SD1951. Thomas Gold Appleton to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 23, 247 (in part).

[London]

[late July 1856]

… I met the Brownings at the Gallery yesterday, and put them on the way to see Hilary Curtis’s picture, which I hunted up. The Brownings are a happy couple,—happy in their affection and their genius. He is a fine, fresh, open nature, full of life and spring, and evidently has little of the dreamy element of Wordsworth and others. She is a little concentrated nightingale, living in a bower of curls, her heart throbbing against the bars of the world. I called on them, and she looked at me wistfully, as she believes in the Spirits and had heard of me. …

Text: Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Samuel Longfellow (Boston, 1887), pp. 48–49.

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