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Vistula (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
e to his wife while on this very trip:— Like your father, and other very busy persons I suppose, I have the most intense dread of ennui. I very seldom suffer from the thing itself—but when I look forward and see a space of time which I cannot easily use to advantage, it gives me a sort of suffocating sensation. Lecturers in those days were apt to encounter hardships and discomforts—snowstorms delaying trains and preventing the keeping of engagements. Once Mr. Higginson wrote from Toledo in a most perplexed frame of mind, after missing various connections and mourning the loss of twenty-five dollars:— Here I am spending Sunday in a city of absolute strangers in a wild snowstorm, in a rather forlorn hotel from whose windows no house is visible, but only a few sheds with a dirty pig or two, then a frozen river and a bleak uninhabited shore behind. .. I doubt not that here also there are Abolitionists and Women's Rights people who would welcome me, could I only get at th
Brattleboro (Vermont, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
filled twice over, one day)—she at one end and her quiet, sensible, manly husband, James Mott, at the other; a perpetual Thanksgiving Day; her children and their partners beside her, and all looking up to her so admiringly. . . To his mother he wrote:— Lucy Stone of course was the real presiding genius [at the Convention], dear little stainless saint that she is; but I was very much struck with the character and ability shown by the women. When this lady was about to lecture in Brattleboro, Mr. Higginson thus besought his family:— My principal object in now writing is to beg all of you, who will, to go and hear Lucy Stone speak. . . . She is simply one of the noblest and gentlest persons whom I know; with her homely face and her little Bloomerized-Quakerish person—and her delicious voice. . .. Lucy wears them [bloomers] for health she avers, being exposed to storms and wind and snowdrifts in her wanderings. At the time of the gentle reformer's marriage in 1855, M
Providence, R. I. (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
ing people. He wrote to his mother, after lecturing in Concord, that he had Mr. Emerson for an auditor which made me nearly dumb at first . . . . Last Saturday I was in Boston [Jan. 1853] and went to see no less a person than Mr. Thackeray— not as lion but as lecturer. We wanted him here for a new association and offered him $500 for 6 lectures —which he declined; he was very frank about it, saying it was more than he could get in England: but he could get more in other cities; in Providence $800 for three lectures! He is six feet four, at least, very sweet and manly, with a large head and bushy gray hair, almost white; looks 55. He has very little English hoarseness or awkward breadth of voice; a very good voice and enunciation; and no hauteur or coldness; was laboriously anxious to show me that he meant me no discourtesy by refusing our offer. He adds that Thackeray's greatest desire in this country was to see Theodore Parker. A saving quality through life was Mr. Hi
Skaneateles (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
a Lecturer and cannot bear to take money out of people's pockets. I wish I were as tough as old John Pierpont, who never relents, and insisted on $10 more than the $30 paid at Rochester; while I refunded $5—my audience being about as large—but not worth the money they offered me. .. An Anti-Slavery Lecturer is better off than a mere Lyceum lecturer in this—that he is greeted with an enthusiasm of the heart and not merely of the head. . . . I have also seen rather a queer placard from Skaneateles which announces me as leader of the forlorn-hope from Worcester. I had a pathetic scene at Syracuse with the dearest little pair of quaint rosy German children .. I bought a ball of parched corn and molasses candy . . . for them and they looked demure delight, trying in vain to discover how to eat it—I watched them till their wicked father came along, as ignorant as they were, and examined it in vain till at last it broke in his fingers and he threw it down and trotted them hastily a
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
t allow a married woman to own even her own wardrobe. This protest was read and signed as a part of the ceremony. One of the many instances in which Mr. Higginson defended the equality of the sexes is preserved in an old newspaper account. He had been asked to serve on the committee of credentials at a temperance convention in another State. In explanation of his failure to do this, a speaker at the convention, who called Mr. Higginson the heart and head of the temperance cause in Massachusetts, said, He came here at the call, but declined to serve on a committee that could not recognize his sister as well as himself. With all this remarkable activity, the indefatigable pastor did not neglect outdoor exercise and recreation. His love of boating found a happy outlet at Worcester where he was instrumental in organizing a boat club for young men and also one for girls, the latter being practically an unheard-of thing in those days. These novices he patiently and enthusiastica
Lake Quinsigamond (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
one for girls, the latter being practically an unheard-of thing in those days. These novices he patiently and enthusiastically coached, to their own great delight. Once with a few young friends he camped for the night on a tiny island in Lake Quinsigamond to see the pond-lilies open at sunrise. There they sailed among acres of white lilies and hung wreaths of them on bow and mast. The boat he had owned at Newburyport went with him to Worcester, and he wrote to his mother: This afternoon, under those wonderful clouds, I have been floating on Lake Quinsigamond, in the painted and rejuvenated Annie [Laurie]. Another diversion was found in long walks, in which Mr. Higginson was sometimes accompanied by H. G. O. Blake, Thoreau's friend and biographer, and occasionally by Thoreau himself. On some of these expeditions he collected birds' eggs: If you only take one or two, he wrote, the birds are not troubled. There is no form of re-creation so wonderful to me as this of eggs. Th
Concord (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
e, in these hard times. Certain favorite books, such as Jane Austen's novels, Scott's Pirate, and Thoreau's Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Mr. Higginson usually read once a year. Four years of his ministry at the Free Church had gone ve a needed change, but took the young man among various interesting people. He wrote to his mother, after lecturing in Concord, that he had Mr. Emerson for an auditor which made me nearly dumb at first . . . . Last Saturday I was in Boston he remains of a theatrical handbill in large letters The Fool of the family. Describing a pilgrimage of young men to Concord, he says:— No one had any acquaintance with Mr. Emerson except a certain Frank Sanborn, a remarkable young poetic Junior and one of those who walked to Watertown when I preached there. And again:— Last Friday night I went to Concord to an Anti-Slavery tea-party, where I spoke, together with the Lieut. Governor. Mrs. Emerson was there with her fine dau
Clinton (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
led. There is no form of re-creation so wonderful to me as this of eggs. That all the flashing splendor of the oriole, all the magnificent melody of the red thrush, should be coiled within these tiny and fragile walls. He officiated as president of an athletic club, exercising regularly in the gymnasium, himself; and was also president of skating and cricket clubs. One of his outdoor days is thus described in a letter:— Day before yesterday I went over to play a cricket match at Clinton, a thing I have been dreaming about ever since I was a child and found it as pleasant as I expected. We were all day in the open air, in the pleasantest green meadow near a river with high wood banks. We played from 9 till 3 with short intermissions and then all took a swim in the river and went to dinner. Every one in Worcester supposed we should be beaten, but we beat them so tremendously, 3 to I, that our return was a perfect ovation and it was quite exciting. To a young friend he
Worcester (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
this test of increased social distinction. Worcester is a great thoroughfare, and there are alwayheological students and continued into these Worcester years, was destined to end in sorrow. Aftercrous. He wrote to his Aunt Nancy:— Worcester, June 29, 1858. I spoke in Springfield onrbed in the larger interests of life. To Worcester there came from time to time people whom it ounces me as leader of the forlorn-hope from Worcester. I had a pathetic scene at Syracuse with His love of boating found a happy outlet at Worcester where he was instrumental in organizing a bohe had owned at Newburyport went with him to Worcester, and he wrote to his mother: This afternoon, the river and went to dinner. Every one in Worcester supposed we should be beaten, but we beat thterprises he enlisted a band of enthusiastic Worcester youth. His unusual gift for interesting youost unexpected tribute to his public work in Worcester. This was a bequest of five hundred dollars[6 more...]
Newburyport (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
VII: the free church On the eve of Mr. Higginson's departure from Newburyport, this resolution was adopted at a Free Soil caucus in that town:— Resolved, That in the departure of one from this community whose purity of life, earnestness isfaction. In fact I find the merits of the masculine side of human nature rather coming uppermost here, quite unlike Newburyport. . . People look busier and happier here . . . there is much more air of country too, the main street is filled allour fire wood from the carts. . . . The Hall [Horticultural] is nearly or quite as large as the Universalist Church in Newburyport and is always well filled in the morning and crowded in the evening; everything prospers in the Free Church and I likse. There they sailed among acres of white lilies and hung wreaths of them on bow and mast. The boat he had owned at Newburyport went with him to Worcester, and he wrote to his mother: This afternoon, under those wonderful clouds, I have been floa
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