SD1778. John Gibson to Harriet G. Hosmer

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 20, 381 (in part).

At Mrs. Huskisson’s, Eastham,

near Chichester, Sussex]

[early October 1854]

My dear little Hosmer:

When I arrived at Mrs. Huskisson’s here in the country, a beautiful place! I found your letter. …

I have been reading some of the poetry of Mrs. Browning; she has certainly obtained the green branch, her productions will be always admired. I have only seen the second volume, but I will purchase hers and his too, and have them sent to Rome.…

The cholera is much diminished in London; from Wales I returned there, but only for two days. The appearance of London I did not like, very empty of people. Thousands had gone to the country, thousands are dead of the cholera, and still Death is at work there. I was glad to get out of the place, but in four or five days I shall have to return again. About the 15th of October Williams and I will leave England for Rome. If you have no cholera I may come to Florence. …

Text: Harriet Hosmer: Letters and Memories, ed. Cornelia Carr (New York, 1912), pp. 133–135 (as September 1858).

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