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Although most responsive to appeals for help, the weary pastor sometimes rebelled a little, as in the following complaint: ‘Mrs. Dall writes to me about Woman's Rights petitions.
Always there is the same difficulty; if I touch a thing with my little finger, I am always compelled, by the failure of co-laborers, to grasp it with my whole hand. . . . I have spent a large part of my life in trying to set men upon their legs who were constitutionally disqualified for standing there.’
Many years later, in 1882, Mr. Higginson received a most unexpected tribute to his public work in Worcester.
This was a bequest of five hundred dollars from a former resident of that town.
The donor in his will left this sum to ‘Thos. Wentworth Higginson as a mark of my abiding appreciation of his noble labors in the city of Worcester.’
Books for libraries press. Freeport, New York. 1914.
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