SD1535. Sophia Hawthorne to Louisa Hawthorne

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 17, 277 (in part).

[West Newton]

Dec 25th 1851

My dear Louisa,

This very morning I intended to write to you again to enquire why you neither came nor responded to my letter, & this morning I recieved [sic] yours of 24th. …

Mr Fields writes from Paris that Mr Hawthorne’s books are printed there as much as in England-that his fame is great there, & that Browning says he is the finest genius that has appeared in English Literature for many years. …

Publication: The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, ed. William Charvat et al. (Columbus, Ohio, 1962-97), 16, 520-521.

Manuscript: Berg Collection.

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