SD1443. Cornelius Mathews to Elizabeth Shaw Melville

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 16, 302.

New York

15th Aug. 1850

Mr. Cornelius Mathews presents his respects to Mrs. Herman Melville & begs her acceptance of the enclosed autograph of Mrs. Browning’s Poem “The Cry of the Human:” also a couple of little books for the boy popularly known as Barney.

Publication: Herman Melville, Correspondence (Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, 1993), p. 603.

Manuscript: Harvard University.

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