Higginson lived in Newport, Rhode Island, after the Civil War, and here he writes of it out of season, when the great hotels close and the town returns to itself. He wanders the old wharves, rows a wherry on the harbour, sits by a drift-wood fire, and tells of a haunted window and the hopes of an old woman called Madam Delia.
Graceful essays by the abolitionist colonel and literary friend of Emily Dickinson. Download the free EPUB.