Supporting Documents

SD1409.  Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell to Eliza Fox

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 16, 289–290 (in part).

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[?April 1850]

My dearest Tottie,

I was going to have written a letter to myself, and sent it to you to fill up, only your most welcome letter this morning put a stop to that. … I have not read that poem of R. Brownings. I saw the review in the Examiner, (no end of thanks to you for the said,) but I don’t think I’ve fairly read it yet! … I wish I had the opportunity of hearing more grand sacred music[;] you have great things in London for calming yourself—grand pictures—holy music seem so to take the fretting pain out of one’s heart—I wonder if R. Browning’s poem would do the same. … Where are the Brownings. …

Publication: The Letters of Mrs Gaskell, ed. J.A.V. Chapple and Arthur Pollard (Manchester, 1966), pp. 107–110.

Source: Typescript at Leeds University.

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