SD1390. Margaret Fuller to William Wetmore Story

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 16, 287–288 (in part).

Florence

2nd Dec. 1849

Dear William,

It was like you to receive with such kindness the news of my marriage. …

I deeply regret you did not decide on coming here this winter; it would have been such a pleasure to me and others to have you, but you would not have found your marble. If I can do anything about it by and by you will let me know, if I could not see about it myself, I might keep alive the interest of some capable person. Mr. Browning and Mr. Henry Greenough both speak in high praise of the statue; do not be too long before you put it into Marble. …

I have been much pleased with Mr Clough’s [poems] which he sent me and with those of two of his friends Burbidge and Arnold … [Clough] is indeed spoken of in England as the new man. Mr Browning as was natural in a high professor of the Lyric art was annoyed by the defects in form, while he liked the substance. …

Publication: The Letters of Margaret Fuller, ed. Robert N. Hudspeth (Ithaca, New York, 1983–94), 5, 286–288.

Source: Copy at Harvard University.

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