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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 7 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter army life and camp drill (search)
n an old brown linen sack with his feet on the window seat; and then somebody came in with a red shirt and no coat at all. Colonel, said Maggi, is this one of your vagoners? Why, no! This is Captain Washburn, don't you know him? Good Heaven Colonel, when you expect any discipline in the army, if captains come to officers' meeting in his sleeve-shirt! While a patient in the Officers' Hospital, the Colonel wrote, October 10, 1863: The pleasantest person in the house is a young Dr. Willard, of the navy .... After I had cross-questioned him and fitted him with a cousinry, I told him that people from Boston and that region did n't bore each other worse than any other people after they had got the genealogical arrangements fairly settled and found out who was who. Up to that time they were, of course, intolerable — until all the cross-questioning was ended. The Oaks Plantation, St. Helena Island, Two miles from Beaufort, October 24 An old Aunt Phillis, the plantation patri
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 7: Cambridge in later life (search)
ll seemed to be enacting their ancestors. I stayed with Miss Kate Foote, the author, on a fine old farm; General Hawley married a Miss Foote and they are a very cultivated family. I saw various remote relatives and brought home an old book with preface by John Higginson, and a delightful old love-letter by Rev. Edward Taylor, 1674. June 9, 1890 I suppose you have heard of Henry Higginson's gift to the college of thirty-five thousand dollars of land across the river for playgrounds--Emery Willard's old farm; and the most amazing thing is that he is to talk to the students about it at Sever Hall to-morrow night, as it is in memory of friends who fell in the war. June 13, 1890 I wish you could have heard Henry Higginson. It was one of the most thoroughly simple and admirable things I ever heard — a reticent man breaking the habit of a lifetime and talking about an affair of his own. He held the young men perfectly, especially in his terse sketches of the characters of his fri
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., 119; Channing on, 42, 43; described, 94; works of, 105. Todd, Mabel Loomis, letters to, 331. Tracys, the, of Newburyport, 7. Tubman, Harriet, fugitive slave, 81, Tukey, Marshal, and temperance, 41, 42. U Urso, Camille, violinist, 243. V Verney, Capt., 281, 282. Victoria, Queen, 289; reviews troops, 278, 279. W Ward, Col., 178, 180. Wards, the, and Jenny Lind, 39, 40. Warners, C. D., 270, 271. Waterhouse, Dr., 13. Watson, Marston, 52, 53. Webster, Daniel, criticism of, 90. Weiss, Rev., John, sketch of, 24-26, 271. Wheeler, Capt., 177. Whitney, Anne, description of, 115, Whittier, J. G., 72; visit to, 7, 8; conversation with, 8-11; W. Phillips on, 11; description of, 93, 107. Willard, Dr., of the navy, 212. Woman's Suffrage, Washington Convention, 263; meetings, 265, 270. Worcester, Mass., Disunion Convention at, 77-79; preparations for war, 154, 169-81; return of Sixth Mass. Vols., 155, 156. Wordsworth, William, 319, 320.