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Browsing named entities in Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2. You can also browse the collection for Richard Henry Wilde or search for Richard Henry Wilde in all documents.
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 17 : London again.—characters of judges.—Oxford.—Cambridge— November and December , 1838 .—Age, 27 . (search)
Dec. 14, 1838.
Poor Allan Park is dead; and everybody is speculating about his successor.
The Solicitor-General will be the man.
Park died Dec. 8.
Thomas Erskine (not Rolfe) was appointed, Jan. 9, 1839, his successor.
Rolfe was appointed a baron of the Exchequer in Nov., 1839. Post, p. 52. I dined last night with Serjeant Wilde, and it was amusing to see the coquetry between him, Talfourd, Bompas, and Hill, with regard to the successor.
I came up yesterday from Oxford, where I have passed four delightful days.
I was installed by Sir Charles Vaughan as an honorary Fellow of All Souls.
I have now given you the Queen's Bench and the Common Pleas judges.
I shall follow this with the barons of the Exchequer; and then with a view of the common law bar. Afterwards you may expect something about the Chancery Bar and Admiralty.
I have read Sir Mathew Hale's Ms. on the Admiralty, and find it to be a complete treatise on the subject, which contains nothing new to you, but which,
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Athenaeum Club , Dec. 14 , 1838 . (search)
Athenaeum Club, Dec. 14, 1838.
I came up from Oxford, after a most delightful residence, to dine with Serjeant Wilde, and go down to Cambridge to-day, starting in a few minutes.
I already have engagements which will absorb the four days I purpose devoting to this place.
From Cambridge I shall pass to Milton Park, to spend Christmas or some of its holidays with Lord Fitzwilliam.
It is now a year since I left America.
How much I have seen in that time, and what ample stores I have laid by of delightful reminiscence and of liberal instruction!
Thankful am I that I was able to conceive my present plan of travel, and, though contrary to the advice of dear friends, to put it in execution before I had grown indifferent to these things; and while, with the freshness of comparative youth, I could enter into the spirit of all that I see. But now I begin to turn my thoughts to the future.
Tell me how I shall find myself on my return; what I can do in my profession; what will be expec
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 18 : Stratford-on-avon.—Warwick.—London.—Characters of judges and lawyers.—authors.—society.—January , 1839 , to March , 1839 .—Age, 28 . (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 20 : Italy .—May to September , 1839 .—Age, 28 . (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 23 : return to his profession.—1840 -41 .—Age, 29 -30 . (search)