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Daniel Curtis (search for this): chapter 4
ven to eight, described in the journal as the cursed evening school, which prevented other more attractive plans. His favorite pupil, out of school hours, was Daniel Curtis, whose brilliant witticisms were often quoted in after years. Although Curtis was studious, he gave a great deal of trouble to his boyish preceptor. He was pCurtis was studious, he gave a great deal of trouble to his boyish preceptor. He was probably the author of this clever description of the young teacher which the latter captured as it was going the rounds of the school:— Our tutor feeds At Madam Leeds, And is none the thinner Postquam dinner Est semper clever, Morosus never. Et nunquam hollers At the scholars, But whenever they caper Transcribes them to paper. The friendly teacher sometimes took Curtis with him to make evening calls on young ladies. Returning quite late on one occasion the daring pupil reached his room by way of the waterspout, for which adventure his tutor was reprimanded. Another imprudent action on the part of the boyish teacher which naturally aroused criti
Ellery (search for this): chapter 4
anguages 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 writing. He is enabled to do this as his expenses are very small. Ellery says he [Hawthorne] might live for $300, as he does at Concord 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 a
Mary Channing (search for this): chapter 4
ree-handed whist with the venerable, and to bed 10 1/2– 11 regularly. Thus you see our life is systematic and simple—the aforesaid three-handed whist is as great a blessing as Homeopathy. The Brookline stay was eventful, because under new influences Wentworth Higginson rapidly developed and matured. There was a large circle of relatives within a radius of a few miles, and he took part in their frequent meetings and merrymakings. It was in Brookline that he first met his second cousin, Mary Channing, daughter of Dr. Walter Channing, and sister of the Concord poet, Ellery Channing. A few years older than himself, unworldly, intellectual, and brilliant in conversation, she proved a congenial companion. She was a frequent visitor at the Perkins homestead, and after an acquaintance of a few months the cousins became engaged, Higginson being then a youth of nineteen. One of the absorbing interests of his little world at this time was magnetism, various members of the circle tryi
Samuel Weld (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]rs, and describes a tramp around Jamaica Pond in cloth boots in a pouring rain and furious cold gale, adding, these walks are nothing. But he was criticized by Mr. Weld for being on too informal terms with his pupils, and the necessary school discipline proved a hard problem. School began at half-past 6, with an interval for brhe once when in Boston missed the omnibus on account of having spent ten minutes in a bookstore, and walking rapidly to school, he arrived late and recorded that Mr. Weld received his apology in ominous silence. The next day he wrote, Sleepy and homesick all day. The young teacher continued ineffectual efforts to like smoking,
1843 AD (search for this): chapter 4
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 then his duties included tending fires and pumping water. He never objected to manual labor, but wrote, I always love to do any work—digging paths or chopping wood. I think I should always like to do both for myself, and feel thus far at least independent of other's hands. In the spring of 1843, he 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 him. But the young man could not be induced to remain longer and wrote:— Much as I am interested in the boys. . . and sorry as I shall be to part with them, my removal from the responsibility of their intellectual Education will be a very
February 28th (search for this): chapter 4
er 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 I don't economize. After six months in this unsatisfactory 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—. . . Bid the boys good-bye quite satisfactorily—they are really sorry to lose me, and I felt so too. . . . Had a delightful evening till near II packing—then home and worked like a horse till I—taking up the carpet and everything else. March 1. Rose before 6 and fixed things. . . .We got Mrs. Putnam's ladder and the wardrobe slid down very easily. Wentworth now went to his mother's in Cambridge for a few weeks, whence he wrote, An exquisite soft
April, 1842 AD (search for this): chapter 4
n so regularly with neither passions nor feelings to interrupt them—I shall never be so, I fear—for every now and then comes something and upsets me. Either a cloud that will pursue me—or sunbeam that I must pursue . . . and I sometimes sigh to see that I do not become calmer as I grow older. Even at this early age he declared, My great intellectual difficulty has been having too many irons in the fire. This was a trouble with which he was destined to contend always. A month later, in April, 1842, about the time that his mother and sisters removed 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 preparation for this new position he had purchased a new flash vest! and reports, Promenaded the [Boston] streets in my silk attire till 7. Again, Took a walk after church— my new pants perfect. ...
June, 1841 AD (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
1852 AD (search for this): chapter 4
s 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, and one of the features was a course of talks to the boys on animals. In 1852, Higginson wrote to Harriet Prescott:— When I was of your age and had scholars like you,—or as you will,—I used to take them long walks and teach them to use their senses. We used sometimes to have school in a wood beside the house or in a great apple tree; and once on a rock in the wood there came to us a new scholar, a little weasel who glided among us with his slender sinuous body and glittering eyes, while we sat breathless to watch him. I fancy the boys will remember that little
March 1st (search for this): chapter 4
unsatisfactory 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—. . . Bid the boys good-bye quite satisfactorily—they are really sorry to lose me, and I felt so too. . . . Had a delightful evening till near II packing—then home and worked like a horse till I—taking up the carpet and everything else. March 1. Rose before 6 and fixed things. . . .We got Mrs. Putnam's ladder and the wardrobe slid down very easily. Wentworth now went to his mother's in Cambridge for a few weeks, whence he wrote, An exquisite soft spring day which would have cheered the soul of a lobster–and it did mine. A few days later he added, Assumed my Cambridge state of mind. . . . I certainly intend to try—and not give way to the causeless melancholy I have occasionally fallen into heretofore, and resolved to
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