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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 30: addresses before colleges and lyceums.—active interest in reforms.—friendships.—personal life.—1845-1850. (search)
ngton, a week in New York, where their time was divided between society and visits to an oculist (Sumner writing from New York as the historian's amanuensis), and some days in Baltimore, with other pauses on the journey. Ticknor's Life of W. T. Prescott, p. 246. I was, said Mr. Prescott, in his journal. provided with a very agreeable fellow-traveller, in my excellent friend Mr. Sumner. At Washington they dined with Mr. Webster, Sumner, in an interview with Mr Webster during this visit, aMr. Prescott, in his journal. provided with a very agreeable fellow-traveller, in my excellent friend Mr. Sumner. At Washington they dined with Mr. Webster, Sumner, in an interview with Mr Webster during this visit, asked him which of his (Mr. W.'s) writings and speeches he thought to be the best, and was surprised when Mr. Webster answered the Creole letter. See ante, vol. II. p. 193. Mr. Bancroft, then Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Pakenham, the British minister, and received attentions from Mr. Winthrop. Sumner was not in Washington again till after his election as senator. In the late summer or early autumn, Sumner made usually what he called his annual sally,—a journey of two or three weeks. In Septe