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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XV: journeys (search)
French than English in the grace and sweetness of her manners. At the Voltaire Centenary in Paris, Colonel Higginson heard Victor Hugo speak and was much struck with the storm of enthusiasm whicut Colonel Higginson had a natural aptitude for acquiring languages, and on his first arrival at Paris he wrote: French came to me like a flash and I interpreted for stray Englishmen at the customhouse! During this second visit he strolled into the suburbs of Paris and walked from Sceaux to Chatenay, and bought vin ordinaire in the very room where Voltaire was born. To continue the extracts:— Paris, Monday, July 22. I dined at Mr. Hitt's (American Sec'y of Legation) to meet Stanley the explorer. . . . I sat next to Stanley who is a very queer combination—much smoothed and softenet of you, you are simply one stranger more, unimportant as a fly. When I look back on my life in Paris, I seem to have carried about with me a moving wall of seclusion, which is now exchanged for the
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
Arnold, 331, 312; Gen. Higginson, 332-34; and Darwin, 334; English Liberal Thinkers, 336, 337; in Oxford, 337, 338; in Scotland, 338-40; returns to London, 340; at Paris, 340-43; in Normandy, 343; on the Rhine, 343-45; at Frankfort, 345, 346; at Nuremberg and Dresden, 346; on foreign travel, 346; journey to Europe (1897), 347-53; in London, 347-51; Horder's description of, 348, 349; visits at country houses, 350, 351; at Oxford, 351; at Stratford, 351, 352; at Salisbury, 352, 353; at Paris, 353; in Switzerland, 353; journey to Europe (1901), 353-62; impressions of Granada, 353; at Castellamare, 353, 354; illness of his daughter, 354; at Capri, 355; at Florenes memorial sermon, 349. Houghton, Lord, 328. Houghton, Rowena, wife of village blacksmith, 8. Howe, Julia Ward, 93; at Newport, 258; and Higginson, 31$; at Paris, 342. Howe, Dr., Samuel Gridley, 26,113,193,204; and John Brown's plans, 192. Hugo, Victor, 340, 353. Hunt, Helen, at Newport, 258, 259. See also Jackson, H