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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
e of his house and his investments in pictures, partly paid for by his fees as a lecturer. The senator's house in Washington Now a part of the Arlington Hotel, and let to families. was for the remainder of his life to be his home. The site was then the most attractive in the city. It stood on a corner, well exposed to sunlight, looking out on Lafayette Park, and across the park to the Executive Mansion, convenient for reaching the departments and the foreign legations. Just before Christmas, 1867, he moved into it,—taking the step with some hesitation, partly related to his domestic trouble and partly to the expense of housekeeping, which he feared was beyond his means, but yielding to advice from Mr. Hooper, who was very desirous that he should occupy it. He wrote, December 13, to his friend J. B. Smith: It is a large house for a solitary person. I am now in the midst of preparation. This is something of a job for one inexperienced in such things. I am to examine carpets
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 57: attempts to reconcile the President and the senator.—ineligibility of the President for a second term.—the Civil-rights Bill.—sale of arms to France.—the liberal Republican party: Horace Greeley its candidate adopted by the Democrats.—Sumner's reserve.—his relations with Republican friends and his colleague.—speech against the President.—support of Greeley.—last journey to Europe.—a meeting with Motley.—a night with John Bright.—the President's re-election.—1871-1872. (search)
subject to the attention of Senator Patterson, asking that his committee on retrenchment investigate the subject, and saying that undoubtedly certain Americans, and possibly subordinate officials in the war department, would be found mixed up with these transactions; and further, that parties in the ordnance bureau must have been in collusion with other parties named in these transactions. Mr. Patterson called Schurz's attention to the subject at the next session, 1871-1872, just before Christmas, and named the marquis in a later interview as one who was informed upon it. About the same time Patterson mentioned some of the circumstances to Sumner, telling him that it was a bad case, and that it must be looked into. A month later, Schurz, whom the marquis had seen, reported what he had heard to Sumner, referring him to the marquis; and Sumner the communicated with the marquis (their first conversation in relation to it), who stated to the senator the facts within his knowledge.