Title: Thomas Wentworth Higginson papers,
Authors: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911.
Year: 1856
Subjects: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth,; Lowell, James Russell,; African Americans Music; American literature; Natural history New England; United States History Participation, African American.; Kansas History
Abstract: Includes 47 autograph diaries, a memoranda book from Higginson's trip to Kansas in 1856, field book of observations on nature, and other autograph compositions. Also includes transcripts of 33 African-American "Negro songs" (in another hand, with annotations by Higginson), and early recollections of James Russell Lowell, among others.