SD1480. Diary Entry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 17, 267 (in part).
[Cambridge]
25 April 1851
The papers are all ringing with Sumner, Sumner! … A quiet evening, reading Mrs. Barrett Browning’s Love Sonnets,—“Sonnets from the Portuguese,” she entitles them. A very admirable series of poems!—rather dusky at times, but deep and impassioned.
Publication: The Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Samuel Longfellow (Boston, 1886–91), 13, 207.
Manuscript: Harvard University.
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