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SD1601.  Ralph Waldo Emerson to James Russell Lowell

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 18, 370–371 (in part).

Concord, Massachusetts

3 Sept. 1852

My dear Lowell,

If it were only for the pleasure of using your name, & greeting you, so far on your way home,—let me thrust upon you an inquiry, which it may chance to be quite easy for you to make, & which has hitherto proved by no means easy for us at home to get answered; this namely; 1. To whom, & when, & how, did the Brownings address the Manuscript they sent to this country, on the subject of Margaret Fuller? and, 2. To whom & when & how did Mazzini write, on the same subject? Carlyle has twice told me, that both these parties had assured him, they had written. Twice I have told him, I had received nothing of either. Not only Margaret’s family are anxious to know,—but it is of interest to everybody, that what such writers send should not be lost. …

Publication: The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. Ralph L. Rusk (New York, 1939), 310.

Manuscript: Harvard University.

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