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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 58 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 54 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 52 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 42 0 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 42 0 Browse Search
James Russell Lowell, Among my books 32 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 28 0 Browse Search
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 26 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli 26 0 Browse Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 20 0 Browse Search
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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, IV: the young pedagogue (search)
at Mr. Weld received his apology in ominous silence. The next day he wrote, Sleepy and homesick all day. The young teacher continued ineffectual efforts to like smoking, which he had decided in college days was a necessary accomplishment. His diary says, Got quite enthusiastic in reading about Student Life in Germany, got a pipe and smoked it as well as I could, and determined to get a meerschaum. But the experiment was a failure and later smoking was wholly abandoned. He added, Read Italian, having brought over [from Cambridge] my books and resolved to set about it resolutely. Read poetry by a moonlit window. Another evening after the pangs of toothache, genius burned, and he sat up until three in the morning writing blank verse. He read one of his poetical effusions to his family and they laughed at its sentimentality, which enraged me . . . went to bed angry and feeling unappreciated. Resolved to show them no more poetry. The youth's imagination was as vivid as a chil
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, V: the call to preach (search)
triumphantly, I am an independent individual with a clear income of $60 to be doubled after this year. But he soon found ways to increase this incredible income by copying, making profiles (perhaps the black paper silhouettes then in vogue), doing work connected with surveying for his brother Waldo, and teaching a private pupil in town for half an hour daily. He wrote to his mother:— I purpose giving the morning to study (par excellence), i.e., at present, languages—German, Greek & Italian, and the afternoon to other reading of various kinds—the evening when at home to reading, writing and so on. I am in my room all day pretty much, and find no difficulty in applying my mind—and no irksomeness, but rather a pleasure in reading and studying. . . . Although I need daily excitements, I can get along with very small ones— the post office, the reading room, the library at their regular hours each day are an all sufficient variety to me. But soon Higginson mentions a more mo
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIII: Oldport Days (search)
to Colonel Higginson that he should furnish such a book. To make this plan practicable, Mr. Emerson advanced one thousand dollars to supply the means of livelihood while the task was under way. I am trying to write a History of the United States for young people, reported the new historian after a year's labor, but don't know whether it will be readable after all. While collecting material for the book, he records writing one day ten postal cards in 10 languages—English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Swedish, Latin, Greek, Hebrew. The first draught was considered by Mr. Emerson too juvenile, and it was therefore necessary to rewrite it. The work was finally completed in 1874 and the author wrote:— It is a relief to me at last to have this work done, as it pressed on me a good deal, and especially this month. On the whole I have rather enjoyed it, though so long continued a work . . . . I should not have a doubt [as to its success] were it written by any on
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIV: return to Cambridge (search)
nd]. I read a poem by Emily Bronte. How large a portion of the people who have most interested me have passed away. But the sad entries in his journal were infrequent and presently he recorded:— One of these days on which, as Emerson says, every hour brings book or starlight scroll. At breakfast got letters from England, one from W. Sharp about sonnets of mine for his book of American sonnets—another from——asking about my literary methods for his pupils. Then came the copies of Italian version of my history and finally (next day) Mrs. Hood's news that she had The open Garden ready—her name for illustrations of Outdoor Papers. There has always been a confusion in the public mind between Colonel Wentworth Higginson and his cousin, Major Henry Higginson, and musicians sometimes applied to the former for a position in the Symphony Orchestra. He was wont to say that he received everything that was intended for his cousin except cheques. Reporting to his family in the