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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)
n politics, not enter Parliament, and addict himself entirely to literature. I may say here, that among acquaintances you never hear the word Mr. Lawyers at the bar always address each other without that prefix. It is always Talfourd, Wilde, Follett; and at table, Landor, Forster, Macaulay, Senior, &c. I did not hear the word Mr. at Lord Lansdowne's table, except when he addressed me,—a stranger. My time is hurried and my paper is exhausted, but I have not told you of the poet Milman, and ps you in a state of constant excitement. I found myself several times on the point of crying out Hear!—thus running imminent risk of the polite attentions of the Usher of the Black Rod! I am astonished at the reputation which is conceded to Follett Sir William Webb Follett, 1798-1845. He was elected to Parliament in 1835, 1837, and 1841; was Solicitor-General, 1834-35, under Sir Robert Peel, and again in 1841, and became Attorney-General in 1841. Miss Martineau said of him that he want