SD1729. Harriet G. Hosmer to Cornelia Carr
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 20, 366 (in part).
Rome,
Apr. 22, 1854.
Dear C:
Do you remember what you said to me about becoming so fond of Italy that I should never want to go home to live? Oh! thy prophetic soul, it is even so! …
There is the most charming circle of people here that you can imagine. Among them Mrs. Kemble and Mrs. Sartoris. Knowing these two, you will be able to judge how much they must contribute to anybody’s happiness. They are like two mothers to me, and their house seems home all over. Then the Brownings are here, both so delightful, Mrs. Browning a perfect darling, and every Sunday and Wednesday evening there is a friendly party, as she calls it, at Mrs. Sartoris’, consisting of Mrs. Kemble and the Brownings, two young artists and your humble servant. Mrs. Sartoris sings and Mrs. Kemble sometimes reads, and all in all, it is the perfection of everything that is charming. The Thackerays, too, have been here, and they are such dear girls. Every now and then there is an excursion projected for the Campagna, consisting of these same persons, and we go out for the day picnicking; thus I mingle amusement with study, and frolic with labor. Can you see how days could pass more rationally or agreeably? …
Text: Harriet Hosmer: Letters and Memories, ed. Cornelia Carr (New York, 1912), pp. 31–33.
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