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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, V: the call to preach (search)
ch I have thoughts—but how will it be when these are used up? Will new ones come? How will it be when I have to write two a week and shall not be willing to dilute any? The young thinker naturally felt some solicitude as the time approached for new responsibilities; and the thought of being obliged to write weekly sermons —forcing himself to write when not feeling inspired —filled him with dismay. He also dreaded the necessity of preparing his graduation theme or Visitation Part. In February, he preached two sermons at Walpole, New Hampshire, which met with much favor. The minister borrowed one of the sermons for his wife to read, and she gave it her highest endorsement, pronouncing it a real Parker sermon! His clear enunciation and expressive way of reading the hymns also won praise. About this time he had an invitation to preach at Newburyport. His mother was overjoyed at these successful beginnings and congratulated him on the happy opening of his career. Wentworth wa<
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, IX: the Atlantic Essays (search)
nd 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 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 fo
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XI: John Brown and the call to arms (search)
ptoms of trouble at first—and took W. P. home afterward, with quite a crowd around,—so that all went well. Gov. Andrew brought a good deal of pressure to bear on the Mayor and he sent police after all—but not in uniform so that it was not generally known till afterwards. As there is to be an Anti-Slavery Convention next Thursday and Friday it was thought important to have a good organization and make sure of carrying the meetings all through—but I think everything will go well now. In February, Mr. Higginson spent another Sunday in Boston, to help protect Wendell Phillips, and wrote that a thousand people or so waited on Winter Street to see him—friends, foes and idlers —while we quietly walked him out by the Bumstead Place entrance. When the war-cloud burst in April, 1861, and there was alarm about the safety of Washington, Mr. Higginson conceived the daring scheme of recalling Montgomery and his men from Kansas and going with them into the mountains of Virginia to diver
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XII: the Black regiment (search)
t a large part of the pleasure I had had in commanding my regiment grew out of the perfect unexpectedness of the promotion. . .. Emerson says no man can do anything well who does not feel that what he is doing is for the time the centre of the universe—I thank heaven that I never yet have supposed for a moment that any brigade or division in the army was so important a trust as my one regiment—at least until the problem of Negro soldiers was conclusively solved before all men's eyes. In February the regiment was ordered to Florida, and all was excited anticipation. The Colonel wrote home:— The expedition is a very powerful one–where I went with 1000 men Gen. Seymour goes with 10,000 including 3 brigades of infantry, eight batteries and 2 mounted regiments. It is not therefore expected that it will take much fighting to repossess Florida, though there may be some marching. Nobody knows what the plans are. A few days later, he added:— The steamer is come at last and
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XVI: the crowning years (search)
ted and published in London. Of course it gratified me, even if sometimes overstated and undeserved, gratified more than such pleasant personal tributes as those of Justin McCarthy, Tom Hughes, and others in their books of reminiscences. In February of the same year, he writes:— It was curious after my seven months absence [in Europe] when I wrote nothing for print, to come back and find the same continuous impulse of hard work in my study. April 3, 1902. Evening. E. E. Hale Festeding years:— Every year makes me, at least, more democratic, with less reverence for the elect and more faith in the many. During the winter of 1911, strength gradually failed, though interest in the affairs of life never flagged. In February, he read a paper on Dickens, with all his old spirit, before the Round Table, and in April, he attended a meeting of the Authors' Club in Milton. His last thoughts and directions were for others, and his last days painless and serene. On the e
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
ov. 7.) Articles. (In Christian World, Jan., Feb.) Signed H. 1846 (Cambridge） Four hymns. n to learn the Alphabet? (In Atlantic Monthly, Feb.) Def. IV Also published as a tract. Boston, 18. Maroons of Jamaica. (In Atlantic Monthly, Feb.） Same. (In his Travellers and Outlaws. 1889.n.） A Driftwood Fire. (In Atlantic Monthly, Feb.) Def. V. Out on Picket. (In Atlantic Monthl3.) The Sympathy of Religions. (In Radical, Feb.) Def. VII. Published as a pamphlet, Boston, 18y, Jan.） In a Wherry. (In Atlantic Monthly, Feb.) Def. v. Character of Buddha. (In Index, Mal Hawthorne and His Wife. (In Atlantic Monthly, Feb.） American Flash Language in 1793. (In Scienutskirts of Public Life. (In Atlantic Monthly, Feb.） The First Black Regiment. (In Outlook, Julsh and American Cousins. (In Atlantic Monthly, Feb.） Books Unread. (In Atlantic Monthly, March.rly Days of Longfellow. (In Book News Monthly, Feb.） The Youth of Longfellow. (In Independent,