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Bowdoin (Montana, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
unded as if he had served an apprenticeship to the business. Letters. To Charles S. Daveis, Portland. Boston, June 22, 1840. my dear Mr. Daveis,— . . . Mr. Gardiner called upon me, and invited me to deliver the Phi Beta Kappa at Bowdoin; but I felt bound to decline. I have just returned from a long absence. I am occupied with seeing my friends, looking about me, and preparing plans for the future. Things are all uncertain before me. What I shall find to do in my profession Iovide distinctly for the future, I feel bound to decline making any engagement which should interfere with this. My mind will not be sufficiently free, at any time between now and September, to allow me to write any thing proper to offer you at Bowdoin. A fine son you have at Cambridge. I was struck with his full and clear answer to a question I proposed in the lecture-room, before I knew he was of your house. He seemed very studious, careful, intelligent, and ambitious,— the last, when w
Bunker Hill (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
Those mentioned are Story, Channing, Allston, Bancroft, Ticknor, Longfellow, R. W. Emerson, and Prescott.—Speeches, Lectures, and Poems of the Earl of Carlisle, p. 393. In a preface to an English edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin, the Earl referring to his own much-valued friend Sumner, whose speech in the Senate on the Fugitive Slave Act he had just received, said: In our past hours of friendly intercourse, in our frequent walks by the sparkling estuary of Boston, or upon the sunny brow of Bunker's Hill, how little did I, how little did he, I feel well assured, dream of such an opening upon his quiet and unostentatious career! Sumner's correspondence with foreigners, after his return front Europe, was very large. Every European mail brought its welcome parcel of letters; and its arrival was awaited with eager expectation. Joseph Parkes wrote at great length of English politics; Robert Ingham, of lawyers and judges on the Northern Circuit, and of Parliament; Milnes, of scholars, n
Leedes (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 22
He was Morpeth's escort and friend in Boston,—introducing him to the people whom he wished to know, and taking him to places and meetings of interest (among which was the Anti-slavery Fair). He gave him a dinner at the Tremont House, where Story, Prescott, Bancroft, Ticknor, Choate, Hillard, Felton, and Longfellow were among the guests; and was present on similar occasions when Morpeth was entertained by Story, Prescott, and Longfellow. The Earl of Carlisle (Lord Morpeth), in a lecture at Leeds, Dec. 6, 1850, thus referred to Sumner: The residence here [Boston] was rendered peculiarly agreeable to me by a friendship with one of its inhabitants, which I had previously made in England. He hardly yet comes within my rule of exception; but I do not give up the notion of his becoming one of the historical men of the country. However, it is quite open to me to mention some of those with whom, mainly through his introduction, I became acquainted. Those mentioned are Story, Channing, Al
Rhode Island (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
he conferred in plans for promoting the success of Greenough and Crawford. He much enjoyed his friendly relations with Rufus Choate, whose office was at No. 4 Court Street. They talked of politics and literature,—particularly of Burke, for whom Mr. Choate had an extravagant admiration. When the latter was in the United States Senate, 1841-42, they treated of the same themes in correspondence. Later they were associated professionally in the boundary dispute between Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Works and Memoir of Rufus Choate, Vol. I. pp. 57, 61-63, 74, 75. The Five of Clubs, now with its full complement, met at the homes of its members; but Cleveland, whose health had been for some time delicate, became, in the summer of 1841, the prey of a disease which was soon to be fatal. At this period, Sumner's relations with Dr. Samuel G. Howe, which had been friendly for some years, became very intimate. Dr. Howe was already the Superintendent of the Perkins Institution fo
South Boston (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
ome years, became very intimate. Dr. Howe was already the Superintendent of the Perkins Institution for the Blind, at South Boston,—a post which he continued to hold for the rest of his life. To the charm of personal qualities he added, while yet ye work for the blind. He was still unmarried, and was Sumner's senior by ten years. Sumner often sought his friend at South Boston, frequently passing the night at the institution. The two rode much together on horseback, galloping through the stre on the top wave of social favor. He often went to Cambridge to spend Sunday with Mr. Longfellow or Mr. Felton, or to South Boston to visit Dr. Howe. Sometimes he would bring home a manuscript poem of Mr. Longfellow, and read it to us. He read poetre in your heart . . . . Ever and ever yours, Charles Sumner To Dr. Francis Lieber. institution for the blind, South Boston, Nov. 30, 1841. my dear Lieber,—I am here with Dr. Howe, on a farewell visit. He starts to-morrow for Columbia, S
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
retained by the British Consul at Boston in actions of this kind brought in Massachusetts. Law Reporter, May, 1841, Vol. IV. p. 33. In these cases the plaintiffs, Later they were associated professionally in the boundary dispute between Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Works and Memoir of Rufus Choate, Vol. I. pp. 57, 61-vely recent period. The author is Mr. Edward Everett, recently Governor of Massachusetts, and now in Europe, where he purposes passing two or more years. He will bhe dance home. They have republished at Lowell — a manufacturing town in Massachusetts, and the Manchester of America-your admirable translation of Faust. I shaladvanced to a considerable extent. I have also sent you the reports of our Massachusetts Secretary Horace Mann. of the Board of Education, which are very interesed from Woods' Hole, remains firmly his friend. I was told, in the west of Massachusetts, that the Whigs disapproved his course. Legare is rejoiced at being Attorn
Alleghany Mountains (United States) (search for this): chapter 22
ized, and the Whigs are confident. The election takes place in November. The Whigs, in anticipation of success, have already partitioned the high offices. Of course, all our troop abroad will be recalled, Stevenson leading the dance home. They have republished at Lowell — a manufacturing town in Massachusetts, and the Manchester of America-your admirable translation of Faust. I shall send you a copy of this edition by the earliest opportunity. At Louisville, on the other side of the Alleghanies, they have published a translation of Macchiavelli's Discorsi on the First Decade of Livy. Willis is at his place in the interior of New York, and is joint editor of a New York [City] paper, writing letters, stories, and articles occasionally, for which he has about three hundred and fifty pounds a year. The paper is called Brother Jonathan. What can I send you from this side of the sea? Write me soon, and believe me, Ever faithfully yours, Charles Sumner. To Lieber he wrote,
Baltimore, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
l as his book; and also his venerable father, a lawyer emeritus, who has the rare felicity of living to see the fame of his son. I am expecting your speech in honor of St. Nicholas. Which in the calendar shall you serve next? Ever most sincerely yours, Charles Sumner To Dr. Lieber he wrote, Dec. 10, 1841:— Lord Morpeth has just returned to Boston, after a pleasant trip to Niagara, and a visit of a fortnight to New York. He will be here a fortnight; then to Philadelphia; then to Baltimore, and at the end of January or the beginning of February will be in Washington; afterwards, to the South and West. I must close now, in great haste. Business calls. I charged one client yesterday, as part of my fee in a case, six hundred dollars. He had the grace to say that it was no more than he expected, and not so much as I deserved. I do not think my sister Mary This is his earliest reference, in his letters, to his sister's ill-health. is well, or in good spirits. A let
Brighton (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 22
. . Ever affectionately yours, Charles. To his brother George, Munich. Washington's Headquarters, Cambridge, Sunday, May 9, 1841. dear George,—Once again from the headquarters of our great chief. Since I last wrote you, Mrs. Craigie, the widow of the builder of Craigie's Bridge and the owner of this house, has died and been removed from its spacious rooms to a narrow bed at Mt. Auburn. It is a lovely day, and from the open window I look across the lawn and the winding Charles to Brighton and the hills that enclose Brookline. Our sky is Italian; as bright and clear as that which looks down upon Naples. It is from English travellers, who have never seen the sun in their own country, that we imbibe the idea of the superlative brightness and clearness of the Italian sky . . . . Ever yours, Charles. To Dr. Lieber, he wrote, May 12, 1841:— I knew Warburton slightly while I was in London. He was a strong Radical, a great friend of the people, a hard-headed person wit
Carmans River (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
ad about two o'clock at night; by this, you will reach Boston at seven o'clock in the morning. If you do not incline to this penance, you can go up the Hudson, stopping at West Point,— which I wish you to see; then at the town of Hudson, and from Hudson come down by the railway, which you have tried once. Or, you may take still a third way (the boat to New Haven),—a very pretty place in the summer, embowered in trees, and the seat of a flourishing American university; then ascend the Connecticut River to Springfield, thence by railroad to Boston. Ever and ever yours, Charles Sumner. To Lord Morpeth, New York. Boston, Dec. 6, 1841. my dear Morpeth,—Yours of Dec. 3 was duly received; and so, we may expect you Thursday morning. My dear friend Longfellow, whom you have seen once at his rooms, in the old seat of General Washington,—a Professor of our Cambridge University, and the head of our Parnassus,— wishes you to dine with him on the evening of your arrival. You will m
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