SD1348.1. James Russell Lowell to C. F. Briggs

Addendum to The Brownings’ Correspondence, vol. 15.

Elmwood

March 26, 1848.

My dear Friend,— … Now about the “Fable.” …

Meanwhile I have not been wholly idle. You will find an article of mine on Browning in the next North American in which there will be some things to make you laugh. …

Now, I will tell you the three objects I had in writing my article in the next North American Review. First, I wished to say something about criticism; second, to do Browning a service; and third, to see you and Page. You do not see how this last has anything to do with it? Well, I shall get twenty odd dollars for the article on All-fools-day. This I shall set apart to pay the expenses of a visit to New York, which I shall set out upon as soon as I have finished the “Fable.” …

Text: Letters of James Russell Lowell, ed. Charles Eliot Norton (New York, 1894), I, 124–128.

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