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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XV: journeys (search)
hat I am going to England? wrote Colonel Higginson to a friend in April, 1872. I look forward to it with boyish delight. . . . I have got my best sympathy so far out of the Hawthornes' book— Mr. and Mrs.—her accounts are delicious I think, as eloquent as possible, and they make me so long to see a cathedral and its close, those green homes of peace, but it is queer that neither describes a nightingale or a skylark—my first desiderata. This brief foreign trip included a hurried visit to Ireland, Scotland, and the Continent. In Dublin, the traveller went to see R. D. Webb, an old Abolitionist, who received him with delight, and he visited the house where Moore was born and lived—still a grocery and wineshop such as his father kept . . . . This was my first shrine such as it was and I found it easy to conjure up the little sweet singer. A few days later in the midst of the wonder and thrill of London, he exclaimed:— I feel as if I had just been born . . . . I do not see