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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 21 : Germany .—October , 1839 , to March , 1840 .—Age, 28 -29 . (search)
February 11.
Left Berlin in the middle of January, cold as the North Pole, and passed to Leipsic, to Weimar, Gotha, Frankfort, and Heidelberg; for a day and night was shut up in the carriage with four Jews, one a great Rabbi with a tremendous beard.
I heard their views about Christianity; they think their time is coming, and the faith in Christ is vanishing from the world.
Everybody in Germany smokes.
I doubt not that I am the only man above ten years old now in the country who does not. Often have I been shut up in a carriage where every person was puffing like a volcano. . . . I am here talking and studying German.
I know many learned men; fill my own time by doing something; live cheaply; shall leave here in a fortnight and be in London the beginning of March, seeing the Rhine on my way. I look forward with great pleasure to meeting you and all my dear friends, with no little anxiety also to my future professional life.
I shall wish to plunge at once,—that is as soon as p
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 22 : England again, and the voyage home.—March 17 to May 3 , 1840 . —Age 29 . (search)