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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
he edition was to be comprised in ten volumes, one or two of which were to be reserved for a biography to be prepared by another; but the notes and later speeches lengthened it to fifteen, even without a biography. The senator was assisted in verbal criticisims and verifying references by an accomplished proof-reader, George Nichols, of Cambridge. The printing began in July, 1869; and the first volume, beginning with the oration (July 4, 1845) on The True Grandeur of Nations, came out in May, 1870. Ten volumes were printed under the author's eye, At the time of his death he had read and returned the proof as far as page 467 of Vol. X. and he supplied notes for the eleventh; but with the exception of the Prophetic Voices concerning America, which at the time of his death he was enlarging for a separate publication, it fell to his literary executors to complete the enterprise, with the assistance of proof-readers, acting under Mr. Longfellow's immediate direction. The last two v