I stayed at Mr. Parker's nominally, he being at the West,
and luxuriated in his splendid library, the finest in Boston, I suppose; beyond
comparison. Perhaps you do not know that he appropriates to this his receipts
from lecturing, and that he is building it up for a permanent thing, to
be placed after his death in some public institution; for the benefit of
scholars yet unborn. Miss Stevenson told me many instances of his kind actions,
young people supported at school, and such sort of things. Just now he is hand
in glove with Dr. Beecher, and they are trying to get an organization to find
places in families for girls who are in danger of crime, which some persons
think better than a Reform School for girls. I recommended E. E. Hale as the
best person for their agent, and they have taken it up quite eagerly.
SOURCE: Mary Potter Thacher Higginson, Editor, Letters
and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1846-1906, p. 53-4
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