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SD2138.  Matthew Arnold to Frances Mary du Quaire

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 25, 344 (in part).

The Athenæum

February 9, 1858

My dear Fanny

I hope by this time you have Merope. I got Drummond Wolff to undertake the transmission of her. …

Make Browning look at it, if he is at Florence; one of the very best antique fragments I know is a fragment of a Hippolytus by him [“Artemis Prologizes”]. As to his wife, I regard her as hopelessly confirmed in her aberration from health, nature, beauty, and truth. …

Text: The Letters of Matthew Arnold, ed. Cecil Y. Lang (Charlottesville, Virginia, 1996–2001), 1, 383–385.

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