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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, II: an old-fashioned home (search)
nvent in Charlestown, the burning of which had made a great impression on his youthful mind, and which seems to have first aroused his love for religious tolerance. He walked often to Boston and spent a good deal of time at Mount Auburn or Sweet Auburn. In his Decoration Day address at Sanders Theatre, in 1904, he thus alluded to the old play-ground:— I remember our great cemetery, Mount Auburn, when it was not yet a cemetery, but was called Sweet Auburn still; when no sacred associationAuburn still; when no sacred associations made it sweeter, and when its trees looked down on no funerals but those of the bird and the bee. In the boyish record of walks and games, girls of his acquaintance are often mentioned, and not always with deference, as when he lost a philopena to Henrietta B——and exclaimed, Confound her! These girl friends seem to have been known by symbolic names, as he often speaks of meeting Poetry, on the street, or walking with Sensibility or Spinster. The boys also rejoiced in nicknames, for Soap<