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March 4th (search for this): chapter 14
ept up at Montpellier, under the immediate care of Dr. Crouzet, the treatment prescribed by Dr. Brown-Sequard,— poisons for medicines and cupping along the spine (ventouses seches),—painful, but, as he wrote, preferable to fire. The tranquillity and separation from political excitement were salutary, and he really made progress; but the end was still uncertain. Never were books more a refuge and a solace,—perfugium ac solatium; and they ministered to recovery. He wrote to E. L. Pierce, March 4:— During my winter solitude here, not a word from you. I hope, notwithstanding, that you have not ceased to think of me with your early kindness. my life here has been of the greatest tranquillity; never did patient surrender himself more completely to the most assured means for the recovery of his health. I have spared nothing of effort, and have shrunk from no trial or pain. Some fifteen hours out of the daily twenty-four I have passed on my back, and have always begun the day w
March 6th (search for this): chapter 14
ccustomed to abbreviate in a familiar way,—giving him as they parted at the station a small volume, Gourdon's Grammaire Heraldique, Sumner was always interested in pedigrees as illustrating local or general history. He inquired of M. Martins as to those of families in the neighborhood; but they were of little account. writing his name in it, and saying, Dick, I want to give you something, but have only this book. Thus passed three months at Montpellier, which he left on the morning of March 6. Twenty years later, March 30, 1879, the writer passed a day in Montpellier, lodging at Hotel Nevet, whose proprietor was still living. The elder Gordon had died; but his son Richard, now custodian of the medical Library, was the writer's lively and agreeable companion. Professor Martins was still bright and amiable, fond of humor, enjoying good health, and active in duty. Dr. Crouzet, now advanced in years, was full of enthusiasm for his distinguished patient. The writer visited wit
November 22nd, 1860 AD (search for this): chapter 14
ith Lord Spencer Born in 1835; twice lord lieutenant of Ireland. Soon after returning home, Sumner sent Lord Spencer a quantity of blue-grass seed to be sown on his estate. From Althorp he visited Brington, the ancestral home of the Washingtons; and a year later he received from the earl copies of the Washington memorial stones, and gave them to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. They were placed in the State House. He gave a full account of the stones in a letter to Jared Sparks, Nov. 22, 1860. Works, vol. v. pp. 357-368. at Althorp; one day with Lord Belper at Kingston Hall; one day with Lord Hatherton at Teddesley Park; Mr. Senior and his daughter (afterwards Mrs. Simpson) were fellow guests at Kingston Hall and Teddesley Park. and here I am He was obliged to decline the invitation of Lord Wensleydale to visit him at Ampthill Park.. . . . Mr. Gladstone was full of hope for Italy. Lord Clarendon was very pleasant and gay. Shirley Brooks, （1816-1874.) Connected
November 25th, 1858 AD (search for this): chapter 14
well informed about. Why did you not tell me? Do you think I am wanting in interest, in fulness and tenderness of sympathy about you? I know my own shortcomings as a correspondent; but you must be aware how the love I have always felt for you since we met at the chief secretary's lodge in the Phoenix Park, at least a score of years ago, has not ceased to glow with its own warmth, though it may have been deepened into the soberer heat of reverence. Sumner left Paris for Montpellier Nov. 25, 1858; He received from Mr. Fish and family an invitation to dine on Thanksgiving Day. and while stopping for a day at Avignon He had stopped at Macon to visit Lamartine's chateaux. he was struck with a sharp pain in the left leg, which prostrated him. He attempted a walk; and people in the streets stopped to look at the strange figure of one who seemed so old in gait and yet whose face was that of youth. This relapse was most discouraging, and he was almost in despair. Montpellier,
October 27th (search for this): chapter 14
ours l'illustre senateur des États Unis, M. Charles Sumner. The elder Gordon, with whom Sumner kept up a correspondence, mentioned, May 24, soon after they parted, how at every meeting his friends inquired earnestly for him, as Renouvier, Taillandier, Bouchet (he of the horny hand, who tills his own soil), Masarin, and Carabine Mares,—from all of whom I am charged with kindest remembrances and compliments, which if given verbatim would swell this letter to a sheet of foolscap. And again, October 27: All your messages and remembrances to your many friends here have been duly communicated to them; and you may rest assured, should Montpellier ever again have the happiness of possessing you, that you will be hailed with a welcome which will prove to you that fickle though the French are said to be, yet when an impression is made by a master hand it remains indelible with them. Sumner was the correspondent of Captain Gordon while the latter lived. He was accustomed to send to Professor
April 16th, 1859 AD (search for this): chapter 14
he was in Europe, of friends with whom he had been more or less intimate, were those of William Jay, Oct. 14, 1858; Prescott, Jan. 28, 1859; His last letter from Sumner was written from Aix-les-Bains, Sept. 15, 1858. Horace Mann, Aug. 2, 1859; Tributes to Mr. Mann may be found in Sumner's Works, vol. IV. p. 424; vol. v. p. 288. Dr. G. Bailey of the National Era, June 5, 1859; Sumner expected to meet Dr. Bailey in Paris, but he died at sea on his way to Europe. and Tocqueville, April 16, 1859. Theodore Parker died in Florence a few months later, May 10, 1860. Sumner wrote to Parker, Aug. 22, 1859:— You will mourn Horace Mann. He has done much; but I wish he had lived to enjoy the fruits of his noble toils. He never should have left Massachusetts. His last years would have been happier and more influential had he stayed at home. His portrait ought to be in every public school in the State, and his statue in the State House. A statue of Mann, to which Sumner cont
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