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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VI: in and out of the pulpit (search)
dded:— Friday night that enormous Charles Sumner stretched his ponderous form of seven feet in length under our roof. He has not very good manners—he always sits in the rocking chair, gapes almost constantly without any attempt at concealment. . . . But he is a true moral reformer which is a good thing. Apropos of these visitors the following extracts are taken from Mr. Higginson's letters to his mother:— I had the pleasure week before last of making acquaintance with Henry Ward Beecher who came here to lecture. . . . Something very fresh and noble about him, and he showed vigor and richness of mind, rather than subtlety and refined culture; perfectly genial and simple and practical too. It was so much pleasanter to see him in this informal way. . . . A most charming individual has been here in the shape of a female Anti-Slavery lecturer—Miss Lucy Stone by name—a little meek-looking Quakerish body, with the sweetest, modest manners and yet as unshrinking and se
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VII: the free church (search)
all this. Where she put her person and all the abundance of her life and left nothing but that frail wasted shell of humanity, no thought could tell; she was seventy years old and reduced to the weight of a child. I felt as if I would have given worlds to be able to look away for a moment and yet I could not. Then I saw her in comedy . . . the fun was on the same large scale with everything else, and carried every one along irresistibly. One day the young clergyman encountered Henry Ward Beecher on the street looking fresh and wholesome as a great Baldwin apple. . . . I had in one hand, wrote Mr. Higginson, a box of strawberries, a large box, and 2 pasteboard boxes, and in the other an umbrella. He said, You are as badly off as I was in Boston t'other day, when I met Wendell Phillips. I saw a great red lobster on a stall—a thing I had n't seen since I was a boy (as if he had ever ceased to be), but in N. Y. they are not sold boiled. So I bought it and carried it
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIV: return to Cambridge (search)
e political harangues on five successive evenings in as many cities. This letter gives his impressions of Cleveland and Beecher, that of the latter being less flattering than an earlier estimate, some thirty years before. New York is fairly serepossessing through frankness and strength . . . . On the whole my impression was favorable. Not so my impression of Beecher, who is the only man I have spoken with in public of whom I felt ashamed. The Jersey City audience was a regular Bowerypower, but there was a coarse jauntiness in his way of treating the attacks on Cleveland that disgusted me . . . . till Beecher is Beecher, at his best and worst. Yet politics did not exclude other public interests:— May 2, 1885. I hBeecher, at his best and worst. Yet politics did not exclude other public interests:— May 2, 1885. I had a very good time speaking on Total Abstinence to an excellent audience of young men at Sanders Theatre with Mrs. Livermore, who appeared admirably. It was a rainy evening but we had a much better audience than Phillips Brooks who preached at St.
ork on, 282. Arnim, Bettina von, Higginson reads, 343-46. Arnold, Edward, Higginson visits, 331, 332. Arnold, Matthew, and Higginson, 301. Atlantic Essays, 156, 157, 411. Baby of the Regiment, The, 237, 412. Barney, Margaret Dellinger, granddaughter of T. W. H., 394, 395. Barney, Margaret Higginson, daughter of T. W. H. See Higginson, Margaret Waldo. Barney, Wentworth Higginson, grandson of T. W. H., 394. Bartol, Rev. Cyrus A., honors Higginson, 148, 149. Beecher, Henry Ward, described, 97; account of, 131, 321; later impression of, 309, 310. Bentzon, Madame, Th. (Mme. Blanc), writes A Typical American, 386, 387. Bernhardt, Sarah, Higginson first sees, 342, 343. Besant, Mrs., Annie, trial of, 329, 330. Bigelow, Mrs. Ella H., edits sonnets with Higginson, 319. Blanc, Louis, 340. Book and Heart, 386, 421. Boston Authors' Club, 315, 391, 399. Boston Radical Club, 267, 268. Bradlaugh, Charles, Higginson hears, 324; and Besant trial, 3