Autograph Letter Signed from the geologist George Gibbs to Charles Sumner, abolitionist Senator from Massachusetts, regarding the French jurist Jean-Jacques Gaspard Foelix and Sumner's review.

2pp., 4to. Bifolium. 35 lines of text. Addressed, with postmark, on reverse of second leaf, to 'Chas. Sumner Esq. | Boston | Masstts.' Very good, on aged paper. Written while Sumner was lecturing at Harvard Law School, the year before his visit to Europe. Gibbs explains that he has made an arrangement by which Sumner can forward his periodical the Jurist 'to [the French jurist] Foelix &c. & receive others in exchange. Hudson the Proprietor of the Merchants News Room has an agent in Paris & one in Narn to whom he will transmit them. The Clerk told me he knew you well & would forward with pleasure for you'. Gibbs offers to take charge of Sumner's reviews if he has no agent. He wishes 'to send Foelix some law book or other' and asks Sumner to let him know 'of a volume that will do credit to the country'. If Sumner's 'own work on sales has come out' Gibbs will 'send that to the old gentleman'. He asks if 'Judge's Equity' has 'come out, and does our professor mean to publish his evidence - ?' He announces that 'we have sold out here for $60,000 - but are preparing for a sale of the stock here but have such a mass of snow on the ground that I'm afraid it will not go off well.' A nine-line postscript responds to a letter from Sumner, received since the writing of Gibbs's.