SD1407. Margaret Fuller to Emelyn Story

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

Florence,

15th March 1850

My sweet Emelyn,

I meant to have written at length for tomorrow’s mail, but have been interrupted till very late … I had your letter by Mr. Gale, then after nothing till yours and W[illiam]’s by Mr. Hurlbert since, now I have yours from Berlin, by post, and Browning had one from W. a few days earlier. …

Already it is so warm that we enjoy in the highest going to the Cascine in the mornings; there is hardly any one there and we sit and read … I have there read again Browning’s Poems, having borrowed from him the new edition. … Only light books can be read in open air so, with people passing every now and then, (Browning to be sure has weight, but so much fascination too.) but it is high enjoyment to play so. …

Publication: The Letters of Margaret Fuller, ed. Robert N. Hudspeth (Ithaca, New York, 1983–94), 6, 71–73.

Source: Copy at Harvard University.

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