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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XV: journeys (search)
kin is like going about invisible, those who see you take no account of you, you are simply one stranger more, unimportant as a fly. When I look back on my life in Paris, I seem to have carried about with me a moving wall of seclusion, which is now exchanged for the glare of publicity. The following year, after his second marriage, Colonel Higginson received, through Professor Longfellow, this letter from members of Mr. Conway's parish, accompanied by fifty dollars:— London, April 13, 1879. Some few of us who retain a grateful recollection of your presence amongst us last summer were glad of the opportunity your marriage afforded us to approach you with some slight offering of our regard, feeling quite sure that you would interpret aright the significance of the act. Whatever form the memento may take I trust, my dear Sir, it will ever speak to you of the disimprisoned spirits; and ever stimulate you to use your rare and noble gift of persuasive eloquence in the cause o