Letter [manuscript] : Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Charles Sumner, 1836 February 20.

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Letter [manuscript] : Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Charles Sumner, 1836 February 20.

Wallace discusses an essay on bailment being prepared for a journal edited by Sumner [The American Jurist].

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University of Virginia. Library

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Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

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Massachusetts lawyer and U.S. Senator, 1851-1874. He was an ardent abolitionist who attacked the south in his "crime against Kansas" speech in 1856. Two days later he was assaulted in the Senate, receiving injuries that took him years to recover from. From the description of Letters, 1858-1869. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55768315 Born in Boston, Mass., the U.S. statesman Charles Sumner studied law at Harvard and practiced law in his native ci...

Wallace, John B. (John Bradford), 1778-1837

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