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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1854. (search)
cience. His mind at last settled on the working of metals as the occupation best suited to his views; and he entered the iron-mill of the Ames Company at Chicopee, Massachusetts, in the spring of 1855. Here he remained half a year as a common workman. He interested himself in his fellow-workmen, and often met with them to talk on branches of science connected with their work. Chicopee, April 1, 1855. If you could in any way get hold of a tenth part of the letters which I enjoy myself writing to you after I get to bed, you would, though an infinite shoeblack, be satisfied with our correspondence; but through the post-office,—why, the very thounded on high and thoroughly considered principles, and also accompanied with a resolve to labor with sober patience for the remedy of abuses. His experiment at Chicopee had increased his confidence in his plans for elevating the condition of the workmen. He had given much thought to the leading questions connected with his occu