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Very good condition; written in clear, crisp ink on 3 sides of one sheet of stationery measuring 5" x 8" and signed by Charles Sumner. With a 1"brown strip from the original envelop pasted along the folded edge of side 4 which is blank. Senate Chamber 9th Jan. '69Private (underlined)Dear Mr Kinsley, The interest you took in a certain carpet induces me to make a report not official. The British Minister was with me sipping his coffee after dinner, when, after observing the carpet, he said: --"This is an Aubusson & very beautiful." And then he asked about it. I said, that it came from Paris via Boston, & that the house from which I had it assured me that a better carpet never crossed the Atlantic. "I do not doubt that," he replied. So you will see that yr saying is already fulfilled. But I have not done with the carpet. A lady who called at my house, revealed at once a strong interst on seeing it. She had ordered precisely this carpet of the best dealer in Paris, where she was in September, but hers had not yet arrived. Now she found the article in my house. She called it the finest which she saw in Paris. Perhaps Mr. Lovejoy will be amused by this little history. Ever yours, Charles Sumner Charles Sumner (1811 1874) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1851 until his death in 1874. Before and during the American Civil War, he was a leading American advocate for the abolition of slavery. He chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1861 to 1871, until he lost the position following a dispute with President Ulysses S. Grant over the attempted annexation of Santo Domingo. After breaking with Grant, he joined the C, spending his final two years in the Senate alienated from his party. Sumner had a controversial and divisive legacy for many years after his death, but in recent decades, his historical reputation has improved in recognition of his early support for racial equality.Sumner began his political activism as a member of various anti-slavery groups, leading to his election to the U.S. Senate in 1851 as a member of the Free Soil Party; he soon became a founding member of the Republican Party. In the Senate, he devoted his efforts to opposing the "Slave Power,"[1] which in 1856 culminated in a vicious beating, almost to the point of death, by Representative Preston Brooks on the Senate floor.[2] Sumner's severe injuries and extended absence from the Senate made him a symbol of the anti-slavery cause. Though he did not return to the Senate until 1859, Massachusetts reelected him in 1857, leaving his empty desk as a reminder of the incident, which polarized the nation as the Civil War approached. (Wikipedia). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1453
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