SUMNER CHARLES Autograph Letter Signed to John Kenyon

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INTRODUCING PRESIDENT OF BROWN SUMNER, CHARLES. Autograph Letter Signed, to John Kenyon, introducing President of Brown University Francis Wayland, stating that he desires to study education as practiced in England including Oxford and Cambridge, and asking whether he could arrange visits to Eton and Harrow and Westmister. 3 pages, 8vo, written on a single folded sheet. (AKF) Boston, 4 October 1840

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". . . President Wayland, . . . one of the most distinguished literary & scientific gentlemen of my country . . . . visits England, in order to examine & study your great seats of learning. . . ."