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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 30: addresses before colleges and lyceums.—active interest in reforms.—friendships.—personal life.—1845-1850. (search)
ent Everett; the depressed circumstances of his old teacher, Mr. Sales, whom he aided by raising a subscription to the amount of $1200; the municipal election in Boston in 1847, when he spoke at Tremont Temple, in favor of the election of Josiah Quincy, Jr., as Mayor; Boston Atlas, Dec. 13, 1847. the reform of the law, particularly in the abolition of the distinction between law and equity, a subject on which he was in correspondence with David Dudley Field. He wrote to Longfellow, November, 1847:— This morning comes your poem. Evangeline in manuscript. I was reading it at my desk, putting aside grave calls, when your herald entered, and I write now while he stands and waits. It is an exquisite poem; it must be immortal. There is a balm in it, soothing to the soul. The spirit is equal to the melody. To Mrs. Bancroft, December 15:— I was happy to hear from you by that pleasant note under your own hand. From time to, time, as I heard of your success, I have bee