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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier 37 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.) 12 0 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 10 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 9 1 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 8 0 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 8 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 8 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 8 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 8 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 8 (search)
and might well feel himself equal to any worldly companionship. The medical profession was represented by Drs. Channing, Bowditch, Howe, and Loring; and the mercantile world by the two brothers Ward, Franklin Haven, William D. Ticknor, and James T. Fields. Art appeared only in John Cheney, the engraver, and literature in the persons of Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Lowell, and Whipple. These five authors were contributors to the Atlantic monthly, and took part also in the early dinners oft he really succeeded, most of his contributors then writing only for him,--an aim which his successors abandoned, as doubtless became inevitable in view of the rapid multiplication of magazines. Certainly there was something very pleasant about Fields's policy on this point; and perhaps he petted us all rather too much. He had some of the defects of his qualities,could not help being a little of a flatterer, and sometimes, though not always, evaded the telling of wholesome truths. I happen
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 11 (search)
it curiously happened that in the choice which often forces itself upon the hurried traveler, between meeting a great man and seeing an historic building, I was compelled to sacrifice Salisbury Cathedral to this poet, as I had previously given up York Minster for Darwin. Both sacrifices were made on the deliberate ground, which years have vindicated, that the building would probably last for my lifetime, while the man might not. I had brought no letter to Tennyson, and indeed my friend James T. Fields had volunteered a refusal of any, so strong was the impression that the poet disliked to be bored by Americans; but when two ladies whom I had met in London, Lady Pollock and Miss Anne Thackeray, afterwards Mrs. Ritchie,--had kindly offered to introduce me, and to write in advance that I was coming, it was not in human nature, at least in American nature, to decline. I spent the night at Cowes, and was driven eight miles from the hotel to Farringford by a very intelligent young groom w
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, Index. (search)
0, 182, 185, 190, 204, 244, 272, 279, 297, 327, 331, 332, 341, 359. Emigrant Aid Society, The, 196. Epictetus, 270. Epilogue, 362-364. Erckmann-Chatrian, 320. Estray, The, 102. Everett, Edward, 12, 79, 189. Everett, Mrs., Edward, 12. Fallersleben, Hoffmann von, 101. Falstaff, quoted, 174. Farlow, W. G., 59. Farrar, Mrs., John, 90. Faust, 244. Fay, Maria, 34, 74, 75. Fay, S. P. P., 75- Fayal, Voyage from, 196. Felton, C. C., 53, 54. Fichte, J. G., 102. Fields, J. T., 176, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 292. Fillmore, Millard, 136. Finnegan, General, 262. Fiske, John, 58, 59. Fitzgerald, Lord, Edward, 66. Fletcher, Andrew, of Saltoun, 183. Follen, Charles, 16. Forbes, Hugh, 220, 221, 222. Foster, Abby Kelley, 146. Foster, Dwight, 88. Foster, S. S., 116, 146, 327. Fourier, Charles, 101. Francis, Convers, 100, 101. Franklin, Benjamin, 16. Free Church of Worcester, 146. Freeman, Watson, 155. Freiligrath, Ferdinand, 100. French, J. H., 245