Charles Sumner: “This work supplies a place never before filled in the literature of…”

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This work supplies a place never before filled in the literature of the English language, if in that of any language.

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Massachusetts

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Charles Sumner: “This work supplies a place never before filled in the literature of the English language, if in that of any language.”