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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, IX: the Atlantic Essays (search)
able, and reflected: I might have said to him—in summer I bring home from the woods in my pockets flowers, lichens, chrysalids, nests, brown lizards, baby turtles . . . spiders' eggs . . . and scraps of written paper. In November, 1853, Mr. F. H. Underwood wrote to Mr. Higginson, asking for aid from his pen for a new literary and anti-slavery magazine [the Atlantic Monthly], adding, The articles will all be anonymous. In answer, he wrote: I gladly contribute my name to the list of writers. y lived; and sometimes I feel so Exalted in this nearness that it seems as if I never could sorrow any more. ... I wrote from pure enjoyment, spending days and weeks on single sentences. In the correspondence between Mr. Higginson and Mr. Underwood occurred this protest from the former:— I wish to be understood as giving a suppressed but audible growl at the chopping knife which made minced meat of my sentences. . . . It is something new. . . . I don't think I tend to such very lo
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XII: the Black regiment (search)
I have done my work here and am perfectly willing to close it up.. Sometimes I think the greater activity in the book-world makes me feel more as if I had been here long enough—you know when I first came away there was a great stagnation there, and now it seems as if all the wheels were busy again and I must not stay too long away. . . . People whom I left young come down here old men; last night Carter brought into my tent a handsome man with hair and beard almost silver, and it was Underwood formerly of the Atlantic whom I left a handsome brown-haired youth not long ago. To his mother, he reported, May 9, 1864:— All goes well enough in the regiment and I have got all the special jobs done about which I was anxious and have now nothing particular to do and am leading a sort of posthumous life in my military relations, though still in command. I have thoroughly made up my mind to resign, but it takes some three months to get one's Ordnance accounts settled and that mu
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
23; and Isles of Shoals, 108, 109; the Higginsons on, 109. Thayer, Abbot, at Dublin, 373. Things I Miss, The, a poem, account of, 273. Thoreau, Henry D., 129, 139; account of, 98. Todd, Mabel Loomis, edits poems of Emily Dickinson, 368, 369. Topeka, Kan., letter from, 172, 173; account of, 175, 176. Travellers and Outlaws, 319, 418. Tubman, Harriet, 219. Twain, Mark, account of, 259, 260, 373, 374. Tyndall, John, 335; Higginson hears, 324; letter from, 327. Underwood, F. H., and Atlantic, 155; Higginson's protest to, 158. Up the St. Mary's, 251, 409. Vere, Aubrey de, Higginson on, 323. Voltaire, Centenary, 340; birthplace, 341. Walker, Brig.-Gen., and Higginson, 227, 228. Ward, Julia, 26. See also Howe, Julia Ward. Ware, Thornton, 17, 18. Washington, Booker, school, 365; and northern colored people, 366. Washington, D. C., plan for safety of, 203-05. Wasson, David, and T. W. Higginson, 100, 101. Webb, R. D., Higginson visits, 32