Dear Preceptor: The Life and Times of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, by Anna Mary Wells. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1963. First Printing. Hardcover, 363 pp. Sienna cloth, with gilt letters on front cover and spine. This copy is ex-library, with marks on the spine and identity marks and labels inside. Condition is good for its age, otherwise. A biography of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911), friend to the Transcentendalists .... friend to Emily Dickinson ... and much, much more.