hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 1 1 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises. You can also browse the collection for December 8th, 1889 AD or search for December 8th, 1889 AD in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 12 (search)
y one of many who lent a hand or made suggestions. He was working very hard, and once wrote that he was going for a week to his boyhood home to rest. During all this period there was, no doubt, the painful business entanglement in the background, but there was also in the foreground the literary work whose assuaging influence only one who has participated in it can understand. Then came another blow in the death of his mother, announced to me as follows:-- 44 East 26th St., New York, Dec. 8th, 1889. My dear Higginson,--Yes: I have been through a kind of Holy Week, and have come out in so incorporeal a state that I strive painfully, though most gratefully, to render thanks to some, at least, of my beautiful mother's friends and mine who have taken note of her departure. I have always wished that she and you could know more of each otherthough nothing of yours escaped her eager taste and judgment, for she was not only a natural critic, but a very clanswoman, with a most loyal fai