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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 23: return to his profession.—1840-41.—Age, 29-30. (search)
p, which he will carry on slowly through the summer. Prescott has completed the introduction to his history of the Conquest of Mexico, comprising an elaborate survey of the manners, institutions, and origin of the ancient Mexicans. He was on the point of going to Europe with the Appletons, to pass the summer and enjoy his triumph in English society; but, after much debate and doubt, he has given up the plan. Yours ever and ever, Charles Sumner. To Thomas Crawford, Rome. Boston, March 31, 1841. dear Crawford,—You have, perhaps, already heard from Greene that I had started a subscription paper to procure your admirable Orpheus for the Boston Athenaeuin. The sum I proposed to raise is now subscribed,— twenty-five hundred dollars. I feel that this will not be an adequate compensation for the time, labor, and genius that you will bestow upon your work; but it may, as business men say, give you a living profit, and will be the forerunner, I trust, of other and more profitable o