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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 17: London again.—characters of judges.—Oxford.—Cambridge— November and December, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
e me one of your long, closely-written letters. Ever yours, Charles Sumner. P. S. One of my friends, Joseph Parkes, has bought and is reading a copy of your book. I will give a copy to the editors of the Spectator and Globe. To Mrs. Judge Howe, Cambridge. ATHENAeUM Club, The Athenaeum Club (Pall Mall) was founded in 1824, by Sir Humphry Davy, Professor Faraday, Sir Francis Chantrey, Sir Walter Scott, Sir Henry Halford, Thomas Moore, Richard Heber, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and John Wilson Croker. Among its earliest members was Samuel Rogers; and among those who frequented it most was Theodore Hook. Nov. 22, 1838. my dear Mrs. Howe, Ante, Vol. I. pp. 164-16.—I should be cold, indeed, did I not cordially acknowledge your kind letter, which I have received by your nephew, Edward Lyman. I often think of Cambridge and the quiet life I have led there, and the many good friends who, I hope, will not forget me during a protracted absence. The Book Club still exists. . . . W
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 23: return to his profession.—1840-41.—Age, 29-30. (search)
is father, Judge William Prescott, died Dec. 8, 1844, at the age of eighty-two. On Saturday afternoons, Sumner went to Cambridge to dine and pass the night with Longfellow at the Craigie House, where Felton usually joined them at dinner. At Judge Story's and Professor Greenleaf's he was, as before his visit to Europe, received with a hearty greeting and cherished with tender interest. With the Nortons, also, he found congenial company. Nor did he forget his early and constant friend, Mrs. Judge Howe, with whom, in a half-serious, half-jesting way, he talked, as in earlier days, of the happy period when he might have a fireside of his own. Sumner's home was always in the city. Rural life he knew only as traveller or visitor. He never even rented a cottage in the suburbs or by the seashore. But with Longfellow's home, more than with any other spot where Nature is a part of the scene, he is associated. Between these two friends there was never any difference or reserve. As th
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 24: Slavery and the law of nations.—1842.—Age, 31. (search)
tem of education of the blind which my friend Dr. Howe has administered with such success. . . . Web spirit for your minister? I read your note to Howe; and both of us, mournful bachelors, exclaimed evening I received my annual discourse from Mrs. Howe Mrs. Judge Howe, of Cambridge. on the marMrs. Judge Howe, of Cambridge. on the married state. She thinks me erring, and hopes that I shall yet come into the fold, though her hopes little their enjoyment of life and new scenes. Howe started in company. We went to Springfield; th, where I left the girls to ramble about, while Howe and I started on a journey to New York, includitical services to the powers that be. My friend Howe, whose various claims to public and private regbut no notice was taken of the application; and Howe has regretted very much that he brought himself In 1868, Sumner desired the appointment of Dr. Howe as Minister to Greece; but the place was give! what successor has he left? Longfellow Howe, Felton, and Sumner went to New York to greet h[7 more...]