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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, II: an old-fashioned home (search)
Tommy there is a fire. I looked out of the window and saw a blaze. . . . I asked Sister Anna if we might [go] and she said we might if we would not go beyond the common fence. We went and when we got there we found people in abundance. As we were going along, Thornton [Ware] caught up with us having in each hand one of his father's firebuckets. He seemed to be quite at home there. There were a great many blankets, &c., hanging on the fence. . . . Some burnt papers were found as far as Dr. Holmes's. There were a great many books thrown out of the window. . . . I suppose I have not given you a very good description of the fire, but it is as good as I can give. I was glad to receive your knife, for I wanted it very much. Tell brother Stephen that I took the schooner that I was making when he came here, to pieces. I am now making a sloop instead of it. I think this is a pretty long letter, so Goodbye. Love to all. Your affectionate nephew, Wentworth. Dear Aunt Nancy,—
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VI: in and out of the pulpit (search)
ious to be handsome! Among other things it fell to the lot of the clerical pair to entertain various men and women of note who came to Newburyport to lecture. In the winter of 1848, Mr. Higginson wrote to his mother of Professor Agassiz:— He is a charming companion, very joyous, gentle and modest, always ready and willing to communicate his endless information about all invisible things. . . . Mr. Emerson comes on Friday and will stop here—as will also probably the minor star, Dr. Holmes, the week after. 'T is a nice way of seeing great people, for they can't well be otherwise than complaisant when you rescue them from a dirty tavern and give them hominy for breakfast. And Mrs. Higginson added:— Friday night that enormous Charles Sumner stretched his ponderous form of seven feet in length under our roof. He has not very good manners—he always sits in the rocking chair, gapes almost constantly without any attempt at concealment. . . . But he is a true moral reforme
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, IX: the Atlantic Essays (search)
ll in Sam and he has proposed it once more to James T. Fields (Ticknor & Co.) and that bold youth (also fresh from Europe, these two having visited the Brownings together) consented. So the book is to begin to be printed in February and between now and then what copying and debating and selecting! In 1859, the famous Atlantic dinner was given to Mrs. Stowe, which Colonel Higginson has described in Cheerful Yesterdays. To his mother he thus reported a conversation on this occasion with Dr. Holmes:— He [Holmes] was very pleasant and cordial to me, but turned upon me when I refused a cigar. What, said he, you don't smoke? No, said I. Then, said he, you unquestionably chew the betel-nut. I told him I was fond of nuts and also of beetles, but preferred my botany and entomology separate. Ah, said he, but everybody must have some narcotic, if you don't chew the betel-nut, you take opium pills or laudanum in some form. I assured him I took no pills but homoeopathic and those
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XV: journeys (search)
r English. He said, rather severely, I suppose you mean that for a compliment, but I don't consider it one. Ah, said she, but you must admit they have a twang, a kind of accent-like. He said, That's what we say of the English; and she laughed. He wrote in his diary:— We pick up lots of Americans we never heard of at home and learn a great deal that is new about our own country. . . . An Englishman watched me through a knot hole for some Americanism. Said he detected a good many in Holmes. One of his English friends, Rev. W. Garrett Horder, has written down for this memoir his impressions of Colonel Higginson. From an English point of view no praise could be higher:— I think he was the tallest, most erect, most aristocratic in his bearing of any American we had known. While as to his speech, it was difficult to believe that he had been born and lived all his days across the Atlantic . . . . But more important than his manner of speech was the spirit that expresse
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
eodore Parker. John Greenleaf Whittier. Walt Whitman. Sidney Lanier. An Evening with Mrs. Hawthorne. Lydia Maria Child. Helen Jackson (H. H.) John Holmes. Thaddeus William Harris. A Visit to John Brown's Household in 1859. William Lloyd Garrison. Wendell Phillips. Charles Sumner. Dr. Howe's Anticcentricities of Reformers. The Road to England. Old Cambridge. Contents: I. Old Cambridge. II. Old Cambridge in Three Literary Epochs. III. Holmes. IV. Longfellow. V. Lowell. Where Liberty is Not, there is My Country. (Anti-Imperialist Leaflet, no. 19.) Reprinted from Harper's Bazar, Aug. 12, 1899 Public Library Report Pph. Wendell Phillips. (In Encyclopedia Britannica.) My Literary Neighbors. (In Outlook, Feb. 4.) His Brother's Brother [John Holmes]. (In Atlantic Monthly, Aug.） The Road to England. (In Atlantic Monthly, Oct.） Articles. (In Nation, Outlook, et al.) 1900 [Writings. Definitiv