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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, I: Inheritance (search)
rs and sisters. What dear and admirable women! What simple, happy lives they led! In their days of prosperity, the Higginsons exercised a lavish hospitality. Mrs. Higginson adapted herself readily, however, to changed fortunes, and in the companionship of her children, a large circle of friends, and many books, she passed a serene and contented life. She was a deeply religious woman and bore with fortitude the sorrows that came to her, the most bitter of which was the fate of her son Thacher. This youth, whom Wentworth Higginson called his gayest and most frolicsome brother, went on a voyage to South America and the ship was never heard from. It was the mother's custom to retreat every evening about sunset to a certain window to write in her daily journal for her absent son. Not for many years did she give up all hope of his return, nor cease burning a nightly beacon. It would seem that those days must have been longer than ours when we read of Mrs. Higginson's daily doin
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, II: an old-fashioned home (search)
eful mamma had pasted strips of paper over the objectionable parts, but Master Wentworth succeeded in removing these precautions and the lurid words remained forever fixed in his memory. One of his methodical habits was to make lists of his possessions, his friends, or his achievements. One cold winter night, when his brothers were wondering where an extra blanket could be found, one of them cried, Ask Wentworth. He probably has a list of blankets in his pocket! The older brothers, Thacher and Waldo, went to a boy's school kept by William Wells, an Englishman, in an old colonial house, still to be seen on Brattle Street (then Tory Row), Cambridge. To this school Wentworth was promoted at the age of eight, and there he remained for five years, until he was fitted for college. His acquaintance with James Russell Lowell began here, the latter being one of the older pupils. There is an amusing letter from Lowell to Thacher Higginson which Colonel Higginson later framed and hun
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, III: the boy student (search)
he wrote to a friend,—-- It is dreadful to me to see a woman kill an insect. Although his strong aversion to giving pain kept him from joining shooting expeditions when older, he says in his youthful journal:— Went to shoot peeps with Thacher's gun. Something was the matter with the gun, however. It would not go. In the evening F. and I fired at a mark in a field, with pistols. He was fond of visiting the Botanic Gardens (a habit he never abandoned), and was president of the collively colored waiter whom he had made friends with at the New York hotel, and added, Slaves and a freeman is the difference, I suppose. While in Virginia, Wentworth received this letter from his mother, with its pathetic reference to her son Thacher's fatal voyage:— Now for news—Thacher sailed yesterday for Rio Janeiro. . . . He took out Books of all kinds, Scientific and literary. Theology, Law, History, Poetry, Philosophy, French, Spanish and English— he expects to be home in Ju
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 2: Parentage and Family.—the father. (search)
e Judicial Court, he gave a dinner to the judges, the chaplain, and members of the bar and other gentlemen. He gathered, on these festive occasions, such guests as Chief Justices Parker and Shaw, Judges Prescott, Putnam, Wilde, Morton, Hubbard, Thacher, Simmons, Solicitor General Davis, Governor Lincoln, Josiah Quincy, John Pickering, Harrison Gray Otis, William Minot, Timothy Fuller, Samuel E. Sewall; and, among the clergy, Gardiner, Tuckerman, Greenwood, Pierpont, and Lyman Beecher. His son Charles, and his son's classmates, Hopkinson and Browne, were, once at least, among the youngest guests. He gave a dinner, in 1831, to surviving classmates; at which were present Pickering, Jackson, Thacher, Mason, and Dixwell. He made the duties and history of his office the subject of elaborate research. He read to the bar, and published in the American Jurist, July, 1829, a learned exposition of the points of difference between the office in England and in Massachusetts, stating clearl
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
sident of the United States, II. 263; death of, 266. Taylor, Henry (Sir II.), I. 418, 11. 145, 180, 368. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. John, I. 425 and note, 432 note, II. 178. Tazewell, Littleton Waller, I. 350, 381. Tchitchagof, Admiral, I. 179. Teba, Count de, I. 233, 235. Teba, Countess de, 1.233, 234 and note, 309. Temmel, A., II. 80. Ternaux-Compans, Henri, II. 118, 127, 133, 355. Ternaux-Compans, Mad., II. 133. Terregles, II. 165. Tetschen, visits, I. 504-509, Thacher, Rev. S. C., I. 11. Thackeray, W. M., II. 294 and note, 323, 327 note. Thayer, Sylvanus, Brigadier-General U. S. A., I. 7, 8 and note, 316 note, 372-375, 386, II. 310, 443, 444, 484; letters to, 468, 470, 489. Theatre, French, 1.149, 150; Spanish, 201. Thierry, Augustin, I. 314, II. 115, 124, 126, 127, 129, 133, 137, 142, 143. Thiers, L. A., II. 130, 133, 136, 138, 139, 140, 355. Thiersch, Professor, I. 114, 115. Thompson, Mr. and Lady Mary, I. 440. Thompson, Mr., II. 55.
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 3. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Anti-Slavery Poems (search)
ay, And all their waves keep grateful holiday. And, smiling on thee through her mountain rains, Vermont shall bless thee; and the granite peaks, And vast Katahdin o'er his woods, shall wear Their snow-crowns brighter in the cold, keen air; And Massachusetts, with her rugged cheeks O'errun with grateful tears, shall turn to thee, When, at thy bidding, the electric wire Shall tremble northward with its words of fire; Glory and praise to God another State is free! 1847. Yorktown. Dr. Thacher, surgeon in Scammel's regiment, in his description of the siege of Yorktown, says: The labor on the Virginia plantations is performed altogether by a species of the human race cruelly wrested from their native country, and doomed to perpetual bondage, while their masters are manfully contending for freedom and the natural rights of man. Such is the inconsistency of human nature. Eighteen hundred slaves were found at Yorktown, after its surrender, and restored to their masters. Well was
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 5. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Margaret Smith's Journal (search)
h 27, 1679. Spent the afternoon and evening yesterday at Mr. Mather's, with uncle and aunt, Rebecca and Sir Thomas, and Mr. Torrey of Weymouth, and his wife; Mr. Thacher, the minister of the South Meeting, and Major Simon Willard of Concord, being present also. There was much discourse of certain Antinomians, whose loose and scandalous teachings in respect to works were strongly condemned, although Mr. Thacher thought there might be danger, on the other hand, of falling into the error of the Socinians, who lay such stress upon works, that they do not scruple to undervalue and make light of faith. Mr. Torrey told of some of the Antinomians, who, being gume herself for putting her in so great peril, by complaining of her disobedience to the magistrates. Major Willard, a pleasant, talkative man, being asked by Mr. Thacher some questions pertaining to his journey into the New Hampshire, in the year '52, with the learned and pious Mr. Edward Johnson, in obedience to an order of the
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 59: (search)
in number, and more than eleven hundred refugees, began their embarkation at four in the morning; in less than six hours they were all put on board one hundred and twenty transports; Howe himself, among the last to leave the town, took passage with the admiral in the Chatham; before ten they were under way; and the citizens of Boston, from every height and every wharf, could see the fleet sail out of the harbor in a long line, extending from the castle to Nantasket Roads. But where were Thacher, and Mayhew, and Dana, and Molineux, and Quincy, and Gardner, and Warren? Would that they, and all the martyrs of Lexington and Bunker Hill, had lived to gaze on the receding sails! Troops from Roxbury at once moved into Boston, and others from Cambridge crossed over in boats. Everywhere appeared marks of hurry in the flight of the British; among other stores, they left behind them two hundred and fifty pieces of cannon, of which one half were serviceable; twenty five hundred chaldrons