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Boscobel (Wisconsin, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
hat Lucy was presently heard to say quietly, And is n't the bride to have any breakfast? Whereupon we all discovered that though we had not sentiment enough to fast ourselves, we had enough to neglect her, which was soon remedied, in moderation. But soon we all jumped up and prepared to go.... It was the most beautiful bridal I ever attended. Apropos of Madam Higginson's changing her home, her son wrote, December, 1853: Dearest Mother: Of course we feel very badly at your leaving Boscobel, but must console you with my quaint friend Perry Thayer's reflection, uttered to me last night. The fact is, Mr. Higginson, humanity, ploddina over this planet, meets with considerable many left-handed things, and the best way is to summon up courage and put right through. I think geniuses grow in the Free Church. Perry Thayer's son, now our organist, is a born Chilean and I have just picked up a boy of thirteen, son of poor parents, who has the most remarkable natural gift for drawin
Accomack (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
the sea horizon, I was rather glad that we do not learn too fast, but have time to digest as we go along. Again, he wrote: I had a nice time on Sunday at Plymouth. They have a sort of come-outer society there, partially Buddhist, you would perhaps think, who are having a series of meetings on Sundays, at which different phat being the admission-fee); sometimes Marston's meetings, from Marston Watson, who got them up and who takes care of the preachers, and who is the best part of Plymouth. He . . . was classmate and crony of Sam Longfellow; and is certainly the finest specimen I have met of the combination of practical and ideal. Ever since he lner, has a farm in a pretty valley about a mile from the town, a picturesque cottage of Sam L.'s designing, farm, garden, two greenhouses, a pretty little bright Plymouth wife, and some charming children with voices as sweet as their mother's. He raises chiefly ornamental trees and flowering plants; has miniature nurseries of youn
Venice (Italy) (search for this): chapter 2
it from his pulpit on Sunday, very cordially, and told his people he wished it could be given in his church, which indeed he had previously proposed to me. Besides this, I spoke twice on Sunday to large audiences, though it was quite stormy. Sam dwells in clover with one of those elderly ladies who are born to coddle young bachelor divines, Mrs. Jackson. He has a large, charming study, a chaos of books and works of art, with a great magnificent chest of drawers, from the Palazzo d'oro in Venice which he happened upon with his usual luck; it is the handsomest piece of carved furniture I ever saw and had stood out of doors a whole winter when he captured it. Here dwells Sam, always nursing some little lumbago or dyspepsia of his own, and interchanging visits with Mrs. Jackson, similarly occupied in her parlor, while a pretty little grandchild and a pretty young lady protegee, who supervises him, vibrate between the apartments. The parishioners are also devoted and speak as earnestly
Nazareth, Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
o mention it in your next. It certainly is an extraordinary book, unequalled in American fiction and would still be so if the characters were all snowwhite. The picture of Southern life is perfectly wonderful and has made me recall the life at Farley [Virginia] more than I have done for a long while. In another letter he speaks thus of Mrs. Stowe: Will nobody stop these Beechers? Here is Mrs. Stowe getting into trouble again. The Christian Watchman has his eye on her. Jesus of Nazareth was a dangerous innovator in his day, but what is he to Mrs. Stowe? He only sat at meat with publicans and sinners, but she is actually announced to write a novel in the same Atlantic Monthly which [endorses] . . . a man who says, If we do our duty manfully in this world, we need give ourselves no great anxiety about our fate in the next one! The following letter refers to a Temperance Convention: May, 1853 Enough has no doubt reached you, through the New York papers, of the affa
Merrimack (United States) (search for this): chapter 2
tude to me, for the little I have done for her. Mrs. Spofford kindly brought the editor some letters which Mr. Higginson had written to her at various times after leaving Newburyport. Here are a few hints to his young friend about the books she should read: We see how few people live in Nature by the rarity of any real glimpse of it in their books; almost all is' second-hand and vague. ... The only thoroughly outdoor book I have ever seen is Thoreau's Week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers, which is fascinating beyond compare to any one who knows Nature, though the religion and philosophy are of the wildest. He has led a strange Indian life, the author, and his errors and extremes are on the opposite from most people's. . . Thoreau has sent me his book [ Walden ], which I have enjoyed as much, I think, as the other; it is calmer and more whole, crammed with fine observation and thought, and rising into sublimity at the last. . . . The two authors, whom I am chiefly
Harper's Ferry (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
reature — won my heart pretty thoroughly before we got to Boston, and many people's there, for many visited her during the morning she was there, bringing money, shoes, gloves, handkerchiefs, kisses, and counsel. Amos Lawrence had a large photograph taken of her and now she has gone on to see her husband. I got safe home, recited to my wondering family the deeds of the invalids and the annals of Marion, and settled down to daily life again .... Mary has n't exaggerated my interest in Harper's Ferry accounts; it is the most formidable slave insurrection that has ever occurred, and it is evident, through the confused and exaggerated accounts, that there are leaders of great capacity and skill behind it. If they have such leaders, they can hold their own for a long time against all the force likely to be brought against them, and can at last retreat to the mountains and establish a Maroon colony there, like those in Jamaica and Guiana. Meantime the effect will be to frighten and weak
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
their own for a long time against all the force likely to be brought against them, and can at last retreat to the mountains and establish a Maroon colony there, like those in Jamaica and Guiana. Meantime the effect will be to frighten and weaken the slave power everywhere and discourage the slave trade. Nothing has so strengthened slavery as the timid submission of the slaves thus far; but their constant communication with Canada has been teaching them self-confidence and resistance. In Missouri especially this single alarm will shorten slavery by ten years. November 22, 1859 I send you two sweet letters from Mrs. Brown and her married daughter, Mrs. Thompson. Money seems to be flowing for them from all directions, and that is something, because, besides their severe bereavements, they greatly need money: though not so totally destitute as many seem to think. I have had some queer letters about them, one from a man in Winchendon offering to adopt one of the daughters and tea
Jamaica, L. I. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
y life again .... Mary has n't exaggerated my interest in Harper's Ferry accounts; it is the most formidable slave insurrection that has ever occurred, and it is evident, through the confused and exaggerated accounts, that there are leaders of great capacity and skill behind it. If they have such leaders, they can hold their own for a long time against all the force likely to be brought against them, and can at last retreat to the mountains and establish a Maroon colony there, like those in Jamaica and Guiana. Meantime the effect will be to frighten and weaken the slave power everywhere and discourage the slave trade. Nothing has so strengthened slavery as the timid submission of the slaves thus far; but their constant communication with Canada has been teaching them self-confidence and resistance. In Missouri especially this single alarm will shorten slavery by ten years. November 22, 1859 I send you two sweet letters from Mrs. Brown and her married daughter, Mrs. Thompson. M
Watertown (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
rom Edwin Morton, Gerrit Smith's private tutor, who went to Europe at the time of John Brown. The wicked flea, whom no man pursueth, Judge Russell satirically termed him: but he is a very cultivated and refined person and had that career among English literati which seems to be cheaply open to all young Yankees. A letter without date describes Colonel Higginson's first meeting with Anne Whitney, the poet and sculptor: Here I am in a farmhouse in the loveliest, greenest region of Watertown, on a by-road, next house but one above Mr. Cushing's and next to Miss Anne Whitney's. . . . After my nap this afternoon, as I was beginning to write to you . . . up came a message that Miss A. W. was below, so down I went. White dress and cape bonnet; face between Elizabeth Whittier and Susan Higginson: looking older than I expected. Her brother was with her, which made it less remarkable for her to call on me. She and I agreed on a walk, which we later took-a lovely walk through green
Brooklyn (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
Just now we are staying a few days with my newly married niece. The gossip of her young lady acquaintances fills me with renewed dismay at the contemplation of young ladies' lives, especially those who have had what are called advantages. Girls talk folly enough to young men, but nothing to what they talk to each other. Joyfully I turn to Harriet Hosmer the sculptor. Mr. Higginson often got a good deal of entertainment as well as discomfort out of his lecture or preaching trips. Brooklyn, N. Y., November, 1852 We reached Norwich at nine and took the steamer; and here, better still, appeared Henry Ward Beecher. I sat by him and read Bleak house in the cabin, and at last, when he moved to go to bed, I introduced or recalled myself to him. Oh, yes, said he heartily, bless your soul, I remember you ; and so we talked until twelve o'clock: chiefly about Wasson and churches generally. He defended pews (to be rented, not owned) and said some very sensible things in their defenc
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