SD1201.1. Cornelius Mathews to Edward Moxon

Addendum to The Brownings’ Correspondence, vol. 8.

New-York.

Feb. 27th. 1844.

My Dear Sir,

Certain gentlemen, interested in Literature in this city, reflecting on the unhappy condition of Publishing Matters …

I mentioned, I think, in a former hasty note that a friend of mine had prepared a selection of your sonnets with an Introductory Notice for a Collection of English Poetry, which I hope will please you. I also suggested in the same note that you might, perhaps, be waited on with regard to a little volume of Poems (“Poems on Man”) with some proposition as to its re-production in London. An opportunity now happens to present itself which I beg leave to use to place in your hand a corrected copy of these Poems for such Employment as your judgement may approve of. I beg also to offer a copy for the acceptance of Mr. Browning, in token of the pleasure I have derived from his writings which you were good enough to send me. …

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: University of Virginia.

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