Portland, Sept. 2 1849.
My Dear Sumner. Professor
Henry returns to Boston tomorrow, and I shall of course prefer to take his
deposition there. As Hillard will be out of town I shall have to call on you.
So be ready to commence Tuesday morning. I want to finish the same day if
possible, so as to leave in the Evening train for New York. Henry will leave in
the afternoon train. I shall get into the morning cars, and spend a few hours
with Hale at Dover. We both expect to be at the Revere House by 8 P. M.
I wish you could
have been with me at Professor Bache's encampment yesterday. There is no more
glorious prospect visible from any point on which I ever stood, and both Bache
and Henry said the same thing. The former was in raptures.
It is very pleasant
to write you; though not half so pleasant as to hear you and look into your
face and see your soul, and answer you after my poor fashion. I never feel my
poverty so much as when among you affluent scholars of Boston and its
environments. The humiliation is more than compensated by the pleasure and
profit I derive from your learning. But pleasant as writing is — or rather not
writing for the manual part of it I fairly hate — but communication even with
this drawback, I must not spend more time on it, but bid you, good evening
Ever yours, faithfully,
[SALMON P. CHASE.]
SOURCE: Annual Report of the American Historical
Association for the Year 1902, Vol. 2, p. 182-3
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