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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 5: Lowell (search)
dding Club, but in later life requested, quite to the disapproval of the immediate members, to be permitted to cut them out of the record book, which he did. Mr. F. B. Sanborn, when he succeeded to the office of secretary of this club, read these smooth and trivial verses, as he calls them, with avidity and some disappointment, andand by it, and if we had made a mistake and killed a young Keats we would never acknowledge it. This project so dwelt in his mind that he mentioned it again to Mr. Sanborn twenty years after in regard to the Atlantic Monthly. This method had already been illustrated by his treatment in the Fable for critics of Margaret Fuller and d it on the general principle announced by Scott in Rob Roy, that treason has been in all ages accounted the crime of a gentleman. I have since learned from Mr. F. B. Sanborn that Lowell thought of recalling Hosea Biglow to the scene and of sending him to Kansas; and from the moment when he took the helm of the Atlantic Monthly,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Index (search)
, Barrett, 119. Pratt, Dexter, 126. Pratt, Rowena, 126. Putnam, Rev., George, 54, Putnam, Mrs. S. R., 16. Puttenham, George, 159. Quincy, Edmund, 67, 104. Quincy, Pres., Josiah, 29, 43, 157. Read, Gen., Meredith, 132. Richter, J. P. F., 85, 116. Riedesel, Baroness, 149, 150. Ripley, George, 48, 54,57, 67, 113. Rossetti, D. G., 132. Rousseau, J. J., 191. Ruggles, Mrs., 151. Ruggles, Capt., George, 150. Russell, Miss P., 75. Sackville, Lord, 195. Sales, Francis, 17, 23. Sanborn, F. B., 156, 174, 177. Scott, Sir, Walter, 26, 35, 177. Scott, Sir, William, 45. Scudder, H. E., 69, 70. Sewall, Samuel, 12. Sewell, Jonathan, 12. Seward, W. H., 178. Shaler, Prof. N. S., 70. Shepard, Rev., Thomas, 3, 5, 7. Sidney, Sir, Philip, 159. Smalley, G. A., 192. Smith, Sydney, 105. Smollett, Tobias, 95. Sparks, Pres., Jared, 14, 44, 128. Spenser, Edmund, 47, 154. Storer, Dr. D. H., 113. Story, Judge, Joseph, 16, 44. Story, W. W., 16, 26, 70, 154, 155. Stowe, Rev. C. E.
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Cambridge a city. (search)
Cambridge a city. George Rufus Cook. Dante might choose his home in all the wide, beautiful world; but to be out of the streets of Florence was exile to him. Socrates never cared to go beyond the bounds of Athens. The great universal heart welcomes the city as a natural growth of the eternal forces. F. B. Sanborn. Rome, Venice, Cambridge! I take it for an ascending scale, Rome being the first step and Cambridge the glowing apex. But you would n't know Cambridge—with its railroad, and its water-works, and its new houses. J. R. Lowell. [1856.] There were three memorable Cambridge days in 1846. On the 17th of March, Governor Briggs signed the legislative act, which incorporated the City of Cambridge. On the 30th day of the same month, the voters of Cambridge adopted this act. On May 4, the first city government was inaugurated, and the career of Cambridge as a chartered municipality began. It is the purpose of this chapter to indicate the progress which Cambridge
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, VII. Kansas and John Brown (search)
. Theodore Parker, George L. Stearns and F. B. Sanborn Esqrs. on the subject; but do not know as either Mr. Steams or Mr. Sanborn are abolitionists. I suppose they are. Can you be induced to operate at Worcester and elsewhere during that time to r that we considered either objectionable or impracticable; so that his friends in Boston Theodore Parker, Howe, Stearns, Sanborn, and myself — were ready to cooperate in his plan as thus limited. Of the wider organization and membership afterwards o me rather chimerical. The amount of $2000 was, nevertheless, raised for him at Boston, in June, 1859, and I find that Sanborn wrote to me (June 4), Brown has set out on his expedition; and then on October 6, The $300 desired has been made up and n the newspapers; and it is only within a few months that I have discovered that it had been early brought, with that of Sanborn, to the express attention of Governor Wise, of Virginia. Among his papers captured at Richmond by Major James Savage, o
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VI: in and out of the pulpit (search)
perfectly incredible—you listen and listen and at last become perfectly bewildered and decide that the notes will never end but go with you always. One of the valuable friendships formed at this period was that with David Wasson, whom Mr. Higginson dubbed the most interesting person I know. This radical young parson had recently been ordained at the neighboring town of Bradford (or Groveland), to Mr. Higginson's surprise, who thought Wasson too heretical for any council to admit. Mr. F. B. Sanborn remembers encountering in that region a country youth who summed up the two independent clergymen thus: Wal, he's [Wasson] a sort of infidel; he says he don't take much stock in th' old saints; Mista Hinkerson [Higginson], daown ta the Port, 's the sweetest saint I ever knew. After attending some of the May anniversary meetings, Mr. Higginson reported that he had spoken his mind freely about the emptiness of Unitarian gatherings. Some present did not approve, and other elders who
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VIII: Anthony Burns and the Underground railway (search)
ily, he declared. Let every man choose once for all, between his love for freedom, and for a full pocket; for, as far as I have observed, in this land of liberty it is difficult to combine both. In other cases he attempted to find work or hiding-places for the refugees. In one instance a home was sought for two boys who had been emancipated by their Kentucky master on condition that they should be cared for in a free State. This note of introduction, written by Mr. Higginson to Mr. F. B. Sanborn or Mr. R. W. Emerson, is given as a sample of the correspondence between the active abolitionists of that day:— Worcester, Sept. 14, 1860. The bearer, Capt. Stewart—sometimes known as Preacher Stewart—of Kansas, is leaving here to-day and I have advised him to pass through Concord and call on you. He is the head of the Underground Railway Enterprise in Kansas and has just made a highly successful trip. Mr. Stearns and others are raising funds to assist him in his operation<
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XI: John Brown and the call to arms (search)
which I am trying to get means. This letter, dated February 12, contained an urgent invitation to meet John Brown with Sanborn and others at Peterborough, New Hampshire. Not being able to do this, Mr. Higginson met Brown in Boston in March. The g that he should go to Kansas and then be left to his own discretion. He went off in good spirits. In October, 1858, Sanborn wrote to the Worcester clergyman that Brown was anxious about future operations, and asked if Higginson could do anything for him before the following spring. In March, 1859, and again in April, Sanborn appealed to Higginson for more funds; and May 1, the latter wrote to Brown that he had drawn so largely for similar purposes in the past few years he could raise no in person, if I could not in purse. And he declared that he longed to see Brown set free from timid advisers. In June, Sanborn wrote to Higginson that John Brown had set out on his expedition, having secured some eight hundred dollars; and Septemb
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
88; and Free Soil Party, 89-91; and temperance, 91, 92, 116, 310; fondness for children, 94, 95, 120. 121, 257, 272; establishes evening school at Newburyport, 95; early acquaintance with noted persons, 96-100; and David Wasson, 100, 101; and F. B. Sanborn, 100, 129; on Unitarian gatherings, 100, 101; doubts fitness for ministry, 101, 102; early lectures, 102, 107; resigns from Newburyport church, 103, 104; lives at Artichoke Mills, 105, 106; preaches in a hall, 107; keeps up interest in Newbur9-41, 250, 263; becomes surgeon in colored regiment, 216; and Higginson, 237, 282, 321. Rosebery, Earl of, account of, 330, 362. Round Table Club, 315. St. Louis, Mo., slave-market in, 182-89. Saints and their Bodies, 156, 407. Sanborn, F. B., 190; and T. W. Higginson, j 100; described, 129; seeks aid for Brown, i 192, 193. Sargent, Dr. D. A., 156. Sargent, J. T., Radical Club meets at home of, 267. Saxton, Gen., Rufus, offers command of black regiment to Higginson, 214; of
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, chapter 13 (search)
series, 1885. The Correspondence of Carlyle and Emerson, 2 vols., Osgood & Co., 1883. Henry James's Life of Hawthorne, in English men of letters series, 1880. C. E. Woodberry's Hawthorne, in American men of letters series, 1902. F. B. Sanborn's Thoreau, in American men of letters series, 1882. F. B. Sanborn and W. T. Harris's Life and philosophy of Alcott, 2 vols., Roberts Bros., 1893. (B) Theodore Parker's Works, 12 vols., Trubner & Co. (London), 1863-1865. A. BronsonF. B. Sanborn and W. T. Harris's Life and philosophy of Alcott, 2 vols., Roberts Bros., 1893. (B) Theodore Parker's Works, 12 vols., Trubner & Co. (London), 1863-1865. A. Bronson Alcott's Table talk, Roberts Bros., 1877. Chapter 8: the Southern influence.--Whitman (A) W. P. Trent's Simms, in American men of letters series, 1902. W. M. Baskervill's Life of Sidney Lanier, in Southern writers series, Barber & Smith (Nashville), 1897. G. E. Woodberry's Poe, in American men of letters series, 1885. John Burroughs's Study of Walt Whitman, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1896. H. Ellis's The New spirit, Walter Scott (London), 1890. (B) W. G. Simms's Poems,
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 6: the Transcendentalists (search)
save meekness. He died at fifty, worn out, in Italy. But while these three figures were, after Emerson and Thoreau, the most representative of the group, the student of the Transcendental period will be equally interested in watching its influence upon many other types of young men: upon future journalists and publicists like George William Curtis, Charles A. Dana, and George Ripley; upon religionists like Orestes Brownson, Father Hecker, and James Freeman Clarke; and upon poets like Jones Very, Christopher P. Cranch, and Ellery Channing. There was a sunny side of the whole movement, as T. W. Higginson and F. B. Sanborn, two of the latest survivors of the ferment, loved to emphasize in their talk and in their books; and it was shadowed also by tragedy and the pathos of unfulfilled desires. But as one looks back at it, in the perspective of threequarters of a century, it seems chiefly something touchingly fine. For all these men and women tried to hitch their wagon to a star.
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