. . . It so happens that we have just had a visit from Edwin
Morton, Gerrit Smith's private tutor, who went to Europe at the time of John
Brown. “The wicked flea, whom no man pursueth,” Judge Russell
satirically termed him: but he is a very cultivated and refined person and had
that career among English literati which seems to be cheaply open to all young
Yankees.
SOURCE: Mary Potter Thacher Higginson, Editor, Letters
and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1846-1906, p. 115
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