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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 178 178 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 38 38 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 22 22 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 18 18 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 14 14 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 10 10 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 9 9 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 8 8 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 8 8 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 7 7 Browse Search
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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIV: return to Cambridge (search)
XIV: return to Cambridge In the spring of 1878, Colonel Higginson went abroad for several months. After his return in the autumn, he moved his goods and chattels to Cambridge. Here he took delight in planning a new home, and in February, 1879, was quietly married to the writer of this memoir. His old friend, Rev. Samuel Longfellow, performed the ceremony. The being beauteous of Longfellow's poem, Footsteps of Angels, was my mother's sister, and the poet was present at the wedding. A visit made soon afterward to my kindred in Harper's Ferry was described by Colonel Higginson in a letter to his sister:— You can imagine nothing more curious than our arrival at Harper's Ferry. It was in the evening . . . The train stopped in a dismantled sort of station where stood an old man with soft white hair on his shoulders holding a lantern and attended by two blooming, fair-haired daughters; they seized us with joy. There seemed no houses anywhere and we set off to walk across r
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XV: journeys (search)
o the cause of human freedom, and to wish him God speed as an unofficial messenger of peace between two nations. The last clause referred to the fact that there were then certain treaty complications between the two countries. In the spring of 1878, Colonel Higginson made a second visit to Europe. He wrote from the steamer: When I sailed before I felt a sort of dismay as we left the wharf as if the experiment were wildly dangerous and I had better jump ashore; now I did not feel that,son who made quite the speech of the occasion, and he added, Rosebery and he were the speakers, and the rest were nowhere. This record of journeys would be incomplete without some account of two visits to the Southern States. In the winter of 1878, while Colonel Higginson's home was still in Newport, he revisited his old haunts at the South. He wrote to his sister that their Virginia cousins gave such interesting accounts of their war life, when the two sides alternately occupied Culpepe
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
to Higginson in Galaxy, April, was by Mrs. Maria E. MacKaye. 1877 (Newport） [Education in] Rhode Island. (In Kiddle and Schem. Cyclopaedia of Education.) Intercollegiate Literary Association Report. Pph. (Comp.) A Book of American Explorers. (In Young Folks' Series.) Book notices and editorials. (In Nation, Woman's Journal.) A portion of the book notices in the Nation were called Poetry of the Month, later entitled Recent Poetry. The reviews were continued to Feb., 1904. 1878 (Cambridge—trip to Europe） Speech at Conference of Liberal Thinkers, London, June 13. Pph. Letter on Physical and Intellectual Habits. (In Holbrook. Hygiene of the Brain Nerves.) R. G. White. (In Atlantic Monthly, May. Contributors' Club.) Some War Scenes Revisited. (In Atlantic Monthly, July.) Reprinted in Def. II under the title Fourteen Years After. Saxe Holm's Botany. (In Atlantic Monthly, July. Contributors' Club.) An Irish Heart. (In Scribner's Monthly, Dec.
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
17; Afternoon Landscape, 319; state historian, 319, 320; summer at East Gloucester, 320, 321; first European journey (1872), 322-27; enjoys London, 322, 323, 326, 327; meets eminent persons, 322-27; visits Oxford, 325, 326; second visit to Europe (1878), 327-46; meets eminent persons, 328-37, 340; at Besant trial, 329, 330; attends public meetings, 330, 331; visits Edwin Arnold, 331, 312; Gen. Higginson, 332-34; and Darwin, 334; English Liberal Thinkers, 336, 337; in Oxford, 337, 338; in Scotlanto Europe (1901), 353-62; impressions of Granada, 353; at Castellamare, 353, 354; illness of his daughter, 354; at Capri, 355; at Florence, 355-57; in England, 357-59; in London, 359, 360; at the Winchester celebration, 360-62; revisits the South (1878), 362-64; another visit to the South (1904), 364-66; and colored people at Boston, 366-67; visits Gettysburg, 370, 371; summers in Dublin, N. H., 371-76; and Mark Twain, 373, 374; verses for Smith outdoor theatre, 374; and Dublin village life, 374