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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 30: addresses before colleges and lyceums.—active interest in reforms.—friendships.—personal life.—1845-1850. (search)
sm and affectionate carping. Again, in September, 1849:— I envy your enthusiasm and warm-heartedness. I envy even its errors, and almost wish for the generous illusion which in your case, as in Titania and Nick Bottom, leads you to invest American and European patriots with qualities the very reverse of those apparent to common-sense. God bless you! Sumner's old teacher, Edward T. Channing, the well and gratefully remembered Professor of Rhetoric at Harvard College, wrote Aug. 25, 1849:— my dear Charles,—You will remember, I hope, that I am justified in addressing you thus familiarly by the mistake you made at P. B. K. of supposing that I took the same liberty there. Moreover, I was glad to see that you would not have been displeased If your construction had been correct. . . . I am pleased to see a man stand up with your zeal and courage for what I hold to be the right upon some of the gravest questions that agitate our own time, and concern the comming ages be<