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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 3 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 2: school days and early ventures (search)
mous; also of F. A. P. Barnard, afterward president of Columbia College. Whittier's first thin volume, Legend of New England (Hartford, Hanmer and Phelps, 1831), was published with some difficulty at the age of twenty-four; and was suppressed in later life by the author himself, he buying it up, sometimes at the price of five dollars a copy, in order that he might burn it. It gave little promise, either in its prose or verse, and showed, like the early works of Hawthorne, the influence of Irving. The only things preserved from it, even in the appendix to his collected poems, are two entitled Metacom and Mount Agioochook Works, IV. 343-8.; and he has wisely preserved nothing of the very rhetorical and melodramatic prose writing. Yet he showed in these the desire for home themes and the power to discover them. In The Rattlesnake hunter the theme is an old man who devotes his life, among the mountains of Vermont, to the extirpation of rattlesnakes, one of which has killed his wife
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
scribes a course of baths and medicines. For this purpose I went to Dieppe, but soon became dissatisfied. There was water enough, but no libraries or books, and I at once left for London. . . . At Paris I found Palfrey's book, History of New England. which I read at once with great interest; it is admirable in all respects. Dana's book To Cuba and Back. I hear of in the hands of his London friends. I fund Lady Cranworth much pleased with it. Lord Stanhope finds his old friend W. Irving's Life of Washington very poor,— entirely unworthy of the subject and of the author. The Life of John Adams he recognizes as a very different work, and of positive merit. I hear of Seward's visit, but have not yet seen him. Since I have been in London he has been in the Provinces, where he went partly to escape the 4th of July dinner. Is he to be our candidate? To Theodore Parker, August 4:— Meanwhile, what sudden changes in the attitude of European States! The peace of Villa
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 11 (search)
r of the 38th Mass. Volunteers, to be Colonel, U. S. Volunteers, by brevet, for conspicuous gallantry at Winchester, Va., Sept. 19, 1864, and at Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, 1864, to date from Mar. 13, 1865. G. O. 84, Oct. 14, 1868. Allen, W. Irving, late Captain of the 31st Mass. Volunteers, to be Major, U. S. Volunteers, by brevet, for gallant and meritorious services at Port Hudson, Bynum's Mill, Pinewood, Sabine Cross Roads and Yellow Bayou, La., and at the taking of Mobile, to date from Mar. 13, 1865. G. O. 67, July 16, 1867. — Brevet Major W. Irving, late Captain of the 31st Mass. Volunteers, to be Lieut. Colonel, U. S. Volunteers, by brevet, for gallant and meritorious services at Port Hudson, Bynum's Woods, Pinewood, Sabine Cross Roads and Yellow Bayou, La., and in the taking of Mobile, to date from Mar. 13, 1865. G. O. 67, July 16, 1867. Allen, Additional Paymaster William, U. S. Volunteers, to be Lieut. Colonel, U. S. Volunteers, by brevet, for faithful and m