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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 2: the Worcester period (search)
ietly. He has a gift at extemporaneous prayer which he indulges freely from 10 to 11 P. M., his room being next to mine with a thin partition. Perry — talks faster than any man I ever met, but he is quite shrewd and well informed, reads a good deal, and is the man who pronounced Vergniaud Virginnyord. He says: My wife's great-grandfolks wuz the fust white folks that settled up Paxton way: and the Injins wuz gittina considerable sarcy before the war, and one day two on 'em came on old Elnathan Dodge, two to wunst, right thru the door: wal, he just took and chucked one on 'em eaout, right over the horse trough, and chucked the other after him, right on eend, and they run, and that night Elnathan up duds and cleared --which last is as vivid as veni, vidi, vici. The — children are named Eugene, La Roy Delavan, and Freewalder Channing. Freewalder, he informed me, was a German hydropathic establishment. The last Worcester letters were written while John Brown's trial was pending and