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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Mrs. S. B. Shaw. (search)
only woman who did speak was so flippant and conceited that I was ashamed of her. In the same excursion, I spent a day and night at Concord, with the Alcotts. Mrs. Alcott was a friend of my youth, and the sister of my dear friend, S. J. May. We had a charming time, talking over the dear old eventful times. I like L. and her art When they bought the place the house was so very old that it was thrown into the bargain, with the supposition that it was fit for nothing but fire-wood. But Mr. Alcott has an architectural taste more intelligible than his Orphic Sayings. He let every old rafter and beam stay in its place, changed old ovens and ash-holes into ving much better resemblance to the place whence it was brought than does the Virgin Mary's house, which the angel carried from Bethlehem to Loretto. The capable Alcott daughters painted and papered the interior themselves. And gradually the artist-daughter filled up all the nooks and corners with panels on which she had painted
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Index. (search)
Index. A. Abdy, Edward S., Mrs. Child's letters to, VIII. Adams, John Quincy, indebted to Mr. Child for facts on the Texas question, VIII.; maintains the right to proclaim emancipation in war time, 151. Adams, Samuel, Miss Whitney's statue of, 257. Advertisements of fugitive slaves, 128, 129. Alcott, A. Bronson, and family, 239. Allen, Mr., of Alabama, testifies to horrors of slavery, 131. Allyn, Rev. Dr., letter to, 9. American Anti-Slavery Society, formation of, VIII. American Missionary Association, refuses to circulate Mrs. Child's Freedmen's book, 201. Andrews, William P., sonnet to Mrs. Child, XXIII. An English governess at the Siamese Court, 210. Animals, the treatment of, 214. Anti-Slavery Society (Mass.), annual meeting of, mobbed, 148-150. Appeal in behalf of that Class of Americans called Africans, by Mrs. Child, IX., 48, 195. Armstrong, General, and Hampton Institute, 241. Arnold, Edwin, 257. Aspirations of the world, b
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 2: the Worcester period (search)
ace. Whittier is the simplest and truest of men, beautiful at home, but without fluency of expression, and with rather an excess of restraint. Thoreau is pure and wonderfully learned in nature's things and deeply wise, and yet tedious in his monologues and cross-questionings. Theodore Parker is as wonderfully learned in books, and as much given to monologue, though very agreeable and various it is, still egotistical, dogmatic, bitter often, and showing marked intellectual limitations. Mr. Alcott is an innocent charlatan, full of inspired absurdities and deep strokes, maunders about nature, and when outdoors has neither eyes, ears, nor limbs. Lowell is infinitely entertaining, but childishly egotistical and monopolizing. Lecturing sometimes took the writer as far afield as Canada. Montreal, November, 1857 . . . We crossed the long bridge to Rouse's Point in a wild wind, and the hotel, which is built far out into the lake, rocked all night with the wind and waves. I had a
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Index. (search)
Index. A Adirondacks, journey to, 120-24. Agnew, John, 74. Alcott, A. Bronson, 227. Alma-Tadema, Laurence, description of, 286, 287, 303. Amberleys, the, 258; at Newport, 225-27. Andrew, John A., War Governor of Massachusetts, 161, 162, 256. Andrews, Jane and Caroline, 17,18, and note, 241, 242. Anti-slavery, policy, 157-59. Appleton, Thomas G., 147; sketch of, 272-74. Army Life in a Black Regiment, 185, 219. Arnold, Matthew, in America, 323, 324; fame of, 333. Astors, the J. J., 266, 267. Atlantic Monthly, the, authors' dinner, 106-10, 112; editorship of, 111, 112; criticized, 112-14. Austin, William, 334. B Baltimore, Md., men killed at, 155. Barnum, P. T., 80, 81. Beecher, Henry Ward, description of, 45-48; compared with Parker, 46, 47, 53. Bigelow, Luther, 171, 175. Blackwell, Antoinette Brown, 111. Blackwell, Henry B., 60-63. Boston Authors' Club, 233. Bowens, the, of Baltimore, 165. Bradford, George P., 259, 260. Brook
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 7: Baltimore jail, and After.—1830. (search)
er at Brooklyn, Connecticut, and the only one of the denomination in that State; his cousin, Samuel E. Sewall, a young Boston lawyer; and his brother-in-law, A. Bronson Alcott. It was natural that Mr. Sewall should find himself in sympathy with Mr. Garrison. His distinguished ancestor, Judge Samuel Sewall, was one of the earlier nation to its centre, but he will shake slavery out of it. We ought to know him, we ought to help him. Come, let us go and give him our hands. Mr. Sewall and Mr. Alcott went up with me, and we introduced each other. I said to him: Mr. Garrison, I am not sure that I can indorse all you have said this evening. Much of it requirto embrace you. I am sure you are called to a great work, and I mean to help you. Mr. Sewall cordially assured him of his readiness also to cooperate with him. Mr. Alcott invited him to his home. He went, and we sat with him until twelve that night, listening to his discourse, in which he showed plainly that immediate, unconditi
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, IX: the Atlantic Essays (search)
IX: the Atlantic Essays In the midst of these public interests, Mr. Higginson did some of the best literary work of his life. In the winter of 1852, he dined with A. Bronson Alcott at James T. Fields', and Mr. Alcott amused himself by guessing, with astonishing success, Mr. Higginson's literary methods. Some of the features he had divined were the young author's habit of bridge-building, of composing much in the open air, and in separate sentences. This analysis the latter declared admirable, 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.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, chapter 13 (search)
each case is the Riverside edition. Chapter 7: the Concord group (A) O. W. Holmes's Emerson, in American men of letters series, 1885. The Correspondence of Carlyle and Emerson, 2 vols., Osgood & Co., 1883. Henry James's Life of Hawthorne, in English men of letters series, 1880. C. E. Woodberry's Hawthorne, in American men of letters series, 1902. F. B. Sanborn's Thoreau, in American men of letters series, 1882. F. B. Sanborn and W. T. Harris's Life and philosophy of Alcott, 2 vols., Roberts Bros., 1893. (B) Theodore Parker's Works, 12 vols., Trubner & Co. (London), 1863-1865. A. Bronson Alcott's Table talk, Roberts Bros., 1877. Chapter 8: the Southern influence.--Whitman (A) W. P. Trent's Simms, in American men of letters series, 1902. W. M. Baskervill's Life of Sidney Lanier, in Southern writers series, Barber & Smith (Nashville), 1897. G. E. Woodberry's Poe, in American men of letters series, 1885. John Burroughs's Study of Walt Wh
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 3: the Proclamation.—1863. (search)
stand. Thy trenchant and emancipating pen The patriot Lincoln snatched with steady hand, Writing his name and thine on parchment white, Midst war's resistless and ensanguined flood; Then held that proclamation high in sight Before his fratricidal countrymen,— Freedom henceforth throughout the land for all, — And sealed the instrument with his own blood, Bowing his mighty strength for slavery's fall; Whilst thou, staunch friend of largest liberty, Survived,—its ruin and our peace to see.— A. B. Alcott to W. L. G. From that hour a dishonorable compromise became impossible. The Government was irrevocably committed to the emancipation policy, and pledged to make it effectual over all the territory covered by the Proclamation. The abolitionists had now to urge Congress and the President to complete the work and extirpate slavery by abolishing it in the Border States. This duty was set forth in the resolutions relative to the Proclamation which were adopted by the Executive Jan. 13. C
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 11: last years.—1877-79. (search)
ns of the cause, at the rooms of the New 4 Park St., Boston. England Women's Club, and, considering the shortness of the notice, a surprising number of them came together. Mr. Garrison, though suffering from a severe cold, spoke for upwards of an hour, recounting the history of the Mob, and reading the confession of its chief instigator, James L. Homer, given in a previous volume. Of the Ante, 2.10. eyewitnesses of the affair who were present, Wendell Phillips, James N. Buffum, and A. Bronson Alcott gave their recollections, and the occasion was one of rare interest and pleasure. The following frank note which Mr. Garrison wrote to Mr. Phillips at the close of this eventful month, had reference to a financial tract which the latter had written, and to his strange support of General Butler as a Benj. F. Butler. candidate for the gubernatorial chair of Massachusetts. W. L. Garrison to Wendell Phillips. Roxbury, Oct. 30, 1878. Ms. copy. my dear Phillips: . . . Thanks
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
f the Concord School of Philosophy, The Concord School, of which Alcott was the nominal head and Harris the directing genius, thus represen1831-39), the editors of which were William C. Woodbridge and A. Bronson Alcott. Alcott's other contribution to educational literature, The Alcott's other contribution to educational literature, The records of a school, aroused to violent reaction the conservatives of his time, for in it were set forth educational doctrines which were not the modern schools of Ferrer and other more recent radicals. From Alcott's school Louisa M. Alcott is said to have chosen the characters for once designated it as the saturnalia, or excess of faith. A. Bronson Alcott made himself—as many were to find— its tedious archangel. Towithout reason, repute of a cure-all. In his pale and hazy manner, Alcott went about New England lecturing in orphic sayings on things which ealth, p. 468.) How far Mrs. Eddy was influenced specifically by Alcott, at a time when transcendentalism was the very breath of life to ma
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