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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 539 1 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.) 88 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 58 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men 54 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 54 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life 44 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir 39 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 38 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition. 38 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 36 0 Browse Search
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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIV: return to Cambridge (search)
itical but not much personal regret, as I have never supposed I should like the life and there is plenty besides to be done. About the result of the election, he told his sister:— I don't doubt that many who at first meant to vote for me decided at last to stick by their party; and this is not strange, as one vote may determine the majority in the House ... The defection of the colored people's Club in Boston at the last moment was rather unexpected . . . . But on the whole the Irish-Americans stood by me well and so did some of the colored people. ... M. volunteered the use of Dapple [a small Shetland pony] all day yesterday for bringing up voters. In another letter to his brother-in-law he reported:— The Election was really on pretty strict party lines. . . . I don't feel that I have wasted time and strength; it has done me no apparent harm and made me feel that I am younger and stronger than I thought . . . the morning disappointment already seems a good way off. Margar
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XV: journeys (search)
ome of his sentences were on fire! A London paper spoke of the evident delight this American traveller found in England, adding, Even the climate, he, like most Americans, does not denounce! Before sailing for home, Higginson was given a farewell entertainment by the Anglo-American Association. At this meeting, of which Thomasstyle ; and afterwards, Do you find an audience in America for such critical refinement of style? I fear there would hardly be in England. I told him I thought Americans when well educated cared more for refinement of style than English and he said he knew they formerly did but thought their style had grown more rough and ready at admit they have a twang, a kind of accent-like. He said, That's what we say of the English; and she laughed. He wrote in his diary:— We pick up lots of Americans we never heard of at home and learn a great deal that is new about our own country. . . . An Englishman watched me through a knot hole for some Americanism. Sai
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
Child Pictures from Dickens. Book notices and editorials. (In Independent.) The book notices include a series, Live Americans, giving accounts of Longfellow, Lowell, and others. 1869 (Newport） Malbone. Same. (In Atlantic Monthly, Jan. Testimony on Charles River Railroad, Feb. 13. Pph. The Brook Farm Period. (In Demorest's Monthly, July.) First Americans. (In Harper's Monthly Magazine, Aug.） Visit of the Vikings. (In Harper's Monthly Magazine, Sept.） Spanish Discoic Library Report. Pph. Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic. (With Edward Channing.) English History for Americans. New edition of their English History for American Readers. 1893. Harriet Beecher Stowe. [Preface.] (In Stowe. Un Enlarged ed. of Higginson's Larger History of the United States. Introduction. (In Capen. Country Homes of Famous Americans.) Introduction. (In Sinclair. The Aftermath of Slavery.) American Audiences. (In Atlantic Monthly, Jan.） Th