SD1178.2. Charles Sumner to Richard Monckton Milnes

Addendum to The Brownings’ Correspondence, vol. 6.

Boston

Aug. 1st, 1842.

My dear Milnes,

My special inducement to write at this moment, beyond the acknowledgment of your last pleasant letter, is to let you know that I gave the Lyells for you the sheets of an article in the July number of the North American Review on recent English poets, which may perhaps interest you. The little group dealt with are yourself, Miss Barrett, Sterling, and Doyle. The writer of the article is a young friend of mine, Mr. George S. Hillard, a person of exquisite taste and accomplishments, and who has a most sincere admiration of your productions. …

Text: T. Wemyss Reid, Life, Letters, and Friendships of Richard Monckton Milnes (London, 1890), I, 279–281.

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