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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)
mong 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 the beautiful party I met at his house,—Lord Lansdowne, Van Artevelde Taylor, Babbage, Senior, Mrs. Villiers, and Mrs. Lister, who talked of Mrs. Newton 1 Ante, p. 186. with the most affectionate regard; nor of the grand fete at Lansdowne House, where I saw all the aristocracy of England; nor of the Coronation; nor of Lord Fitzwilliam's ball; nor of the twenty or thirty interesting persons I meet every day. This very week I have declined more invitations than I have accepted; and among those that I declined were invitations to dinner from Lord Denman, Lord Bexley, Mr. Senior, Mr. Mackenzie,