...ing few of my own, I have relied on the libraries of friends and on public libraries; so that what I now do is only a return for what I have freely received. Two of Sumner's literary executors, Messrs. Balch and Pierce, requested their other associate, Mr. Longfellow, to write the senator's life, but failing physical power compelled him to decline. The three then united in inviting successively Motley,...