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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIII: Oldport Days (search)
seemed to make the grace a genuine thing. This hasty estimate of the popular humorist was a passing one, and the acquaintance developed into a cordial friendship. Public men as well as authors and artists were drawn to Newport, and when President Hayes visited Rhode Island in 1877, the Colonel wrote to his sisters:— He looks just like his pictures, and gives a great impression of manly equilibrium and quiet strength. I was pleased with the quiet way he said to me when the people wero keep silence. I shall never forget it; it was a key to the whole man. His nieces afterwards told me, He never brings business to the dinner table — the business being the government of the nation! . . . On Friday they all came here and I saw Mrs. Hayes and liked her quite as much . . . .She has nature's good manners, making society manners quite superfluous—just such manners as a Republican presidentess should have. She clapped her hands like a girl when she saw the ocean (for the first time<
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ginson, 24, 83; account of, 261; festival for, 387. Hamilton, Sir, William, described, 339. Hardy, Thomas, Higginson meets, 352, 353. Harris, Dr., Thaddeus William, 24, 28. Harvard University, Stephen Higginson, steward of, 8; class of 1841, 23, 24; dress regulations, 25; early account of, 29, 30; exhibition at, 33, 34; Higginson represents, at Winchester, Eng., 360-62. Harvard Memorial Biographies, 263, 409, 410; working on, 275. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, at Concord, 51. Hayes, President, and wife visit Newport, 260. Hazlett, Albert, 199, 200; project to rescue, 196-98. Higginson, Anna, sister of T. W. H., 12, 290; death of, 381. Higginson, Rev., Francis, the Puritan, I; as non-conformist, 110. Higginson Francis (brother of T. W. H.), 11, 20. Higginson, George, 271; illustrates family generosity, 379. Higginson, Gen. Sir George Wentworth, at Trooping the colors, 332-34; Higginson visits, 350, 351. Higginson, Major Henry L., and T. W. H., 313, 314, 3