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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 7: study in a law office.—Visit to Washington.—January, 1854, to September, 1834.—Age, 23. (search)
st social opportunities. He dined with the judges; made the acquaintance of Henry Wheaton; and dined repeatedly with Horace Binney, and received many marks of friendly attention from him. Sumner had through life a profound respect for Mr. BinneyMr. Binney's character. In an address to the Law School of Howard University, Feb. 3, 1871, he spoke of the venerable Horace Binney, as the living head of the profession in our country. Mr. Binney died, August, 1875, at the age of ninety-five. Richard PetersMr. Binney died, August, 1875, at the age of ninety-five. Richard Peters of Philadelphia, the official reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court,—whom he had previously met at Cambridge, and who was a devoted friend of Judge Story,—conceived a strong regard for him at this time, and a frequent correspondence betweeffered by the Portland Bar, including in quotation marks the comparison run between your reports and those of Johnson and Binney: he had watered into the first volume of Greenleaf's Reports your letter to him presenting the book, which he said he had