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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)
sness in his recurrence to the old theme; and well there might be when he saw his contemporaries rejoicing in wife and children, and himself still solitary and passing from youth. He had confided his thoughts to Dr. Howe in 1844, just after his severe illness, from which he had not cared to recover; and later in 1846-1847, when shut out from homes where he had been welcome, and a sense of loneliness oppressed him, He gave passionate expression to his discontent. To Longfellow he wrote April 15, 1840, after Felton's engagement for his second marriage: I do feel the desolation of my solitude. And Corny has left me; I am more desolate than ever. Sumner was nearly forty when he began to enjoy music; and he seemed, as he said, to have then acquired a new sense. His sister Julia (Mrs. Hastings) wrote in 1875:— He was very indifferent to music until the season that the fine opera troupe from Havana visited us, in May, 1850,—the troupe that comprised Steffanone, Bosio, Salvi, Bad
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
m. 14 Oct. 1792. Carlisle, Louisa, of W. Camb., and William Nichols of Boston, m. 9 May, 1826. Carnes, Mrs. Elizabeth, d. 16 Aug. 1802, a. 54. Joseph's child d. 13 Sept. 1805, a. 2. Carroll, Paulina, and Jesse Simpson of W. Camb. m. 15 Apr. 1840. Carter, Caleb, had Theophilus, b. 2, bap. 7 Sept. 1777; Caleb, b. 24, bap. 25 July, 1779; Sarah, bap. 27 Nov. 1781. See Wyman's Charlestown, 191, No. 21. An infant of Mr. Carter, of Woburn, funeral 28 Aug. 1775. Samuel, Jr., had a seat .—Lexington Records. ) Shed, Ebenezer, Jr., of Charlestown, m. Ruth Winship, of Camb., 24 Mar. 1760. See Wyman's Chas., 858. Shepherd, Thomas, of Worcester, m. Lydia Watson, of Camb., 25 Nov. 1790. Simpson, Jesse, m. Paulina Carroll, 15 Apr. 1840. Skilton, Samuel, of Charlestown, m. Lydia Russell, 16 Jan. 1814. See Wyman, 868. Skinner, Joseph, m. Mrs. Lydia Whittemore, 17 Sept. 1811. Smith. Sarah, w. of Samuel, was adm. Pct. ch. at organization, 9 Sept. 1739. Samuel was adm