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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)
nce of the other system. The character of Sir Thomas More is of surpassing interest, and I shall be glad to see it treated by your pen. Article in Democratic Review, March and April, 1850. I hope you will give me an opportunity of becoming acquainted with you personally. The interview which followed a few days later at No. 4 Court Street between Sumner and the young man of twenty years, to whom the letter was addressed, was the beginning of their acquaintance. To George Sumner, December 25:— Our community is still agitated to the extreme by the Webster Professor John W. Webster. tragedy, though I think it is now subsiding into the conviction of his guilt. He sent for me a few days ago, and I went into his cell. I had never before visited him in my life. He seemed worn in body and crushed in spirit. He called himself the victim of circumstances. Sumner, though not connected with Theodore Parker's religious society or attending his preaching regularly, admired
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 36: first session in Congress.—welcome to Kossuth.—public lands in the West.—the Fugitive Slave Law.—1851-1852. (search)
s diary, November 23:— Sumner takes his last dinner with us. In a few days he will he gone to Washington for the winter. We shall miss him much. He passed the night here as in the days of long ago. We sat up late talking. Again, November 30:— We had a solitary dinner, missing Sumner very much. He is now in Washington, and it will be many days before we hear again his footsteps in the hall, or see his manly, friendly face by daylight or lamplight. He wrote to Sumner, December 25:— Your farewell note came safe and sad; and on Sunday no well-known footstep in the hall, nor sound of cane laid upon the table. We ate our dinner somewhat silently by ourselves, and talked of you far off, looking at your empty chair. . . . As I stand here by my desk and cast a glance out of the window, and then at the gate, I almost expect to see you with one foot on the stone step and one hand on the fence holding final discourse with Worcester. Author of the Dictionary of the<