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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, II: an old-fashioned home (search)
ilt by her son Francis. This house is no longer standing, having been absorbed by Radcliffe College. Wentworth wrote this description of a visit to their former home:— April 13, 1836. I went to our [old] house to see the auction. Mr. Morse begun with the dining-room, then went to the back parlour and then to the study. The champagne bottles sold for 4 1/8 cents apiece; the clock for $3 3/4; and a little table in there for 1 cent. ... There was an old curious chair, which Mr. MorMr. Morse finding he could not sell, broke. I was much obliged to him for I got a nice bat by it. Occasionally a bit of autobiography is found among the old letters, as this:— I vividly remember when I first swam above my depth in the Charles River. We boys had been learning to swim at a point in the river not far from the willows where we played and read Spenser's Faerie Queene. The first time I swam across from one point to another in this river was perhaps the proudest moment of my lif