SD2192. Charles Sumner to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 25, 360 (in part).

Paris

July 19, 1858

Dear Longfellow,

Your letter written at different dates came to cheer me last week. I am happy in the new …

My chief solace, latterly, has been in seeing Mrs. Jameson, whose conversation is clear, instructive, and most friendly; and in the Brownings. All of these have been full of kindness for me, and I like them all very much. It is refreshing to be with persons whose knowledge and sympathies are so gratifying. It was pleasant to hear the B____s talk of Tennyson and praise him so cordially. They have left Paris for bains de mer near Hâvre. …

My sufferings have been very great; nothing but my great strenth of constitution and my intense desire to get well has sustained me.

Text: Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Samuel Longfellow (Boston, 1886), II, 322.

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