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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)
dy in the country who was so familiar with the different varieties and value of these articles as he was; and this is equally true of engravings, china, and to a great extent of paintings and other works of art. In his many visits to my place at Fishkill his mind would become entirely horticultural. I had a very large collection of evergreens, nearly two hundred varieties, all botanically labelled. He was very found of going out by himself, and studying the various distinctions and characterisnd expenditures of a monarchy, and not of a republic. Still, I know that the future is secure, and all things tend to our desires, even through disappointments. . . . When will this accursed passport system be abolished? To Longfellow, from Fishkill on the Hudson, September 15: my dear Henry,—I have passed several happy days here with an ancient classmate, Sargent, Henry Winthrop Sargent. who lives with great elegance at a beautiful seat on the banks of the Hudson. All here have rea