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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 30: addresses before colleges and lyceums.—active interest in reforms.—friendships.—personal life.—1845-1850. (search)
ou so, for I prophesied all that has occurred. To you who had so long known by conversation and books the men of England it must be most interesting to see them face to face, to listen to the gentle sallies of Rogers, and the marvellous flow of Macaulay. I hear very little from any of my London friends. Time is rolling its obscuring mists between us. This is natural. I was reminded of you several times when at Plymouth only three days ago, to lecture. I passed the night at Mr. Andrew Russelwittily said, have nothing in common but the initial letter; Atlantic Monthly (Nov. 1887), vol IX. p. 718. and a German thinker has written that no one can be blind to his own merit any more than to his height. Schopenhauer. A reviewer of Macaulay, Quarterly Review, July and Oct. 1876, p. 6. who was also accused of an inordinate estimate of himself, has tersely said of vanity that it is a defect rather than a vice; never admitted into the septenary catalogue of the mortal sins of Dante
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 40: outrages in Kansas.—speech on Kansas.—the Brooks assault.—1855-1856. (search)
llege; but it did not come from his own Alma Mater (Harvard) till three years later. In Europe, particularly in England, the assault was recognized as an event of grave import. London Times, August 7; London News, September 1; Daily News, September 1; London Morning Star, June 24 (article written by Henry Richard); Sumner's Works, vol. IV. p. 326. George Cornewall Lewis called it the beginning of civil war. Henry Reeve also heard him say that it was the first blow of a civil war. Macaulay wrote to the Duchess of Argyll: In any country but America, I should think civil war must be impending. The Duchess of Argyll to Sumner, Sept. 8, 1863. Many letters of sympathy came to him from foreign friends. Macready wrote with affection, describing the universal sympathy in his country, and the indignation which had been called forth by the outrage inflicted by a cowardly and brutal ruffian. Cobden, testifying to the same opinions felt by all on that side of the Atlantic, expressed
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 41: search for health.—journey to Europe.—continued disability.—1857-1858. (search)
ton, and to the Laboucheres at Stoke Park. He met Macaulay several times, as at Lord Belper's, the Duke of Ard at Lord Belper's, where I met for the first time Macaulay, so altered I did not know him. July 12. Sundayere was Lady Trevelyan, a most agreeable sister of Macaulay. July 13. Left Ockham in the afternoon; was driJuly 15. Breakfast at Duke of Argyll's, where were Macaulay, the Milmans, Senior, Reeve, Trench, Maurice, etc. Lady Hatherton, Sir Edmund and Lady Head, Senior, Macaulay, Panizzi; afterwards in town went to a reception afor the nine miles; arrived at dinner; there was Mr. Macaulay also. July 28. Lord Lansdowne arrived at Chevtanhope took us in her carriage (Lord Lansdowne, Mr. Macaulay, and myself) through the grounds of Lord Amherstopes. July 29. Left Chevening this forenoon. Mr. Macaulay took me in his carriage fourteen miles as far asp. 343; vol. II. pp. 64, 65, 373. and met there Mr. Macaulay, also Mr. Ellis; after dinner also Mr. Paull,
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
London. There he passed a busy month, filled with invitations to breakfasts and dinners from the Sutherlands, Lansdownes, Westminster, Granvilles, Palmerstons, Argylls, Stanhopes, Cranworths, Wensleydales, Kinnairds; as also from Reeve, Senior, Macaulay, 1808-1871. Of a noble family of Milan; exiled by Austria for her liberal ideas; a traveller and author. Sir Henry Holland, T. Baring, Buxton, Denison, and Mrs. Norton. He met Thackeray and Cruikshank at L. B. Mackinnon's. He met again Bro that time they were correspondents. Lord Palmerston was as gay and jaunty as ever, Lord Clarendon as fascinating, Lord Brougham as fitful, Lord Lyndhurst as eloquent and clever, Lord Lansdowne as kind, and Lord Cranworth as good. I saw much of Macaulay at breakfast and dinner,—at least half a dozen times, and twice in his own house. His conversation was as full and interesting as ever. Nothing seemed too great or too small for his memory. I think that I was more than ever struck by him. Bri
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 43: return to the Senate.—the barbarism of slavery.—Popular welcomes.—Lincoln's election.—1859-1860. (search)
er contributed to the New York Tribune March 3, 1860. Works, vol. IV. pp. 417-423. at this time a paper introducing Macaulay's article, written when a youth, on slavery in the West Indies, which appeared in tile Edinburgh Review in 1825, and hadourse with the historian, who had died a few weeks before. The Duke of Argyll, whose home at Kensington was very near Macaulay's, wrote Sumner an account of the historian's last days; the duchess added a note, recalling how heartily he grasped Sum 2, 1860: Do you remember the breakfast at Holly Lodge? This was the last time we had any of us the pleasure of meeting Macaulay, I believe. I am sure it was the last time that I saw him, and I am not likely to forget it very soon. Do you rememberd the most masterly, learned, profound, and multum in parvo survey of the reign of Charles II., by Buckle. I think it cannot fail to interest you. Here are Evelyn, Pepys, Macaulay, and one hundred others, all in their essence. End of vol. III.