Commercial Ads March 18 1844
The New Orleans papers of the 8th announce
the death, in that city, of Sumner Lincoln Fairfield,
known extensively for many years as an ambitious
votary of the muses. He was a man of genius, undoubtedly,
but his mind lacked the stable elements of
success, either pecuniary or literary. He thought his
genius unappreciated and neglected—gave himself up
to repinings, wasted his energies in misdirected struggles
with what he chose to consider the coldness and
injustice of the world, and finally, abandoning himself
to gross and debasing solaces, lived in misery and
died in destitution. The one bright feature of his story
was the unwearying devotion of his mother, who
clung to him through evil and through good, and
whose mission of undying love was ended only at the
grave.
