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Haydon (search for this): chapter 9
ndependently. At thirty-six, in summing up his life, the author of these essays writes:— I do not expect any visible sphere or position except in literature—perhaps not there because I do not find that my facility grows so fast as my fastidiousness . . . . Certainly nothing short of severe starvation shall make me write and print what does not in some degree satisfy my own conception of literary execution. And the joy he found in literature is thus expressed:— Nothing but Haydon's jubilees over his great canvas up can describe my delight when I get a new budget of notes and materials into a fresh portfolio, and begin upon a new picture. In regard to the publication of the book of sea poems, profanely called the Marine Sam-Book in distinction from the hymn-book compiled by Messrs. Longfellow and Johnson, and popularly known as the Sam-Book, Mr. Higginson wrote to a friend:— The best result of S. L.'s [Samuel Longfellow] visit [to Europe] was to transform
Harriet Beecher Stowe (search for this): chapter 9
[to Europe] was to transform Thalatta from a past vision to a future reality. . . . We planned it six years ago and now Europe has revived it all in Sam and he has proposed it once more to James T. Fields (Ticknor & Co.) and that bold youth (also fresh from Europe, these two having visited the Brownings together) consented. So the book is to begin to be printed in February and between now and then what copying and debating and selecting! In 1859, the famous Atlantic dinner was given to Mrs. Stowe, which Colonel Higginson has described in Cheerful Yesterdays. To his mother he thus reported a conversation on this occasion with Dr. Holmes:— He [Holmes] was very pleasant and cordial to me, but turned upon me when I refused a cigar. What, said he, you don't smoke? No, said I. Then, said he, you unquestionably chew the betel-nut. I told him I was fond of nuts and also of beetles, but preferred my botany and entomology separate. Ah, said he, but everybody must have some narco
C. H. Dall (search for this): chapter 9
of 1890, Mr. Higginson wrote, Much gratified at letter from Miss Eastman telling me from Dr.——that my Ought Women was really the seed of Smith College. A further tribute to the value of this essay came to the author in a letter from a thoughtful friend, who said, I think it was one of the influences that opened Michigan University to women, and has now invited a woman professor on the same terms as men. The anonymousness of the Atlantic essays caused some amusing mistakes, as when Mrs. C. H. Dall was many times congratulated on having written Mademoiselle and her Campaigns. Finally she discovered the author, and wrote to him that no one except Macaulay could have written a better magazine article, and his would have been half lies. Mr. Higginson himself wrote to Harriet Prescott: . . . I had more [letters] about April Days than about anything I have written—sick women, young farmers, etc. One odd anonymous person, signing Su Su, sent me a root of double bloodroot postm<
David Wasson (search for this): chapter 9
dy and told his mother:— I yesterday propounded an arrangement to the Free Church people, by which I am to have—don't laugh–nothing less than a colleague. I cannot always go on at the rate I have been lately working. . . . The plan is that Wasson should so come and do the greater part of the preaching, taking of course a good part of the salary; this will leave me time for preaching, lecturing and writing, and by this I can make up a sufficient income, for the present at least. . . . In f great, that I have to contrive means to keep myself out of work. An unexpected break in this too laborious life came in the autumn of 1855, when the Higginsons sailed for Fayal for Mrs. Higginson's health. They spent the winter there, and Mr. Wasson took charge of the Free Church during this absence. Fayal proved to be more wonderful to the travellers than any dream, every inch of surface and each individual person being entirely different from anything they had seen before. In Mr. Higg<
James T. Fields (search for this): chapter 9
IX: the Atlantic Essays In the midst of these public interests, Mr. Higginson did some of the best literary work of his life. In the winter of 1852, he dined with A. Bronson Alcott at James T. Fields', and Mr. Alcott amused himself by guessing, with astonishing success, Mr. Higginson's literary methods. Some of the features he had divined were the young author's habit of bridge-building, of composing much in the open air, and in separate sentences. This analysis the latter declared admThe best result of S. L.'s [Samuel Longfellow] visit [to Europe] was to transform Thalatta from a past vision to a future reality. . . . We planned it six years ago and now Europe has revived it all in Sam and he has proposed it once more to James T. Fields (Ticknor & Co.) and that bold youth (also fresh from Europe, these two having visited the Brownings together) consented. So the book is to begin to be printed in February and between now and then what copying and debating and selecting!
Pico (search for this): chapter 9
eive a charming letter from Agassiz, begging me to collect corals, starfishes, etc., of which I already have a store. And after his return, he reported:— I spent part of yesterday with Prof. Agassiz and enjoyed it very much, and he was delighted with my collection from the Azores especially the sea-urchins, of which he found eight species, some of them new. Some of the things he is to return to me, labelled, for the [Worcester] Natural History Society. The home-coming from Fayal Mr. Higginson described in this letter to his mother:— We arrived last night at 9 1/2 [June, 1856] after a three weeks passage. . . . The world looks very odd, people talking English, lighted shops last night, and horses. To-day everybody with bonnets and shoes! People so well dressed, so intelligent, and so sick—so unlike the robust baseness of Fayal and Pico. And the foliage is so inexpressibly beautiful. Houses agonizingly warm, after the fireless rooms of Fayal, and the chilly o
1859 AD (search for this): chapter 9
best result of S. L.'s [Samuel Longfellow] visit [to Europe] was to transform Thalatta from a past vision to a future reality. . . . We planned it six years ago and now Europe has revived it all in Sam and he has proposed it once more to James T. Fields (Ticknor & Co.) and that bold youth (also fresh from Europe, these two having visited the Brownings together) consented. So the book is to begin to be printed in February and between now and then what copying and debating and selecting! In 1859, the famous Atlantic dinner was given to Mrs. Stowe, which Colonel Higginson has described in Cheerful Yesterdays. To his mother he thus reported a conversation on this occasion with Dr. Holmes:— He [Holmes] was very pleasant and cordial to me, but turned upon me when I refused a cigar. What, said he, you don't smoke? No, said I. Then, said he, you unquestionably chew the betel-nut. I told him I was fond of nuts and also of beetles, but preferred my botany and entomology separate.
1860 AD (search for this): chapter 9
out of work. An unexpected break in this too laborious life came in the autumn of 1855, when the Higginsons sailed for Fayal for Mrs. Higginson's health. They spent the winter there, and Mr. Wasson took charge of the Free Church during this absence. Fayal proved to be more wonderful to the travellers than any dream, every inch of surface and each individual person being entirely different from anything they had seen before. In Mr. Higginson's Atlantic paper, Fayal and the Portuguese (1860), these strange experiences were described. And it was in Fayal that Mr. Higginson wrote his essay called the Sympathy of Religions. This paper was afterwards read by the author before the Free Religious Association in Boston, and later before the Parliament of Religions at Chicago in 1893. It was reprinted in England and also translated into French. While in Fayal, he was delighted to receive a charming letter from Agassiz, begging me to collect corals, starfishes, etc., of which I alr
November, 1853 AD (search for this): chapter 9
imself by guessing, with astonishing success, Mr. Higginson's literary methods. Some of the features he had divined were the young author's habit of bridge-building, of composing much in the open air, and in separate sentences. This analysis the latter declared admirable, and reflected: I might have said to him—in summer I bring home from the woods in my pockets flowers, lichens, chrysalids, nests, brown lizards, baby turtles . . . spiders' eggs . . . and scraps of written paper. In November, 1853, Mr. F. H. Underwood wrote to Mr. Higginson, asking for aid from his pen for a new literary and anti-slavery magazine [the Atlantic Monthly], adding, The articles will all be anonymous. In answer, he wrote: I gladly contribute my name to the list of writers. . . I am very much absorbed by necessary writing, speaking, and studies, and it is hard to do collateral work. The essays which Mr. Higginson contributed to the early numbers of the Atlantic attracted a great deal of attention.
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o the travellers than any dream, every inch of surface and each individual person being entirely different from anything they had seen before. In Mr. Higginson's Atlantic paper, Fayal and the Portuguese (1860), these strange experiences were described. And it was in Fayal that Mr. Higginson wrote his essay called the Sympathy of Religions. This paper was afterwards read by the author before the Free Religious Association in Boston, and later before the Parliament of Religions at Chicago in 1893. It was reprinted in England and also translated into French. While in Fayal, he was delighted to receive a charming letter from Agassiz, begging me to collect corals, starfishes, etc., of which I already have a store. And after his return, he reported:— I spent part of yesterday with Prof. Agassiz and enjoyed it very much, and he was delighted with my collection from the Azores especially the sea-urchins, of which he found eight species, some of them new. Some of the things he is
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