SD1816. James Jackson Jarves to Elizabeth Clementine Kinney

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 21, 373–374 (in part).

London,

May 5 1855

My dear Mrs Kinney,

On the presumption, from a line in Mr K’s note, received yesterday, that I shall soon hear from you, I commence another letter, while I have time, to give you such details of my London experience as may be of interest. …

Page’s portrait of Miss Cushman is the finest I have seen of his works & not excelled in anything of the last two centuries that has met my eyes—in color & life—superior to Brownings. … I am sure both Mrs Browning & Mme Mignaty will communicate to you all I have written them. Be assured that I have been watchful as to deception. …

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Columbia University.

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