Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life

[432] 195, 196; warned, 196, 197; plan to rescue Brown's companions, 196-98; goes to Pennsylvania, 197; writes to Stevens, 198, 199; on the John Brown affair, 199, 200; guards Phillips at Anti-Slavery meetings, 201-03; scheme for safety of Washington, 203-05; goes to Harrisburg, 204; studies military tactics, 205; anxious to have a share in war, 207-09; resigns from Free Church, 209, 210; recruiting a regiment, 210, 211; decides to join the army, 211, 212; his military company, 213, 214; offered command of regiment of freed slaves, 214; accepts, 215; as a commander, 216-18, 227, 228; camp life, 218-20, 226, 228; sayings of men, 219, 220, 227, 230, 237, 245, 246-48; soldiers' pay, 221, 226, 230, 237, 252; up the St. Mary's, 222, 223; fascination of war, 223, 224; regimental wedding, 224; expedition to Jacksonville, 225, 220; at Port Royal, 226-30; Army Life, 227; increase in negro regiments, 229; expedition up the South Edisto, 230, 231; wounded, 230, 231; on furlough, 231; returns to regimental difficulties, 232, 233; impaired health, 234, 237; holiday festivities, 235; presented with sword, 236; the baby of the regiment, 237, 238; proposition for brigadier-generalship, 238; attempted expedition, 239-41; life on advanced picket, 241, 242, 244, 245; Court Martial scene, 243, 244; describes 9th U. S. Colored Regiment, 244, 245; chaplain's sermon, 245, 246; negro songs, 246; account of chaplain, 248; retires from army, 248-250, 251; village named for, 250; keeps up interest in his regiment, 250, 251; writing about war experiences, 251, 252; memorial sent to, at regimental reunion, 252; interest in Newport public affairs, 253, 254; death of his mother, 254; letters to his sisters, 254, 258, 260, 266, 270, 271, 301, 305; lives in Quaker boarding-house, 254, 255; and invalid wife, 255, 256; a day's work, 255, 256 277; celebrated persons at Newport, 258-62; Oldport Days, 262; charm of military life, 262, 263, 282; translates Epictetus, 263; edits Harvard Memorial Biographies, 263, 275; as a public speaker, 263-66, 273; visits Whittier, 266; visits Emerson, 266; and the Boston Radical Club, 267, 263; religious toleration of, 268; his ‘Creed,’ 268-70; influence of Emerson, 270; various honors, 270, 271; summers at the ‘Point,’ 272, 273; his poem Decoration Day, 273; ‘The Things I Miss,’ 273; elasticity of his nature, 274, 276, 296; on his own style, 274, 275; Malbone, 275, 278-82, 289; and Atlantic Monthly, 275; Driftwood Fire, 275, 276; translates Petrarch, 276-78; compiles Child Pictures from Dickens, 277; literary work, 277, 279; working on Army Life, 282; increased reputation, 283; literary projects, 283, 284, ‘Galatea Collection,’ 284; writes Young Folks' History, 284, 285; success of, 285,286,288; revision, 308, 396; money matters, 286-88; housekeeping, 288, 289; plans European journey, 289, 290; critical work, 290; death of wife, 290, 291; marries again, 292; settles in Cambridge, 292, 294; visits Harper's Ferry, 292-94; birth and death of first child, 294, 295; at Plymouth, N. H., 296; A Search for the Pleiades, 296; in legislature, 296-99; birth of second child, 298; at Cowpens, 299; and his daughter, 300-07, 318-21, 372, 373; writes Larger History, 301; and Matthew Arnold, 301; summers at Holden, Mass., 305-07; a week's work, 307, 308; Life of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, 307, 308; writes Women and Men, 308; in politics, 308-10, 317, 318; company reunion, 310; on dreams, 310, 311; Monarch of Dreams, 311, 312; and Emily Dickinson, 312, 313; edits her letters and poems, 368, 369; confused with Maj. Higginson, 313, 314; love of music, 314; interest in many organizations, 314, 315; in public affairs, 316, 320; western lecture tour, 316, 317; Afternoon Landscape, 319; state historian, 319, 320; summer at East Gloucester, 320, 321; first European journey (1872), 322-27; enjoys London, 322, 323, 326, 327; meets eminent persons, 322-27; visits Oxford, 325, 326; second visit to Europe (1878), 327-46; meets eminent persons, 328-37, 340; at Besant trial, 329, 330; attends public meetings, 330, 331; visits Edwin Arnold, 331, 312; Gen. Higginson, 332-34; and Darwin, 334; English Liberal Thinkers, 336, 337; in Oxford, 337, 338; in Scotland, 338-40; returns to London, 340; at Paris, 340-43; in Normandy, 343; on the Rhine, 343-45; at Frankfort, 345, 346; at Nuremberg and Dresden, 346; on foreign travel, 346; journey to Europe (1897), 347-53; in London, 347-51; Horder's description of, 348, 349; visits at country houses, 350, 351; at Oxford, 351; at Stratford, 351, 352; at Salisbury, 352, 353; at Paris, 353; in Switzerland, 353; journey to Europe (1901), 353-62; impressions of Granada, 353; at Castellamare, 353, 354; illness of his daughter, 354; at Capri, 355; at Florence, 355-57; in England, 357-59; in London, 359, 360; at the Winchester celebration, 360-62; revisits the South (1878), 362-64; another visit to the South (1904), 364-66; and colored people at Boston, 366-67; visits Gettysburg, 370, 371; summers in Dublin, N. H., 371-76; and Mark Twain, 373, 374; verses for Smith outdoor theatre, 374; and Dublin village life, 374, 375; desires to be Harvard's oldest graduate, 376, 398; interest in students, 376, 377; receives degrees, 377, 378; kindliness of, 378, 379; at polls, 380; death of sister, 381; at Columbus celebration, 381; seventieth birthday, 381; lectures at Western Reserve, 382; illness, 382-84; gives away books, 384, 385; renewed activity, 385, 386, 392; book about, 386, 387; Cheerful Yesterdays, 382; and Shaw monument, 388; musical poems, 388, 389; lectures before Lowell Institute, 389; 390; at Emerson celebration, 390; eightieth birthday celebration, 391; sons of Veterans Post named for, 391; at work on Stephen Higginson and Part of a Man's Life, 392; Robert Collyer, 392, 393; and church organization, 393,