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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 17: London again.—characters of judges.—Oxford.—Cambridge— November and December, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
d relations of intimacy and familiarity which I have not with any member of the bar in America (except Greenleaf), between whom and myself there is the same disparity of age. All the serjeants and Queen's counsel I know; but of this hereafter. Mr. Burge has sent me his work on Colonial Law William Burge, author of Commentaries on Colonial and Foreign Laws and other treatises. He died in 1850, aged sixty-three.. . . . Remember me as ever to your family, and believe me, As ever, affectionWilliam Burge, author of Commentaries on Colonial and Foreign Laws and other treatises. He died in 1850, aged sixty-three.. . . . Remember me as ever to your family, and believe me, As ever, affectionately yours, Charles Sumner. To George S. Hillard. London, Nov. 16, 1838. my dear Hillard,—. . . I am oppressed by the vastness and variety of this place. Put two Bostons, two New Yorks, two Philadelphias, and two Baltimores all together, and you may have an idea of London. There is no way in which one is more struck by its size than by seeing the variety and extent of its society. In all our towns a stranger would meet every day in society some of the persons, perhaps all, that he m
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 18: Stratford-on-avon.—Warwick.—London.—Characters of judges and lawyers.—authors.—society.—January, 1839, to March, 1839.—Age, 28. (search)
d not a little time to this work. I wish you would write a review of it in the Jurist. In conversation yesterday with Burge, the author of the huge book on the Conflict of Laws, he lamented that there was no good work on the principles of the law of evidence. I at once told him that Professor Greenleaf had such a one in preparation. Mr. Burge told me to encourage you to the completion of your task, and also to say to you from him not to publish till you had thoroughly examined Menochius (De Presumptionibus) and Mascardus (De Probationibus),—the latter particularly. Burge is quite a black-letter, folio man, who overlays his arguments with numerous authorities and recondite learning. He deserves great praise for his devotion to the letter,—full of friendship for me, and exhortations imposing upon me responsibilities to which I am all unequal. . . . Mr. Burge—the author of the great work on the Conflict of Laws, just published in four large volumes—has read your Hermeneutics