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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 5: finding a friend. (search)
uotes some lines which I am unable to identify, while others appear in the appendix to the edition just published:-- Waldo and I have good meetings, though we stop at all our old places. But my expectations are moderate now; it is his beautifull. Good love to Mrs. Emerson: I hope the baby has not grown too large for me to hold. Then in another letter, What does Waldo say? And what has Ellen learnt? and again, Say to little Waldo that I have thought since I came away of a hundred wittyWaldo that I have thought since I came away of a hundred witty things I forgot to say to him, and he must want to see me again. In her diary she has much to say of this remarkable child, who will always have an interest for all lovers of poetry as having occasioned Emerson's Threnody. It has been my privilar friend,--I may venture to say so, since you have subscribed yourself my friend, --but in a year or two it becomes Dear Waldo, at least. In this first letter there is a phrase which shows the honest beginning of their friendship: While I was with
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 8: conversations in Boston. (search)
at she could not, like Mr. Emerson, withdraw from the world to a quiet rural home. She wrote thus, on one occasion, to the Rev. W. H. Channing:-- 10th December, 1840 Two days in Boston; how the time flies there and bears no perfume on its wings,--I am always most happy to return to my solitude, yet willing to bear the contact of society, with all its low views and rash blame, for I see how the purest ideal natures need it to temper them and keep them large and sure. I will never do as Waldo [Emerson] does, though I marvel not at him. Ms. (M. W. C.) The tone of this passage is saddened, no doubt, by some ungenerous criticisms upon herself and one of her favorite pupils, which she goes on to refute in detail, ending in the following high tone of aspiration:-- How, when I hear such things, I bless God for awakening my inward life. In me, my Father, thou wouldst not, I feel, permit such blindness. Free them also, help me to free them, from this conventional standard,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 10: the Dial. (search)
sible for the whole amount, if necessary, though then possessed of but about $500 in the world. Fuller Mss. II. 661. Such acts of sisterly devotion were common things with her; and this is mentioned only to show out of what patient self-denial the Dial was born. Four months later she was compelled to lay down her task; her own statement of circumstances being as follows, in a letter to Mr. Emerson, and briefly indorsed by him Margaret Fuller--March, 1842. Stop the Dial ! My dear Waldo,--I requested Miss Peabody to write to you, but, after looking over her letter, I want to add some lines myself. I hoped they would get at these particulars before you returned from New York, that you might hear them on your way and not be teased as soon as you arrive at your quiet home, but you came earlier than I had expected. Yesterday I found myself so unwell, and really exhausted, [while] letters received from the family made my stay here so uncertain, that I wrote the little notice w
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 14: European travel. (1846-1847.) (search)
ears ago than to-day. Omitting a few preliminary passages, the note-book goes on as follows, being here printed precisely as it is written; the exact dates being rarely given in it, but the time being the latter part of August, 1846, and thenceforward:-- Went to the Paradise-street chapel to hear James Martineau. His over-intellectual appearance. His conservative tendencies, liberality only in spots. Mr. Ireland, a most liberal man, a devout reader of the Dial. His early record of Waldo [Emerson]. Delight at seeing these impressions confirmed by the stand he has taken since. Mr. Ireland, declining all stimulants on the most ultra ground, takes four or five strong cups of tea, which he does not need.--Monday morning. Mechanics' Institute,--method of instruction--seventeen hundred pupils. Provision for the girls. Fine building bought for them, at seven thousand pounds. Woman nominally, not really, at the head. Royal Institute. Series of works of early Italian art collecte