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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 2: the Worcester period (search)
tion but of age. They are hospitable and sociable, as such isolated people always are; talk of the main land and the continent and foreigners. I stayed at the hotel, but had plenty of hospitality, and a drive with two horses seven miles out to Siasconset, their watering place, a shower of little cottages, covered with honeysuckle, on a high bluff. At Siasconset they have fish-carts made like wheelbarrows, only with a whole cask for a wheel; and in Nantucket you see ladies riding in two-wheeledSiasconset they have fish-carts made like wheelbarrows, only with a whole cask for a wheel; and in Nantucket you see ladies riding in two-wheeled carts, standing up, holding by a rope to steady themselves. My lectures were very well received, only the people who had been to the Azores were astonished that I could make so much out of them! These notes on distinguished contemporaries were written when Mr. Higginson was thirty-four years old: Mr. Emerson is bounteous and gracious, but thin, dry, angular, in intercourse as in person. Garrison is the only solid moral reality I have ever seen incarnate, the only man who would do to