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which he then cited.
This singular promptitude gave him much celebrity with the English bar. During his residence in England, which embraced a period of almost a year, he frequently attended the debate in parliament, and made the acquaintance of the leading speakers and the eminent statesmen of the day. In a letter to him, dated Aug. 11, 1838, Mr. Justice Story says,--
“I have received all your letters, and have devoured them with unspeakable delight.
All the family have read them aloud; and all join in their expressions of pleasure.
You are now exactly where I wish you to be,--among the educated, the literary, the noble, and (though last not least) the learned, of England, of good old England, our mother-land: God bless her!
Your sketches of the bar and bench are deeply interesting to me, and so full that I think I can see them in my mind's eye. I must return my thanks to Mr. Justice Vaughan for his kindness to you: it has gratified me beyond measure, not merely as a proof of his liberal friendship, but of his acuteness and tact in his discovery of character.
It is a just homage to your own merits.
Your Old-Bailey speech was capital, and hit by stating sound truths in the right way.”
During his residence in London, Mr. Sumner formed the acquaintance of Thomas B. Macaulay, whose “wonderful conversation,” said he,
B. B. Russell, 1874.
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