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February 19th (search for this): chapter 22
or who makes a scholar! I have now been confined to the house for several days with a severe cold; otherwise, I should have endeavored to be present at the meeting of the Board to witness their deliberations. As a son of the University under your Presidency, I have felt called on, as upon my allegiance, to offer you my cordial congratulations on the plan you have brought forward. I am, my dear sir, very faithfully yours, Charles Sumner. To Longfellow, then at Portland, he wrote, Feb. 19:— This moment comes to hand a letter from my brother Albert, communicating the intelligence of the death of the wife of our friend My heart bleeds for him. I think of his wife,—simple, cheerful, sweet-voiced, and, more than all, filling his heart. If you write to him, pray assure him of my deep sympathy. I would write myself, but that I have not that length of acquaintance with him which would seem to justify my approaching him in such a terrible calamity. It is on such occasions tha
December 10th, 1841 AD (search for this): chapter 22
go. I promise you much pleasure in the repast, and the warm welcome you will find. Prescott is anxious to see you, and will expect you to dine with him while in Boston. You will like him as well as his book; and also his venerable father, a lawyer emeritus, who has the rare felicity of living to see the fame of his son. I am expecting your speech in honor of St. Nicholas. Which in the calendar shall you serve next? Ever most sincerely yours, Charles Sumner To Dr. Lieber he wrote, Dec. 10, 1841:— Lord Morpeth has just returned to Boston, after a pleasant trip to Niagara, and a visit of a fortnight to New York. He will be here a fortnight; then to Philadelphia; then to Baltimore, and at the end of January or the beginning of February will be in Washington; afterwards, to the South and West. I must close now, in great haste. Business calls. I charged one client yesterday, as part of my fee in a case, six hundred dollars. He had the grace to say that it was no more
December 6th, 1841 AD (search for this): chapter 22
n go up the Hudson, stopping at West Point,— which I wish you to see; then at the town of Hudson, and from Hudson come down by the railway, which you have tried once. Or, you may take still a third way (the boat to New Haven),—a very pretty place in the summer, embowered in trees, and the seat of a flourishing American university; then ascend the Connecticut River to Springfield, thence by railroad to Boston. Ever and ever yours, Charles Sumner. To Lord Morpeth, New York. Boston, Dec. 6, 1841. my dear Morpeth,—Yours of Dec. 3 was duly received; and so, we may expect you Thursday morning. My dear friend Longfellow, whom you have seen once at his rooms, in the old seat of General Washington,—a Professor of our Cambridge University, and the head of our Parnassus,— wishes you to dine with him on the evening of your arrival. You will meet Allston and Prescott and one or two academics, whose talk and the associations of the place will outdo the meats; for the fare will be sim
December (search for this): chapter 22
f Rufus Choate, Vol. II. pp. 3-23. It exhausts the question. When shall we see you here? The three Misses Ward—a lovely triumvirate—are summering in Dorchester. Ever yours sincerely, Charles Sumner. To Professor Mittermaier, Heidelberg. Boston, June 30, 1841. my dear friend,—Four days ago I was rejoiced by your letter of May 7, which came by the way of Havre through the post-office. On the next day I received the packet of books you had been kind enough to despatch to me last December. I thank you very much for them all; but more than all, let me thank you for your kind recollection of me in your letters. I mourn with you most sincerely for the loss of your son. He was truly learned, accomplished, and amiable. I shall never forget the agreeable and instructive hours I passed in his society. He spoke English with great facility and correctness; and it was one of my chief pleasures at Heidelberg to converse with him in my own language on the many subjects which he unde<
November (search for this): chapter 22
hospitality. An Administration paper alluded to him as living in a log-cabin and drinking hard cider. The Whigs at once adopted these words and placed them on their favors. They proclaimed Harrison the candidate of the log-cabin and hard-cider class. And this vulgar appeal is made by the party professing the monopoly of intelligence and education in the country! But it has had its effect. The country seems to be revolutionized, and the Whigs are confident. The election takes place in November. The Whigs, in anticipation of success, have already partitioned the high offices. Of course, all our troop abroad will be recalled, Stevenson leading the dance home. They have republished at Lowell — a manufacturing town in Massachusetts, and the Manchester of America-your admirable translation of Faust. I shall send you a copy of this edition by the earliest opportunity. At Louisville, on the other side of the Alleghanies, they have published a translation of Macchiavelli's Discors
October (search for this): chapter 22
pleasure of seeing them. Give my best regards to Grosch, Dr. Lambert Grosch, a law pupil of Professor Mittermaier, and a magistrate, who died in 1875. and tell him that I am his debtor for a long and most interesting letter, and that I shall write him very soon. You have a young American—Shaw—at Heidelberg. How does he do? Believe me ever, my dear friend, most truly and sincerely yours, Charles Sumner. P. S. Your article on criminal legislation in Germany was published in the October number of the American Jurist. It has been read with great satisfaction. When shall we have the continuation? To Dr. Francis Lieber, Columbia, S. C. Boston, Dec. 10, 1840. Don't, dear Lieber, be offended by my long silence. I am in the midst of my profession; for the last two days have been all the time in court; and for the last two months, besides attending to my professional business, printing the third volume of my Reports. . . . Behold me now, dear Lieber, in the tug and swea
September (search for this): chapter 22
eft much in arrears. In August, he took for a few days the place of Hillard, who was with the Ticknors at Woods' Hole; but, with that exception, he did no service for clients for the first four months after his return. With the beginning of September,—the time when the summer vacation closes in New England,—he resumed in earnest the daily work of his profession. He was from that time faithful to his office from nine in the morning till five or six in the afternoon,—allowing an interval forI cannot determine; and, as my first duty would seem to be to provide distinctly for the future, I feel bound to decline making any engagement which should interfere with this. My mind will not be sufficiently free, at any time between now and September, to allow me to write any thing proper to offer you at Bowdoin. A fine son you have at Cambridge. I was struck with his full and clear answer to a question I proposed in the lecture-room, before I knew he was of your house. He seemed very <
March 31st, 1841 AD (search for this): chapter 22
p, which he will carry on slowly through the summer. Prescott has completed the introduction to his history of the Conquest of Mexico, comprising an elaborate survey of the manners, institutions, and origin of the ancient Mexicans. He was on the point of going to Europe with the Appletons, to pass the summer and enjoy his triumph in English society; but, after much debate and doubt, he has given up the plan. Yours ever and ever, Charles Sumner. To Thomas Crawford, Rome. Boston, March 31, 1841. dear Crawford,—You have, perhaps, already heard from Greene that I had started a subscription paper to procure your admirable Orpheus for the Boston Athenaeuin. The sum I proposed to raise is now subscribed,— twenty-five hundred dollars. I feel that this will not be an adequate compensation for the time, labor, and genius that you will bestow upon your work; but it may, as business men say, give you a living profit, and will be the forerunner, I trust, of other and more profitable o
August (search for this): chapter 22
ter night, till twelve o'clock. That is tormenting to those who cannot have the same privilege. In June, he visited Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Lawrence at Lowell, and in August sought, for a few days, the refreshment of sea-breezes at Nahant. He made an excursion to Lancaster with Felton, whose family was passing some weeks in that intewledge. The next year, he declined a similar invitation from the same society. During the summer, his correspondence with friends was left much in arrears. In August, he took for a few days the place of Hillard, who was with the Ticknors at Woods' Hole; but, with that exception, he did no service for clients for the first four; I long to talk with you of Europe and yourself. Ever and ever yours, Charles Sumner. To Longfellow, then absent from Cambridge on a vacation, he wrote in August:— I shall go to Nahant for a few days, and then to business. Give me fifteen hundred dollars a year, and I will hie away to Florence, where in sight of wha
December 1st, 1841 AD (search for this): chapter 22
his disinterested devotion to this object,—how his soul is absorbed in it. Thus far, I wrote under Howe's roof, and now finish my scrawl while examining witnesses. . . . Lord Morpeth, you know, is in the country. Everybody loves him. I have been much gratified by the agreeable impression he produces everywhere. Prescott makes everybody happy who comes near him. I dined with him on Thanksgiving day . . . God bless you! Ever and ever yours, C. S. To Lord Morpeth, New York. Boston, Dec. 1, 1841. my dear Morpeth,—I have read your speeches at the Corporation dinner, and the Yorkshire dinner. Referring to public dinners in New York. They could not have been better. I thank you from my heart for those words of peace. They will do much good in confirming kindly relations between the two countries. I wish I could have been there to hear and see. I enclose a letter from Judge Story, who wishes to secure you at dinner, immediately after your return to Boston. We shall all
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