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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 1: Cambridge and Newburyport (search)
walk in daily after breakfast, with hat, coat, and cane, inquire after the old gentleman's health and walk out again, into his own part of the house, there to disrobe himself. J. R. L. thinks that out of all the ex-ministers in Cambridge, a new crop of oddities is ripening.... Finally, he said, to my great regret, that M-. R-. is very intemperate, driven to it, he thinks, by his wife (that poor little ting ); but he says he is never so elegant in his manners as when inebriated. I saw Charles Dana [later editor of the New York Sun ] at Redding's and had some talk. He looks finely and was gay as usual, but I never feel entirely at ease with him — his comers are too clearly defined. He is going to leave Brook Farm, but was indignant at the notion of having relaxed his hold on the associative principles and spoke with great emphasis on that — he is not going into business. ... He may be going to take Miss [Margaret] Fuller's place in the Tribune ; he has certainly been wonderfully
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 2: the Worcester period (search)
ed myself to him. Oh, yes, said he heartily, bless your soul, I remember you ; and so we talked until twelve o'clock: chiefly about Wasson and churches generally. He defended pews (to be rented, not owned) and said some very sensible things in their defence, of which I had never thought before. He was very cordial — wished me to know Reverend Mr. Storrs of Brooklyn, his associate in the Independent, and said I must come to tea with him on Monday and Mr. S. should come also.... [Charles] Dana was at his office, much changed from his former brown and robust self, pale, thin, and bearded; but seemed very content, though rather tired; said he could endure much more labor in that way than any other. He had a good deal of his old dogmatism.... Mr. Ripley was there, fat and uninteresting. George Curtis pleased me far better. He seemed very cordial and not at all foppish. His voice and manner are extremely like Mr. Bowen (Reverend C. J.). . . . The likeness kept recurring to me as
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Index. (search)
24, 325. Colfax, Schuyler, Speaker, 250, 253. Collyer, Robert, 329. Conway, Moncure D., 279, 280, 286, 287. Cox, Hannah, 76. Crosby, Prof., Alpheus, 40, 41. Curson, Mrs., 6. Curtis, George William, described 46; slavery attitude, 71, 72. Curtis, Judge, 70. Cushing, Mrs., Betsey, 34, 35 Cushman, Charlotte S., 244, 265. D Dabneys, the; of Fayal, 125, 126, 133, 134, 136, 137; letter to, about Kansas, 142-44. Dame, Mrs., and Newport boardinghouse, 235, 246, 264. Dana, Charles, described, 13, 14, 46. Darley, Felix O. C., the artist, 147. Davis, Andrew Jackson, 109, 110. Davis, Jefferson, 205. Devens, Charles, 156, 157; at Manassas, 159; wounded, 168. Dicey, Albert, at Newport, 229. Dickinson, Emily, 268; poems, 331, 332. Dilke, Sir, Charles, 276. Disunion, Worcester Convention, 77-79; Quincy on, 88, 89. Dodge, Mary Mapes, 228. Dunlap, Sergeant, 171. Durant, Henry F., founder of Wellesley, 70, 71. E Earle, Thomas, in Civil War, 166,
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