Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career.

Chapter 4:

• Mr. Sumner visits Europe.
-- Chief-justice Story's letter. -- anecdote. -- Mr. Sumner's Reception in England. -- R. M. Milnes. -- another letter from Judge Story. -- Visit to Paris. -- Gen. Lewis Cass. -- art Studies in Italy. -- glowing Description of the country. -- Thomas Crawford. -- anecdote concerning Thomas Aquinas. -- Acquaintances made in Germany. -- letter from William Prescott. -- Mr. Sumner's regard for Boston. -- his home on his return from Europe. -- Lyceum lectures. -- course of lectures to the Cambridge Law School. -- he Edits “Vesey's Reports.” -- remarks from “the Law Reporter.”

He (Charles Sumner) presents in his own person a decisive proof that an American gentleman, without official rank or wide-spread reputation, by mere dint of courtesy, candor, an entire absence of pretension, an appreciating spirit, and a cultivated mind, may be received on a perfect footing of equality in the best circles,--social, political, and intellectual; which, be it observed, are hopelessly inaccessible to the itinerant note-taker, who never gets beyond the outskirts of the show-houses. --Quarterly review.

“Mr. Sumner,” says Judge Story in his letter, “is a practising lawyer at the Boston bar, of very high reputation for his years, and already giving the promise ”