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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)
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, Badiali, and Marini. One evening we persuaded Charles to go. He went and was charmed. It was a sudden awakening to the delights of music, and he went many evenings thereafter while that company continued to sing. Marini, the grand basso, gave him especial delight. When Jenny Lind gave concerts in Boston, in October, 1850, he enjoyed her very much, and kindly took me three evenings to hear her. Sumner attended on Sundays the morni