SD1217. Cornelius Mathews to Rufus W. Griswold
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 9, 317 (in part).
111 Fulton St., N.Y.
28th Oct., 1844
My dear Sir,
I have already said my ‘say’ of Barrett’s Poems in the Democratic Review for Oct. (where you will find I have also made suitable acknowledgment to Graham’s Magazine), and Duyckinck has said his in the new [American] Whig Review. Aside from this, judging as in my own case, I am sure it would please the authoress better to have each Critique by an independent hand: and I shall take care to let her know the service you have done her when you write …
I see that Godey is disposed to give Mr. Graham a run for it in the Portrait Gallery! Every author in the country (if things go on at this rate) will have to set his face against these undertakings. Yours Truly,
CM
Text: Passages from the Correspondence and Other Papers of Rufus W. Griswold, ed. W.M. Griswold (Cambridge, Mass., 1898), p. 161.
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