Papers of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1841-1911.

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Papers of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1841-1911.

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The collection contains the manuscripts of short stories "Roger Harlakenden's Christmas Eve," "Carrie's shipwreck, " and "Old college diaries"; poems "Forward" (a translation of Hoffmann von Fallersleben's poem), "The dying house, " and "Ultra-marine"; and excerpts from several poems. Of interest is a "Petition to the Congress to repeal a differential in pay for United States Colored Troops free before April 19, 1861 and free after that date. Major topics in his correspondence include his writings, lecture engagements, his wives and family, life in Boston and at his summer home "Glimpsewood," Dublin, N.H., advice to other authors, particularly Helen Reed and Charlotte Baker, and the Civil War and slavery. Other topics include pride in achievements of professional women, an English tour in 1897, the compilation of "Thalatta," origin of the term "philistine, " the American Society of Authors and the Association of American Authors, the Authors Club, the Round Table Club, boyhood Christmas, the Longfellow Centennial, veterans' pensions, and library work as a career. There are VERY BRIEF mentions of Edward Abbott, James B. Angell, Edwin Arnold, Jane Austen, Catharine Beecher, Alfred Bowker, William Cullen Bryant, William F. Channing, John Cheney, Francis J. Child, François Coppée, Charles Devens, Anna E. Dickinson, Emily Dickinson, George Cary Eggleston, Charles William Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Kate Field, James T. Fields, Edith D. Fuller, Margaret Fuller, Quincy Adams Gillmore, G. Stanley Hall, R.G. Hazard, George F. Hoar, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Dean Howells, Helen Hunt Jackson, James Russell Lowell, David Masson, Louise Chandler Moulton, John Neal, William Newell, the Nineteenth Century Club, Robert Treat Paine, Theodore Parker, Stephen H. Perkins, Whitelaw Reid, Lucia I.G. Runkle, Rufus Saxton, Grace Ellery Channing Stetson, Lucy Stone, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Theodore Tilton. Correspondents include Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Abby Alger, Nathan Appleton, Charlotte Alice Baker, Craven L. Betts, R.D. Blackmore, Gertrude Bloede (Stuart Sterne), John Eliot Bowen, H.H. Boyesen, Elmer Howard Capen, [Will?] Carleton, James Freeman Clarke, George William Curtis, Col. William Hart Davis, [B.O.?] Flower, Albert Bushnell Hart, Sophia B. Herrick, Hamilton Holt, Elizabeth Jordan, S.R. Koehler, Hamilton Mabie, Louise Chandler Moulton, James R. Osgood, Jenny Marsh Parker, Benjamin Peirce, Helen L. Reed, John Codman Ropes, Franklin B. Sanborn, Harriet Spofford, Richard Henry Stoddard, Celia Thaxter, Slason Thompson, Benjamin Holt Ticknor, the Truth Association of Hammonton, N.J., William H. Ward, George E. Waring, Greenough White, John Greenleaf Whittier, Charles E.L. Wingate.

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