ABSTRACT
Charles Sumner (1811–74), born in Boston, Massachusetts, graduated from Harvard Law School in 1834. From December 1837 through March 1839, Sumner toured Europe, spending from May 1838 to March 1839 in London, where he established lifelong friendships that served him well when he later became a member of the United States Senate and chaired the committee on foreign relations. He arrived in London with a letter of introduction to Abraham Hayward (1801–84), himself a lawyer. But Hayward was also an author, translator, editor, legal-journalist, and authority on the art of dining, 28 whose circle included many literary and political figures, including Caroline Norton, Samuel Rogers, and Lady Morgan.
