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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIV: return to Cambridge (search)
els, was my mother's sister, and the poet was present at the wedding. A visit made soon afterward to my kindred in Harper's Ferry was described by Colonel Higginson in a letter to his sister:— You can imagine nothing more curious than our arrival at Harper's Ferry. It was in the evening . . . The train stopped in a dismantled sort of station where stood an old man with soft white hair on his shoulders holding a lantern and attended by two blooming, fair-haired daughters; they seized usonging also to him. From another ruined house the cow looks out all day . . . . Our arriving was an excitement to all Harper's Ferry. All knew that the bridal party was coming. In the evening came Jacob [a Negro factotum]. He brought the largest roentries alternating with the commonest things. The road we came was that over which they were brought, wounded, from Harper's Ferry. The only memorial of him at the latter place is the little building close by the railroad—the engine house which he
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
od Fire, 275, 276; translates Petrarch, 276-78; compiles Child Pictures from Dickens, 277; literary work, 277, 279; working on Army Life, 282; increased reputation, 283; literary projects, 283, 284, Galatea Collection, 284; writes Young Folks' History, 284, 285; success of, 285,286,288; revision, 308, 396; money matters, 286-88; housekeeping, 288, 289; plans European journey, 289, 290; critical work, 290; death of wife, 290, 291; marries again, 292; settles in Cambridge, 292, 294; visits Harper's Ferry, 292-94; birth and death of first child, 294, 295; at Plymouth, N. H., 296; A Search for the Pleiades, 296; in legislature, 296-99; birth of second child, 298; at Cowpens, 299; and his daughter, 300-07, 318-21, 372, 373; writes Larger History, 301; and Matthew Arnold, 301; summers at Holden, Mass., 305-07; a week's work, 307, 308; Life of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, 307, 308; writes Women and Men, 308; in politics, 308-10, 317, 318; company reunion, 310; on dreams, 310, 311; Monarch of Dream