SD2051. Elizabeth Clementine Kinney to Edmund Clarence Stedman

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 24, 255 (in part).

Casa del Bello, Florence,

February 25th 1857.

My dearest Son:

Prostrated as I am by the blow which has struck from me my cherished sister & will compel me to drag henceforth a maimed existence, I must write you, even if it be only a few words traced in the dust …

The dear Brownings are here again in Casa Guidi. Have you read that wonderful poem—that—Gospel—Aurora Leigh. Ask Thomas to let you see my letter on it in the Daily, tho’ it is spoilt by typographical errors. …

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Columbia Univeristy.

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