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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 285 285 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 222 222 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 67 67 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 61 61 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 34 34 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.) 27 27 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 26 26 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 19 19 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 18 18 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 18 18 Browse Search
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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VII: the free church (search)
overwork during the rest of the year, by six weeks of total inaction in the summer—no man is saved, he says, except by his inconsistencies. I told him he had laid up a large assurance of salvation in that line, to which he heartily agreed. In 1855, Mr. Higginson ventured on an unusually extended lecture trip. He reported to his wife:— I am too soft-hearted for a Lecturer and cannot bear to take money out of people's pockets. I wish I were as tough as old John Pierpont, who never relface and her little Bloomerized-Quakerish person—and her delicious voice. . .. Lucy wears them [bloomers] for health she avers, being exposed to storms and wind and snowdrifts in her wanderings. At the time of the gentle reformer's marriage in 1855, Mr. Higginson wrote to his mother:— Guess what wedding we are going to next—on May Day . . . dear Lucy Stone's!! . . . I am glad the world should see her as a wife and mother. Still there was something so powerful and beautiful in that
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, IX: the Atlantic Essays (search)
d even snowshoes. To-day I am to have a lesson in these from Mr. L. and ride to where I can see Indians and Katahdin. This glimpse of the great lonely Katahdin, as he describes that mountain, led the next year to a nearer acquaintance; for in 1855 the Worcester parson, accompanied by a few of his friends, made the ascent of Mount Katahdin. This letter to Mrs. Higginson was written from Bangor:— I am writing behind the bar; many men here— they come up and read our names in the book anby this I can make up a sufficient income, for the present at least. . . . In fact, my natural activity is so great, that I have to contrive means to keep myself out of work. An unexpected break in this too laborious life came in the autumn of 1855, when the Higginsons sailed for Fayal for Mrs. Higginson's health. They spent the winter there, and Mr. Wasson took charge of the Free Church during this absence. Fayal proved to be more wonderful to the travellers than any dream, every inch of
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
Anti-Slavery Tract, no. 4.) Massachusetts in Mourning: A Sermon preached in Worcester, June 4. Pph. Scripture Idolatry: A Discourse. Pph. Same. (In Liberator, Oct. 6.) reprinted in London. Letter. (In Hartford Bible Convention. Proceedings. Appendix.) Sermon on the Nebraska Bill. (In Liberator, Feb. 17.) Speech at Abington, Aug. I: Celebration of West Indian Emancipation. (In Liberator, Aug. 11.) African Proverbial Philosophy. (In Putnam's Monthly Magazine, Oct.） 1855 (Worcester—winter in Fayal） Worcester School Committee Report, Dec. 31, 1854. Speech at New England Anti-Slavery Convention. (In Liberator, June 8.) Anti-Slavery Colporteurage. (In Liberator, Sept. 7.) Signed H. Speech at Anniversary of Boston Mob Convention. (In Liberator, Nov. 2.) At Fayal began a book, the Return of Faith, of which only one chapter was afterwards published as the Sympathy of Religions (1871). 1856 (Worcester—trip to Kansas） Speech at Anniversary