R., of England, 285, 289, 290. Howe, Julia Ward, 113; accounts of, 228, 229, 259; and Town and Country Club, 230; letters to, 231-35; first woman member of National Institute of Arts and Letters, 234, 235. Howe, Samuel Gridley, and Kansas, 138, 139; death of, 230, 231. Howell, Mrs., of Philadelphia, 145. Howells, Wm. Dean, 262. Hughes, Thomas, described, 258,259. Hunt, Helen, 244-46. Hunt, Willi