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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC02095.04 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to 1851 |
| Title | Charles Sumner to Thomas L. Sprague thanking him for his kind words |
| Date | 28 September 1851 |
| Author | Sumner, Charles (1811-1874) |
| Recipient | Sprague, Thomas L. |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Thanks Sprague, a schoolboy, for his compliments: "Through my mother, who recently visited your friends in Hingham, I have learned your kind interest in me, & the manner in which you have spoken of me in one of your exercises at school. The words of a soul, so young & ingenious as yours, are precious to me. I receive them as an encouragement for myself & as an [illegible] of your own consecration to a great cause." |
| Subjects | Education Children and Family Abolition Reform Movement African American History Slavery |
| People | Sumner, Charles (1811-1874) Sprague, Thomas L. (fl. 1851) |
| Place written | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Theme | Education; Children & Family; Slavery & Abolition; African Americans |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859 |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |