Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 (Personal Name)

Dickinson, E. Collected poems of Emily Dickinson, c1982: CIP t.p. (T.W. Higginson)

NUCMC data from Rutgers Univ. Lib. for Whitman, W. Collection of papers, ca. 1839-1921 (T.W. Higginson)

NUCMC files (Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911; full name: Thomas Wentworth Storrow Higginson; unitarian minister; col. of 1st Black Regt. in Union Army; poet)

Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, August 10, 2014: (Higginson, Thomas Wentworth; abolitionist, social reformer, union army officer, autobiographer / memoirist; born 22 December 1823 in Salem, Massachusetts, United States; graduated from Harvard Divinity School (1847); served as a pastor to the Religious Society of Newburyport; joined the Boston Vigilance Committee (1850); founding member of the Kansas Aid Committee (1856); served as the white colonel of the first federally authorized black civil war regiment being organized on the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina in the Union Army; died 9 May 1911 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)