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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XV: journeys (search)
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 of truth and freedom. Colonel Higginson went abroad twice more, in 1897 and 1901, on both of these occasions taking his family with him. From Tintern, England, one of the party wrote:— Wentworth is too soft-hearted to travel in Europe. He has discovered great holes in the roofs of some of the cottages near us, and heard that one old woman has to put up an umbrella in the night when it rains, and this makes him unhappy. The 1897 visit brought us to London at the time of the Queen's Jubilee, and Colonel Higginson wrote:— London seems so confoundedly empty to me without the circle of great men whom I met twenty years ago . . . .