Chapter 6: Law School.—September, 1831, to December, 1833.—Age, 20-22., page 99 Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1
[99] We often laugh together in speaking of the time to come, when I tell him 1 will send to him for law when I have a case to look up. He is to the law what he used to be to history,—a repertory of facts to which we might all resort.
I look forward to the time, if you do not kill yourself prematurely, when I shall see you a decided, powerful champion of the cause of justice, patriotism, and the true Christian faith. Hopkinson wrote, July 17:— ‘Congratulations are matter of course; but I hope you will consider it equally a matter of course that a friend should feel great joy in your success.1 Your pen was always that of a ready writer, once indeed racy and loose.
Give that pallid face a little color, those lean limbs a little muscle, and the bow of your mind a greater elasticity. Again, on May 9, 1833, Hopkinson wrote from Lowell, where he was practising law as the partner of Mr. Luther Lawrence: Had I but your application, I might consider myself in a good way. Not, indeed, that I could grasp such honors as are within your reach; not that I could walk over the heads of all young practitioners, and be in fact a counsellor during my attorneyship: but I could take an immediate practice and 1 Bowdoin prize.
Chapter 6: Law School.—September, 1831, to December, 1833.—Age, 20-22., page 99 Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1
[99] We often laugh together in speaking of the time to come, when I tell him 1 will send to him for law when I have a case to look up. He is to the law what he used to be to history,—a repertory of facts to which we might all resort.
I look forward to the time, if you do not kill yourself prematurely, when I shall see you a decided, powerful champion of the cause of justice, patriotism, and the true Christian faith. Hopkinson wrote, July 17:— ‘Congratulations are matter of course; but I hope you will consider it equally a matter of 
course that a friend should feel great joy in your success.1 Your pen was always that of a ready writer, once indeed racy and loose.
Give that pallid face a little color, those lean limbs a little muscle, and the bow of your mind a greater elasticity. Again, on May 9, 1833, Hopkinson wrote from Lowell, where he was practising law as the partner of Mr. Luther Lawrence: Had I but your application, I might consider myself in a good way. Not, indeed, that I could grasp such honors as are within your reach; not that I could walk over the heads of all young practitioners, and be in fact a counsellor during my attorneyship: but I could take an immediate practice and 1 Bowdoin prize.