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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)
ways: He yields obedience to all God's laws of morality, but thinks he is exempt from any obligation to obey His laws of physiology. After 1844 he had only slight and temporary illnesses. At the end of March, 1846, Prescott Was obliged by an affection of the eye to suspend his studies, and he desired Sumner to join him in a vacation. They passed nearly a week in Washington, a week in New York, where their time was divided between society and visits to an oculist (Sumner writing from New York as the historian's amanuensis), and some days in Baltimore, with other pauses on the journey. Ticknor's Life of W. T. Prescott, p. 246. I was, said Mr. Prescott, in his journal. provided with a very agreeable fellow-traveller, in my excellent friend Mr. Sumner. At Washington they dined with Mr. Webster, Sumner, in an interview with Mr Webster during this visit, asked him which of his (Mr. W.'s) writings and speeches he thought to be the best, and was surprised when Mr. Webster answered