SD1437. Margaret Fuller to William Wetmore Story

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 16, 298 (in part).

Florence,

10th May, 1850

My dear William,

I wrote you a letter and then burnt it because many disturbances prevented my saying what I would, yet fear this will be no better. …

I have acted with great carelessness, but do, if you can, excuse. Browning knowing I was writing to you, gave me a note to put in. There were many persons calling at the time. I laid it on the table for the moment, and before I was aware it was put with other papers in a trunk and sent to Leghorn, and aboard the ship. I am very sorry, but fear that now all I can do will be to send it you from the U.S. I fancy it is matter that will keep, but am very sorry. …

Publication: The Letters of Margaret Fuller, ed. Robert N. Hudspeth (Ithaca, New York, 1983–94), 6, 85–86.

Source: Copy at Harvard University.

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