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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 9: Whittier at home (search)
a mixed company than he could face an audience. It was the lack of touch — of correlation --that seemed to disturb him. Miss Bremer said of him that he could cheerfully confront martyrdom, but shrank from the ordinary requirements of social intercourse .... Later, in 1882, when I was a member of the Republican State Central Committee, I was designated to conduct Mr. Whittier from his rooms in Boston on the morning of the Music Hall convention which put Robinson forward for the defeat of Butler, and I was specially charged to place him in a conspicuous seat near the front of the platform, that all Massachusetts might see that he was with us. By dint of much entreaty and persuasion I finally prevailed. No man was better entitled to a high seat in the party sanhedrim at that time, nor more worthy to be held up as the high priest of Massachusetts Republicanism. But the proceedings were scarcely opened when I found his chair was vacant. He had stolen away to a hiding-place beside th
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Index. (search)
87 Bright, John, 94, 112; Whittier on, 113. Brown, David Paul, 62. Brown, J. Brownlee, his Thalatta, mentioned, 163. Brown, Capt., John, 78, 79. Brown University, 176. Browning, Elizabeth B., 142,165; her Sonnets from the Portuguese, mentioned, 166. Browning, Robert, 153. Bryant, William C., 37, 156. Burleigh, Charles C., 63. Burlington, N. J., 131. Burns, Robert, 19, 88,109; Whittier compared with, 152. Burroughs, George, 18, 103. Burroughs, Rev., George, 180. Butler, Gen. B. F., 110. Byron, Lord, 33. C. Campbell, Mr., 94. Campbell's restaurant, 83. Canada, 10. Carlisle, J. G., 181. Carlton, Mr., 33. Cartland, Mrs. Gertrude W., quoted, 58, 59. Cartland, Joseph, 179. Cary, Alice, visits Whittier, 108. Cary, Phoebe, 98; visits Whittier, 108. Cassandra, 157-159. Cate, Hon. George W., 126, 179; quoted about Whittier and Amesbury strike, 87,88; quoted about Whittier and spiritualism, 127. Century Magazine, mentioned, 137. Channing,