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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 14 : first weeks in London .—June and July , 1838 .—Age, 27 . (search)
Chapter 14: first weeks in London.—June and July, 1838.—Age, 27.
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To his brother George, St. Petersburg. London, June 1, 1838.
My dear George,—I write you my first lines from London, and that with the especial object to reclaim sundry letters which the Barings have had the folly to despatch to St. Petersburg after you. . . .
Last night I entered London, having passed just five months in Paris; and, when I found myself here, I seemed at home again.
Paris is great, vast, magnificent; but London is powerful, mighty, tremendous.
The one has the manifestations of taste and art all about it; the other those of wealth and business.
Public buildings here seem baby-houses compared with what Paris affords.
Go to Paris, you will see art in its most various forms; you will see taste in the dress of everybody, in the arrangement of the shop-windows, and particularly in the glories of the opera.
I have been to Drury Lane to-night.
I went late; and yet I could not st<
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 15 : the Circuits .—Visits in England and Scotland .—August to October , 1838 .—age, 27 . (search)