SD1695. Elizabeth Clementine Kinney to Newark Daily Advertiser

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 19, 376 (in part).

Florence

Oct. 20, 1853.

American travellers for the East are very much embarrassed by the rumors of war from Constantinople; unable to determine whether to proceed or turn back. …

Mr. Van Buren and his son have been joined here by ex-Atty. Genl. Gilpin and lady, and Mr. G. Kemble. Mrs. Trollope, who resides here with her son, has invited them and some of our countrymen to dinner! She professes to regret the publication of her villanous book of travels, and seems disposed to conciliate American feeling. Her more recents writings, I am told, bring her some revenue. Our institutions and countrymen have sincere, appreciating friends in the Brownings, (Robert and Elizabeth Barrett,) who have just returned from a summer sojourn at the Baths of Lucca, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Story, of Boston. The great cause of civil and religious liberty has no heartier, stouter advocates. One hardly knows which most to admire—their personal graces or mental endowments, for genius and geniality were never more delightfully blended than in these coequal poets. …

Text: Newark Daily Advertiser, 15 November 1853, p.2.

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