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ompleted, and my Civil-Rights Bill passed, no visitor could enter that door that would be more welcome than death. Having incurred losses by the great Boston fire, he found himself in arrearages at this time to the amount of about ten thousand dollars; but instead of receiving, as so many others, back pay from the public treasury, he determined, feeble as he was, to make up the deficit in the lecture-field. He therefore sent this letter to the Boston Lyceum Bureau:-- Washington, 13th May, 1873. My dear Redpath,--Nobody is authorized to act as my agent; nor do I remember any communication with the New York Bureau. I should like to lecture next autumn, if consistent with my health; but this is still uncertain. I congratulate you on your return home, which is a surprise. I supposed you would give a month to Vienna and the national honor. Sincerely yours, Charles Sumner. On his last visit to Boston, in the autumn of 1873, his reception was almost an ovation, and