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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)
iversal agent. In a year or two, one will be able to go all the way to Washington by steam. Indeed, there are now but seventy miles on which horses are used, and railways are constructing over these miles. I refer to the roads from Boston to Providence, and from Baltimore to Washington. There is something partaking of the sublime in the sense that you are going at the rate of fifteen miles an hour, drawn by an insensible agent, the contrivance of man, who has sought out many inventions; enjorom Baltimore to Philadelphia, over the track of the unfortunate steamer William Penn, one of the largest and handsomest boats I ever was in, where I shall stay a couple of days; pass to New York, there to stop a day; then through the Sound via Providence home, where I hope to find you all well and happy, as I have been and now am. Affectionately, your son Chas. To Professor Simon Greenleaf. Washington, March 21, 1834. my dear Mr. Greenleaf,—Let me congratulate you upon the presence o
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)
r wrote: Mr. Appleton is a writer of great nerve, boldness, and experience, with a Benthamic point and force. Dr. I. Ray, Dr. Ray then lived at Eastport, Maine, and afterwards became superintendent of the Butler Asylum for the Insane, at Providence, R. I. In 1837, he submitted to Sumner for criticism the manuscript of his Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity. Francis J. Troubat, Author of a treatise on the Law of Limited Partnerships, and editor of law reports. He died in 1868. John B. Wallgnet. Abram Fuller still leads the dances. He and Martin Van Buren at this moment engross the attention of the United States Hotel. I left Boston, you know, Monday at one o'clock; but a delay on the railroad prevented the steamboat leaving Providence as early as usual, and we did not arrive at New York till after ten o'clock Tuesday morning. Tuesday forenoon I saw the chancellor [Kent]; talked with him about Judge Story and Mr. Greenleaf, and accepted an invitation to take tea with him; din