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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
f interest in company with Mr. George Bemis, of Boston, whom he found unexpectedly at the Hotel Victoria. They made visits to the museum and to several churches,—San Filippo Neri, Santa Chiara, and the Duomo; Here Sumner was struck with the elaborate oratory of a Dominican friar. to the Royal Palace Here they met Mr. and Mrs. John Bigelow, of New York. and St. Elmo, ascending to the castle and descending by donkey; took drives to the tomb of Virgil and the Grotta del Cane; visited Herculaneum and Pompeii, dining at the Hotel Diomed, where Sumner ordered Falernian wine; attempted the ascent of Vesuvius, but were stopped short of the Hermitage by a hard rain, Sumner going alone to Paestum. With all his weakness, his energy was too much for Bemis. The latter, whose journal and oral account are here followed, relates Sumner's pertinacity in seeing all that was possible in the way of art and history; his indignation at the Royal Palace (Bomba was then king) that all this should b