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Excerpt from Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, Vol. 1: 1811-1838 The first artlcle of Mr Sumner's W111 1s as follows I bequeath to Henry W Longfellow, F1anc1s V Balch, and Edwald L P1erce, as t1ustees, all my pape1s, manuscupts, and lette1-books, to do W1th them What they thmk best Wlth powe1 to dest1oy them, to depos1t them 111 some pubhc l1bra1y, or to make ext1acts from them to1 puhl1cat1on vv1th the tac111t1es affmded by thls t1 ust, and the and of Mr Sum11e1's early f11ends, Who have k111dly contrlbuted then 1ecollect10ns of hlm and such letters as they had presewed, the b1og1aphe1 has p1epa1ed two volumes of 1118 Memon and Lettels fo1 the pe11od closmg W1th the O1at1011 on The True G1andeur of Natlons, July 4, 1845, Whlch 18 the first p1oduct10n 1ncluded 111 the ed1t1on 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.

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