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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)
e of his elevated views, but with sharper wits and better adaptation to the details of business, were distancing him in the professional race. His willingness to accept the place of a reporter of decisions, and his subsequent undertaking to edit Vesey, show that clients were not requiring his time, or that he did not care to devote it to them. He was aspiring; his nature sensitive and refined; his Imagination had fed upon historic ideals, and he had shared the intimacy of the best exemplars among more days, and give the nights to friends and sleep. There is enough of necessary pain and suffering in the world. It is wrong to add to the inevitable sum of illness by heedless and needless exposures, by striding from volume to volume of Vesey in the mad boots. Remember old Chamisso, and be wise. Dr. Howe wrote from Rome, Dec. 1843:— My joy at receiving your letters has been sadly dashed with sorrow by what Greene tells me about your health, and yet it is not so much sor
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, chapter 30 (search)
Chapter 26: the national election.—editing Vesey, Jr.—dangerous illness. 1844.—Age, 33. The na undertook to edit the Equity Reports of Francis Vesey, Jr., numbering twenty volumes, for a well-kneports; and they applied to Sumner to annotate Vesey, offering two thousand dollars. He was relucta The publication of the American editions of Vesey, Jr.'s, and Brown's Reports belongs to a period whis is the first time [Brodie v. St. Paul, 1 Vesey, Jr., 328] we meet the name of Sir Samuel Romillyour years of age. In the succeeding volumes of Vesey, we shall witness the extent and variety of hias a child of six. He had worked very hard on Vesey's Reports; and his illness seemed a low, nervoidelity. The printing of the new edition of Vesey was not suspended during Sumner's sickness. Mongratulate you on the close of your labors on Vesey,—and so successful, too, as they have been,— aorb all my minutes. I have undertaken to edit Vesey's Reports in twenty volumes, preparing a volum[3 mor
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 27: services for education.—prison discipline.—Correspondence.— January to July, 1845.—age, 34. (search)
o important steps will be taken till a new government is organized. I heard, through a friend in Prussia, that Baron Humboldt had been reading with the King of Prussia a description of the Croton Works. It must be your brother's book. My Vesey will be completed in a fortnight,—thus much to be stored in the wallet of the past. To Thomas Crawford, New York. Boston, April 17, 1845. my dear Crawford,—Have you heard that the students of Harvard College have voted to request you to exnd how their future must fill your soul. They are continuations of yourself. Believe, my dear Lieber, that I take a true interest in their welfare, and long to be of service to them. But what can I do for any body? I have finished my labors on Vesey. The edition (in twenty volumes) is all printed; and that millstone has fallen from my neck. Howe has written you of the bombshell we threw into Dwight's camp. We came forward at the meeting of the Prison Discipline Society and opposed his r