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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
n to return in the autumn a well man. From Havre, late in the month, he made an excursion through Normandy and Brittany, taking in Trouville, Caen, Bayeux, St. Lo, Coutances, Granville, Avranches, Pontorson, Mont St. Michel, St. Malo, Dinan, and Rennes, and other places on return, travelling partly by private carriage and partly by diligence. His companion as far as Rennes, whose acquaintance he had made at Bains Frascati, was an English youth, since well known as poet and novelist, Mr. HamiltRennes, whose acquaintance he had made at Bains Frascati, was an English youth, since well known as poet and novelist, Mr. Hamilton Aide. Mr. Aide wrote in his journal:— The longer I am with Charles Sumner the more I find to esteem and admire. . . . His mode of speech is too deliberate, and in his desire to be complete in his analysis or description he is sometimes lengthy; but what comes from him is always worth consideration, even when one feels most disposed to dissent from his views. ... Nothing needs encouragement more than the habit of exercising the thews and sinews of the mind as we do, or should do, those o