as pleasant to meet again those dearest to him,—Ingham, Morpeth, and Parkes,—and also to renew his association with Austin, Sydney Smith, Milman, Hayward, Milnes, Inglis, the Grotes, Rogers, and others.
He failed to see Lord Brougham, who was at the time absent.
On his last day in London, he dined with Hallam.
Among the many tin (more brilliant than ever); the Wortleys, &c. But I must stop.
I must go now to breakfast with Sydney Smith; to-morrow, with Rogers; next day, with dear Sir Robert Inglis; the next with Milnes.
But I must be off. Good-by.
I shall soon be with you.
Ever affectionately yours, Charles Sumner.
To George W. Greene, Rome. escend upon the sea. Before I go, I shall resign into your hands your book; and I hope to say Good-by to your family.
This morning I breakfasted with dear Sir Robert Inglis.
I love his sincerity and goodness, though I dislike his politics.
Ever sincerely yours, Charles Sumner.
P. S. I had the pleasure of hearing your s
an end of the controversy; and that, as the first step towards a complete settlement, the English people should be brought by an emphatic statement to realize the full justice and import of our case: but his regard for them, and his interest in their welfare were as lively then as in his youth.
On his fourth and final visit to Europe, a third of a century after the first, he passed the last night, before sailing on his return, with John Bright, at Rochdale, when he spoke with admiration of England, and of her public men, and with much tenderness of the many friends he counted among her well-known names.
Sumner's social career in England did not make him less an American and a republican.
Writing a few years later, he said: I have always enjoyed the refinement of the best society; but I have never sat in the palaces of England, without being pained by the inequality of which the inordinate luxury was a token.
To Judge Story he wrote from London, March 18, 1839:—
I cannot
