Download or read book Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by Edward Lillie Pierce and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-03 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, Vol. 1 I bequeath to Henry W. Longfellow, Francis V. Balch, and Edward L. Pierce, as trustees, all my papers, manuscripts, and letter-books, to do with them what they think best with power to destroy them, to deposit them in some public library, or to make extracts from them for publication. With the facilities afforded by this trust. And the aid of Mr. Sumner's early friends, who have kindly contributed their recollections of him and such letters as they had preserved, the biographer has prepared two volumes of his Memoir and Letters for the period closing with the Oration on The True Grandeur of Nations, July 4, 1845, which is the first production included in the edition of his Works as revised by himself, and marks the beginning of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.