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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,606 0 Browse Search
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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.) 416 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 260 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 254 0 Browse Search
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.) 242 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 230 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 218 0 Browse Search
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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VI: in and out of the pulpit (search)
a plan resembling Mr. Parker's in Boston more nearly than any other. This is a very thriving and active place, materially, intellectually and morally; there is as much radicalism here as at Lynn, but more varied, more cultivated, and more balanced by an opposing force; a very attractive place, and this free church movement a very strong one. I feel a sort of duty toward it, because I see clearly the need and the possibility of infusing more reverence and piety into this comeouterism of New England, to which I belong by nature; and this seems a good place to do it. The congregation is very large and they desire very much that I should come. And it will very probably be so. Later he told his mother:— I was yesterday offered $1200 to give up Worcester and be Secretary to the Temperance Committee for another year. . . . There is a feeling of the necessity for a vigilant superintendence while the law is being enforced. I of course declined. His mother replied that she w
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, X: a ride through Kansas (search)
popular in private just now, for what I am doing about Kansas, and it is rather pathetic to have them thank me for doing what they ought to have taken hold of, themselves, but have not . . . I am probably to be Agent for Kansas parties from New England officially, which I have hitherto been unofficially—this will save me trouble by putting funds in my hands. . . . A party left Boston for Kansas on Tuesday— 20 were from Maine and the strongest looking men I ever saw—mostly in red shirts. he little pink frock. Down, down came one big tear, and then another over the black marble cheeks; and then the poor little wretch turned away to the wall, and burst into as hearty an agony of tears as your little idol Susy, or yours (my good New-England mother), might give way to, at such an offer from the very kindest man who ever chewed tobacco in the streets of Missouri! Human nature is a rather unconquerable thing, after all, is n't it? My kind purchaser looked annoyed, and turned a<
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XI: John Brown and the call to arms (search)
into desiring that year's delay which ruined the enterprise. I had the old man's own assurance that in his secret soul he regarded this delay as an act of timidity—and acted on it only because those who held the purse insisted. Afterwards, in 1862, Mr. Higginson wrote a friend about these stirring events:— I remember in a letter which I thought might be the last I should ever write to you, when I had sent for Montgomery and seven men from Kansas, because I could find nobody in New England, and we lay in wait a fortnight in Harrisburg hoping vainly to penetrate Virginia and rescue Stevens and Hazlett—I remember then telling you how I had always held to a Mohammedan proverb that no prophet is called of God till he has reached the age of 40—and to-day I am only 39, so I don't think my time has come yet to do the thing I was born for—but certainly I never enjoyed anything more. Many years later, in 1879, Colonel Higginson went to Charlestown, Virginia, to see this very
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIII: Oldport Days (search)
of those Harvard boys who have died in the war—it will take me a year almost. I write editorially for the Independent too, as well as the Commonwealth and Atlantic-so you see I have enough on hand. . . . I have been invited to be agent for New England of the Freedmen's Union with a salary of $2500. This proposal Colonel Higginson was obliged to decline. Public speaking had been promptly resumed when his military life ended, and was never again entirely given up. He spoke easily without nNew York pilot who has just built a fine vessel and wished to name it after T. W. Higginson as a Christian, philanthropist and a whole string of epithets which were quite intoxicating till they ended with and one of the most eminent bankers in New England. This not being my strong point I was convinced at last that he had jumbled George H. [the father of Henry Lee Higginson] and me hopelessly together, so I sent the letter to George H.—with the less reluctance as he [the pilot] delicately hint
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIV: return to Cambridge (search)
croft called the most extraordinary victory of the war. Governor Long had requested his chief of staff to represent Massachusetts and incidentally the original New England States at the one hundredth anniversary of this battle, although it was one in which the New England colonies had no direct share. The letter quoted above contNew England colonies had no direct share. The letter quoted above continues:— All these things have much interfered with literature and I was getting impatient with myself and feeling that I had lost power of writing. Then on waking very early one morning I suddenly decided to make a book out of my Woman's Journal articles and similar things. I jumped up, went downstairs for a volume of the W than we are used to and Pike's Peak, though it seems to hang directly above the town and is still snow-clad, is far less picturesque and companionable than our New England mountains. It was impossible not to be drawn into politics and, in the fall of 1888, Colonel Higginson was nominated as Representative to Congress by the De
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XV: journeys (search)
always enjoyed so much. First I crossed by ferry to Rudesheim and tried to fix the spot where Gunderode was found dead . . . . Bettine landed at Rudesheim that day and ran straight up Ostein, a mountain a mile high she says. . . . I went up the same hill. It is a steep paved vineyard path. The valley was utterly still and bathed in heat, it seemed, as B. writes elsewhere, as if the leagues of ripening grapes sent up an incense. Along the path grew yarrow, tanzy and succory, just as in New England; the present emperor loves succory flowers especially and they always bring him bunches of it on public days .. .. At two I went on by train to Winkel—Bettine's regular summer home . . . . I staid long on the shore [of the Rhine] and the nearly 70 years since 1809 seemed nothing—the two girls were still young to me. I think I found the place where Guinderode died . . . . I walked back through the long villages again. It was very hot. I had an hour at the station and lay down on a bench a
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
overbial Philosophy. (In Putnam's Monthly Magazine, Oct.） 1855 (Worcester—winter in Fayal） Worcester School Committee Report, Dec. 31, 1854. Speech at New England Anti-Slavery Convention. (In Liberator, June 8.) Anti-Slavery Colporteurage. (In Liberator, Sept. 7.) Signed H. Speech at Anniversary of Boston Mob Convry, Aims, and Results. Pph. Speech at Frothingham Festival, New York, April 22. Pph. Joseph Cook. (In Atlantic Monthly, March. Contributors' Club.) New England Life. (In Atlantic Monthly, June. Contributors' Club.) Recent Essays. (In North American Review, July.) Speech at Library Convention in Boston, June-Julnthly, March.) Edward Everett Hale. (In Book News Monthly, Aug.） Republican Aristocracy. (In Harper's Monthly, July.) First Steps in Literature. (In New England Magazine, Oct.） Emerson's Footnote Person [Alcott]. (In Putnam's Monthly and The Reader, Oct.） Charles Eliot Norton. (In Outlook, Oct. 31.) 1909