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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 1 1 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 25: service for Crawford.—The Somers Mutiny.—The nation's duty as to slavery.—1843.—Age, 32. (search)
; but he did not rest content with words alone. The next winter he obtained, by personal solicitation, subscriptions to the amount of twenty-five hundred dollars for a marble copy of the Orpheus, then only in plaster, to be placed in the Boston Athenaeum. He called attention to its merits in an article which, accompanied by a steel engraving of the statue, he contributed to the Democratic Review. May, 1843; Vol. XII. pp. 451-455. The article was republished in the Boston Advertiser, May 8, 1844. Sumner's early interest in Crawford is referred to in Mr. Hillard's notice of the artist in the Atlantic Monthly, July, 1869, Vol. XXIV. pp. 40-54. The article related the legend which was the artist's theme, described the work itself, and cited the opinions of connoisseurs. The editor of the Review, after stating in a note to the article that the statue had been purchased for the Athenaeum, said: It may not be improper to mention here, to the credit of Mr. Charles Sumner (who is also