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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 4 0 Browse Search
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of nature, which developed rapidly as he grew into boyhood. When about nine or ten years old, he studied at home with me for some time, and I remember well his eager fresh delight in physical geography, as we studied it from Mrs. Somerville and Guyot. I remember that he understood and delighted in the generalizations and analogies of Guyot. He enjoyed botany very much also, especially the structural part of it; and we took many long rambles, often in the early morning, for every flower in iGuyot. He enjoyed botany very much also, especially the structural part of it; and we took many long rambles, often in the early morning, for every flower in its season. He alludes to these pleasant walks in a letter written from Virginia in the spring of 1863, when he mentions a lovely morning, just like the mornings years ago, when we set off for columbines or hepaticas,—the sky like a pearl, robins singing, and pine-trees murmuring,—everything quiet and peaceful in the scene, except the ranks of troopers and clanking of sabres. Harriet Prescott, who was often our companion in these walks, used then to quote the lines from Matthew Roydon's Astr