SD1401. Margaret Fuller to Emelyn Story

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 16, 289 (in part).

Florence

15th. Feb 1850.

My dear Emelyn,

I have been hoping many weeks past to get some line from you, but to me none comes, and I learn that Mrs. Greenough is not more fortunate. …

I see the Brownings often … I feel that for me, just when our little one is unfolding, just when he daily discovers some new trait, to have our acquaintance stopped to give him principally into the care of hirelings and turn my care to a new subject would be so painful. But Mrs. B. seems very glad. Their society affords me great entertainment and pleasure, but I fancy I make little return. I do not feel drawn out, but like to hear them, especially Browning; when he comes here for an hour I feel exhilarated by his full tide of talk, fine talk it is: he tells so many things I want to know, and his generous loyal nature warms one so truly the while.

He is like one of our best American men, I find nothing of the modern Englishman about him. Genuine Saxon! …

Publication: The Letters of Margaret Fuller, ed. Robert N. Hudspeth (Ithaca, New York, 1983–94), 6, 61–63.

Source: Copy at Boston Public Library.

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