charles sumner senator (4 Ergebnisse)

Good side-sewn pamphlet. Orig. peach wrapper, lower panel loose. 60 p.; 22.5 cm. Cover-title. 21st annual report on p. 54-60. 2nd edition. Binding is Pamphlet.

Zustand: Good. 8vo. Fair+ In Paper Wraps, with yellowing, small tears, some staining, sun-fading, shelf wear, edge wear, & rubbing. Address of the Rt. Rev. Stephen Elliott only includes the cover as pictured; The national finances in time of war is a complete 15 pp. section with loose pages; Aggressions of the slave power is complete, pp. 17-24, also a section with loose pages.

1p., 4to. Good, on lightly-aged paper with minor traces of mount on the reverse. Addressed to 'Chas. Sumner Esq. | Boston Mass.' At the time of writing Sumner, having returned from Europe the previous year, was practising law at Boston. Regarding 'American Themis, A Monthly Journal of Jurisprudence and Judicature', edited by John O'Connell, Sedgwick writes that he is sending 'two or three nos. of a new Legal Magazine wh. we have just started here - you will find something of Mr Duers & something "paullo pejora" - of my own - The Editor Mr O'Connell - has talent & fire tho perhaps v. polished taste may find blemishes -'. O'Connell is going to Boston, 'and I shall bespeak for him yr assistance if you are not disinclined to give it'. He ends by asking 'How have you been this age? - I have heard of you but not from you - Vive et Vale'.

On 13 x 7.5 piece of paper, cut down from the label of a packet containing a manuscript (see the annotation on the reverse). On discoloured paper, with glue staining from mount on reverse. Sumner's signature 'C. Sumner' is at top left, with the top of the S slightly cropped. The address, by Sumner, reads 'W. S. Law Magazine / New York / N. Y.' Annotated in pencil on reverse: 'Charles Sumner / M.S.S. 22d Apl 1853 / Massachusetts / Lawyer'. See Image.