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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career. 2 2 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 1 1 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 41: search for health.—journey to Europe.—continued disability.—1857-1858. (search)
, May 22, just two years from the day when he was assaulted in the Senate, he addressed a letter to the people of Massachusetts, explaining his absence from his post in search of health, and saying he should have resigned it if he had foreseen at the beginning the duration of his disability. Works, vol. IV. pp. 408, 409. The best wishes of his countrymen for his recovery went with him, and the public journals abounded in tender expressions of interest in him. New York Evening Post, May 22, 1858. Just before leaving home he wrote letters to Cobden and Tocqueville on European and American affairs. To the latter he wrote, May 7, from Washington:— I was happy, dear Monsieur de Tocqueville, to hear from you; but I should have been happier still had you written me a few words about affairs in your own country. Everything there seems to portend great changes soon. The present unnatural system of compression cannot endure always. Our politics here continue convulsed by t