January 29, 1862
. . . “Snow” [an essay of Higginson's in the “Atlantic”]
seems quite popular and Thoreau likes it, the only critic whom I should regard
as really formidable on such a subject. By the way, he is fatally ill with
hereditary consumption and may not live to another summer. It is probably
aggravated by neglect and exposure.
SOURCE: Mary Potter Thacher Higginson, Editor, Letters
and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1846-1906, p. 114
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