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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
r necessity so much, that I hesitate. As the printing was beginning, he wrote to Longfellow:— The revision tempts me to great work, beyond my anticipation. I have filed and amended those two early volumes so that it would have been as easy to re-write. If I could throw them into the fire I would, and have an end of them; but since this is impossible, next to their destruction is a good edition revised and amended before I die. The enterprise was undertaken by Messrs. Lee and Shepard, of Boston. The prepration of the volumes occupied the senator's spare time for the remainder of his life; and it was unfinished at his death. His work comprehended changes of the text,–mostly verbal, but sometimes modifying the substance, —verification of authorities, notes explanatory of the occasion and circumstances, and extracts from public journals and his correspondence, sometimes, as in the case of the speech which preceded the assault in 1856, extended to great length. The editi<