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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, VIII: Emerson's foot-note person, --Alcott (search)
st efforts at Western lectures began in the winter of 1853-54, and he returned in February, 1854. He was to give a series of talks on the representative minds of New England, with the circle of followers surrounding each; the subjects of his discourse being Webster, Greeley, Garrison, Margaret Fuller, Theodore Parker, Greenough, and Emerson; the separate themes being thus stated as seven, and the number of conversations as only six. Terms for the course were three dollars. By his daughter Louisa's testimony he returned late at night with a single dollar in his pocket, this fact being thus explained in his own language : Many promises were not kept and travelling is costly; but I have opened the way, and another year shall do better. Sanborn and Harris's Alcott, 2.477. At any rate, his daughter thus pathetically described his appearance at this interview, as her mother wrote to a friend: He looked as cold and thin as an icicle; but as serene as God. Memoirs, II, 473. There is