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Fort Niagara (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
m and I was so like him. . . . The two sights in Rochester are Neander's Library and the falls; I spent a good while in the former, which really transports you into the life of a German professor. But the falls were yet better; half as high as Niagara, they fall into a curving basin formed by the high banks, regular as the walks of some castle. Looking across from the summit of the bank the white foamy water waves away on its fall, while behind it the whole surface of the rock is one great oo, especially since my arrest. All my A. S. [anti-slavery] lectures were successful (extempore, of course). . . . A man came up and said, Well, I should think they would have indicted you! -which I thought a great compliment. Cataract House, Niagara Skaneateles is a small, beautiful village, on the lake; there I stayed in a fine great house with a rich English family of Quakers (I always happen among Quakers). The old lady, a widow, touched me to the heart by constantly referring to my d
Worcester (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
eriod Mr. Higginson lived and preached in Worcester for about ten years before the Civil War calving Day, 1854, this letter was written from Worcester to Mrs. Chapman, a prominent abolitionist anay grant you the privilege of being an Abo. Worcester, February, 1859 George Curtis lectured hent out a call for a convention to be held in Worcester, in January, 1857, to consider a separation ever be, physically speaking, what he was. Worcester, January 27, 1857 I send you my speech atad to say. But I expect no such thing. Worcester, June 17, 1859 Dearest Mother: We have hother: The difference between Perry--, of Worcester . . and his brother . . . Elijah is that Eliar. Hamilton is a city nearly as large as Worcester and growing rapidly, but with nothing in thean, . . . called on me .... He was eager for Worcester gossip.... He said there were many Yankees hthat Mary and I get up quite as good ones in Worcester — but Dr. Holmes is always effervescent and [16 more...]
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ildlike and free. His male friends say that he seems more American than English: but she is more interesting. November 20, 1854 I've been wondering if the United States Grand Jury would find bills against any of us rioters, but suppose there is now no chance of that, as they reported to-day. Mr. Hallett has failed again, ther those cases do not diminish, the District Attorney almost despairs of ever reaching ours, and would gladly throw them up if he with propriety could do so. The United States processes are only just being announced, in fact only two have yet been made public, and I do not yet know whether I shall come in for a share of those or not.lass of foaming ale. No other gustatory novelty save macaroni pudding. I wish to chronicle, however, that I never saw guests eat faster in America — I mean the United States. Also I never had a scantier supply of water and towels — far inferior to Niagara, though, to be sure, water is what people come there for. I am now writin
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ed husband. To a friend: Of course we are all deep in Browns, and you can imagine how stirred up is Worcester generally, especially since the rumored arrests of people in Boston as witnesses — I mean proposed arrests; but I don't think it will come to anything. Worcester, October 27, 1859 Dearest Mother: While you are dreaming of me in this alarming manner, I am placidly laying out a new bed of crocuses and tulips for the spring, and buying at auction a second-hand tapestry Brussels, quite handsome, for seventy cents a yard, to put in the study. This afternoon an African brother visits us, not for insurrectionary purposes, but to aid in putting down the same on the study floor. Of course I think enough about Brown, though I don't feel sure that his acquittal or rescue would do half as much good as his being executed; so strong is the personal sympathy with him. We have done what we could for him by sending counsel and in other ways that must be nameless. By we I m
Cape Cod (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
o his hotel. His great desire now is to go in a small screw steamer to explore that open sea; I begged him not to mention it, lest I should go too. . . . He wore finally a bearskin coat, one of the skins, and says his sensations of cold here are not the least affected by his Arctic experiences. (N. B. The mercury fell to zero as soon as he entered the city.) About the same time Higginson reports lecturing at Nantucket: I had a nice two days at Nantucket, which is a mere scion of Cape Cod and sister of Plum Island; sandhills and marshes and sea; but I enjoyed it. The people are all cousins. A few years ago the Coffin School went into operation and they looked round for the Coffin family to whom it was limited, and found them to include the whole island, so they made no distinction but of age. They are hospitable and sociable, as such isolated people always are; talk of the main land and the continent and foreigners. I stayed at the hotel, but had plenty of hospitality, an
Hamilton (Canada) (search for this): chapter 2
e risk of failure or delay. This multiplies the points of interest, and made it infinitely more exciting than any mere trial of speed on a level track. Then the people, those staid John Bulls, were as wild with exuberant emotions as a Yankee caucus. Everything indicated an athletic race. One thing especially delighted me; when I went in to ask the price of snowshoes, they asked me if I wished gentlemen's or ladies' size; and I found that ladies there wear them a good deal. From Hamilton, Canada, the record continues: What's the use of going to England and using up excitement, all at once, when one can come to Canada and get enough here? I am as distinctly a foreigner here as in Sebastopol, and circumstances have enabled me to enjoy the experience more fully than I expected. . . . Behold me, then, domesticated at the City Hotel. Not a Yankee in it but myself-all straight, solid Englishmen, with deep, clear voices emerging from their fur-covered chests. Everybody's ma
Siasconset (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
tion but of age. They are hospitable and sociable, as such isolated people always are; talk of the main land and the continent and foreigners. I stayed at the hotel, but had plenty of hospitality, and a drive with two horses seven miles out to Siasconset, their watering place, a shower of little cottages, covered with honeysuckle, on a high bluff. At Siasconset they have fish-carts made like wheelbarrows, only with a whole cask for a wheel; and in Nantucket you see ladies riding in two-wheeledSiasconset they have fish-carts made like wheelbarrows, only with a whole cask for a wheel; and in Nantucket you see ladies riding in two-wheeled carts, standing up, holding by a rope to steady themselves. My lectures were very well received, only the people who had been to the Azores were astonished that I could make so much out of them! These notes on distinguished contemporaries were written when Mr. Higginson was thirty-four years old: Mr. Emerson is bounteous and gracious, but thin, dry, angular, in intercourse as in person. Garrison is the only solid moral reality I have ever seen incarnate, the only man who would do to
Norwich (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
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 defence, of which I had never thought before. H
Boston (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
med more surprising than the weirdness of the minority. She seems seven and twenty, tall and sallow, with fine eyes, the lower part of her face the smallest and narrowest I ever saw, with a slender, slight voice scarcely audible. She is full of talent, feeling, and delicate humor, very lovable, I should think, but impulsive and vehement, and with a satire as fine as the edge of a lancet. Her sister is married now, and she lives alone with her flowers and her father. March 22, 1861 In Boston I was much interested in looking over Leigh Hunt's library which J. T. Fields bought and had for sale. It carried one nearer to a past era in English literature than anything else could do, to see his name and notes, all written in ink, in a delicate Italian hand and very abundant. November, 1861 . . Lecturing in Chelsea last night, I spent the night at their [the Fields] house in Boston for the first time .... Nothing could be pleasanter, more hospitable, and more entertaining than
Hudson (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
reading Scripture, without a sermon, which he calls vespers or even-song ; the people meekly rebel a little, especially at the even-song, and pant for a sermon, but I think he will carry it through. ... I took tea with the Millses, some leading people in Sam's parish. Then he invited Brownlee Brown, who wrote the fine article in the last Atlantic, The ideal tendency, to come down from Newburg and dine with me, but he did not appear. I spent part of a day with Octavius Frothingham at Jersey City. Then I moused about New York a good deal and saw various things I wished to see. I saw nothing so good, however, as a scene Frothingham reported to me, between two little street-sweeping boys, whom he passed at dusk the night before, it being terribly rainy and muddy. Come, Bill, said one, ain't it about time to close up for the night? Bill consented, and F. lingered to see in what the process of closing up consisted. It consisted in the two little wretches deliberately hoeing back o
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