MY VERY DEAR JULIA,
— Your parting benediction and God-speed, mingling with mother's, made my heart
overflow. I thank you both. They will cheer, comfort, and strengthen me in
duties where there are many difficulties and great responsibilities. For
myself, I do not desire public life; I have neither taste nor ambition for it;
but Providence has marked out my career, and I follow. Many will criticise and
malign; but I shall persevere. Good-by. With constant love to mother and
yourself,
CHARLES.
SOURCE: Edward L.
Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, Vol. 3, p. 259
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