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- GLC#
- GLC02095.12-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 15 September 1863
- Author/Creator
- Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
- Title
- to Epes Sargent
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 20.2 cm, Width: 12.8 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Sumner thanks Sargent for his sympathetic praise. Writes, "The verses on Shaw I had enjoyed before, & had sent to England," likely a reference to Sargent's poem, "Colonel Shaw: On Hearing that the Rebels Had Buried His Body Under a Pile of Twenty Five Negroes," Boston Evening Transcript, 4 August 1863.
Contains a 12 September 1878 autograph note signed by Sargent on page 2, giving a brief biography of Sumner: "Charles Sumner, United States Senator from Massachusetts... -a very conspicuous man in his day. He was a classmate of my brother, John O. Sargent, and we were intimate from my boyhood. Many years ago Sumner lectured at Auburn, Mass., and I delivered a poem the same evening. We put up at a house where they could give us but one bed: so we had to sleep together."
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