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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)
much to my disappointment. I longed to see them. Timothy Walker Of Cincinnati, author of Elements of Geometry and of Introduction to American Law. He died, in 1856, at the age of fifty-three. left there an hour or two before I arrived. I saw his open, smiling visage in the stage as I was within a mile of the falls. I met D. F. Webster, Fletcher Webster, son of Daniel Webster, from whose name the first Christian name was afterwards dropped. for one minute, while changing horses at Geneva, in the centre of New York. It was a most agreeable rencontre. You may send this letter to my sister. A storm is rising and the rapids are raging. With my love to all my friends, believe me affectionately Yours, Chas. S. To Professor Simon Greenleaf. Clifton House, Canada, Niagara Falls, Aug. 30, 1836. my dear Mr. Greenleaf,—Here am I in the dominions of Mariner Bill, with a new government clasping me, and a new tone of manners, I fancy, about me. I have just established mys
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 12: Paris.—Society and the courts.—March to May, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
tionate on this account. Yours as ever, Chas. Sumner. To George S. Hillard. Paris, May 11, 1838. my dear Hillard,—After repeated efforts, during which we have exchanged cards several times, I have seen Sismondi, Sismondi was born at Geneva, May 9, 1773, and died in that city in 1842. He is best known by his two works, the History of the Italian Republics and the History of the French. His wife was an English lady, and a sister-in-law of Sir James Mackintosh. who is now in Paris tges with the greatest pleasure, and had found masses of authorities cited in the notes with which he had been hitherto entirely unacquainted. He added that, as he was in Paris for only a short time, he should not read the work till his return to Geneva, when he should address the author a letter. I recounted to him the circumstances so discouraging under which the work had been composed, and I assure you he received them with the liveliest interest. He said that he could never have struggled