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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)
iousness of duty done will be sweeter than the applause of the world, than the countenance of companion or the heart of friend. The Springfield Republican, and other newspapers in western Massachusetts, gave sympathetic notices of the address, dwelling upon the matter and style, and the effect on the audience. There is a review of the oration in Whittier's Prose Works, vol. II. p. 85. When preparing or conning the address, he wrote Longfellow as follows— at your home, Sunday, Aug. 8, 1847. Dearly beloved Henry,—I came here yesterday morning, and an monarch of all I survey; my right there is none to dispute. I seize a moment in the 1111 of the grinding labor of committing my address to memory, to send you and Fanny a benediction. I wander through the open rooms of your house, and am touched by and indescribable feeling of tenderness at the sight of those two rooms where we Have mused and mourned so often together. Joy has washed from your mind those memories, but