Supporting Documents

SD2517. Mary Elizabeth Motley to Mary Lothrop Motley

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 29, 313 (in part).

Maurigy’s Hotel, London

Sept. 20th, 1861

Dearest Mary

I was so sorry that I was not able to write …

When I think of … English friends my heart warms to the whole nation in spite of their want of sympathy with the great national struggle in which our unhappy country is involved. It is quite true what Mrs Browning said, we must learn to do without sympathy and we shall come out of the fiery furnace of our affliction all the better and stronger for not having had it. …

Source: Susan and Herbert St. John Mildmay, eds., John Lothrop Motley and His Family, 1910, pp. 124–127.

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