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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 8: early professional life.—September, 1834, to December, 1837.—Age, 23-26. (search)
, being Number 4 Court Street, at the corner of Washington Street,—the site of the present Sears Building. Sumner occupied the room next to the hall, and Hillard the rear one. He kept one or the other for about twenty years, so long as he remained at the bar. Number 4 Court Street gathered at this period several lawyers, since well known, and some who were destined to a permanent fame. On the same floor with Sumner and Hillard were Theophilus Parsons, Rufus Choate, Theophilus and Peleg W. Chandler; and later John A. Andrew, afterwards Governor of the Commonwealth. On the third floor were Horace Mann, Edward G. Loring, and Luther S. Gushing. When Hillard left the building, in 1856, having previously removed to another room, he wrote in verse a graceful Farewell to Number Four, which called forth some happy rejoinders. Law Reporter, March, 1856, Vol. XVIII. p. 653. Sumner and Cushing Cushing was the well-known author of works on Parliamentary Law. rented together a si
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 15: the Circuits.—Visits in England and Scotland.—August to October, 1838.—age, 27. (search)
understand that the occasion was a capital one for an extended speech; but when you consider the briefness of my remarks you will observe that I spoke in the presence of all that was most distinguished in science in the British Empire,—Herschell, Babbage, Whewell, Sedgwick, Peacock, Buckland, &c.; and that it well became me to confine myself to the strict duty of returning thanks. [The Newcastle Courant of Aug. 31, 1838, The Law Reporter, Nov., 1838, Vol. I. pp. 244-245, edited by P. W. Chandler, republished this report with a brief preface, in which it said that Mr. Sumner has been everywhere received in a manner highly gratifying to his American friends, but not in the least surprising to those acquainted with him. The report was also printed in the Boston Advertiser of Nov. 28, 1838. reported the speeches at a dinner of the British Association for the Promotion of Science, at which Professor Bache, of Philadelphia, and Sumner were guests, together with Professor Ehrenberg, o