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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIII: Oldport Days (search)
a buffoon, though with earnestness underneath; and when afterwards at his own house in Hartford, I heard him say grace at table, it was like asking a blessing over Ethiopian minstrels. But he had no wine at his table and that seemed to make the grace a genuine thing. This hasty estimate of the popular humorist was a passing one, and the acquaintance developed into a cordial friendship. Public men as well as authors and artists were drawn to Newport, and when President Hayes visited Rhode Island in 1877, the Colonel wrote to his sisters:— He looks just like his pictures, and gives a great impression of manly equilibrium and quiet strength. I was pleased with the quiet way he said to me when the people were calling and I told him he would have to make a speech: No:—there is nothing easier than to keep silence. I shall never forget it; it was a key to the whole man. His nieces afterwards told me, He never brings business to the dinner table — the business being the governme<
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XVI: the crowning years (search)
en of his gift at impromptu verse, which was often in demand on such occasions. Later he himself took part in a miracle play, Theophile, written by our neighbor, Henry Copley Greene, for the Teatro Bambino, in which Higginson personated an aged abbot. When the Goddess of Dulness would rule o'er this planet And bind all amusements, like Samson, with withes, Fate conquered her scheme, ere she fairly began it, By producing one household—a household of Smiths. Fate selected the seed of a Rhode Island Quaker Its wit and its wisdom, its mirth and its pith, And brought all these gifts to a Point—one half acre— And gave to the product the surname of Smith. Though Care killed a cat it cannot hush the Mewses Nor reduce all our joys to monotonous myth; Some gleams of pure fun o'er the earth Fate diffuses,— So cheers, three times three, for the household of Smith! In those first years of the Dublin life, when the shore of the lake was not wholly owned by summer residents and was still
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
lege. (In Vaille and Clark, comp. Harvard Book, vol. 2.) 1876 (Newport） History of the Public School System in Rhode Island. (In History of Public Education in Rhode Island, 1636-1876.) A Moonglade. (In Laurel Leaves. Pub. by W. F. Gill.Rhode Island, 1636-1876.) A Moonglade. (In Laurel Leaves. Pub. by W. F. Gill.) Def. v. Speech at memorial service for Dr. S. G. Howe. (In Howe, Mrs. Julia Ward. Memoir of Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe.) Def. III. （With Thomas H. Clarke.) A Sketch of the Public Schools in the City of Newport. (In History of Public Education in Rhode Island.) Childhood's Fancies. (In Scribner's Monthly, Jan.） Lowell's Among my Books. Second Series. (In Scribner's Monthly, March. Culture and Progress.) Story of the Signing. [Declaration of Independence.] (In Scribner's Monthlymistakenly attributed to Higginson in Galaxy, April, was by Mrs. Maria E. MacKaye. 1877 (Newport） [Education in] Rhode Island. (In Kiddle and Schem. Cyclopaedia of Education.) Intercollegiate Literary Association Report. Pph. (Comp.) A