Sumner takes his last dinner with us. In a few days he will be gone to Washington for the winter. We shall miss him much. He passed the nigh...

We had a solitary dinner, missing Sumner very much. He is now in Washington, and it will be many days before we hear again his footsteps in ...

Your farewell note came safe and sad; and on Sunday no well-known footstep in the hall, nor sound of cane laid upon the table. We ate our di...

DEAREST LONGFELLOW, — I could not speak to you as we parted, — my soul was too full; only tears would flow. Your friendship, and dear Fanny...

DEAREST HOWE, Three times yesterday I wept like a child, — I could not help it first in parting with Longfellow, next in parting with you, a...

A pleasant dinner, at the close of which we heard the news of Sumner's election. In the evening came Lowell and Gurowski and Palfrey, an...

The papers are all ringing with Sumner, Sumner! and the guns thundering out their triumph; meanwhile the hero of the strife is sitting quiet...

Sumner brought a pocket-full of letters of congratulation and good advice which he has received since his election. 1 _______________ 1 T...

I cannot repress my delight in what I hear of Emerson's utterance at Concord. For an hour and a half he laid bare our evils and their au...

[January 24, 1850.] DEAR HENRY, Whittier is here on a short visit. I go to-night with Miss Bremer to hear Wendell Phillips, and to-morrow ev...

President Walker, Chief Justice Shaw, Judge G. T. Bigelow, Rev. Dr. Putnam, Professors Agassiz and Longfellow, Messrs. David Sears, W. Appl...

Boston , July 4th, 1852. Dearest Sumner : — I got your note yesterday, and read most of it to Carter; 1 afterwards I sent it to Parker...

The newspapers advertise Mr. Sumner's reception to take place to-day: that he will be received by a committee at my house, thence take...

Boston , Thursday, March 15, 1852. Dearest Sumner : — I write you from my house, to which I have been confined by a more than commonly ...

July 10, 1859 Dearest Mother: Emerson says, “To-day is a king in disguise”; and it is sometimes odd to think that these men and women...

Very cold and windy. Rode an hour and a half. Called at the United States Hotel on Captain John Brown, the old Kansas hero. Found Governor ...

Boston , Dec. 5, 1851. Dearest Sumner : — I had a hasty note from you just as I was closing my last. In neither of your notes do you me...

Marienberg, Boppart , Sept. 7, '50. My Dear Sumner : — Here I am at last where I ought to have been two months ago. This is a most ...

Paris , Aug. 20, '50. My Dear Sumner : — I am always cheered by the sight of your “hand-o'-write” and that of your last letter ...

The day has been blackened to me by the passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill in the House, Eliot of Boston voting for it. If we should read i...