SD1770. William Charles Macready to Euphrasia Fanny Haworth

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 20, 375–376 (in part).

Sherborne House. Dorset.

Augt 12. 1854

My dear Fanny

I have been too busy to express to you my extreme disappointment in the postponement to an unseen date of the pleasure I had anticipated in your promised stay with us. …

I have not heard of the Brownings though I have written for their address– That boy is indeed a wonder—so much so, that he really frightens me. I mean in my sympathy with the parents, for his extraordinary power would keep me in an unceasing dread that his was a cherubic visit to this world, and therefore only to be short.– He is a most dear little fellow. …

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Massachusetts Historical Society.

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