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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 41: search for health.—journey to Europe.—continued disability.—1857-1858. (search)
se of seeking medical treatment. His first thought of attempting on foot or horseback all the exercise he could possibly bear was found to be hazardous, and given up. Works, vol. IV. p. 330. As he sailed from New York for Havre, in the Vanderbilt, May 22, just two years from the day when he was assaulted in the Senate, he addressed a letter to the people of Massachusetts, explaining his absence from his post in search of health, and saying he should have resigned it if he had foreseen atice the publication of M. Guizot's memoirs, and look forward to their perusal with great interest. Remember me kindly to M. de Circourt and M. Ampere, and do not forget to commend me to Madame de Tocqueville. To John Jay, June 1, from the Vanderbilt, in the English Channel:— I have had less sea-sickness than on any previous voyage,—thanks in part to my experience, in part perhaps to the size and power of the steamer. Of my health in other respects I say nothing. I will not deceive
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
ubject of a sermon by James Freeman Clarke and of an address by Wendell Phillips, in which those reformers took Sumner's and Parker's view of him. Pray, get well. God bless you! He remained at Bains Frascati six weeks, lodging at the hotel, where he took swimming baths daily, and had access to the public library and the Cercle du Commerce, which was well supplied with newspapers. Mr. A. N. Chrystie, an American merchant at Havre since 1849, and a fellow passenger with Sumner on the Vanderbilt, saw him frequently while he was at Bains Frascati. finding him, as he said, very sociable, unlike other public men he had known. Sumner dined often with Mr. Chrystie, who observed, as Richard Gordon had observed at Montpellier, his habit of stopping in the street and putting his hand to his back, when quite unconscious that any one saw the movement. He was in Paris for a day, August 14, to witness the emperor's triumphal entry into the city on his return from Italy. He was still gaini