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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XV: journeys (search)
son and Shakespeare, from whom I have had so much and so fresh enjoyment as from the perennial Child, Bettine. Her effervescence always intoxicates me with delight; though her life flowed prematurely away in it, like champagne left uncorked. Bingen, Aug. 7. Hard at work on the castles with intervals of my dear Bettine Brentano on whose tracks I now am . . . . My main object just here is Bettine and I made a long dreamed of pilgrimage to her best loved haunt, whence many of her letters wereht on the wall and having to sleep there all night. She planted grapevines and honeysuckle and lilies there and she says all sorts of plants, but there were only some ivy roots of which I took one and shall try to make it grow. Aug. 8. From Bingen to Frankfort. O, what a charming day! wandering along the Rhine with Bettine in my hand, studying out all the scenes of the letters I have always enjoyed so much. First I crossed by ferry to Rudesheim and tried to fix the spot where Gunderode