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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 13 England .—June , 1838 March , 1839 27 -28 . (search)
Chapter 13: England.—June, 1838, to March, 1839.—Age, 27-28.
Sumner arrived in London on the evening of May 31, and remained in England nearly ten months. He came by the way of the Thames, and was a guest temporarily at the Tavistock Inn,
Recommended by his Scotch friend, Brown, and by John Wilks.
The latter, an active writer in his day, seems to have been much attracted to Sumner; and at Paris they were often together.
Wilks bade Sumner good-by, as he left for London, in a note closing thus: So now a pleasant voyage to you; for you are a right good sample of a thoroughly good-hearted, hard-headed, able, well-informed American.
Wilks soon after returned to London, where he became editor of the Church and State Gazette, and died in 1844 or 1845.
He was the grandson of a Methodist clergyman, and son of John Wilks, of Finsbury Square, M. P. for Boston. Covent Garden.
He soon took permanent lodgings at 2 Vigo Street, near Charing Cross and the Strand, and within ten minutes w
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 14 first weeks in London .—June July , 1838 27 . (search)
Chapter 14: first weeks in London.—June and July, 1838.—Age, 27.
Letters.
To his brother George, St. Petersburg. London, June 1, 1838.
My dear George,—I write you my first lines from London, and that with the especial object to reclaim sundry letters which the Barings have had the folly to despatch to St. Petersbu