It is said to have been the advice of his teacher that finally determined his career as an historian—a career for which he was peculiarly qualified owing to his abundant patrimony and his wide knowledge of men and places.
Es soll der Rat seines Lehrers gewesen sein, der schließlich seine Zukunft als Historiker bestimmte – eine Karriere, für die er durch seinen Vater und seine umfangreichen Kenntnisse der Menschen und Orte besonders geeignet sei.