1134. Cornelius Mathews to EBB
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 6, 302–303.
14 Pine Street. New York.
21st Jan. 1843
My Dear Miss Barrett:
I write, in haste, just as the packet is casting her cable to say that if you have determined to write for Graham’s Magazine, [1] you are at liberty to draw on Wiley & Putnam, Booksellers, Paternoster-Row for £10– I sent you through this firm the parcel to which I referred in my last letter: a letter by the way marked to go by the Brittania Steamer, but which somehow or other loosing its channel, was clumsily re-sealed and sent by the “Stephen Whitney” Packet. I have asked you to write for Graham’s Mage not because I regard it as by any means the highest medium through which good Poetry should reach the world—but with the hope that its circulation, which is very great, might extend your reputation in this country & because I had a notion that even so trifling a tribute as you would get in the way of money, might be looked upon as a levy from one of the Provinces, having so much of grandeur even in its smallness.
Believe me
Yours most Truly
Cornelius Mathews.
P.S. I imagine you may be in the way hereafter of all kinds of applications from the getters-up of Magazines in this country & may be pardoned for suggesting a caution to the effect that some of these have character & some not.
Address, on integral page: To / Elizabeth B Barrett / 50 Wimpole Street / London.
Docket: per packet / Jan 21, 1843.
Publication: B-GB, pp. 362–363.
Manuscript: Pierpont Morgan Library.
1. Seven of EBB’s contributions appeared in Graham’s Magazine between July 1843 and August 1844.
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