Excerpt from Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, Vol. 1: 1811-1838 I bequeath to Henry W Longfellow, F1an01s V Balch, and Edwa1d L P1erce, as t1ustees, all my pape1s, manuscupts, and lette1-books, to do W1th them What they th1uk best Wlth powe1 to clest1oy them, to clepos1t them 111 some pubhc hbrary, or to make extlacts from them fo1 publ1cat1on vv1th the tac1l1t1es affmded by thls t1ust. And the ad of Mr Sumne1's early fuencls, Who have kmdly contrlbuted then lecollectlons of h1m and such letters as they had prese1ved, the b1ographe1 has p1epa1ed two volumes of h1s Mem01r and Lettels fo1 the pe11od closmg Wlth the Q1at1on on The True G1andeur of Natlons, July 4, 1845, Whlch IS the first p1oduct10n 1ncluded 111 the ed1t1on of h1s vvo1ks as 1ev15ed by hlmself, and ma1ks the beg111n1ng 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.