Accept my thanks for the invitation with which you have honored me, and believe me, dear Sir,
Very faithfully yours,
Charles Sumner.
Edward Gilbert, Esq.
FOOTNOTES
[1] See, ante, Vol. VI. p. 379.
[2] May 6, 1862, pp. 1957, 1958.
[3] Congressional Globe, 37th Cong. 2d Sess., May 20, 1862, p. 2223.