Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Annual Register, 1821. Correspondence of Poletica and Adams. For. Rel., vol. v., p. 652 et seq. Art. 4 of Convention with Russia of 1824. U. S. Treaties. (c)) The United States bought all the Russian rights in the purchase of Alaska. Convention with Russia of 1867, U. S. Treaties. Sumner's speech in Cong. Record...
...learned the other day from a gentleman, who was once the Law school librarian, of Charles Sumner's gift to the Law school of a wig of Lord Brougham's, the same which Lord Brougham wore when presiding in the House of Peers, and a little of the subsequent history of the wig. The story seemed to me of a good deal of interest and I think it ought to be more widely known...
...When Mr. Sumner was in London in 1839, Lord Brougham offered him the wig as a present and Mr. Sumner accepted it, thinking he would give it as a curiosity to the Law school. At that time he wrote to George S. Hilliard, the historian...
...When Mr. Sumner returned to America he gave the wig to the Law school and at the time asked Judge Storey to have it put in a case and preserved. But for some reason this care does not seem to have been taken. It was then kept for many years in the old Law school building (now the store of the Co-operative Society) but at length its associations seem to have been entirely forgotten. Mr. George S. Hale says he once found it here and used it at some private theatricals in Boston but was ignorant that...
...Sumner prize of one hundred dollars for 1888 and 1889 has been awarded to Lloyd McKim Garrison of the Law school for a dissertation on "The Probable Influence of the Irish in America on the Friendly Relation between the United States and Great Britain...