SD1477. Diary Entry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 17, 266.

[Cambridge]

20 April 1851

The faithful Sumner came in the midst of the storm, and we had our customary friendly chat. In the evening F. read to me Mrs. Barrett Browning’s Drama of Exile; a very sublime and wonderful production, which I had never entirely read before, and never fully appreciated.

Publication: The Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Samuel Longfellow (Boston, 1886–91), 13, 206.

Manuscript: Harvard University.

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