SD1363. Margaret Fuller to Emelyn Story

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 15, 363 (in part).

Rome

January 7. 1849.

My dear Emelyn,

Mr Wetmore sent me your letter on Wednesday and made me a short visit the next day. …

I sit still in my corner, supposing Fate will, as usual, send me a little group of companions, sooner or later. Should it send you, I should be very glad. … Had I more to offer I would urge you to come more; but there is only myself; I have now no pleasant circle as sometimes in my life has been the case and you would leave the Brownings just as you had made their acquaintance. Reading over my letter, I begin to be afraid you will not come, and with all my pretence of disinterestedness, I shall be much disappointed if you do not come. … I wish the Brownings would come too. Why do they not? How can people stay in Florence always when they might be in Rome? …

Publication: The Letters of Margaret Fuller, ed. Robert N. Hudspeth (Ithaca, New York, 1983–94), 5, 168–170.

Source: Copy at Harvard University.

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