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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, III: the boy student (search)
he number of his berth on the Norwich boat. At New York he was pleased to see Mr. Higginson's arrival announced in a newspaper; and while at the Astor House, he wrote thus to Parker at Cambridge: As I must . . . miss the class election, I write to give you my proxy and charge you not by any means to let the Bird of Paradise be chosen Poet! From Philadelphia, he wrote to his mother:— I was at the hotel there with H. W. Longfellow, Esq. . . . He introduced me to the great Charles Sumner who was with him, for which I was duly grateful. At Baltimore, he saw for the first time a sign, Negroes bought and sold, and noticed the difference in appearance between the gloomy dulllook-ing Baltimore negroes and a lively colored waiter whom he had made friends with at the New York hotel, and added, Slaves and a freeman is the difference, I suppose. While in Virginia, Wentworth received this letter from his mother, with its pathetic reference to her son Thacher's fatal voyage:—
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VI: in and out of the pulpit (search)
harming companion, very joyous, gentle and modest, always ready and willing to communicate his endless information about all invisible things. . . . Mr. Emerson comes on Friday and will stop here—as will also probably the minor star, Dr. Holmes, the week after. 'T is a nice way of seeing great people, for they can't well be otherwise than complaisant when you rescue them from a dirty tavern and give them hominy for breakfast. And Mrs. Higginson added:— Friday night that enormous Charles Sumner stretched his ponderous form of seven feet in length under our roof. He has not very good manners—he always sits in the rocking chair, gapes almost constantly without any attempt at concealment. . . . But he is a true moral reformer which is a good thing. Apropos of these visitors the following extracts are taken from Mr. Higginson's letters to his mother:— I had the pleasure week before last of making acquaintance with Henry Ward Beecher who came here to lecture. . . . Some
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VIII: Anthony Burns and the Underground railway (search)
ys been petted and waited on, and can do nothing except sew; but we shall probably get her into some family where she can do housework: and perhaps the elder child will be adopted, if she is willing. It happened during these anxious days that Sumner bought a Negro family and gave them their freedom. One of the children was white, and Mr. Higginson conceived the plan of adopting her and thus filling the vacancy in his own family. He wrote: I have made a new acquaintance, most fascinating to me—the dear little white slave girl whom Mr. Sumner purchased— Ida May they call her —but her real name is Mary Mildred something. Fancy a slender little girl of seven . . . with reddish hair, brown eyes, delicate features and skin so delicate as to be a good deal freckled. She came up to be shown at a public meeting here, and it was love at first sight between us, she was like an own child to me, and when in Boston this morning I restored her to her tall mulatto father and her handsome<
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, X: a ride through Kansas (search)
X: a ride through Kansas The returned pastor was at once launched into exciting scenes. The assault on Charles Sumner in the Senate Chamber had but just occurred, and the contest between the free and slave States for the possession of the Territory of Kansas was at its height. There was then a reign of terror along the Kansas border, the advocates of slavery victimizing the Free-State settlers. An enthusiastic meeting was held in Worcester to welcome Mr. Higginson home and promote emigr and important town in Kansas is threatened with the name of Quindaro, which means a Bundle of Sticks, after the Indian wife of the projector. This I deprecate and suggest Quincy—after old Josiah, as a substitute. Also I have urged your name of Sumner. The trouble of these family names is that by and by there must be Christian names to distinguish them, there will be so many. Fancy a town of South-Wendell Phillips or Wm. Lloyd-Garrison-4-corners, or Rev. Gen. Thos. Wentworth Higginson Centre
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XII: the Black regiment (search)
est fire and walls decked with holly and vines. They play whist a good deal, but the baby eats up the cards so fast, it is hard to keep a pack full. Pretty little thing—she lies in the hammock on the piazza with her little scarlet hood and cloak and little fat arms coming out through the meshes .. A little hen roosts there at night. . . . The baby cements everybody and goes from one pair of arms to another all day; she is a darling. A proposition that Colonel Higginson should write Senator Sumner and present his claims to be appointed Brigadier-General in command of colored troops—this appeal to be fortified by an urgent letter from General Saxton, himself,—was thus noted in the War Journal:— I told him [General Saxton] with some indignation that if I could be made a Major General by writing a note ten words long to a Congressman I certainly would not do it; that I never yet had asked for any position in life and never expected to; that a large part of the pleasure I had h
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
2.) Anti-Slavery Days. (In Outlook, Sept. 3.) Articles. (In Nation, Outlook, et al.) 1899 Contemporaries. Def. II. Contents: Ralph Waldo Emerson. Amos Bronson Alcott. Theodore Parker. John Greenleaf Whittier. Walt Whitman. Sidney Lanier. An Evening with Mrs. Hawthorne. Lydia Maria Child. Helen Jackson (H. H.) John Holmes. Thaddeus William Harris. A Visit to John Brown's Household in 1859. William Lloyd Garrison. Wendell Phillips. Charles Sumner. Dr. Howe's Anti-Slavery Career. Ulysses Simpson Grant. The Eccentricities of Reformers. The Road to England. Old Cambridge. Contents: I. Old Cambridge. II. Old Cambridge in Three Literary Epochs. III. Holmes. IV. Longfellow. V. Lowell. Where Liberty is Not, there is My Country. (Anti-Imperialist Leaflet, no. 19.) Reprinted from Harper's Bazar, Aug. 12, 1899. （With William Taggard Piper.) Cambridge Public Library Report Pph. Wendell Phill
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
on's letters to, 16-18, 57, 77, 87, 129, 146, 147. Storrow, Mrs., Anne Appleton, life of, 3-5. Storrow, Farley, 28, 37. Storrow, Louisa, birth, 5; marries Stephen Higginson, 5. See also Higginson, Louisa Storrow. Storrow, Capt., Thomas, of the British army, 2; sketch of, 3, 4. Storrow, Thomas Wentworth, uncle of T. W. H., his namesake, 5. Story, Judge, 35, 116. Story, W. W., the sculptor, 355. Stowe, Harriet Beecher, nr, 159. Stowell, Martin, party led by, 168. Sumner, Charles, 38, 166, 238; described, 96, 97; buys and frees negro family, 153. Sunshine and Petrarch, 276-78, 410. Swanwich, Anna, 334. Swinburne, A. C., on Lowell, 336; Higginson visits, 359, 360. Sympathy of Religions, 164, 328, 411. Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic, 386, 422. Taylor, Helen, 340. Tennyson, Alfred, 357; account of, 326. Thackeray, Miss, and Higginson, 326. Thackeray, William Makepeace, Higginson describes, 128, 129. Thalatta, 159, 405. T