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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 268 268 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 26 26 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 25 25 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 24 24 Browse Search
History of the First Universalist Church in Somerville, Mass. Illustrated; a souvenir of the fiftieth anniversary celebrated February 15-21, 1904 8 8 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 5 5 Browse Search
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 4 4 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 4 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 4 4 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 4 4 Browse Search
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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, IX: the Atlantic Essays (search)
o the travellers than any dream, every inch of surface and each individual person being entirely different from anything they had seen before. In Mr. Higginson's Atlantic paper, Fayal and the Portuguese (1860), these strange experiences were described. And it was in Fayal that Mr. Higginson wrote his essay called the Sympathy of Religions. This paper was afterwards read by the author before the Free Religious Association in Boston, and later before the Parliament of Religions at Chicago in 1893. It was reprinted in England and also translated into French. While in Fayal, he was delighted to receive a charming letter from Agassiz, begging me to collect corals, starfishes, etc., of which I already have a store. And after his return, he reported:— I spent part of yesterday with Prof. Agassiz and enjoyed it very much, and he was delighted with my collection from the Azores especially the sea-urchins, of which he found eight species, some of them new. Some of the things he is
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XVI: the crowning years (search)
ys children! The lecture habit was assiduously pursued, and on the four hundredth anniversary of the landing of Columbus, 1892, he wrote, I give a Columbus and musical address in New York on October 21, for which I am to be paid $250, twice the biggest fee I ever get for a speech. This celebration took the form of a concert, the handbill stating: In the course of the proceedings an oration will be delivered by Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson. The author's seventieth birthday came in 1893. It was made an especially festive occasion by his friends, and the little red house was thronged. These celebrations were continued through successive birthdays when flowers, letters, telegrams, and personal greetings made the day a milestone. Although the different eras through which he had passed made him feel as if he had lived several lives, he seldom unless urged spoke of past events in which he had had a share. His athletic training served him well, and until long after seventy he
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
, 1872, and Boston, enlarged, 1876; reprinted in Unity Church-Door Pulpit, Chicago, June 16, 1885; reprinted in World's Parliament of Religions, vol. I, Chicago, 1893; tr. under the title, L'affinite des religions, by Mrs. Maria E. MacKaye, Paris, 1898. Plutarch's Morals. (In Radical, March.) Unpublished Letters from Theo Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic. (With Edward Channing.) English History for Americans. New edition of their English History for American Readers. 1893. Harriet Beecher Stowe. [Preface.] (In Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin. New ed.) [Sketches of] Brown, Cooper, and Thoreau. (In Carpenter, ed. American Prose.) rison and G. S. Boutwell.) How Should a Colored Man Vote in 1900? Leaflet. Reprinted from the Boston Herald, Oct. 11, 1900. The Reoccupation of Jacksonville in 1893. (In Mass. Commandery of the Loyal Legion. Civil War Papers, vol. 2.) Addresses and Remarks. (In Free Religious Association. Proceedings, 1867-1900.) Oc