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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 2: the Worcester period (search)
kept recurring to me as I sat in his pretty study, full of books and engravings .... He has written two perfectly charming essays on Emerson and Hawthorne for the lovely illustrated Homes of American Authors ; a most racy and charming picture of Concord and its peculiar life. I read these at the bookstore afterward with great delight. . . . I learned one good fact; that the arms of the Wentworths are three cats' heads, which explains my tendencies [fondness for milk]. This evening I haveut the books she should read: We see how few people live in Nature by the rarity of any real glimpse of it in their books; almost all is' second-hand and vague. ... The only thoroughly outdoor book I have ever seen is Thoreau's Week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers, which is fascinating beyond compare to any one who knows Nature, though the religion and philosophy are of the wildest. He has led a strange Indian life, the author, and his errors and extremes are on the opposite from mos
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 3: Journeys (search)
llars, with our remittance, and our two parties of emigrants (which would not have gone till by this time if I had not gone to work on it the first night I came) are absolutely all that has yet been done by New England for Kansas, in this time of imminent need. This I say to show you how ill-prepared we are for such emergencies. The busy give no time and the leisurely no energy, and there is no organization. I should except the Committee here, which has done admirably, and that in Concord, Massachusetts, and Dr. Howe, Sam Cabot, Charles Higginson, and a few others in Boston. There is talk now of sending Dr. Howe to Kansas with a large sum of money, and this will be the best thing possible, but it should have been done a fortnight ago. August 29 We have excellent news from Kansas. . . Our men are nicely settled in the northern part of Kansas, which is more peaceful. Colonel Topliff, who has just come from Lawrence, speaks quite encouragingly and thinks they can resist inva
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 7: Cambridge in later life (search)
imes says things awkwardly, meaning no harm, as when he said to Ellen Emerson of her father in England, I understand he wished to see me, which offends Boston and Concord, but really meant nothing. I have heard him say nothing uppish and don't think he felt it. He is much touched with the familiarity he finds among teachers with ral times while in this country, and though I had always admired a few of his things, found him more and more likable, at least. He amused us here by going up to Concord for a Sunday and searching out the minutest memorials of Thoreau, while not interesting himself in the least in anything connected with Emerson and Hawthorne. lerk (who remembers when there was only a ford), thinks that the bridge had been built a short time before; at any rate, some leading men from the village went to Concord and saw L. F., and on their return proposed this name for the bridge which was adopted. I can find no reference to it in the town records earlier than 1826, wher