Letters of Sarah Wyman Whitman (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...town was the occasion for a vast interest and the display of more pure feeling than often happens. On Sunday Henry Higginson gave a familiar talk to the students at Memorial Hall concerning Shaw, his character, his opportunity; a brave discourse, full of simplicity and rugged eloquence. And as I sat looking at the stage there in the College theatre, I saw and shall forever see beloved forms, and do you remember pouring from the pitcher into the silver cup? These presences remain, and sanctify all that shall come after. At the dedication yesterday, walked the survivors of the 54th Massachusetts Colored, with their tattered battle flag, and later, in the Music Hall, after the oration by William James, came one by Booker Washington--a wonderful speech which lifted up the hearts of all who heard him. And the veil was lifted from the monument, and now the memory of Shaw and of the cause of freedom are set in imperishable form. October I, 1897. Old Place. I have little to tell you of any moment, the little world of people and things moves on, and I move with it, yet seem somehow strangely remote; dreaming dreams, working and wondering over the yet undiscovered secrets of life. But this long, this endless summer has been a wonderful one to me, in proving the depth and riches of the great realities of life; sources of hope and faith, of consolation, and joy make themselves felt, and that which St. Paul calls " the power of our endless life " seems newly understood; as one goes through experience after experience, and loses one's self only to find it again, truly the same but changed. July 14, 1903. Old Place. I have the summer well packed with dreams; but you know how little that may come to mean. However it is recorded that they have saved the world TO ...