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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)
Sumner's character and life. Sumner wrote to Whittier, April 11, 1849:— I have copied from Mrs. Jameson all that relates to Saint Mark and the Christian slave. This was the suggestion of Whittier's Legend of Saint Mark. I commend it to you as a fit subject for a poem. Under your hands it may become a lesson to our people. You will remember Saint Mark as the tutelary saint of Venice. Though an Evangelist, he was not one of the Apostles, but was, I believe, an early convert of Saint Paul. I missed you the afternoon we were to go to Cambridge together. I was sorry to lose the opportunity of making you and Longfellow better acquainted. Come again. To E. L. Pierce, Brown University, June 24, 1850:— I agree with Professor Lincoln. A reply to a request for advice as to accepting an election as a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. I have always regretted that the P. B. K. Society prolonged to advanced life the ephemeral distinctions of college scholarship; nor