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SD1396.  Margaret Fuller to Unidentified Correspondent

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

[Florence]

[ca. 1 February 1850]

You ask, how I employ myself here. …

There are several delightful persons whom I see in an intimate way. One house where I hear very fine music. Mr. Browning, who enriches every hour I pass with him, is a most cordial, true, and noble man. One of my most prized friends, Marchioness Arconati Visconti, of Milan, is passing the winter here, and I see her almost every day. …

Publication: The Letters of Margaret Fuller, ed. Robert N. Hudspeth (Ithaca, New York, 1983–94), 6, 51.

Source: Copy at Boston Public Library.

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