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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 8: early professional life.—September, 1834, to December, 1837.—Age, 23-26. (search)
, 77. Your attainments and reputation are already quite encyclopaedic; but such a change as you propose would excite surprise. Do not abandon your present vantage ground in the field of literature. At the bar you would be for the present on a level with the vast herd. You would be obliged to push your way through the thick and serried ranks of the profession, jealous perhaps of a new comer with such a reputation as yours. In literature you are on your native heath, and your name is MacGregor. Faithfully yours, C. S. To George S. Hillard, Portland, Maine. Hillard was then passing a vacation in Maine. 4 Court St., Saturday, July, 1837. my dear George,—Yours came to hand last evening, and I shall write a line which I hope you will get on Sunday. All things are calm as a mirror. I sit, like Nicholas Biddle of a summer morning, in the shaded recess of an office, nor am I disturbed by many new or urgent applications. The——s vex me with daily notes and requests to cal<