SD1505. Ralph Waldo Emerson to William Wetmore Story

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 17, 272 (in part).

Concord

13 September, 1851.

My dear Sir,

I have a letter from Carlyle this week, in which he tells me that, on leaving London for Malvern,—a few weeks before, as I think,—he had written to Browning, urging him to send to me his reminiscences of Margaret Fuller; and, that Browning at last replied, that he had now sent them to you. I hope this allegation may prove true, and available to hapless editors. In case you have received, or shall yet receive any such communication, I hope you will send what concerns Margaret to me, & not to Mrs Channing,—who is on her way to Cincinnati. Mr Carlyle adds, that Mazzini promises to write to me. I do not know that his letter has other points of interest for you, unless it be, that Milnes has recently married Miss Crewe sister of Lord Crewe.– Tennyson his wife, their child being dead, had gone to Italy; the Brownings are going to live in Paris, &c. &c.– With my letter, has come a copy, in sheets, of his Life of Sterling, which is in press here. I cherish the hope of seeing you here.

Yours with great regard,

R. W. Emerson.

W. W. Story, Esq.

Publication: The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. Ralph L. Rusk (New York, 1939), 4, 258–259).

Manuscript: Columbia University.

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