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Willis (search for this): chapter 4
small. Ellery says he [Hawthorne] might live for $300, as he does at Concord —there his farm gives apples enough to pay his rent, $75. He sells these and fishes in the river in summer. His magazine articles are paid higher than any one's except Willis who gets $5 a page. He could get what he chooses, probably $30, $40 or $50 an article. He is to be a regular contributor to three magazines—the Pioneer, Sargent's, and the Democratic Review. This of course would give him $1000 to $1500 a year. He writes very slowly and elaborately. Willis probably can get $50 for an article. In planning his future, the young tutor wrote:— Spent the whole morning at home—reading Richter's Life and meditating and made the day an era in my life by fixing the resolution of not studying a profession. . . . The resolve is perfectly settled and perfectly tranquil with me, that I will come as near starving as Richter did—that I will labor as intensely and suffer as much—sooner than violate m
Thomas Wentworth (search for this): chapter 4
is companion, Levi Thaxter, escaping at a critical point, Wentworth, according to his journal, broke down in the song Love watnam's ladder and the wardrobe slid down very easily. Wentworth now went to his mother's in Cambridge for a few weeks, wh In a letter written a year after leaving Jamaica Plain, Wentworth said:— You will be glad that I got hold of a stock t his mother and sisters removed to Brattleboro, Vermont, Wentworth transferred his belongings to Brookline where he was to tlance the experiment of the simple life was being tried. Wentworth thus describes his first drive thither:— I had to a two clean ones. It was during the Brookline stay that Wentworth wrote and published what he called his first poem, the o Natural History Lessons. But in the Brookline period Wentworth was still a boy himself as this note from his journal sholice station. Mr. Perkins, whose three sons were under Wentworth's care, was absent part of the time, leaving the young tu
Wentworth Higginson (search for this): chapter 4
young pedagogue Shortly before graduation, Wentworth Higginson began looking about for employment, and in Juoolmates were still asleep. In these years Wentworth Higginson seems to have been somewhat of a dandy, rejoi After six months in this unsatisfactory position, Higginson decided to leave the school and to become a privatay was eventful, because under new influences Wentworth Higginson rapidly developed and matured. There was a lntance of a few months the cousins became engaged, Higginson being then a youth of nineteen. One of the abso here and is said to be by some one of the name of Higginson. The young poet adds, It's quite exciting, is n'ts—I will be Great if I can. While in Brookline, Higginson tried to live freely and simply like the birds and course of talks to the boys on animals. In 1852, Higginson wrote to Harriet Prescott:— When I was of yoy history repeats itself, for a few years ago, Colonel Higginson's doorbell was tremblingly rung by a young rel
Richard Henry Dana (search for this): chapter 4
oking place it was. We passed some young men belonging there with long hair, who had just been gathering flowers and looked happy as possible. . . . I was delighted with the appearance of everything—and was especially aroused by hearing that young Dana [later editor of the New York Sun] formerly of the Junior class, was a great gun there. . . . We saw genteel looking men too, painting a boat outsideand altogether the combination of gentlemen and laborers was perfect. At another time, he spoke of again meeting Community Dana, the handsomest fellow I know and an excellent, cultivated one too. A later visit seems to have given a somewhat different impression, as he wrote, At the Community we saw a variety of dirty men, boys and girls; and one or two clean ones. It was during the Brookline stay that Wentworth wrote and published what he called his first poem, the one on the Sistine Madonna, and he now began to feel some of the thrills of successful authorship. He quotes from a friend
H. W. Longfellow (search for this): chapter 4
reference to these verses, Then you did write that beautiful thing. Going to the Craigie house one day he saw Mrs. H. W. Longfellow, who said more things about the Madonna, and looked things unutterable out of her unfathomable eyes; and when Mr. Longfellow included the poem in his volume called The Estray, the youth's cup was full. In Brookline, the young man had plenty of leisure for his favorite pursuits, for he wrote:— I have taken up reading very strong,—am much interested in Carlyle's Miscellanies and have quite a fancy for German—have begun to dabble a little in the study of it—next winter I shall go into languages wholesale. And in one evening he perpetrated four sonnets to Longfellow, Motherwell, Tennyson, and Sterling,— good—the best things perhaps I've written. From Ellery Channing he gleaned some items about the profits of literature:— Ellery has just been telling me about Hawthorne whom he thinks the only man in the country who supports himself by w
Levi Thaxter (search for this): chapter 4
hich enraged me . . . went to bed angry and feeling unappreciated. Resolved to show them no more poetry. The youth's imagination was as vivid as a child's, and after reading Undine he wrote, Just now I heard a noise outside the window and looked up in hopes it was Kuhleborn—oh, how dreadful it is to be in a land where there are no supernatural beings visible—not even any traditions of them! Christmas evening of that year was spent in serenading a Cambridge belle; but his companion, Levi Thaxter, escaping at a critical point, Wentworth, according to his journal, broke down in the song Love wakes and weeps, and made an absurd exit, scrambling over fences.... Home and gladly took off my horridly pinching boots—spent the evening sociably, reading Brother Jonathan and eating burnt almonds. In addition to school perplexities, the unfortunate tutor's serenity was sometimes disturbed by the state of his purse, for he wrote, Grumbled over my accounts. My affairs'll go to the devil if<
Francis E. Parker (search for this): chapter 4
IV: the young pedagogue Shortly before graduation, Wentworth Higginson began looking about for employment, and in June, 1841, was engaged by Mr. Samuel Weld, of Jamaica Plain, as assistant in his school for boys, at six hundred dollars per year. In August he wrote Parker, I succeeded in getting a good room [at Jamaica Plain] for $25 the year and board from $3 to $4 [per month]. Settled in this new room, he began at once another journal. He was at first in a quandary as to whom it should be dedicated to, but finally decided on three girl friends and added, Now to business. Homesickness assailed him at first, but after a few days he got rather more comfortable, reading The Flirt and those beautiful poetical passages in the Devil's Progress. Apparently the young pedagogue, as he calls himself, had no trouble in teaching the boys or making friends with them. He took them with him on his long rambles in search of flowers, and describes a tramp around Jamaica Pond in cloth boo
Stephen H. Perkins (search for this): chapter 4
sfactory position, Higginson decided to leave the school and to become a private tutor in the family of his cousin, Stephen H. Perkins, of Brookline. The last days at Jamaica Plain he thus describes:— February 28. School for the last time—. ved to Brattleboro, Vermont, Wentworth transferred his belongings to Brookline where he was to teach the three sons of Mr. Perkins. He took with him a quantity of books which were throughout life inseparable companions in his wanderings. In preparconfessed that he also had been attacking signs and in consequence had just passed the night in the police station. Mr. Perkins, whose three sons were under Wentworth's care, was absent part of the time, leaving the young tutor in charge, and the was urged by his employer to stay another year, at a salary of $250 including board and lodging. In the letter which Mr. Perkins wrote about this project, he praised him highly, and said that his devotion to the boys was only equalled by theirs to
Ellen H. Bigelow (search for this): chapter 4
ls, declaring that The only true free man is he who can live on a little. In after years, he called this stay the Maytime of his life, which he, however, qualified by adding, The present is not beautiful until overhung with the mosses and veiled in the shadows of the Past. . . . I think the free communion with Nature in past years has done much for my mental health. Those long afternoons in the woods with no care, no solicitude as to time and place, no companion but my tin box. . . . That Bigelow's Botany of mine is the most precious book I have—not a page of it but is redolent of summer sounds, senses and images. But he never became reconciled to his work, and wrote in November: To Teaching I have an utter and entire aversion—I love children passionately and am able to attach them and to discipline them, but I am not fitted for an intellectual guide and I hate the office; and added I read the Theory of Teaching (which put me in despair). The school was often held out of doors,
Richter (search for this): chapter 4
Review. This of course would give him $1000 to $1500 a year. He writes very slowly and elaborately. Willis probably can get $50 for an article. In planning his future, the young tutor wrote:— Spent the whole morning at home—reading Richter's Life and meditating and made the day an era in my life by fixing the resolution of not studying a profession. . . . The resolve is perfectly settled and perfectly tranquil with me, that I will come as near starving as Richter did—that I will lRichter did—that I will labor as intensely and suffer as much—sooner than violate my duty toward my Spiritual Life and to do my duty to the world at large, in whatever manner I can best use my talents. . . . For myself I believe and trust that I have got above following Ambition as the leading motive. . . . For neither Wealth nor Fame will, I trust, make me happy or satisfy me. He exclaimed that summer, Give me books and nature—and leisure and means to give myself up to them and some one to share my ideas wit
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