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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 20 0 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 8 0 Browse Search
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 6 0 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 4 0 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 41: search for health.—journey to Europe.—continued disability.—1857-1858. (search)
emble and Jenny Lind; I should place her in the same category of physical natures. Her manner was amiable and intelligent. In a short conversation which I had with her, she mentioned the voyage as an insurmountable objection to visiting America. She spoke warmly of Maria Stuardo; and when I objected that it was a translation, and said that when I listened to Italian I wish to have one of the classics of the langue, she differed entirely, and still contended for her favorite, even against Alfieri. April 12. Visited Mr. Senior and talked of English friends, and of our American affairs; then to the Hotel de Cluny and Palais des Thermes, which I found very interesting. Such a storehouse of curiosities in America would be most attractive. Visited the Pantheon and other churches; revived my recollections of the Law School and the Sorbonne; dined with Appleton; afterwards for a, little while to the Opera Comique, which I left before it was over to get home to bed. April 13 Breakf
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
s also delighted with the Tableau de la Litterature du XVIII ieme Siele du Villemain, which I had recommended to him. He was present also at the lectures of Maudot on Spanish literature, and of Germain on Roman history. He was an habitual visitor at the Municipal Library, where almost daily he read for some hours French authors, being at this time specially interested in Rousseau. His curiosity, always keen for books with a pedigree, was gratified in discovering here the entire library of Alfieri, which had found its way to Montpellier through Fabre, a French artist, a native and benefactor of the city, who had succeeded the Italian poet as the lover of the Countess of Albany. French was Sumner's language in this retreat, except in conversation with the elder Gordon. Sumner made some excursions in the neighborhood,—one with the younger Gordon to Nimes, and another with Professor Martins to Aigues Mortes; a walled city most interesting for its archaeology, in which his companions