August 31
Some good news and some bad — the good being that our
private advices state that things really are much better than is represented,
in Kansas; the leading Missourians are making great efforts to raise men to
invade, but find great reluctance to follow. They are considerably
intimidated, in fact.
The bad news (for you) is that I leave for Chicago
to-morrow, shall go to Nebraska City and probably into the Territory. . . . I
allow six weeks, but it may be only a month, and hope to write a good deal to
you and Mary and the “Tribune,” though letters may be intercepted. Letters for
me to be directed to
James L. Armstrong
Topeka Kansas
Mary taxed her wits to invent this name and intends to write
in the character of an affectionate grandmother!
I shall take out a nice supply of boots and clothing for our
Worcester men and a plum cake and some other dainties, and long to see their
delight at my appearance. Good-bye, darling mama.
SOURCE: Mary Potter Thacher Higginson, Editor, Letters
and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1846-1906, p. 139-40
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