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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 155 1 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 26 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier 20 4 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 19 3 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 18 0 Browse Search
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist 17 1 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 16 0 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. 16 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 15 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli 14 2 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 1: Cambridge and Newburyport (search)
nts. An early letter speaks of the newly married Lowells. October, 1845 I am sorry you are not going to hear Ole Bull. I came very near seeing him in private last Thursday evening at James Lowell's where a select circle was invited to see him. Mrs. Putnam was there . . . Mr. Longfellow, Mr. Weiss, Mr. Owen (not of Lanark, but our publisher ), and one or two others scraped extempermently together. The Lion from the North was to have walked out of Boston at 6 P. M. with John Hopper (Mrs. Child's and Levi's friend), but he appeared not, being lost in Cambridgeport lanes, we supposed. I was sorry, for J. R. L. says he is a charming person to know, so simple and natural and fresh. . . . Nevertheless it was a pleasant evening. I wanted to become acquainted with Mrs. Putnam, but Mr. Longfellow stood in the way — between two such linguists one yet imperfect in his Swedish has no chance. Maria Lowell is not less lovely than Maria White, however, and I so seldom emerge from my cell
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 2: the Worcester period (search)
eful death a few years ago. In the diary is an allusion to an anti-slavery convention held in Boston, January, 1870, at which Colonel Higginson gave some reminiscences of the fugitive-slave era. Spoke in answer to Phillips and Powell. Mrs. Child and others at dinner. Mrs. Child describes her collaring and pulling away a man who was shaking his fist in Mr. Phillips's face at Music Hall mob — and her surprise when he tumbled down. When Jonas H. French said, This is no place for womenMrs. Child describes her collaring and pulling away a man who was shaking his fist in Mr. Phillips's face at Music Hall mob — and her surprise when he tumbled down. When Jonas H. French said, This is no place for women, she answered, They are needed here to teach civilization to men. Many years later, Colonel Higginson wrote of Wendell Phillips: That which really attracted him was public life and not the bar, and nothing attracted him more. His dream would have been a life in the United States Senate, as he himself told me. March 22, 1861 Dearest Mother: Did you ever hear of George Smalley [the newspaper correspondent], a young lawyer who once lived here and was at one time engaged to our pretty Su
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Index. (search)
81. Butler, Gen. B. F., 156-58, 260. Butman affair, 66, 68, 69. C Cambridge, Mass., early society in; 1-3; two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of, 321. Canada, descriptions of, 94-98. Carlyle, Thomas, 322. Channing, Barbara, sketch of, 64, 65. Channing, Ellery, quoted, 7; on Emerson, 42; on Thoreau, 42, 43. Channing, Mrs., Susan, 255. Channing, William Henry, at Rochester, 66, 67. Chapman, Mrs. Maria W., described by Whittier, 9-11; letter to, 68, 69. Child, Mrs., Lydia Maria, 82. Civil War, preparation at Worcester for, 154, 155; Bull Run, 156; Manassas, 157; Fort Donelson, 165, 166; Union sentiment at South, 166; anxiety, 166; effects of, 322, 323. Clarke, James Freeman, 162. Clemens, Samuel L., 234, 235; at home of, 270; fame of, 300; at Dublin, N. H., 330. Cleveland, Grover, political campaign, 324, 325. Colfax, Schuyler, Speaker, 250, 253. Collyer, Robert, 329. Conway, Moncure D., 279, 280, 286, 287. Cox, Hannah, 76. Crosby, Prof., Al