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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, I. A Cambridge boyhood (search)
the whole, happy. They dwelt in England, in Jamaica, in St. Andrews, in Campobello, then in Jamaica again, Captain Storrow having in the meantime resigned his commission, and having died at sea on his passage to Boston, in 1795. My mother, Louisa Storrow, had been born, meanwhile, at St. Andrews, in 1786. Among my mother's most vivid childish recollections was that of being led, a weeping child of nine, at the stately funeral of her father, who was buried in Boston with military and Masoniay, thus laying for my mother the foundation of some life-long friendships. This school has been praised by Mr. Barnard, the historian of early American education, as one of the best of the dawning experiments toward the education of girls. Mrs. Storrow, however, died within a year and a half, and her little family were left orphans among strangers or very recent friends. Their chief benefactor was my father, into whose family my mother was adopted, assisting in the care of his invalid wife
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 1: Cambridge and Newburyport (search)
didly confess, not the renowned Missis. No, ma'am, said I, as I warmed my feet in a leisurely way at the air-tight. I have never been in Hingham, but my mother lived here for a time. Why, mercy's sake, who was your mother? was the reply. Louisa Storrow, ma'am, said her son with dignity. Wha-a-t exclaimed the excellent lady promptly, pausing halfway out of the closet with a sugar-bowl in her hand. Why, be you Louisa Storer's son? Undoubtedly, ma'am, said I modestly; did you know her? Knoe regarded as a compromise which she could admit, and I left her leaning on that. But she consented to refer the matter to some mysterious aunt of her husband's, who has ere now settled the matter and explained the difference between Storer and Storrow. In other respects the Widow Cushing was a lively elderly lady with an intelligent come-outer nephew. A letter dated February, 1850, describes the impression made on the writer by Mrs. Kemble: I had never even seen her before, and the
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Index. (search)
e, 248, 249. Hennessys, the, 280, 297-99. Henry of Prussia, 346, 347. Higginson, Charles, 148. Higginson, George, 155. Higginson, Henry, 284, anecdote of, 193; and Soldiers' Field, 327, 328. Higginson, Rev., John, 327. Higginson, Louisa Storrow (mother of T. W. H.), letters to, 4 ff., 17 ff., 24 ff., 34, 63, 81 if., 85 ff., 101, 106, 111, 117, 121, 137 ff., 144, 146, 157, 164 ff., 194, 199, 201, 221 ff., 224. Higginson, Mary Channing, 222, 246, 253, 257; on Quakers, 236; on house Stanley, Henry M., the African explorer, 232. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, letters to, 333 if. Stillman, William J., the artist, 123, Stone, Lucy, at temperance meeting, 55; at suffrage meeting, 59; her wedding, 60-63; in Canada, 98. Storrow, Anne (Aunt Nancy), letter to, 1-3. Storrs, Rev. Richard S., 46, 47. Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom's Cabin, 54; description of, 54, 55; at Atlantic dinner, 107-09. Studley, Lt.-Col., 179. Sumner, Charles, 78, 263; on secession, 79; s
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
Phillips speaks at, 201; Emerson speaks at, 201. Appleton Anne, marries Capt. Storrow, 3. See also Storrow, Anne Appleton. Appleton, Fanny, 26. See also Mrs. Storrow, Anne Appleton. Appleton, Fanny, 26. See also Mrs. H. W. Longfellow. April Days, 157, 408. Army Life in a Black Regiment, 227, 230, 237, 363, 411, 423; at work on, 282. Arnim, Bettina von, Higginson reads, 314, 332-34. Higginson, Louisa, sister of T. W. H., 11, 12. Higginson, Louisa Storrow (mother of T. W. H.), character, 5, 6; son's tribute to, 7, 56; letters to bed, 97; Higginson's friendship with, 134-36; marries Henry Blackwell, 137. Storrow, Anne (Aunt Nancy), account of, 5, 6; and T. W. Higginson, 10, n, 122; T. W. H Storrow, Mrs., Anne Appleton, life of, 3-5. Storrow, Farley, 28, 37. Storrow, Louisa, birth, 5; marries Stephen Higginson, 5. See also Higginson, Louisa StorroLouisa Storrow. Storrow, Capt., Thomas, of the British army, 2; sketch of, 3, 4. Storrow, Thomas Wentworth, uncle of T. W. H., his namesake, 5. Story, Judge, 35, 116. St