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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, II: an old-fashioned home (search)
red with a large stone which I have heard was made in the Revolution. I brought home two stones from it. To his brother in Maryland he wrote when eleven years old:— I have got 5 more Waverley Novels since you have been gone: Ivanhoe, The Monastery, The Pirates, and the 1st and 2nd Series of Chronicles of the Canongate, besides Peveril of the Peak which you left behind. Sunday School is in the Courthouse now. . . . I shall like to hear about a fox-hunt. Are there any slaves at Mr. Martin's, and do they blow a conch in the morning to collect them? . . . I read the Spectator a few days ago. Aunt Nancy received the two following letters:— How are you?... I am reading the Tales of a Grandfather and like them very much. . . . I am learning the conjugation of the verb parler, to speak. . . . I think that I shall go into Caesar, after the vacation, at school. . . . I have seen some snowdrops already in Mrs. Carpenter's yard. I meant to ask her for some the other day,
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, X: a ride through Kansas (search)
ney to buy them, no prospect of a dollar; but I'll live or die in Kansas! And he added, Such is the spirit of multitudes, many of whom are as badly off as this man. In a letter to the Tribune, dated Lawrence, October 4, Mr. Higginson said:— Last Sunday I preached in this place (though I must say that I am commonly known here by a title which is elsewhere considered incompatible with even the Church Militant). It was quite an occasion; and I took for my text the one employed by Rev. John Martin the Sunday after he fought at Bunker Hill—Neh. IV, 14; Be not ye afraid of them; remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your houses. A Kansas correspondent of the Christian Register of September 26, 1857, heard Mr. Higginson preach on that occasion and thus described the event:— The place where we congregated was a low chamber over a store, built up of rough boards and lined with cloth tacked <