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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 7: study in a law office.—Visit to Washington.—January, 1854, to September, 1834.—Age, 23. (search)
to make a special visit with that view. Affectionately, your prodigal, Chas. To Professor Simon Greenleaf. Washington, March 3, 1834. my dear Mr. Greenleaf,—Mr. F. S. Key Francis Scott Key, 1779-1843, author of The Star-Spangled Banner. is now speaking in the Supreme Court, where I write these lines. The case before the court is an important one, between Amos Binney and the Chesapeake Canal, 8 Peters' Reports, p. 201.—Key, Walter Jones, and Webster on one side, and Coxe and Swann on the other. Key has not prepared himself, and now speaks from his preparation on the trial below, relying upon a quickness and facility of language rather than upon research. Walter Jones, 1775-1861. An eminent lawyer, for many years residing and practising his profession at Washington.—--a man of acknowledged powers in the law, unsurpassed, if not unequalled, by any lawyer in the country,—is in the same plight. He is now conning his papers and maturing his points,—a labor which,