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.

[4] Post, [p. 128].