Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Sumner” in chapter 4, page 128 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge:
... Paul Fleming, The ladies already begin to call you Wilhelm Meister, and they say that your gloves are a shade too light for a strictly virtuous man.
He perhaps also thought of it when he wrote to Sumner , then in Europe, If you have any tendency to curl your hair and wear gloves, like Edgar in Lear, do it before your return.
Even Mrs.
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