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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 8 0 Browse Search
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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, I: Inheritance (search)
rs and sisters. What dear and admirable women! What simple, happy lives they led! In their days of prosperity, the Higginsons exercised a lavish hospitality. Mrs. Higginson adapted herself readily, however, to changed fortunes, and in the companionship of her children, a large circle of friends, and many books, she passed a serene and contented life. She was a deeply religious woman and bore with fortitude the sorrows that came to her, the most bitter of which was the fate of her son Thacher. This youth, whom Wentworth Higginson called his gayest and most frolicsome brother, went on a voyage to South America and the ship was never heard from. It was the mother's custom to retreat every evening about sunset to a certain window to write in her daily journal for her absent son. Not for many years did she give up all hope of his return, nor cease burning a nightly beacon. It would seem that those days must have been longer than ours when we read of Mrs. Higginson's daily doin
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, II: an old-fashioned home (search)
eful mamma had pasted strips of paper over the objectionable parts, but Master Wentworth succeeded in removing these precautions and the lurid words remained forever fixed in his memory. One of his methodical habits was to make lists of his possessions, his friends, or his achievements. One cold winter night, when his brothers were wondering where an extra blanket could be found, one of them cried, Ask Wentworth. He probably has a list of blankets in his pocket! The older brothers, Thacher and Waldo, went to a boy's school kept by William Wells, an Englishman, in an old colonial house, still to be seen on Brattle Street (then Tory Row), Cambridge. To this school Wentworth was promoted at the age of eight, and there he remained for five years, until he was fitted for college. His acquaintance with James Russell Lowell began here, the latter being one of the older pupils. There is an amusing letter from Lowell to Thacher Higginson which Colonel Higginson later framed and hun
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, III: the boy student (search)
he wrote to a friend,—-- It is dreadful to me to see a woman kill an insect. Although his strong aversion to giving pain kept him from joining shooting expeditions when older, he says in his youthful journal:— Went to shoot peeps with Thacher's gun. Something was the matter with the gun, however. It would not go. In the evening F. and I fired at a mark in a field, with pistols. He was fond of visiting the Botanic Gardens (a habit he never abandoned), and was president of the collively 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:— Now for news—Thacher sailed yesterday for Rio Janeiro. . . . He took out Books of all kinds, Scientific and literary. Theology, Law, History, Poetry, Philosophy, French, Spanish and English— he expects to be home in Ju