SD1384. Margaret Fuller to George William Curtis

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 16, 287 (in part).

Florence

25th Octr 1849.

Dear George

I was just regretting I had not asked you to write when your letter came. …

I have exchanged visits with the Brownings, like Mr B. already very much and expect to like her, though she seems too gentle and faded at first sight to excite positive feeling of any kind. They have the prettiest little baby; it is so fat and laughing and violet eyed; it looks as if it was created fresh after a flood, and could not be the child of two people who had written books and such thoughtful sad books too. They were full of serious regret at not seeing you. Browning seems to have taken a fervent interest in the Ital[ia]n revolution, but feels the greatest contempt for the Florentines. …

Publication: The Letters of Margaret Fuller, ed. Robert N. Hudspeth (Ithaca, New York, 1983–94), 5, 274–278.

Manuscript: Fruitlands Museums.

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