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that looked like a continuation of the Bazaar.
She was very bright and quick-witted.
By my absence I missed seeing Mrs. Edward Guild, a wonderfully pretty and graceful creature.
She is trying sculpture and came to ask Richard Greenough how to keep statues from tumbling down.
Her hair is wonderful — the ends touch her boots; we have one hair one and five-eighths yards long, and some are one and three quarters.
She is going with Mrs. Hunt to Colorado. ... The grave Edward [Rev. Edward Guild] is anxious about the Indians, and she says, “he does n't want them to get my hair”
Apropos of a fire which had started in Theodore Parker's house, Higginson wrote:
June, 1873
The morning of that day I went to the fire, that is, to Mrs. Theodore Parker's. It was really delightful to see so many people going there at once; .. . all sorts of people, and Mrs. P. perfectly cool, though the room was hot from the fire.
We got all ready to move, selecting especially all Mr. Parker's manuscripts, books with his notes in them, etc.; but nothing was actually moved out, though one faithful adherent had a cart in the court (Exeter Place), which was otherwise filled with engines and hose.
We had blankets and pails of water to wet the outside of the house, but they were not needed.
We could see back to the corner of W. Phillips's house, where he was moving all out, having 