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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 8: personal qualities (search)
, with the suggestion that I might perhaps like to attend meeting, inviting me to go with him; and he gave me a seat next to himself. The meeting lasted an hour, during which there was not a word spoken by any one. We all sat in silence that length of time, then all arose, shook hands, and dispersed; and I remember it as one of the best meetings I ever attended. Kennedy's Whittier, pp. 167-68. No one came nearer to Whittier in all good deeds or in private intimacy than the late Mrs. Mary B. Claflin, well known in Boston and Washington, in both of which cities she exercised profuse hospitality, during the public life of her husband, the Hon. William Claflin. No book yields such a store of private anecdotes about Whittier as her little work, Personal Recollections of John G. Whittier. Mrs. Claflin quotes one adviser, who said I would rather give a man or woman on the verge of a great moral lapse a marked copy of Whittier than any other book in our language. She goes on to descr
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Index. (search)
er to. Whittier, 167; Whittier's letter to, 167, 168. Chardon Street Chapel, Boston, 81. Chase, G. W., his History of Haverhill, quoted, 56, 57. Chatterton, Thomas, 24. Chaucer, Geoffrey, 141. Child, Mrs., Lydia Maria, 75, 76; her account of Thompson mob, 59-61; Whittier's letters to, 78, 79, 90, 91; her generosity, 98; her letters edited by Whittier, 180. Child, Rev. Dr., 84. Childs, George W., gives a Milton memorial window, 181, 182. Civil War, 90, 168, 176. Claflin, Mary B., 100, 159; her personal Recollections of John G. Whittier, quoted, 99, 101, 102, 110-112, 116, 117, 125, 126, 130, 136, 172. Claflin, Hon., William, 99. Clarkson, Thomas, 33. Clay, Henry, 42, 68, 69, 77; Whittier friendly to, 26; opposed to, 49. Clayton, Mr., 181. Coates, Lindley, 52. Coffin, Joshua, 18, 53; description of, 19. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 76,104; quoted, 77; his Christabel, mentioned, 162. Coleridge, Sara, 36. Collier, Mr., 32. Columbia College, 35. Co