Excerpt from Publications, Vol. 7: Proceedings, December 21, 1911-October 22, 1912 Greatly to my regret I cannot be present at the exercises to commem orate the character and services of my dear Old friend, Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson. It would have been a pleasure to me to join in a tribute to the dignity and worth of a career always devoted to high ideals, as well as to the kindliness and warmth of his nature. He was a grand specimen of the Old New England type, unshaken in principle, full of courage, strenuous in good causes, and the example he set deserves to be cherished, not only by his friends, but by all who remember the Civil War period, and What Massachusetts did in those trying times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.